On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey, was the Bible originally organized into chapters and verses
> (whatever "originally" means here), or was that done later?
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>
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> One of the things I've started doing recently, when I'm teaching Biblical
> material in some other class, is that I will grab a chunk of the text that
> I
> want and format it for them like a single continuous plain old story -- no
> chapters and verse numbers (I usually provide line numbers so that we can
> refer to the text in discussion). It suddenly becomes a real live story,
> with characters, and motives, and things happening, instead of a reference
> book with long chains of statements only in passing connected to the
> material around them, which is what it's currently presented as.
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> I keep wishing someone -- and it's a little surprising that Eerdman's or
> Fortress don't do this, as much as it is that Oxford or Penguin hasn't, yet
> -- would publish a complete Bible without chapters and verses. KJV is in
> the
> public domain, afaik, but it's not what I would want for studying the
> Bible,
> or I would just take that and do it my own self. You could use line
> numbers,
> and/or provide marginal references to chapters and verses (along the lines
> of teh way that Plato and Aristotle are typically handled in a Penguin
> Classics volume).
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> In fact, this has always seemed to me like a no-brainer volume for Penguin
> Classics. I would use it for all my classes where they need to buy a Bible.
> And I have colleagues (religious ones, too) who agree.
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