Comments on: How Many Do You Have?

By: à¹€à¸žà¸¥à¸‡à¹ƒà¸«à¸¡à¹ˆ

à¹€à¸žà¸¥à¸‡à¹ƒà¸«à¸¡à¹ˆ — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:16:37 +0000

Thank you for everything. Very useful

By: Antigone

Antigone — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:50:30 +0000

3 (one’s my Hubby’s youth Bible, the other is mine from my first communion, the third is from a college course on the Bible).

I find I actually have more of the Bible memorized and have read the Bible more often (except Numbers- and any of the begats) than the average Christian. So, I’m not too sure if “reading the Bible” will necessarily help you retain more people into the faith. Reading the Bible was one of the steps on my de-conversion because there is a lot of really evil and immoral stuff in there. Mostly in the Old Testaments (seriously, genocide?), but a lot of it in the New Testament too (thank you Paul, but I’m not less intelligent then the men).

By: Louis Winthrop

Louis Winthrop — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:20:02 +0000

I use the New Jerusalem version for most purposes, but sometimes use other translations online if I have doubts. I threw out my KJV after it kept falling apart–I bought it in order to prepare myself to recognize its language in other English writers. And I have an Esperanto translation (OT by Zamenhof, NT by committee) which I never use.

Somewhere I have a translation of the four gospels which abandons versification, double columns, and all the other accretions, for a style which purports to get at the register of the original. I can’t remember the translator, but I remember liking it very much. It’s photocopied and lying in an envelope somewhere.

If I got a coupon for a free Bible, I think I’d go with the Jewish Publication Society’s translation of the TANAKH.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:36:14 +0000

I collect different translations and was thrilled to find,in a used book store, a 1961 edition of the
Amplified OT Job-Malichai in small hardback for 4 bucks.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:56:47 +0000

it can be both

By: Bror Erickson

Bror Erickson — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:13:31 +0000

I realized what you were saying, but also appreciated the humor, even if it was at my expense, that’s all I was trying to say there. I expected there would have to be a slight when a Finn is told to learn Swedish.

By: Tapani Simojoki

Tapani Simojoki — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:07:37 +0000

No, I meant to say that I want to re-learn Swedish. If only to read Giertz and some others. And to be able to converse with my Swedish friends not-in-English.

Living in Ã…land won’t help anyone learn Finnish! It’s the only part of Finland that isn’t bi-lingual, because it’s Swedish-speaking only. Mind you, Finnish is hardly worth the effort just to read Saarnivaara.

By: phil_style

phil_style — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:22:30 +0000

“I knew them all as a kid of course, and can draw a pretty good timeline of Israelâ€™s history from memory”

Part of the shock for me is trying to deal with the history the Bible appear to recount, and the history that really happened…. Then trying to work out how much theology is dependant on the biblical writers’ versions of events. It’s sometimes ugly work.

I’ve gotta say though, snippets like Philippians 4:8 are undeniably wonderful.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:24:26 +0000

That’s a very Pauline introduction to a comment. Beautiful.

By: Bror Erickson

Bror Erickson — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:32:22 +0000

Figured your response would be such. But Bo Giertz wrote in Swedish, which makes it worth reading, I also like Bengt Hagglund and Fredrik Sidenvall. The fact that Uuraas Saarnivaara wrote in Finnish would almost be enough excuse for me to learn that language, but I really want to get proficient with Latin before anything else, Spanish might be helpful these days too. So probably won’t be doing the Finnish thing. My aunt who moved to Aland with my uncle, gave up completely on Finnish.