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arclite811 -> THE BOOK (4/20/2008 10:03:32 PM)

Hi :)

This forum is a great tool for fellowship and discussion. I thank God for the technology He has provided that makes this possible. Thanks to all who serve, maintain and monitor this website.

I would like some help.

I'm looking for an ESV or NASB Bible that has no chapter or verse divisions, commentaries, index, concordance, cross-references, pictures, table of contents, pictures, designs, helps or anything other than the book titles and the scriptual content. I would love the Word in it's purest milkiest form!

I have been reading a short book by Dr. James M. Gray called How to Master the English Bible. The point he makes is that the Word of God came to us, originally, in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek and without any commentary or helps. He argues that chapter and verse division is a form of extra-biblical commentary!

I would love to become fluent in Hebrew and Koine Greek, but until the Lord affords that time, I'll have to make the English Bible the primary object of discipline! All the commentary and helps and chapters and verses have a place in study, but it seems that no one makes a Bible that is just the Bible.

Thanks for any replies and help!



4IMPersuaded -> RE: THE BOOK (4/21/2008 4:47:44 AM)

Hi arclite! I don't know that this will help, but I wanted to respond to your query. The only Bible that I am aware of without verse demarkations is the Message Bible. That is what actually threw me off when I first picked up that translation. Even there, though, passages are marked, but not always individual verses.

It is true, the books of the Bible were written in a more fluid fashion that what we read. I think one of the most outstanding examples for me is in Genesis. We change chapters right in the middle of Adam and Eve's garden experience. Ignoring the Chapter change gives a whole new tone to the story. Interesting. I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help.



arclite811 -> RE: THE BOOK (4/21/2008 10:58:47 AM)

Thanks, 4IM. I checked out the Message Bible, and it turned out to be a pretty weak, liberal translation. The editor had good intentions, though, I think. If you find anything else out from any Christian friends please let me know!



brothertodd -> RE: THE BOOK (4/26/2008 4:19:53 PM)

I dont know if you are going to find one, I do know of a St. james or John Translation that might not have the numeral divisions. However it is an illuminated translation which means it is written like the older bibles with illistrations around the first letter of a chapter. Im not sure either of the jewish bible in which the jewishness (so to speak) is brought back into it and the NT. with Peters name I think was Yackov, and Jesus is Yesua . Noe even though it may have collum notes and some foot notes and chapter designations they have in Kj, Niv, Nasb's and probably more with a strongs hebrew/aramaic and greek key lexicon. The words will have a nuber next to it and you look that number up in the back for the hebrew or greek word, meaning, pronuciation



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