NEW VERSION OF BIBLE
• 9 — • ■ « "To Be Read as Literature" DULLER PORTIONS 0MITTED (Received 21, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20. A new type of Bible designed to be read as literature is shortly to be published by Heinemanns with the approval of the King's printers. It will be without ehapters and verses and certain of the "duller" portions, such as the genealagies, will be omitted. The Old Testament will be rearranged in groups of boolcs bginning wilh the histories, then -the prophets, the prose being printed as such and the verse as verse with the more dramatic parts in play form. The authorised text will be used throughout exccpt Proverbs, Job, Eccleciastes and the Song of Songs, the revisod version of whieh will be used. It is understood to be similar to a voJume published in America earlier in the year.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 7
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