{"id":231,"date":"2006-02-03T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2006-02-03T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T00:25:00","slug":"which-translation-is-best-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/03\/which-translation-is-best-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Translation is Best for You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve talked about Bible translations here before.  Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/energion.com\/books\/bibles\/eneversion.php\">one guy&#8217;s attempt<\/a> to help you determine which English translation is best for you, depending on what factors you consider most important.  Give it a try and you might learn something new.  For instance, the JPS Tanakh ranked #1 for me (if the questions included whether I thought the NT was important, then this version would have ranked lower).  NET Bible was #2 and my favorite scored as #3.  In second to last place, the KJV.  These results seem to indicate that my translation preferences actually match my translation philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>HT:  <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbibles.blogspot.com\/\">Better Bibles Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve talked about Bible translations here before. Here is one guy&#8217;s attempt to help you determine which English translation is best for you, depending on what factors you consider most important. Give it a try and you might learn something new. For instance, the JPS Tanakh ranked #1 for me (if the questions included whether\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/03\/which-translation-is-best-for-you\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}