How many Bibles are in your house?

[Bucky]

I'm talking the Holy Bible (King James, RSV, The Good News) but I'll also include any other canonistic holy works, if they're part of a major tradition of faith (Torah, Book of Mormon, Qu'ran), any actual set of monotheistic holy books deemed scripture. Please do not confuse these with "Tijuana bibles," which are neither canonical nor sacred. College kids may count any Bibles or other scriptures they have back at the folks' house.

Right now, in your abode, how many do you got?

[goodgd_yall]

1. All you need is one---datadadadaaaaaaa

That's all this home has.

[jeffrey_X]

30. None.

I think my mom and dad have like 5 or 6.

[Mythsaje]

2. I think we may have one somewhere

buried with all the boxed books. Maybe. It's not as if anyone in this house would ever both to read one. Been there done that.

[EFerrari]

27. Are you kidding? I look stuff up all the time in my KJV.

Maybe I'm just net impaired.

[Mythsaje]

61. Nah...I don't care that much what it says.

I've done all the theological debates I ever will by this time. There's nothing left in the bible that holds any interest to me.

[Kucinich4America]

93. You can save wear and tear on the hard copy bible

Go to www.biblegateway.com

Probably every Bible translation you ever heard of, and some that you probably haven't, including 35 languages. They even have audio bibles online.

Great resource for a quick scripture lookup when you're battling Freepers :)

[EFerrari]

96. Or, just reading. The Bible in English is one of the founding docs

of our lit. People use it all the time half consciously when they write. Thanks for the link!

[PassingFair]

3. Two, three if you count....

Ken's Guide to the Bible.

The MOST referenced.

http://www.amazon.com/Kens-Guide-Bible-Ken-Smith/dp/0922233179
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Y8Y8XYDNL._BO2,204,203,200_PIlitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.gif

[cgrindley]

4. I teach the Bible

I've got a huge number of the things.

[Leopolds Ghost]

131. Really?

[cgrindley]

143. Oh yeah

I was even a visiting member of faculty at an Ivy League divinity school teaching religion and the arts.

[EFerrari]

5. I have the Vulgate and most of the major revisions that followed

bought for a grad course.

The parallel gospels don't count as a whole bible but, they're interesting. Someone thought to put the Gospels in four columns on the same page so you can read them and easily compare them, story by story.

I guess I'm going straight to hell.

[theredpen]

132. That's the synoptics

The Synoptic Gospels (Mathew, Mark, Luke) are publish that way in Greek. Sometimes you get a fourth column with the Gospel of Thomas, the Shepherd of Hermas or the Didache; these are only found in orthodox texts in Greek or Coptic.

A cool site that allows you to do side-by-sides of the same text in different versions is http://unbound.biola.edu/">The Unbound Bible.

[JuniperLea]

6. One I was awarded for memorizing verses in Sunday School...

One that was my grandfather's, one of the plain Enlgish versions from the hippy dippy Jesus freak days... I'm sure there are others. Now I'm curious!

[TahitiNut]

7. Five in storage. (sigh) Two Bibles, three Qu'ran, and several Tao De Ching.

Besides that, I have many Buddhist tracts and a variety of 'Christian'/Unitarian works including Conversations With God and others.

[roguevalley]

37. what do you think about Conversations with God?

[TahitiNut]

51. I thought it was an interesting read, particularly Volume I.

I enjoy thought-provoking, inventive stuff like that. I don't have to get all tangled up in the fact/fiction/faith judgementalism to see whether I find some resonance or value in the work. I enjoyed "Ishmail" for similar reasons ... and "A Course In Miracles" and other things like that. I just don't feel like I have to play referee ... or fear that I'd somehow be corrupted by reading things like that. If I'm stimulated to look at different pardigms - different perspectives or facets - then I feel well-served.

[laylah]

116. "Ishmail" is one

of my all time favorites. My sociology teacher introduced me to it back in the early '90's. I have bought numerous copies to share.

[roguevalley]

140. exactly, TahitiNut. I have a course in Miracles. Now that I'm retired

i can pursue philosophy, a subject I have loved all my life. Philosophy and religion, especially in a historical context. I'm more interested in Jesus the Man than Jesus the god.

[0007]

129. Joe Smith talked & walked with angel Moroni all the time and

I'm more than sure one could get a transcript from someone that wears funny looking underwear.

[knitter4democracy]

8. I can think of 8 off the top of my head.

Four of those are the kids' Bibles (two were gifts, and two are more on their reading level). One KJV, one NKJV Orthodox Study Bible (New Testament and Psalms only--full Bible's on order and coming in February), two pocket NKJVs.

