Three years ago I learnt to my big surprise that different bible translations exist and that people have strong arguments for or against them depending on the source text and on the translation method used. A good starting point is the wikipedia. The author of the Sundry Times blog has updated his opinions and it’s [...]
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Bible translations, an update
Posted in Bible on February 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Reading the Bible on the Pocket PC
Posted in Bible, PocketPC, tagged Bible, ESV, HSBC, ISV, OliveTree, Pocket e-sword, PocketBible, TNIV on May 13, 2009 |
Last year one of my goals was to read the Bible starting with the New Testament – for whatever reason I didn’t make it and stopped with Romans. I felt it’s time to finish what I have started and this brought up two questions. Which program to use for bible reading on the Pocket PC [...]
Bible reading – John
Posted in Bible on March 27, 2008 |
I hope I can make it through the “Book of Books” this year. Recently I made less progress then planned but anyway, I have completed John yesterday. As mentioned before, I have started with the New Testament and will later switch to the Old Testament. What I find slightly annyoing is the repetition. Jesus reminds [...]
Lost in translation – finally an end.
Posted in Bible, tagged Bible, Bible Translations on February 26, 2008 |
Following up on my previous post I have finally made a decision. First of all, the comparison of the different bible versions has distracted me from my original goal – to read the bible – and has started to annoy me. I decided to read the bible not only once but at least twice. This [...]
After doing some more searching with Google regarding the different Bible versions available, I stumbled upon two things. 1) There is a successor to the MKJV I am currently reading which is the LITV by the same author (Jay P. Green). 2) Voice of the Wilderness has published the VW edition combining the best from [...]
Reading the bible – but which one?
Posted in Bible, tagged Bible on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For the new year 2008 I have one goal: I want to read the Holy Scripture. I don’t consider myself a Christian but I want to understand why so many people believe in God and which values they praise. As usual it’s easy to fall into the trap that one already knows everything. The Christian [...]
