Why are English Bible translations so bad??

January 2, 2008

Scotland1960 wrote:

PS Can each of you who write to this question tell us which English translations your local Orthodox parish does use, alll debate aside; which Bible versions do your priests and bishops, deacons, readers, read in Divine Liturgy? Do they use the King James Version, with necessary corrections wherever the KJV is in need of Orthodox correction?

Every church I\'ve been to uses RSV. Only rarely have I seen a priest correct the lectionary. For example, one corrected the lectionary (from the RSV) where it used Matthew\'s \"Our Father\" in Luke, rather than the variation used in the latter. This was an editing issue, not a translation issue.

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