Bible Translations: Old & New July 15, 2013 Issue

There's an app for that!

Mary Beth Saldívar

Reading the Bible is so easy nowadays. An app on my phone allows me to read and/or listen to the Bible a little each day. Once I set up my very own 365-day plan, so I could read and listen to it historically in chronological order. I completed the King James Version in a year. When the year was up, I wanted to continue to read and listen to the Bible throughout the next year. This time I decided to consider a different translation. 

While I grew up with the King James Version, and I truly love it, I do get stumped from time to time on passages or story lines that make me wonder what meaning the writer was trying to get across. As a result, several years ago I started looking into other versions of the Bible. 

First was the J.B. Phillips version of the New Testament, first published in the 1950s. I found the more modern language different at first, but definitely easier to understand. 

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