Most reputable scholars use the NRSV. When I would write papers in seminary I noticed that most scholarly journals/books would quote the NRSV (published in 1989).
The NRSV uses manuscripts that were found at Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls, which are the oldest copies of the OT that we have) to help them create a more accurate translation.
Piper speaks of getting a Bible with all the words….
The NRSV is the only translation to recover a missing passage of scripture from 1 Sam 10. Most likely it was accidentily omitted by a scribe, BUT it is found in copies of Samuel from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
27But some worthless fellows said, ‘How can this man save us?’ They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.
Most (if not all) other translations are missing this entire paragraph, which really puts 1 Sam 11:1-4 into context.
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No translation is perfect.
Most reputable scholars use the NRSV. When I would write papers in seminary I noticed that most scholarly journals/books would quote the NRSV (published in 1989).
The NRSV uses manuscripts that were found at Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls, which are the oldest copies of the OT that we have) to help them create a more accurate translation.
Piper speaks of getting a Bible with all the words….
The NRSV is the only translation to recover a missing passage of scripture from 1 Sam 10. Most likely it was accidentily omitted by a scribe, BUT it is found in copies of Samuel from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=117780968
NRSV- 1 Samuel 10:27-
27But some worthless fellows said, ‘How can this man save us?’ They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.
Most (if not all) other translations are missing this entire paragraph, which really puts 1 Sam 11:1-4 into context.