In all seriousness, though, a project to map the Bible's overall development history in a software like Git would be kind of cool to look through, from a historical standpoint. Quick Google search came up with nothing, unfortunately.
Other thing is, the text itself hasn't changed much. Most of the revisions of the text itself are so old that they're undocumented. What's changed has been which translations people use. If we could have a historical map of the world that maps out which translations are/were most common, that would be cool, but that data isn't readily available and getting it would require some intense amounts of research.
The text itself hasn't changed much? Are you high?
Those are all about translations. I meant that the Aramaic hasn't changed, but most people can't read Aramaic anyway, and I don't know how old the earliest Aramaic manuscripts that still exist even are.
Only a TINY part of the Bible is Aramaic, and not even an entire book! A bit of Daniel, a bit of Ezra... and what?
The Old Testament was otherwise written in Hebrew. The New Testament was written in Greek.
The point is that before the printing press, all copies were made by hand. This introduced many, many, many differences between the same texts in the same language, intentionally or not.
Before someone does a modern translation from Greek, they have to prepare a Greek "edition" of the New Testament. This included looking through many, many, many documents to decide which of them is least changed from the original. A Git-like program to help with this is exactly what the chapter in that book describes.
Yes was rather bemused by that statement, what with there being whole swaths of medieval history dedicated to the study and interpretation of the bible and its influences. A fun one to add in would be the change in interpretation of the bible based upon the external influences, such as the crusades, religious reformations, ext. How the Greek and Aramaic was interpreted in 1200 would be vastly different to 1500, and thats only from a medieval perspective. Hell the King James edition caused a lot of problems.
As in you went into one? I will say I really enjoyed going there, but now it's just another Big Box Store/Amazon Display Store. However, if you're really in need of stuff, they match Amazon.com prices.
There are two fries near us that aren't too far. Coming from England, the size of it is astounding, and being able to get things at Amazon prices is pretty cool too.
As in you went into one? I will say I really enjoyed going there, but now it's just another Big Box Store/Amazon Display Store. However, if you're really in need of stuff, they match Amazon.com prices.
You must keep in mind, the largest store we had near us in Leeds was still only the size of a small-to-mid-size department store, maybe one hundred paces deep by fifty, sixty wide. I've not been into something like Fry's, either. Never eaten at Denny's or iHop for that matter, and I really want to.
I don't mean to double post, but the Thing of my Day is that I'mma interview Vini "Maddog" Lopez, drummer for Bruce Springsteen from 1968-1973. I'll get to ask him about the really early songs that Bruce won't talk about.
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Isolated track of Under Pressure with Freddie Mercury and David Bowie:
Also bonus Evil Eddie track for you.
http://sangcoon.tumblr.com/post/67677551437/im-so-masochistic-its-terrible-i-cried-while
(Tumblr comic (Multiple images) so only a link.
This was my JAM in my DDR playing days. How I miss those times!
This is what Christmas in America has become.
Damn, I remember when I looked at stuff like that during the dial-up days. (I sometimes miss the looping background MP3s.)