They aren’t going to replace it to my knowledge. They are simply going to publish the scriptures in English as the Orthodox Study Bible.
“They aren’t going to replace it to my knowledge. They are simply going to publish the scriptures in English as the Orthodox Study Bible.”
The Orthodox Study Bible for the NT was published some years ago. Its not a good translation in my opinion but the annotations are pretty good. Its got a pretty good concordance too. I think, personally, the problem lies with at least a couple of the editors.
Its available on Amazon.
Why, even the colloquial Serbian Lord's Prayer is a copy of the KJV version ("...as it is on earth and in heaven" instead of "in heaven and on earth...", "as we forgive those..." instead of 'as we hgave forgiven those..." and "deliver us from evil." instead of 'rescue us from the Evil One.").
These errors contain subtle theological distortions whose sum-total results in one large distortion.
The oldest bibles, the Alexandrian text-type 4th century Codex Vaticanus and Sinaiticus show variations, but are not as altered, redacted and edited, indeed manicured, as all the later ones, including the 5th century Codex, which is a mix of Byzantine and Alexandrian text-type; the rest (the so-called Majority Text), literally a couple of thousand of them, ar basically all Byzantine text-type and are highly unreliable.
Corruption and manipulation has been in Christian NT copies from the earliest days. Because there are no originals to compare it to, and because the oldest manuscripts come is shreds (we call them fragments to give them more dignity) which are still copies of copies, the only way to compile an orthodox (lower-case "o") bible is by textual criticism, and that is like trying to solve a major mystery by circumstantial evidence with no reliable leads.
For a Bible to be considered unadulterated Word of God, it must be beyond the shadow of a doubt in the strictest meaning of the phase. And, thus far, that is not possible except on blind faith.
This is not because we doubt God, but because we doubt men. The Apostles may have very well written pristine inerrant Gospels, because they were inspired. But copiers and falsifiers who copied them were not.