Studying the history of religion can make these things creep up on you. I was watching "The Simpsons" episode where Bart and Lisa had to stay with Flanders and Flanders asked them which Bible they wanted to use for the Flanders Bible trivia game.
I realized - I have more versions of the Bible than Flanders did in the episode.
I've counted, and I have:
NIV Study Bible
Catholic Study Bible
King James Bible
King James 400th Anniversary Facsimile Edition Bible
German Luther Bible 1545 Facsimile
Russian Bible
Slavonic Bible
Slavonic New Testament
Latin Vulgate
Greek New Testament
Greek Septuagint
Syriac Peshitta
Coptic New Testament
Hebrew Tanakh
Of course, I was primarily interested in historically significant versions of the Bible, but still...I never stopped to ponder it until now.
I realized - I have more versions of the Bible than Flanders did in the episode.
I've counted, and I have:
NIV Study Bible
Catholic Study Bible
King James Bible
King James 400th Anniversary Facsimile Edition Bible
German Luther Bible 1545 Facsimile
Russian Bible
Slavonic Bible
Slavonic New Testament
Latin Vulgate
Greek New Testament
Greek Septuagint
Syriac Peshitta
Coptic New Testament
Hebrew Tanakh
Of course, I was primarily interested in historically significant versions of the Bible, but still...I never stopped to ponder it until now.
Not quite as many, but I do have the Septuagint, Greek New Testament, Latin Vulgate (NT in print, OT as e-book), King James, NIV, Catholic Study, and vernaculars for Spanish, Haitian, Indonesian (NT), Turkish (NT), Russian (NT), Czech (NT), German (NT), Serbian, Portuguese (NT), French, Portuguese (NT), and Gullah (NT). Most of these I found used at a bookstore, so they are mostly novelties, although I have read comparative passages in over half of the languages listed.
So yeah, I understand the feeling when an entire bookshelf is devoted to just one religious book. Curious about the Slavonic and Syriac, now that you've mentioned them...
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
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I'm wondering if I own too many Bibles.
- 12/01/2012 12:08:16 AM
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I'm in the same boat
- 12/01/2012 12:14:11 AM
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I have half a dozen different translations of The Critique of Pure Reason and The Symposium.
- 12/01/2012 03:42:01 AM
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Probably for the same reason you have so many translations of the Bible.
- 12/01/2012 06:47:53 AM
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You need a bible that has 5 translations side by side
- 12/01/2012 04:16:25 AM
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Not quite
- 12/01/2012 05:31:57 AM
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That bad of translations? 
- 12/01/2012 05:55:38 AM
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- 12/01/2012 05:55:38 AM
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No, I just think that people forget they're reading a translation
- 12/01/2012 09:29:41 PM
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I only have 4
- 12/01/2012 01:58:13 PM
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I heard the Norwegian one had the controversial "Thou shalt slaughter Leviathan and eat him" passage
- 12/01/2012 11:24:50 PM
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NIV Study Bible is high on my list of Must Haves.
- 12/01/2012 08:34:08 PM
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