What Bible is from the most original and authentic Hebrew and Greek Scriptures?

Answer 1

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There are different versions of The Bible, which differ (among other things) in what books are included - in other words, which books are considered to be Holy Scripture. Ask any Christian denomination what Bible is authentic, and they will probably tell you it's theirs. I don't think there is any independent way to verify this.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, it will not be possible to obtain a Bible that is literally triue to the original texts. Not only were the original versions of the books revised and improved over time, the problem of manual copying gradually resulted in changes inadvertently creeping in. "Marginal glosses", originally intended as comments or clarifications, were sometimes incorporated into later copies, and material was added or changed to suit the times.

The Christian Old Testament is copied partly from the Hebrew text and partly from the the Septuagint ('LXX'), an early, flawed Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. But even the Masoretic text is believed to differ from the Hebrew texts in use at the time the LXX was produced. Before 1881, all translations of the New Testament were based on copies of Greek manuscripts known as the Textus Receptus, which is Latin for Received Text. In the 19th and 20th centuries, older Greek manuscripts were discovered. These manuscripts have caused Bible scholars to revise what they believe was the correct text of the New Testament. The latest revision of this Greek Text is the United Bible Societies' 'The Greek New Testament' (published by United Bible Societies, 4th Edition, 1993) (abbreviated as UBS4). The UBS4 differs from the Received Text at thousands of points. In other words, the consensus of Bible Scholars is that, for at least a thousand years, the Christian church was using a Greek New Testament text which contained thousands of errors. The successive revisions of the UBS New Testament are widely accepted in the field of Biblical Studies, and have been used for modern translations such as the Revised Standard Version (RSV), New International Version (NIV) and New Revised Standard Version (NRSV). However, even these translations include traditional material such as Mark's "Long Ending" (Mark 16:9-20), which the USB4 omits.