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Originally Posted by lionel47
This brings another question to mind (and please don't take it the wrong way). If translations are different than each other, is there one that is accepted as the baseline translation? The one closest to the original text?
Also, now that I think about it, can a translation also be an interpretation?
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For the New Testament I think the one closest to the original text is the "Novum Testamentum Graece", also known as the Nestle-Aland's New Testament. One needs to remember that the New Testament was written originally in Greek.
Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Testamentum_Graece
About the Old Testament, there is an interesting history in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament#History