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. […]
Category: Noachide Bible
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.
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+ […]
The Next Book Might Not Be Jonah
The next book will be Jonah? Scratch that. I might just go with Exodus. It’s longer, and vastly more complex, but also of an importance commensurate with it’s size and complexity over Jonah. I’m going to perform one final check of Genesis and then begin the next book. The reader is probably not as important […]
A conclusion over poetry blocks
It appears (finally) there are two different kinds of quote blocks used by the RSV and other bibles, as exemplified by Genesis 48 and 49. In Genesis 48 there is a “quote block” in which wrap and newlines return to the original indent. Then, in Genesis 49 there appears to be a “poetry block” which […]
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 […]
The Next Book is Jonah
I was debating over Job or Jonah for the second book, and decided on Jonah because it’s shorter. This doesn’t mean I’m lazy, it means I don’t want to dedicate a very large amount of my time to a new book when I don’t feel fully satisfied with Genesis. However, with the reader in a […]
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)), […]