Favorite Non-Traditional Bible Translation

[DaveBj]

What is your favorite non-traditional (not KJV, D-R, NAB, NIV, etc.) translation of the Bible?

Mine is a translation of the New Testament published by the Wycliffe Bible Translators in Hawaiian Pidgin. Here is a sample, Matt. 16:13-20:

Jesus dem stay going Cesarea Philippi side. He aks da guys he teaching, “Eh, I Da Guy Dass Fo Real, but who da peopo tink me?”

Dey say, “Get guys dat say you John Da Baptiza Guy. An get odda guys dat say you Elijah. Get mo odda guys dat say you Jeremiah, o one nodda guy who wen talk fo God long time ago.”

Jesus aks dem, “Kay den, wat bout you guys? Who you timk me fo real kine?”

Simon Peter say, “You da Christ Guy, da Spesho Guy God Wen Send. Da God who alive fo real kine, you his Boy.”

Jesus say, “Eh, John’s boy! Simon! You can stay good inside cuz you know dat. No mo nobody from dis world wen teach you dat. My Fadda in da sky, he wen teach you dat. I tell you, yoa name Peter, an dat mean ‘Da Rock.’ On top dis rock I goin make my church. Da power dat come from Hell fo kill peopo no goin win ova my church guys. I goin let you take charge da peopo dat get God in da sky fo dea King. If you say bout someting ova hea inside da world ‘No can,’ den God in da sky goin say ‘No can’ too. An if you say bout someting ova hea inside dis world, ‘Dass okay,’ den God in da sky goin say ‘Dass okay’ too.” Den he tell his guys, “Make shua you guys no tell nobody dat I da Christ Guy, da Spesho Guy God Wen Send.”

DaveBj

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

**## http://rockhay.tripod.com/cottonpatch/matthew.htm#16-13

The same, in the Cotton Patch Version:

1. **When Jesus came into the region of Augusta, he asked his students, “Who do people think the son of man is?” They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, others say Elijah, and still others, Jeremiah or one of the famous preachers.”

“But you, who do you think I am?” he asked.

Simon the Rock spoke right up and said, “You are the Leader, the Living God’s Man.”

“You are beautiful, Simon Johnson!” exclaimed Jesus. “This isn’t human reasoning, but divine revelation. And I want to tell you, you are Rock, and on this rock**5** I will build my fellowship, and the doors of death will not hold out against it. I will give to you the keys of the God Movement, and whatever you bind in the physical realm shall have been bound in the spiritual realm, and whatever you loose in the physical realm shall have been loosed in the spiritual realm.” Then he strongly warned them to tell no one that he was the Leader. ##

 

[Dj_Roy_Albert]

The Good News Bible. Very easy to read.

 

[Digitonomy]

I haven’t actually seen it, but I got a kick out of what I read about this Australian translation.

Among other changes, the Three Wise Men are “eggheads from out East”, while the Virgin Mary is a “pretty special Sheila.”

Meanwhile the parable of the Good Samaritan is “the story of the good bloke.”

And the Three Wise Men greet the King of the Jews with a cheery, “G’day, your majesty.”

Luke 2:8-21
Newsflash: There were drovers camped out in the paddock nearby keeping a eye on their mob of sheep that night. Their eyes shot out on stalks when an Angel of the Lord zapped into view and the glory of the Lord filled the air like 1,000 volts. The angel said: “Stop looking like a bunch of stunned mullets. Let me give you the drum”