Comment on God's Property

ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• vonbaronhans@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The superscripts are almost certainly references to translators’ footnotes.

  The random italicization I’m less sure about, but it seems to primarily be on words that may not have a direct Hebrew counterpart?

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    More literal translations of bibles are often like you’re referencing and are really interesting to read when you approach from a scholarly direction.

    Take them with a grain of salt and the historian/translators footnotes and see what you take from it. Lots of good thoughts and prayers and wildly different than what the Christian right has championed lately.

    Still a fantasy novel though

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    • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Just hopping in to suggest the NASB translation to anyone reading your comment. Super literal and requires a lot of studying the footnotes.

      Get one without some theologian rambling about his opinion for literally half the book (lookin at you, John MacArthur).

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• Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The numbers are verse numbers, used for citing specific passages, e.g. “Ezekiel 23:20”.

  I would assume that the letters are annotations, and that this is likely an academic Bible.

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  • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does that include the 8 up by “moves” in the preceding paragraph?

    I assume the gilded superscript numbers are verse numbers, I know at least that much of biblical format, but then there’s that 8.

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  translation notes I’m guessing

  “that yields seeds” could be “which yields seeds” or “doth yield seeds” or “yielding seeds” or “seed yielding” etc

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