{"id":740,"date":"2014-07-30T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2014-07-30T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:21:58","slug":"the-bible-as-an-enjoyable-reading-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/the-bible-as-an-enjoyable-reading-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bible as an Enjoyable Reading Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible as an enjoyable reading experience \u2014 does that sound wonderful to you? Or maybe even &#8216;unimaginable?&#8217; Watch this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/99418117?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=36bbce\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/99418117\">Bibliotheca Kickstarter<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/goodhonest\">Good. Honest.<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not enthusiastic about doing so much work on the reading experience while using an older translation. The ASV, for example, predates the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Still, it&#8217;s much better than the KJV, and the archaic word forms are being eliminated, so it&#8217;s not bad.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Should the Bible be enjoyable to read, as well as practical to study?<\/p>\n<p>(I was originally alerted to this project by <a href=\"http:\/\/christandpopculture.com\/bibliotheca-whats-point-making-bible-beautiful\/\">Jason Morehead<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-july-29\">Tim Chailles<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>(Cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewellakeparish.org\/site\/2014\/07\/the-bible-as-an-enjoyable-reading-experience\/\">Pastor Luke&#8217;s blog at JLP<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible as an enjoyable reading experience \u2014 does that sound wonderful to you? Or maybe even &#8216;unimaginable?&#8217; Watch this video: Bibliotheca Kickstarter from Good. Honest. on Vimeo. I&#8217;m not enthusiastic about doing so much work on the reading experience while using an older translation. The ASV, for example, predates the discovery of the Dead &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/the-bible-as-an-enjoyable-reading-experience\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[481,607,8,609,423,608,673],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-beauty","tag-bible","tag-bibliotheca","tag-books","tag-kickstarter","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}