[shanti]

9. one

and it's an antique "family bible" from way back.

[racaulk]

10. One

A dear friend of mine gave me one for my birthday seven years ago, but it sits in a box in my closet and I never look at it.

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Just one. And as an Atheist i am proud to say this one is..

signed by the author!

He he.

Actually, it was my Grandmothers who gave it to my mom who gave it to me when i was confirmed. (I was raised, baptized and confirmed Episcopalian) It is an old fashioned KJV with Christs (alleged) words in red

[maxsolomon]

12. 2: King James & NSRV

wife inhereited the former, kid had to buy the latter for comparative religion class. in HS.

can't say as i've read much of either, but i did read Revelation in both versions, and my opinion is: they should have edited that book out of the anthology.

have read the Gospel of Thomas & the Jefferson Bible.

[roguevalley]

38. lots of theologists agree that Revelations doesn't belong.

[A HERETIC I AM]

76. "If you took out Revelations and the book of Daniel....

the tent preachers wouldn't have anything to carry on about"

Bishop John Shelby Spong, in an interview with Bill Maher, about 6 or 7 years ago.

The full context was basically this;

Maher: "What do you think of the book of Revelations?"

Spong: "Not much"

And he followed that with the above quote.

[roguevalley]

139. I agree. I love Spong. He sent me on a path toward the truth that

I owe him much for.

[Guaranteed]

105. I have both of those, gifts from others (KJ from my grandmother),

as well as a third, a children's Bible, that was a gift when I was very young from my sister.

[Romulox]

13. I have the Koran, the Chuang-Tzu, "Journey to the West", and the Bible in several translations...nt

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Do bibles like these count?

I'm sure there are plenty more. To some, some of these are canonical. The first one, for sure.

[Bucky]

26. St Peter's gonna give you an extra kick in the seat when he sends you down to burn

But I, sir, can only salute your blasphemy.

[Quantess]

15. Zero.

The only relgious paraphernalia in the whole house, is my stack of Chick Tracts in the bathroom. And those are for amusement purposes, only.

[scarletwoman]

67. I thought you were going to say that you used them for toilet paper. (nt)

[Bitwit1234]

16. When bush got in the white house I donated mine to the Salvation Army

I figured if there was a God he didn't like this country any more.

[Fierce]

17. Counting the Kalevala, of course,

I have several of several faiths. I enjoy reading them as literature, culture and history.

[Touchdown]

18. Does a Gideon count? Or do I have to have a receipt?

If so, then 1.:D

[Xithras]

19. Two.

I have a reading Bible on my bookshelf (along with hundreds of others), and a family heirloom Bible in my attic. It belonged to my great-grandmother and I'd NEVER get rid of it.

[sniffa]

20. one - the one we stole from our honeymoon hotel

thank you Gideons. :patriot:

[JitterbugPerfume]

21. two

one that belonged to my dad ,and one that belonged to my mother in law.

[ima_sinnic]

22. I'm a freelance copy editor and often get papers referencing the bible

--so I keep my mother's copy around to look up the spelling of Deuteronomy and check this and that.
Otherwise, I would have donated it to a thrift shop.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. I voted two, but I just remembered two more

1. The RSV that I received at the end of fourth grade Sunday School for memorizing the Ten Commandments, the 23rd Psalm, and the Apostles' Creed. (Our whole class learned these.)

2. The Oxford Bible that I claimed from among my stepfather's possessions when he and my mother sold their house and moved into assisted living. (He has Alzheimer's and doesn't read anymore.)

3. The Hebrew Bible that my father had. I hope to learn to read it some day.

4. A Japanese Bible that I picked up at a store in New Haven, CT, of all places, more for curiosity than anything else. It's not a very good translation, IMHO.

[Bucky]

28. I would love to read an Engrish Bible

I fear the laughter would send me to hell, but the laughs would be worth it!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. It's in real Japanese, but it's bad as Japanese prose

It doesn't flow smoothly.

[EFerrari]

39. I have a reproduction of the Elizabeth Book of Common Prayer.

It's a lot saner in it's tenets than modern American culture.

[China_cat]

24. My mother's, one that somebody left or it magically appeared

or it miraculously was beamed into my house (I have no idea where it came from) and the Dutch bible belonging to my husband.

Comparing an English translation of the Dutch to the English KJV (translation from Hebrew and Greek) can be an eye opener in places.

