But is it practical? (Part 1) |
Hello, everyone. Glenn Paauw has asked me to share some of my own thoughts with you, as a member of the team that helped IBS develop The Books of The Bible. If you've been following Glenn's series on ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:33:00 GMT |
Why would you do that? (Part 7: Always showing the text in one column) |
In this our last entry in the "Why would you do that?" series, we look at the importance of presenting the Bible's text in a single-column. People have asked, "Why is that a big deal?" And our account...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:35:00 GMT |
Why would you do that? (Part 6: Taking out all the other additives) |
As we noted in an earlier post, chapter and verse numbers were added to the Bible relatively late, and they have their own problems. But the Bible has acquired lots of other additives too. Look at mos...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:50:00 GMT |
Why would you do that? Part 5 Revisited |
Why would you do that? Part 5 Revisited: Putting the books in a better order (in the spirit of St. Jerome, a "helmeted" defense!)So why can't we just keep the traditional order of the books? Well, str...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:36:00 GMT |
Why would you do that? Part 5 Revisited: Putting the books in a better order (in the spirit of |
So why can't we just keep the traditional order of the books? Well, strictly speaking, the traditional order is . . . a bunch of different orders. There is no single "traditional order of books." (The...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:38:00 GMT |
Why would you do that? (Part 5: Putting the books in a better order) |
The Bible was written as individual books, letters, collections of oracles, etc. When we encounter all of this in one book, however, the order of the presentation shapes and directs our reading of the...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:41:00 GMT |
Why would you do that? (Part 4: Books Made Whole) |
This one's not too hard. Some of the longer books in the Bible were physically separated into shorter parts for the simple reason that they were too long to fit in the document form of their day (papy...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:56:00 GMT |
Why would you do that? (Part 3: Showing Natural Breaks) |
OK, so we've taken out the chapter and verse division. The flip side of taking out c&v is to identify natural, inherent ways of organizing things. Just as we seek to discover authors' intentions in in...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:03:00 GMT |
Why would you do that? Part 2: De-versify! |
Some of the folks we presented The Books of The Bible to in our development stage were shocked. Why would you do that? Why take out the chapter and verse system (c&v)? First of all, I should say I do ...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:35:00 GMT |
Why would you do that? Part 1: Changing the way the Bible looks |
Why would you do that?Part 1: Changing the way the Bible looksThe two thousand year trend in the Bible world has been the slow and steady accumulation of additives. Scribes added notes in the margins....
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:08:00 GMT |
