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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're newly curious I'd recommend starting with Mark in any translation you'll actually read. Read the Message if you want. If you wish to do a study, use NRSV or NIV. But for reading to see what it's all about, find something you will stick with. The King James Version is not ideal for that. [/quote]

I agree about starting with the New Testament. This is the message that will resonate with you as a Christian, and it's also directly understandable
without lots of historical and theological background. I'm currently reading Isaiah (Old Testament) but I have a scholarly book to help me understand the historical and social context, and without it I'd be lost. If you start with the New Testament, you'll greatly increase the chances that you understand, keep going, and finish.

I also agree that King James is beautiful, but a little harder to go through than some more modern versions.[/quote]

I would suggest that reading the NT without historical background on 1st century Judaism, and on the politics of 1st century Roman Judea, will leave one (as it has left christians for millenia) with a somewhat distorted picture of the Jews and Judaism of that time. [/quote]

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