[Krashkopf]

25. None . . .

And the ONLY bible I would ever consider owning is "The Jefferson Bible," re-written by Thomas Jefferson, who took all of the religious dogma and other supernatural elements out of the New Testiment, leaving what he believed to be "the finest ethical system the world has ever seen" - Jesus of Nazareth's message of absolute love and service.

[roguevalley]

40. I have that. get one. its wonderful.

[lolly]

53. That's one of mine

Also have a King James and a Tyndale's New Testament and a Book of Common Prayer, an Oxford Guide to the Bible, (wrote a dissertation on Renaissance Literature) and a Children's Bible Stories. If all these count, that makes 5. Oh, and some xeroxed excerpts of a Geneva Bible somewhere.

[Dorian Gray]

29. I've got a Quaran

which I read for interest. And we have three Bibles. One is a fancy one given to us as a gift. And two were academic bibles from our college years. (Both my husband and I went to Boston College, a Jesuit school, and we were required to study religion for a year.) I also have the Cathechism of the Catholic Church, which you may include in your description. Not quite the same, as it is more a "rule book" than a book of worship.

We were both literature majors in college, so we have a really extensive library.

[Chulanowa]

31. Only one

and only because it's two hundred years old and has the entire family tree of my mothers' side written into it, along with more recent additions, messages, etc. in the margins. The cover is hickory with, of all things, an opossum-skin covering / bindings.

In other words, it's not a bible - it's a neat-as-hell book that I'm afraid to touch. :D

[Leopolds Ghost]

135. Opossum skin!?

Where'd you get that?

(The family's idea for the book, not the opossum skin)

[Marr]

32. I got the Cliffs Notes.

[balantz]

33. Several, if you include Buddhist, Hindu, Zoroastrian,

Taoist, Advaita, Non-dual & etc.

[iamahaingttta]

35. Two or three bibles, a couple of korans, the devil's bible...

...the book of mormon, the great books series, all of shakespeare, the oed, and thousands of others. You know all the good stuff you're supposed to read to be smart.

[razors edge]

36. Does Dear Hunting With Jesus count?

If not, none.

[gateley]

41. How about Live from Golgatha? nt

[DearAbby]

42. None...if I have need to look something up..Skeptic's Bible

is online.

[WileEcoyote]

43. At least three

My room mate is a devout type and she owns at least one. Probably more.

I own two myself both of which came from a pair of outstanding, unlicensed female sexual therapists I once rented long ago. Nice women but they were a little inebriated at the time and each left one behind. On two separate occasions...

I lost the Jehovah's Witness version they left on my doorstep twenty years ago.

[GreenPartyVoter]

44. Several devotional and study ones in many different translations.

Although to be honest it's really my husband who mainly reads them.

[ccpup]

45. wasn't sure how to answer this

because we have a piece of art someone in Paris made that is basically pages of the Bible cut and pasted and re-arranged into saying things that the Bible didn't actually say. It's very clever, took a great deal of time and looks simple and straightforward until you actually look closely at it and then it becomes a maze of thoughts and ideas one can get lost in for hours. We love it.

And it's just blasphemous enough to piss off my distant Christian (or so they claim) relatives. Supporting a starving artist was cool, but pissing off the Aunts and Uncles was the icing on the cake.

[Romulox]

46. I have the Necronomicon somewhere too, though it is a little silly in parts! nt

[Rockholm]

47. Dang. I voted one then read your additional criteria.

So, I would make it three. One Bible and two copies of The Book of Common Prayer.

[Whisp]

48. Only one because

I love the smell and feel of books.
bibles are awesome in that respect, the onionskin paper, the weighty tomeness, the printers ink smell. ahhhhh.

I haven't read for a long time now, just touch and hold it once in a while for the tactile thing.
Revelations was pretty cool tho.

[slackmaster]

49. One Revised Standard Edition (with red letters for things Jesus said) received in September 1966

At the conclusion of three years of what used to be called Sunday school.

[OzarkDem]

59. Ah, memories

I always liked those with the red type. Spent many an hour memorizing entire sections for Sunday school.

[Labors of Hercules]

50. Know thyself...

and thy enemy.

[Blue_In_AK]

52. I've got several

of various translations. I like to compare them when a particular interpretation of a particular piece of scripture comes up. I think I like my Amplified Version best.

[Adsos Letter]

63. Hey, Blue...

...my wife likes her Amplified version best also,...I like The Contemporary Parallel New Testament (8 versions, side by side) and the Jewish Publication Society's "TANAKH" for the Hebrew scriptures.

:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

92. Although I don't consider myself particularly religious,

I do really like the Bible as literature, plus I think it holds some really good lessons for people. You can find all kinds of human behavior there.

[Tesha]

54. In our atheist household, we have at least eight recognized books of scripture.

1. A Catholic-style bible
2. A New International Version bible
3. A Reader's Digest adult bible
4. A Reader's Digest children's bible
5. The book of Mormon
6. A Quran
7. A Bhagavad Gita
8. A Ramayana
9. Many assorted non-scriptural books re: Wicca, Zen, etc.

[Steepler0t]

55. I used to have one

But it really made low quality rolling papers so I tossed it. :evilgrin:

[krispos42]

113. Prolly made a freeper stroke out when you said that...

The country thanks you!

[Steepler0t]

148. Always glad to do my part (nt)

[Raine]

56. Several and I have read them

all...so any fundies take note...I KNOW what is in the bible!

[OzarkDem]

57. Two King James, one of those new-fangled ones

written in more modern English. One New Testament only.

The large King James has the family records as well as the pressed corsages from my sisters and my high school proms, four leaf clovers we kids found, etc. Come to think of it, I also have my grandmother's King James version.

[FreeState]

58. 6 Bibles, 4 Books of Mormon, 3 D&C/Pearl of Great Price, 1 Qu'ran, several Buddhist/Taoist books n/t

[Yukari Yakumo]

60. Two... maybe three

All thoroughly buried somewhere and collecting dust... if dust can even reach them.

[liberalsoldier5]

Several copies.

The New American Catholic editions.

[liberalsoldier5]

62. Several copies.

The New American Catholic editions.

[L0oniX]

64. Mine have no dust on them.

[MuseRider]

65. Tons.

Everyone in my family has died and I got all the family bibles from both sides, those and a couple of Books Of Mormon. They are all in a drawer somewhere in my house.

[Richard Steele]

66. Do bookmarked "online bibles" count? That's actually the one I use most.

Any way you look at it, we've got more than 3.

[Breeze54]

68. I was given a small red bible when my son was deployed

from the Family Readiness group and I had another small pocket size one
that someone gave me years ago. I don't know where they are anymore.

[Buzz Clik]

69. Is it still a Bible if you've torn out the pages to paper your walls?

Just asking.

[Disturbed]

I go to www.evilbible.com for reference.

It is quite handy for debates.

http://www.evilbible.com

[Buzz Clik]

80. Looks pretty handy at first glance.

I hope to read up on hyprocrisy, stabbing people in the back with a pointed crucifix, and hating non-believers.

[theredpen]

147. Only if you want to look like an ignoramus

This would be a great site for people who know nothing about religion to find misinformation that they can share with other people who know nothing about religion. If ignorance is what you're into, this is a great site.

For example, right on the front page:

Jesus also promoted the idea that all men should castrate themselves to go to heaven: "For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it." (Matthew 19:12 ASV) I don't know why anyone would follow the teachings of someone who literally tells all men to cut off their privates.

I agree with the author that the requirement to cut off one's own testicles is a great reason to reject a religion. Luckily for Christian men, Jesus wasn't saying this at all.

In the time of Jesus' ministry, there were Roman temples where the priest had to be castrated. There were also temples (particularly Jewish temples) where eunuchs could not enter. Jesus is saying "whatever your situation, you are welcome in the Christian religion." And really, you don't even have to know history (ewwww! studying) to realize this; you can just read the whole passage — another effort that seemed to great for this analyst.

Are there fundamentalists who take this literally? Some, but they don't reproduce so they're rare.

Literalists are people who reject scholarship and "book learnin'." This "evil Bible" site is rife with similar misinterpretations, made by people who couldn't be bothered to do any research, so I don't see how they are all that different from the anti-intellectual fundies.

[Bucky]

72. Depends. Do you read your walls?

You know, I never thought I'd ask someone that particular question.

[Buzz Clik]

81. It's a great question.

My Bible-papered walls generally function the same way as the bound Bibles in most homes -- purely symbolic with the outside hope that it will ward off evil.

I will read it on occasion for answers to crossword clues.

[Dukkha]

70. I used to have The Satanic Bible

until my g/f made me toss it out. it was kept mainly for shock value it really wasn't well written. Anton Lavey was a con artist plain and simple.
Now we keep our real bible, The Origin of Species, out on our coffee table.

