Dear SWORD users,
In spite of Chris Little opinions, the SWORD program was conceived *to make possible the comparative reading* of several Bibles versions and the standard is the King James Version.
I don't know where you got that idea, but it is entirely wrong. It's really difficult to argue that the purpose behind Sword was comparative reading when you consider that parallel Bibles have only been supported since roughly the time when the 1.5.6 frontends came out. Furthermore, the KJV versification is ABSOLUTELY NOT the standard--international or otherwise.
Catholic and Orthodox traditions vary GREATLY from the KJV versification. ALL original language texts (Hebrew, Greek, Latin, & anything else you might consider original language) differ SIGNIFICANTLY from the KJV versification. NO modern commercial Bibles use the KJV versification, to my knowledge (NKJV might be an exception for obvious reasons, but I doubt that even). Even genetic descentants of the KJV like the NASB and NRSV use different versification standards. So "standardizing" on the KJV versification is utterly arbitrary and even if one WERE to set a specific versification as "standard" (which I think would be a profoundly bad idea) the KJV versification is demonstrably inferior to virtually any other versification in use.
> How could the comparative /
parallel reading be possible -- or the use of commentaries --, if we do not adjust the versification of foreign Bibles to make it compatible with that of the KJV ? What I"ve done with the Romanian Orthodox Bible, more exactly with the Book of Pslams, was already done with other versions of the Bible, like the LXX (which is at this time present on the SWORD site)... How would handle Mr. Chris Little the Romanian Psalm
no. 9, which in KJV is in fact two Psalms (no. 9 and 10) ? He would paste together the Psalm 10 with the "last valid verse" of the Psalm 9 ? In fact this new rule, "we don't accept alterations of versification", makes *IMPOSSIBLE the comparative reading*, which is the main feature of The SWORD Project program !!!
I've addressed this previously. Apparently I need to repeat myself. We use the best source texts we can get. We will happily accept improvements to existing modules. We will not accept altered versions of texts, however--especially when the unaltered versions are readily available.
You took publicly available copies of the Biblia Gdanska and modified the versification to be more like that of the KJV. Ask yourself: If the KJV is the international standard, WHY is this Bible posted in some other versification? The answer is clear: because its own versification is the versification with which its users are familiar. "Comparative reading" is a nice feature, but is secondary to a Bible actually being useful to its user community.
This kind of activity is why I do not like to accept any content converted by users. I would prefer that we simply be given links to source material so that someone from CrossWire can work on the modules themselves. I believe it is less likely that they will editorialize as they do markup & conversion.
--Chris
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