“..close as we can get when considering the difference between the ancient languages and modern day English...”
I thought ASV 1901 was supposed to do that?
I don’t trust modern scholarly attempts......
(perhaps it is the manuscripts they use...)
I have no problem with the original KJV. As long as one is not adhering to such heretic works as the New NIV, or the New World Translation used by the JWs.
There are a couple other very bad translations but off the top of my head they escape me for now.
However, I will inform you that James erasmus was a Catholic priest, and he was the main translator for the original KJV. unfortunately, when Erasmus ran into problems, he used the Latin Vulgate to fill in gaps and some of those transfers from the Vulgate were errors.
Well when the KJV was written, they still lacked any manuscripts for certain areas, and thus the writers used parts of Erasmus’s Greek edition that had errors, and those errors were translated into the KJV. Errors that have been corrected in the NKJV and NASB.
Corrected because we have since found old manuscripts like the Dead sea Scrolls that predate Christ by almost 600 years. These manuscripts corrected the original errors from the Vulgate that Erasmus used and were used for the original KJV.
That should have been, Desiderius Erasmus, not James Erasmus
One more thing,
The ASV was just an American edition of the English Revised Version (ERV). The ERV was the translation made by Westcott and Hort based on the corrupt text for the purpose of replacing the KJV and its traditional and preserved texts!
The ASV was much like the ERV, but with American an American attitude.
The NASB removed all personal bias that the ASV had. So while the ASV claimed to be the most accurate, it was not. Remember, the dead sea scrolls were not discovered until the late 1950’s almost 60 years after the ASV was printed.