[Booster]

71. A bible would really be out of place in this house.

[MasonJar]

73. I have my Bible from childhood, my Book of Common Prayer (Episcopalian)

and several family Bibles. They are very important to me, since I am a great believer in Jesus' teachings, especially the Beatitudes.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

74. Due to my evangelical fervor I have given them all away in order to spread the Word, Amen brother.

[Hoof Hearted]

75. I have several. My bible, my mom's from when she was a foster child, my dad's from

his graduation, an older one from my own childhood and a plethora of those little New Testaments floating around. The first bible mentioned, the one I purchased for myself however is the only one that actually gets read.

[MasonJar]

77. A member of my church, Calvary Episcopal, who is also a professor at the Univ of Louisville,

gave us an amazing series of lectures (at least I hear so since I could only attend one.) But that one was so enlightening. He told us that the books of the Bible were voted on by a cadre of MEN ( and I mean men, no women allowed by then, even though some of Christ's most prized friends were women) in the 300s (or so.) There seems to have been a gospel of Thomas, which was voted down, as too radical and not suited to the gospel of "leaving no doubt." It (the Thomas gospel) has been discovered somewhere...sorry, I should have taken notes at my age.

[theredpen]

137. The Gospel of Thomas

The Gospel of Thomas contains a lot of material found in other Gospels, but it is heavily influenced by Greek Mysticism. In the last verse of the Gospel of Thomas, the Apostles demand that Jesus send Mary away because women weren't worthy of enlightenment. Jesus answers (and I'm paraphrasing), "She's man enough for Me." That bit was pretty controversial. The literal translation makes it seem like Jesus is saying that he will transform Mary into a man so that she's worthy. Imagine what the fundamentalist Christians would be doing to their women thanks to that if it had been kept in.

In 1945 a long-lost trove of early Christian writings was discovered at Nag Hamaddi. It included some lost and unknown Gospels, such as the Gospel of Mary. The Gospel of Thomas was not lost, but it still part of some Orthodox canons.

[krabigirl]

78. Does The Tibetan Book of the Dead count?

[Arugula Latte]

79. My kids each have a Bible ... that has been hollowed out so you can stash cash in it!

:rofl:

I just get a kick out of that ... Good hiding place for $$.

Seems appropriate, somehow, what with the Big Business of Religion these days.

I visited the Saudi Embassy in grad school for an assignment and they gave me a Qu'ran (!), so I have that.

[nonconformist]

82. Several.

We have both mine and my husband's childhood bibles, each of our two children's monogrammed bibles they got when they were babies, a couple of freebie bibles, several Catholic bibles and the Catechism, and a few Wicca books.

[Buzz Clik]

83. How about "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy?

It's the textbook for Christian Science, but I'm not sure it's ever been elevated to the being considered holy.

[scarletwoman]

84. I used to have an Oxford Annotated Bible, which I really enjoyed for the historical and etymological

information. I had purchased it for a college comparative religion course I took back in the 60s.

Unfortunately, after several cross-country moves over the decades, it somehow disappeared. It was a fascinating reference work, however, and I regret not having it anymore. Someday I may pick up another.

In the meantime, I have the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Tao Te Ching, the Wilhelm translation of the I Ching, several translations of the Dhammapada and assorted Tibetan Buddhist works -- including the Six Yogas of Naropa, a half dozen or so books on the Qaballah, the Book of the Law and Real Magick by Crowley (among several of his other works), the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and an extensive collection of mythology books from various world cultures (from ancient Greece, to Scandinavia, to Irish, to African, to Australian aborigine, to American Indian, etc.).

If I had a Bible, it would simply take its place as one more piece of the global spiritual/cultural/mythological works in my collection.

sw

[kineneb]

85. KJV, Koran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Nag Hamadi Scr., Buddhist texts

Bagavad Gita and downloads of Zoroastrian texts...

and several modern commentaries by Elaine Pagels.

[Buzz Clik]

86. Dead sea scrolls?

Eh?

[kineneb]

87. scrolls from ~ 1st C. BCE- Sectarian Jewish religious books

written in Hebrew and Aramaic. Found in the 1940s in caves near the Dead Sea. Scholars "sat" on the translations and refused to publish all of them for several decades. That is, until the Huntington Library (SoCal) released information that they had a complete set of photos of the scrolls. Others translated the scrolls and copies are now available for study. They have really interesting background material for people interested in Roman era Palestine.

