As it turns out, John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes (i.e. from the Wesley Study Bible, classic studylight or studylight or even biblestudytools) is in the Public Domain. This might be useful to use as a reference to help explain points for credibility’s sake; we will certainly reference some of it. Actually most of it looks useless. […]
Notes on Rashi: Merged Version, Sefaria Licenses
I now see a merged version on sefaria with the following notices: Pentateuch with Rashi’s commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silvermann Source: primo.nli.org.il License: Public Domain Metsudah Chumasn, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source: primo.nli.org.il License: CC-BY Sefaria Community Edition The Koren Jerusalem Bible Source: korenpub.com License: CC-BY-NC under construction
Notes on Rashi: Rosenbaum-Silbermann to SCE
I’ve come to realize how the Rosenbaum-Silbermann text was updated by the SCE. It appears as if the SCE only includes the updates made to the RS Text. Therefore the process of inclusion will be to incorporate the Rosenbaum-Silbermann text and then go back and copy-0verwrite the SCE.
Adventures in Discord
About two weeks ago I left IRC for Discord. IRC had become far, far too small, and the discussions too played out — the entrenched guard of the debate channels on DalNet had become too insane, too far gone to make it worthwhile anymore. It was fun while it lasted. The future seems to be […]
Bad name verses
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 […]
Revising for Reading Level
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+ […]
Reworking the UI and Document
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 […]
Formatting Notes, Commentary and Cross-References
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)), […]
Doku’s Complex Document Problem
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 […]
Phase 3: The NSV is born
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 […]