Bibliotheca (Bible)

Bibliotheca is a five-volume[1] version of the Bible created by Adam Lewis Greene[2] to be published in 2016. It was funded through a thirty-day Kickstarter campaign for which Greene set a goal of $37,000, but the campaign raised over $1.4 million.[3] Greene's aim, as detailed in his Kickstarter campaign video,[4] was to enhance the experience of reading biblical literature by giving the content a more novel-like form, omitting chapter and verse numbers and annotation, utilizing a sewn binding and opaque book paper (rather than Bible paper), and creating original typefaces optimized for legibilty, among other features.[5][6]

Translation

Bibliotheca will feature the American Standard Version translation with some modifications, mainly the elimination of archaic word forms (e.g., “thou” and “doth”),[7][8] but a project update from Greene in April of 2016, featuring a note from Bible scholar David deSilva, suggests other changes were made to the text: “Without damaging the literary quality of the base translation, we were able to suggest many changes that would bring the translation up to par with where textual criticism and Greek lexicography currently stand, not to mention alert Adam to a few all-out mistranslations of the original Hebrew and Greek in the ASV (every translation has them).”[9]

Miscellaneous

Bibliotheca has several features in common with The Books of the Bible (published by Biblica in 2007), which separates the text of the Bible into separate volumes and does not have chapter or verse numbers, as well as the ESV Reader's Bible (published by Crossway on June 30, 2014, three days after the launch of Bibliotheca’s Kickstarter campaign),[10] which does not have verse numbers but does have chapter numbers and is one volume.[11]

Because the text is spread across five volumes, Bibliotheca is able to use a thicker, more opaque paper than the thinner, more translucent paper typical of most Bibles.

References

  1. ↑ "BIBLIOTHECA". Bibliotheca.
  2. ↑ "BIBLIOTHECA". Kickstarter. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "BIBLIOTHECA". Kickstarter. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Bibliotheca Kickstarter. Vimeo. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  5. ↑ Hafiz, Yasmine (24 July 2014). "'Bibliotheca' Bible Project Blows Up On Kickstarter With Chapterless Bible". Huffington Post. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "BIBLIOTHECA". Kickstarter. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  7. ↑ Souppouris, Adam (22 July 2014). "The Bible's a mess, but a designer is fixing it". The Verge. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "BIBLIOTHECA". Kickstarter. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  9. ↑ "BIBLIOTHECA Update #48". Bibliotheca.
  10. ↑ "Crossway Publishing". Crossway.
  11. ↑ Zylstra, Sarah Eekhof (25 July 2014). "Introducing the Bible! Now with Less!". Christianity Today. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

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