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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 2781080" data-attributes="member: 7900">For myself, I go with the American Standard Version of 1901.  When I asked if the KJV wasn't the best translation because it was the oldest, I was told that the NIV included things that were learned from the Dead Sea Scrolls, which the KJV obviously didn't have.  Then I was told that the ASV of 1901 was the closest translation, word for word.  This was confirmed by a conversation with a Biblical scholar who was a professor at Oklahoma Christian University in Edmond.  That same person knows the original languages and has even worked with the Dead Sea Scrolls.  He told me that he could translate directly from the original languages to the ASV.  For any other version, he would then have to paraphrase.So, I use the ASV and if I encounter something that is a strange word, I fall back on the New American Standard Version for the paraphrased text to get the gist of what the ASV is saying.</blockquote>