This year is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible.
I grew up Southern Baptist, and of course we all knew that Jesus spoke like Shakespeare; there WAS no other Bible. Nowadays, I'm not particularly religious, but I find the modern translations that are used in the various services I've been to lately to be...lame. They sound like liberal-speak, if that makes sense.
The Torygraph has a great article about this very thing.
King James Bible
http://www.blueletterbible.org/
It's a free online site that has a lot of translations, but it will also show your the original Greek and Aramaic and you can look up the meaning of individual word and where else they were used.
It's a free online site that has a lot of translations, but it will also show your the original Greek and Aramaic and you can look up the meaning of individual word and where else they were used.