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Reading the Bible
Translations of The Holy Bible abound and you may have a strong preference for one, or no preference at all. Edna Lister lived from 1884 to 1971, from the late 19th to the late 20th Century, and the Authorized King James Version was her strong preference from the translations available to her. She chose it for the “beauty of its language” and often reminded her students and listeners that “On the Via Christa, the Bible is our chief textbook.”
Of course you may choose the translation you prefer, but keep in mind that we use the King James version (KJV) throughout the Via Christa site, unless otherwise noted. Listed in the right-hand column is a translation of the Hebrew Bible you may wish to explore. Edna Lister owned and used bothStrong's Exhaustive Concordance and Young's Analytical Concordance of the King James Bible.
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Edna Lister’s Rembrandt Edition Bible
Etymology of bible: “the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments,” early 14c., from Anglo-Latin biblia, Old French bible (13c.) “the Bible,” also any large book generally, from Medieval and Late Latin biblia “the Bible” (neuter plural interpreted as feminine singular), from phrase biblia sacra “holy books,” a translation of Greek ta biblia to hagia “the holy books.” The Latin word is from the Greek one, biblion “paper, scroll,” also the ordinary word for “a book as a division of a larger work.”
References
Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. King James Version. Encyclopedia Britannica, October 10, 2025.
Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, 2024.
The Holy Bible. King James Version (KJV).
The Oxford English Dictionary: Compact Ed., 2 vols. E.S.C. Weiner, ed., Oxford University Press, 1971.
Hebrew-English Bible Translation
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