[Buzz Clik]

88. Yeah, yeah. I've heard of them. You have them in your house?

[NuttyFluffers]

100. i have them too, fun read

they're not THE dead sea scrolls being studied right now in archaeological museums, but textbook printings of their messages and their trnslations. been in print for awhile now. go get your copy today! :D

[Buzz Clik]

119. Only if they are actually in scrolls.

[NuttyFluffers]

152. ... and only if they are crumbly, ancient scrolls.

and comes with a frosty 6-pack of brew.
:evilgrin:

[Withywindle]

89. Lessee....KJV, a collection of Apocrypha, the Qur'an, the Ramayana, the Bhagavad-Gita, Popol Vuh...

the Upanishads, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Egyptian Book of the Dead, the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Pistis Sophia, Sepher Yetzirah, Rumi's Mathnawi, the Kalevala, the Mabinogion, the Poetic Edda, Early Irish Myths and Sagas, and lots of really dense stuff by John Dee and Aleister Crowley. Oh yeah, and tons of Cthulhu Mythos stuff.


Hey, we Pagans probably read more about religion than anybody who's not in seminary school. :shrug:

[NuttyFluffers]

101. roughly the same collection at home here too

but i'm not pagan. otherwise we share similar libraries :D

[Withywindle]

109. Non-denominational salutations!

Bibliolatry is a religion unto itself. :hi:

[NuttyFluffers]

150. we bibliophiles tread a cramped and dusty path

but someone's gotta be the keepers of memory! :7

:hi:

[Kucinich4America]

90. Have several different editions of the bible

King James, NIV, New American Standard something or other, the old 70's "Living Bible". Got a Jehova's Witnesses' "New World Translation" somewhere, a Book of Mormon, The Lost Books of the Bible, both of the "Bible Code" books, and an assortment of various books by Billy Graham, John Hagee, and some other fundie authors, including some of the "Left Behind" books.

In fact, if you saw a couple shelves of my bookcase, you might mistake me for a fundagelical. But just because I have read all that stuff, doesn't mean I take it as ...... well, Gospel, for lack of a better word.

I'm down with JC and His teachings, but its what humans have done with Christianity that ruined it for me. Raised in a fundie Baptist church, never fully indoctrinated, Thank GOD!

[Bill219]

91. none

I was born and raised a Roman Catholic, I was an altar boy and my grandmother was grooming me to become a priest

Then when it came time for my confirmation, I had many questions that my priest could not answer. I then went on a quest to sample many different types of religions and in the end I realized I could no longer devote myself to the myth that is religion and got rid of all my religious books and what not.

[usregimechange]

94. 3 or more and yes I damn well included the Jefferson Bible

[RB TexLa]

95. Seven including one very nice huge family Bible from the early 1700's

edited to add: Many, many missals, and my wifes Book of Common Prayers (She's 'Pisky)

[defendandprotect]

97. Probably one of the most violent books ever written == NONE

And when I find one in a hotel room I generally dump it in the garbage can.

[mitchtv]

98. the new Roman Missal

half in Latin, it counts by your standards

[frogmarch]

99. When I'm looking for some Bible verse or

another, I google it.

[JohnLocke]

102. 1999 JPS Torah, and the Mahabharata.

Plus some random free KJV and Qur'an.

[MilesColtrane]

103. Two KJVs, a Word, the Apocrypha, the Tao Te Ching, the Koran, the Book of Mormon...

...Sufi texts, the teachings of Buddha, the writings of Baha'U'llah, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita to name a few.

But, nothing by that cheezy "Left Behind" guy.

[dysfunctional press]

104. at least a dozen- and a couple lutheran hymnals.

nt

[HughMoran]

106. I'd have one if it had anything in it that I found valuable

I've tried desperately to read the gobbledygook in the bible - it's ancient language, flow and style makes it incomprehensible to me. Plus, best I can tell, there's nothing in the Bible that I haven't already figured out a hundred times over. I could write a lot better set of moral and ethical rules and it would be something the average person could comprehend without having some joker put their "spin" on it.

Edit - I do have the Jefferson Bible, but I suppose that doesn't count, right?

[burrowowl]

107. Maredsous, Jerusalem and Family (one of the Catholic ones

before the Jerusalem, can't remember which.

[gauguin57]

108. I used to be a holy roller when i was a teenager ... i still have a whole bunch of bibles...

... plus my family's catholic bible from my EARLIEST days. Ones I've bought within 10 years were a King James (for the poetry) and a bible with apocrypha (just to have it). Plus a koran, the bagavad gita, the upanishads, zen mind/beginners mind, etc. Poems of st. john of the cross ... book of catholic saints ...

