Book recommendations?

[totcamry]

I am looking for a book that can tell me all about the bible and how it came to be. I have heard that there are missing books in the bible. What about those? From what I know, and sorry, it is not a lot, is that the bible has been translated _____ number of times, and to me when you sit there and try to translate something that many times, there are going to be mistakes made. I mean just by leaving a word out in a sentence, you can change the entire meaning of the sentence. So, book recommendations please?

 

[Xian Catalyst]

I posted 3 links to the books you wanted. But I can't post links.

Go to BIBLE.ORG and search Bible history, or lost books of bible, or the like.


The Bible is the most translated book in the history of man. It's reached out to more languages than any other book in History. Of course it's been translated many times.

it's not been translated from translations many times however. In other words, 3 people write their own translation of a scripture and go separate ways, then others do the same again and again, like the whisper game, where you start off and give a whisper to the person on the left, who passes it on, so when it gets to the end it's a different story all together.

The Different Bibles we have today are translated differently for varying reasons. NONE of the differences are huge. But, words change meanings for each generation. A translation that is from 1611 will be different from today because some of the words have changed in their usage.

Example. a few years ago, if you said they had a gay picnic it would mean one thing, and today it would mean another. THEN it would be a happy picnic, now it would be a picnic with people from the glbt community.

Or, Burn a f,a,g in Europe means smoke a cigarette. But it could mean you go to jail for killing and burning a person in the states.