Jewish style formatting

David Roberts
David Roberts Member Posts: 163 ✭✭
edited December 2024 in English Forum

It's common in Jewish Tanakhs and Chumashim to respect the Biblical text by not putting one's personal thoughts/ideas, headings, even verse numbers within the Biblical text, but rather around it, usually on the sides or the bottom of the page. The British Bible teacher David Pawson talks a lot about how important it is to read the Bible realising that the verses were not put in there by the Biblical authors themselves, but as a helpful lookup tool, but when people see verse numbers they often will selectively read a verse or two without reading the context before and after. And so many bad doctrines have resulted by thinking there is something final of just one verse, but you don't get that impression when they're on the side, yet you can still instantly look up passages. So here's a modified version of the logos layout I made up in a paint.net which does exactly that. It's not for everyone, but some may really like being able to look down the side and find verse references very quickly without it being added to the Biblical text. I apologise that I wasn't able to justify the text, but it gives you an idea for a possible layout. Just thought I'd share it with you. Speaking for myself, I would definitely use a layout like this. I've tried the 'Bible text only' feature, but my eyes find it taxing jumping from the empty spaces after every verse. I'd prefer it if they were continuous, at least most of the time. Anyway. Just throwing out an idea for people to ponder on.

Idea for layout


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