Send your old Bibles overseas: Recycle your Bible at the Bible League
Become a Gideon: “75.9 million Scriptures were distributed last year.”
Buy a NLT Bible: ‘Tyndale House Publishers has a significant tie with Wycliffe Bible Translators. A percentage of the sales of all NLT Bibles goes to support this organization.”
Start a Bible-sharing ministry: “They went to [...]
The Bible Societies are guilty of sins of omission. By sins of omission I’m not referring to the KJVers’ claim that the Bible societies tampered with the Sacred Writ. Instead, I refer to the fact that by not making an electronic version of the Bible texts freely available on the Internet they have allowed [...]
The little idea hamster started spinning this afternoon.
I’ve never believed that taking an old translation and tweaking it is the answer to the Open Source crisis for Portuguese Bibles. Open Source is an ideal but I think there is a reasonable compromise when the best translations aren’t being shared: offline browsing.
The legality of this method [...]
It’s the same version used by Go Bible for their mobile phone Bible app.
The copyright information on their website lists it as “public domain.” But there is no version or copyright information.
A few pieces of information to note:
Although called “Almeida Atualizada” there is no known version of the Portuguese Bible with this name.
It is [...]
“Just move along, folks. It’s all over. We caught ‘em.”
While the copyright police have been squashing a crime wave of illegal Greek New Testament editions floating around the Internet, I discovered a secret stash of the good stuff hidden in plain sight.
This Westcott-Hort with NA27/UBS4 variants (1881) sounds kind of old and stinky but [...]
Lest you think that I’m raging against the Sociedade Bíblica de Brasil (SBB) in general, I want to be clear and state that my complaint is only with their digital text policy. I’m not in a position to say anything about their print distribution and exportation. Their online Bible is rudimentary but a large number [...]
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Shame on you logos.com for this atrocious campaign to give away “luxury” Bibles. You make me want to puke. American Christianity has sunk so low that Bibles are a fashion statement and we give them away like sexy cars or a weekend trip to the Bahamas. Booooooo! Boooooo!
Yesterday I had students begging me [...]
Bob at Boar’s Head Tavern did a little ranting of his own (Thanks for the link love)
The sad story of downloadable Portuguese Bibles
Bibles available in major European languages for use with the Crosswire SWORD program:
Spanish: 5
German: 10
French: 4
Italian: 2
Portuguese: 0
While every other major world language has multiple versions of the Bible represented online, Portuguese [...]