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Don't you think that removing it from the site would be a little drastic. How many people really care whether a word is spelled "LORD" or "Lord", do you think?
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Honestly, if one verse is tarnished, one can assume that other versus may be messed up as well. As I said, many people have lived their lives based off this book for thousands of years. I hope not. |
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It's probably something no more serious than missing a small-caps font out of the ePub file. Dismissing the whole thing just because of the capitalisation of a word just seems a little drastic to me. If someone is that fussed about truly accurate text, aren't they going to be reading the original, anyway, rather than a translation? After all, any translation is losing a heck of a lot more than (no disrespect intended) something as minor as this. I know that when I read the New Testament in its original Koine Greek, I'm amazed by the "liberties" that many translations take with what it really says!
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I would love to discuss the textual criticism process that takes place for modern translations, but I don't think this is the thread for that. As drastic as it may sound, taking down the book or at least warning potential buyers that the book is flawed is actually something most followers of the Bible would appreciate. Thanks again for your thoughts. |
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Yes, I'm well aware of that, Dale. This is, however, a forum for discussing the "inards" of ePub files, and it would be instructive to know whether the issue is caused by a problem with the actual text of the book (which may indicate a significant problem for the publisher) or whether it's simply a display issue resulting from the production of the ePub file (eg a style problem) which could be trivially fixed.
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Anyway, as a translation versus a paraphrase, the NIV is billed as an authoritative reference point for anyone studying the Bible in English who lacks the ability to read Hebrew or Greek or Aramaic. As such, the publishers better get their details right. Harry, you're flying off on a tangent and missing the entire point behind why people would get upset over this formatting issue. This is simply not the same as finding a punctuation error in The Count of Monte Cristo. This is the Bible, and even if it doesn't mean much to you, it is vastly important to many others on a scale which you obviously aren't comprehending very well. Zondervan missing something like this in their epub shows a disregard for basic RESPECT: respect for their readers and a respect toward God whom they say they are trying to serve in the publication of this text. I'm sure you didn't understand the ire of the Muslim community in Finland over those cartoons, either, but the expectation and demand by deeply religious people toward God is real and not something to be taken lightly. Throwing this epub text out there without taking the time to proofread it and catch such basic errors is incredibly disrespectful toward both God and the readers of the text. Zondervan absolutely should remove this text from sale until these errors are fixed, and in fact should send an apology to the readers who bought this text to begin with. I've never been very impressed with Zondervan as a corporation, so I doubt they'll do that. Last edited by cmdahler; 03-08-2010 at 11:52 AM. |
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