I did spend a little time trying to see if this question has already been asked/answered so if it has, definitely feel free to just direct me there. I'm honestly not quite sure how to word this because with the Bible being comprised of so many different writings by numerous authors over such a large span of time, it's not such a simple question. What I'm trying to find out is what accessible texts of the Bible (and any other texts that were not included in the Bible) are the closest translations of the original languages... or at least closest to the earliest known translations. (And when I say "other texts", I'm referring to any other known writings/documents that even slightly relate... controversial or not to the Christian faith). Whenever I've attempted to research this online, the majority of the results I get are from Christian sources. It's not that I believe them all to be unreliable, it's just that I would prefer NON-Christian sources, which is kind of hard to avoid when asking about the Bible. I have so many sub-questions to this one, but I'll start here for now.