Bible.com
So for that Dickhead Duke post, I admit that I did a Google search for "bible" in order to look up what it was exactly that Jesus said to Satan in the desert after being tempted for forty days and forty nights. I was fairly certain that the classic line was, "Get behind me, Satan." But then my memory questioned the phrasing, particularly in the King James Version, which uses stilted/classic English, and I began to wonder if it was, "Get behind thee, Satan," which, while not making any sense, really, suddenly sounded right to me. Turns out, though, that the phrasing is, "Get thee hence, Satan!" Since that's not nearly as famous a Jesus quote as "Get behind me, Satan," I went with my first hunch. I must've picked it up from Jesus of Nazareth, or Jesus Christ Superstar, or some other televised Jesus movie. Maybe Billy Graham's The Prodigal? Who knows?
Anyway, I ended up at Bible.com, which provides a nifty free service. Many, many translations of the Bible (which I learned in Miss Schaefer's grammar class at Topeka Lutheran School should always be capitalized when referring to "The Holy Book"), and they're all free.
Now I don't know for sure who runs this Bible.com site or what their politics are, although after a quick perusal l have a pretty good guess. But in addition to the free Bible service, there's a whole buttload of commercial activity happening, asking the all important question, "What Would Jesus Sell?"
I was always a big fan of Matthew: Chapter 21, Verses 12-13, in which Jesus clears the merchants and shopkeepers and money lenders right out of the Temple. To paraphrase Jesus:
My web host should be a site of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves!
So there, Bible-dot-com.
Labels: God
posted by Dan G @ 9:42 AM
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4 Comments:
I recommend Bible Gateway for all your scripture-searching needs. It has a better interface and not nearly as much advertising.
Neither of them covers the Revised Standard Version, though, Dan. And that's the one we Lootrans grew up on. It has Christ saying, "Get behind me, Satan" in both the Matthew and Mark versions of the story. According to the library's Eight Translation New Testament, only the good old King James uses "thee".
I knew I could count on you, Karl, if that is indeed your name. I figured that the evangelical Bible.com just ignored the RSV. Are the Lutherans so self-important that they've got a version of the Bible no one else recognizes?
No. The RSV was actually put together under the auspices of the Church of Christ, and was widely used by many protestant denominations in the 1970s and 80s. I'm sure there's some reason that the two sites don't have the RSV, but I don't see anything that says why.
It is available online in several forms, including this barebones interface at the University of Virginia.
Boy, librarians sure are useful.
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