"Literal translations" aren't really possible. That just isn't how translations work, and nobody tries to do it that way. For example a truly literal translation would have to preserve the word order of the original, which would read most of the time as complete nonsense. Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek just aren't shaped to adjust into English that way.

Half the problem is that you have people who seem to think that it is easy to fully understand a translation, of books originally written using the words and the patterns of thought of a totally different society several thousand years ago, into the words and patterns of thought of a society which in many ways is almost as alien, four hundred years ago.