So according to “The Companion Bible”, specifically this page https://levendwater.org/companion/append32.html we have a list of passages for which the name of God has been changed, possibly in the underlying masoretic text. I pass no judgement on this right now but I will list the passages here and I will go over them with a fine […]

For the future; an interesting concept is the reading level of the Bible. The RSV and KJV bibles are approximately Grade 12, as given by biblegateway.com and listed for convenience below: Mounce — 12+ (ages 17+) KJV — 12+ (ages 17+) RSV — 12+ (ages 17+) Geneva — 12+ (ages 17+) WEB — 12+ (ages 17+) NRSV — 11+ (ages 16+) NASB — 11+ […]

I am unsatisfied with my UI. There are two primary changes I want to make; possibly three. This is the reason why I haven’t done any serious work on the site for a month; I’m going to have to redesign everything. The UI issue The first issue is which UI to use. Single document, dual […]

This is just a little brainstorm to figure out now how I am going to format notes, commentary, and cross-references. The problem goes something like this. It’s easy to mark notes in a section by verse, but difficult to mark notes in a section by a particular word. If I use double braces ((like this)), […]

Dokuwiki is not designed for complex documents, such as anything other than a plain layout with headings. So, when you want to do something like columns, you need a plugin (like WRAP) — but then, headings don’t work inside the columns. The solution is probably to use the inlinejs plugin, with PRELOAD, HTML and JS […]

With Phase 2 now solidly complete, we have a wording of the KJV/ASV/DRA and other, Genesis only, with many custom word choices and phrasings, which we may now lay copyright claim to as the NSV. The link for this project will now be set as http://www.noachide.ca/wiki/nsv:start What follows is a theological consistency pass. This means […]

There are a lot of pointless notes in the ASV, such as in Genesis 41 where the ears of corn are called ‘rank[b] and good,’ where rank is stated as meaning ‘fat’ in Hebrew. I think it is better to just pick a more sensible word (here ‘bountiful’) than to have a note explaining ‘fat’. […]

As it turns out, the Rashi on sefaria.org is public domain.  According to their blog post “Rashi in English“, Sefaria is very fortunate to receive pro bono counsel from Simpson Thacher and our amazing intellectual property attorneys were able to help us in our effort to determine the status of the Silbermann Rashi’s copyright. Since the translations were published in the […]

I didn’t get as far as Genesis 4 before encountering some thorny issues with rewording the Bible before doing a theological pass, but once I hit Genesis 6 it became obvious that something was wrong with the process. Allow me to illustrate; the problem verse for today is Genesis 6:4. Genesis 6:4 There were giants […]

The previous phase system was very difficult to implement and track. What would happen is that the individual steps would merge together into a sort of first, second, third pass, which really was the same thing. I’m going to revise this all based on how it actually worked out during the edit for Genesis. Phase […]