Every once in a while, i take a peek in one of them to learn something. I do find the bible inspiring as a piece of classic literature. some of those stories are pretty crazy-ass.

[Evoman]

110. I think two.

One is my girlfriends that she brought when she moved in. Mine is laying in a box somewhere in storage. I also have like 4 or 5 of those little new testaments that some guys (Gideons?) handed out in the hallway. Everytime they offered me one, I would take one. I like how the paper feels.

BTW, I'm atheist.

[Swamp Rat]

111. Dozens

... of as many religions.

Namasté. :)

[Hekate]

112. Many.My husband is Jewish & Buddhist.I started out Christian in a family of agnostics,& went Goddess

I went to grad school in middle-age and got degreed in Mythology. Beginning with the King James version I bought for myself at age 8, I have gone on from there.

I like religion and the study of religions -- and my husband spends a lot of his spare time reading Buddhist texts. When I teach mythology to adults I reference both the religious texts/major myths and the cultures they came out of. Inanna -- Popol Vuh -- all of it is so interesting.

BeliefNet says I'm closest to being a Mahayana Buddhist. They're probably right.

Now I want to visit all you DUers' libraries and compare notes.

Bucky -- what made you ask this question?

Hekate

[krispos42]

114. I might have one someplace

There a a few totes that have miscellanous stuff in from back when I was married. My ex's father is a Baptist minister, so there were always a couple of Bibles around. I think I may still have one of hers in one of those totes, but I'm not sure...

[GTurck]

115. Have my trusty

Catholic Bible which I received as a confirmation gift when I converted 27 years ago. Have not deigned to read the KJV since. Why anyone thinks that 17th century English is the epitome of religion is beyond me. To read KJV is to invite deep confusion and misunderstanding.
Catholics have 5 extra books, mostly in the Old Testatment.

[Thothmes]

117. Just one, it was the one my son used going to catholic schools.

[BB1]

118. None. Not a chance.

No way. It's not gonna happen. I'd rather take in sick puppies and watch them die on the carpet than have one of those hate-mongering, abusive and wrong books in my house. Wait, I found one after all. (flips through) Oh no, it's 120 days of Sodom, by that other freak, Marquis de Sade. Well, they look alike...

[OxQQme]

120. So, the Yahweh God was one of many.

When he and Moses had their get-together up there on the mountain 1750bc and Mosedude came back down and was the tonysnow/danaperino spokesman for the 'there is only One God' edict that we humans are still struggling with, there had been several THOUSAND years of many 'gods' and 'goddesses'.
"Kill ALL the UNBELIEVERS. I am Supreme", was/is the message.
Males are superior to females.
Spread 'The Message' across the globe.
'You followers will be My mercenaries.'
Stone to death any who worship 'false' idols.
"If you need any help, I will rain down death and destruction with My Thunderstick on those who you will point out to Me."

Sounds like bushco to me.

My bookshelves, bookmarks and storage boxes contain primers and in-depth references (includes two well thumbed bibles) of all the major current belief systems that I have read in my 67 years here on earth.

Investigating the pre-Yahweh millenia has been enlightening.

The God that spoke to Neale Walsh in the Conversations with God series was a Humanist.

The teachings of Buddha are more relevant to living as a human.

[theredpen]

138. It's nice that you own Bibles. You should also try reading them

Males are superior to females.

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28
The reason why your list of inaccurate statements sounds like Bushco is that they don't read the books either. They rely on the ignorance of the people. Isn't it better to light a candle than to curse the darkness?

[OxQQme]

149. Mr theredpen

I see that your hobby is being difficult :o)
Just kinda wondering if you are aware of the on-going feminist movement.
Or if you know of the myth of how Adam was created first and Eve was then created from one of his ribs to be a vessel for his seed.
The over-arching theme of the bible is 'male superior'.

Or do you know of the relationship between Yahweh/Marduk and Innana/Ishtar?
Half bro/sis, in case you are not familiar.
There was a civilized world with cities and commerce for thousands of years prior to the penning of the beginnings of the bible.
Innana was 'the supreme' in the Age prior to the Pisces one we have cusped out of.

[theredpen]

154. I'm aware of these things

There's certainly a lot to chew on in your post.

As Jung said, myth is the expression of that which is inside us. If you want to find oppression of women in the Bible, you can find it. If you want to find feminism in the Bible, you'll find Judith, Ruth, Ester and Hagia Sophia.

There was a civilized world with cities and commerce for thousands of years prior to the penning of the beginnings of the bible.

