Hi Luke, 40 years ago I found the http://www.navigators.org/us/resources/illustrations/items/Topical%20Memory%20System Navigators' Topical Memory System very valuable for memorizing Scripture verses.
In the current issue of the http://www.banneroftruth.org/ Banner of Truth magazine, there is an excellent article by the Rev Dr Peter Barnes on Scripture Memorization. The article is too recent to have yet appeared also online. Best regards, David Haslam Luke Plant-2 wrote: > > Hi all, > > In the course of getting serious about learning Bible verses and > passages, I decided I needed a method of choosing Bible verses and > putting together schemes, and that other people could benefit from > this. I couldn't find much that was freely available and met all my > needs, so I've written a project to help me do this, and published > the (unfinished) results here: > > http://lukeplant.me.uk/bibleverses/index.html > > Basic outline: > - Use a set of YAML documents to define: > - verses with categories and comments > - topics > - schemes > - Pull all these together using Python scripts > - Use Sword, via Python bindings, to grab the actual Bible verse > where it hasn't been included in the YAML > - Output web pages > > I've come up with a huge number of topics that I'd like to cover, and > I'm not done, and I've realised I could use some help in filling it > out with actual Bible verses. The main help I'm looking for is > verses to be added to the YAML documents -- there are huge gaps and > many obvious and important passages missed out -- but any other > improvements would be welcome too. > > The code is all available from that site (for the moment, via > Mercurial and Mercurial web interface only, with links for the main > YAML documents). It's a bit rough around the edges, but there is a > README etc which should be enough to get going. > > I haven't put a licence file anywhere in it yet, but I intend to > release under BSD or possibly public domain to make this as widely > useful as possible. > > Best regards, > > Luke > > P.S. This is my personal project, and I'm providing sources so anyone > can fork it, so in the case of theological differences (choice about > Bible versions, importance of verses, comments etc), I'm going to > have to use the age old conflict resolution technique called "I'm the > boss" :-) > > -- > "I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it > was gone." (Steven Wright) > > Luke Plant || http://lukeplant.me.uk/ > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Slightly-Off-topic%3A-Bible-verse-memorisation-project-tp16326285p16332258.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
