Do we have too many Bibles?

[InNomineDomini]

An Evangelical friend had filled it with his personal notes and asked me to restore it.

Aha! And, if I were to imitate Sherlock Holmes, I would suspect your friend of being either a nurse, a doctor, a pharmacist, or a pharmacy technician. (Reading their notes, I noticed the abbreviation for the Latin word cum: c̄. I’m not sure how widespread the use of this is outside of those professions.*)

ANYWAY!

*My opinion on the thread is that no, we don’t have too many Bibles.

 

[AmbroseSJ]

Aha! And, if I were to imitate Sherlock Holmes, I would suspect your friend of being either a nurse, a doctor, a pharmacist, or a pharmacy technician. (Reading their notes, I noticed the abbreviation for the Latin word cum: c̄. I’m not sure how widespread the use of this is outside of those professions.*)

ANYWAY!

*My opinion on the thread is that no, we don’t have too many Bibles.

Good eye! He’s a retired X-ray tech.

 

[Secant]

No, both to the original question and to the number of decent translations. (Note: the KJV and many other translations based on proven bad manuscripts are not decent translations, including the Catholic translations of those manuscripts, nor is the Jehova’s Witness translation decent.) There are a number of reasons for the different bibles and translations. Often we can compare the way a passage is translated to gain additional insight. Sometimes a word may have multiple meanings and several of those meanings are meant by the authors of the text. I have multiple translations in my house for that reason. I also have many different bibles. One of my favorites is the Navarre study bible (in multiple volumes) because on any given page, there are but a few verses of Scripture, but multitudes of information about the history surrounding the passage and the commentary on the passage made by the Church Fathers, Doctors of the Church, and well-renowned scholars, all with an imprimatur. However, if someone asked me to bring a Bible to a function, or even if I wanted a quick verse check, that would be useless and I have to pull out another.

 

[ProVobis]

Ok I misunderstood the question. I thought what was being asked is do we have too many different translations of the bible and to that I would say yes.

Right. One Bible but with so many views. And that’s just in English.

 

[ctb95]

I have multiple Bibles, some of which are Catholic and some of which are Protestant translations (including a HUGE NIV study bible). Even though I don’t use them all frequently, they’re still nice for reference.

 

[123me]

I reckon as a RC 1 bible is enough as long it contains the full canon of Catholic bible stories. If you had 200 Protestant bibles you may never get to read macabees and all the other essential stories. Protestant bibles may have good translations here and there but relegating stories to an apocryphal section or removing them altogether in not good, because some of these books explain Catholic doctrines.