Don't get me started on that. :)

Consider Abraham, father of the Jews, and his wife Sarah. If you transliterate Abraham from Hebrew into Sanscrit you get Brahman, the generic form of Brahma, the creator god of the Hindus, whose consort was Saraswati. This (along with a bunch of other stuff) indicates that there may be a pre-literate connection between Hinduism and Judaism (and a bunch of the other Babylonian stuff from which sprang Judaism).

The real question is "so what?"

[Javaman]

121. I have one. I found it in the street.

I'm an atheist, but I thought it was a good idea to have one for reference material.

Odd that it was laying in the street, but when I opened it up, it contained all sorts of med prescriptions, pornography, and letters to someone.

I tried tracking down the people in the letters and the person to whom the prescriptions belonged to, but they all ended in dead ends.

The person that lost this bible was on some major meds and had some really major troubles in his life.

So I kept it.

[Bucky]

125. Thank you for that inspirational story. There is a God.... and He likes Him some pron.

:rofl: Well, that little joke just sealed my afterlife. I don't care, it was worth the chuckle.

[truebrit71]

122. Off the top of my head I can think of 6.

I have other religious texts too like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the gospels that were omitted...

[Eurobabe]

123. Zero, but I have a translated copy of the Koran

is DHS going to come get me? :scared:

[RiverStone]

124. I've never seen a Bible...even all the way back to my grandparents...n/t

[theredpen]

127. Bible means book!

You've never seen a book? :P

[Morrisons Ghost]

126. 437

I really love Jesus:woohoo: :headbang:

[0007]

128. Are you writing a fucking book?

[Kingshakabobo]

134. Yes, kiss my ass and make it a love story.

[theredpen]

130. I'm still cataloging all of them

I married a theologian/religious anthropologist. She came with 3500 books. We've cataloged about 3000. Here's my recollection of the combined total of Bibles and holy books from both our collections:

Judeo-Christian Bible:

Dead Sea Scrolls (scanned on CD ROM)
Leningrad Codex (reproduction, obviously)
3 Torahs with Haftorah
Codex Sinaticus
Russian Bible
Septuagint
New Testament in Greek
Latin Bible (Old school Catholic)
Spanish Bible (Reina version)
German Bible
Facsimile version of Luther Bible
NRSV (2x)
NIV
NAB (2x)
Children's Bible
Nag Hamaddi library (Gnostic Gospels — with English translations)

Also:

Book of the SubGenius (2x)
Revelation X
Communist Manifesto (German, Russian and English)
Q'ran (3 different English translations)
Hadith (English)
Bhagavad Gita
Works of the Church Fathers (43 volumes)
Greek Myths (Greek, English)
Roman Myths (Latic, English)
Dungeons and Dragons "Dieties and Demigods" manual (with Cthulu Mythos!)
Tetrabiblos
Dhama Pada
Upanishads
Other Gitas
Mishna (Hebrew, English)
Tosefta (Hebrew)
Talmud (Hebrew)\
Zohar (Aramaic)

I'm working on getting the full library online. This isn't even all of the (Dewey Decimal) 200's and 190's.

[phatkatt]

133. I only kept one.

I got it from a Sunday School teacher when I was a kid, so I kept it for sentimental reasons. I threw several away when I lost my faith.

[LWolf]

136. I've never heard of a "tijuana bible."

:shrug:

I have:

a boomer bible, which is my favorite.

a king james bible, for reference

a copy of "World Scripture: A comparative anthology of sacred texts."

I've never seen a copy of the torah or the koran. I've got an entire bookcase full of other books with writings from and about faiths around the world, but they don't fall into the "sacred scripture" category, as they are not thus annointed by an organized heirarchy of a formal faith.

[theredpen]

141. Tijuana Bibles

Tijuana bibles (also known as eight-pagers or dirty little eight-pagers) were pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana_bible

[LWolf]

142. No wonder I've never heard of them, lol.

Their a little before my time, and don't rate my time or attention.

Thanks for teaching me something new today. :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

144. Hmm..rather a lot, I suppose.

Not really sure how many I own.

[awoke_in_2003]

145. I am an atheist,

but I do have one bible in my house, the one my grandfather gave me.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

146. This atheist has three bibles, sort of

1- Richmond Latimore's translation of the Gospels

2- "The New Testament in 26 Translations"

3- New Revised Standard, given as a confirmation present.

Oddly, I do not currently own a copy of the King James Translation, but it's always available to me on the net.

[ulysses]

151. five,

including my koine Greek NT.

[Prophet 451]

153. Does the Satanic Bible count? n/t