11-16-2007, 05:19 PM | #1 |
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Bible Study Book collections
Not since the Godspeed eBible (a custom hiebook reader) has there been a good Bible study collection available for eBook Readers. I just found such a collection for MobiPocket which is good news for Cybook and iLiad users. Of course PDA users may find it useful as well. It is available from http://www.christiancdrom.com/ They have a collection of free eBooks and discounted eBooks.
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11-16-2007, 06:59 PM | #2 |
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I created good quality PDFs (for SONY reader) of the Tanach with Rachi's commentary using Chabad.org as a source.
Unfortunatelly they did not allow me to share it, but anyone can do the same with a little work. |
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-oops I see the 60,000 weren't books but articles, sorry about that but even several hundred is still quite an effort and they would not be linked together like this collection. Dale Last edited by DaleDe; 11-16-2007 at 07:34 PM. Reason: -oops |
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The problem as I see it is that there are no Bibles that would work for me. What I want is what we have in print. I want a bible that does not have the new testament and that has a literal translation no no slant on things like most Bibles do. Most Bibles foe readers have some sort of slant to them due to the translation and are not proper Jewish Bibles.
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The problem with literal translations, as I've said in a previous post, is that the bible is full of Hebrew idioms and euphemisms that don't make any sense (or are confusing) if you translate them literally. One example is Isaiah 7:20 which talks about God coming with a razor and shaving "the hair of your head and the hair of your feet". Is this really talking about hairy feet? No, of course it's not: "hair of the feet" is a Hebrew euphemism for pubic hair, but you wouldn't know that if you read a literal translation such as the KJV.
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No, don't worry, you're safe with those .
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Fonts are an issue in the Hebrew and even then you are going to get a literal translation, in effect since as you point out is what it says, which you will have to interpret on your own with study so the same thing can be said for the English language version. The Hebrew would likely have to be images or PDF anyway. Dale |
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The kind of reminds me of a literature reading assignment I had, we had to read the book of Ruth, and one instance had a mother tell her daughter to go to the man she loved and sleep at the foot of his bed.
Now is it saying she sleep on the floor? Probably not, Hebrew had that expression to mean sex so it most likely meant that in context. The Old Testament does imploy alot of coded language. Another one would be in the story in Saddam and Ghamorra where the two angels are being met with an angry mob and the statement "Hand them over to us so that we get to know them." Is coded for homosexual sex. |
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