Instant Bible Goes On Sale In Britain
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Instant Bible goes on sale in Britain How many ages and generations have brooded and wept and agonized over this book! Walt Whitman wrote,entrupted by the ?divine and primal poetic structure?of the Bible. Weep he might have,hd he come acroos the 100- Minute bible,which boils down that primal poeticstruture to 50 prosaic pages intended to be read in two minutes apiece,consider its rendering of one of the most poignant verses of the New Testament,John 11:35,the scene where Jesus travels to the home of Lazarus?s sister for not being there to save him for death. Ion the king James version and most other translations,the verse reads, ?jesus wept.? In ?The 100-minute Bible,? a passive voice describes Jesus as being ?deeply moved.? And what to make of the SMS Bible,a text-message versin by the Bible SocietyinAustralia,which translates Genesis 1:1 thus:?In new 100-minute and digital Bibles join a long list of condensed versions,each drawing doubters who questin the wisdom,if not the audacity,of editing God. Why does man persist,and can any good come of it? ?Some people objected to the very concept of messing around with the ?sacred text,? as they called it,?said Leonard Budd,the publisher of the 100-Minute Bible,which has sold more than 40,000 copies since it went ons sale in UK a littlemore than month ago,supplanting The Tibetan Book o the Dead and the Kama Sutra on the lists of religion themed best sellers. ?If the man in the street is not reading the Bible,? budd continued, ?you have to ask,isn?t it better to read a short versin than not to read the long version?? Perhaps not, said Michael romartie,Vice-President at the Ethics and Public Policy Centre in Washington. ?In this internet age,where everybody is in a hurry,the one thing with is reaeing the Bible,? Cromartie said. ?You don?t speed-rate the word of God.? Skeptical reactins have greeted nearly evey new translation or formatting of the Bible. The men who first translated the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New Testanent into other languages were challenged over their right to do so. Modern efforts right to do so. Modern efforts like The Living Bible and The Reader? S Digest Bible did not escape such rectins.
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