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Ah, so that's why they call him "Burning" Bush!
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The NRSV is copyrighted.
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That should be unethical. Worse! It should be immoral!
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The complete NRSV Bible in Microsoft Reader format has been available for purchase for quite a while. I bought my copy from Books on Board about a year ago, but BOB does not sell it any more. I bought the book and used ConvertLit to convert it to Mobipocket format.
You can now buy the complete NRSV Bible in Microsoft Reader format from Diesel Books. |
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According to what I researched, the story did not appear in some early Greek translations, but was in the earliest Latin translations. This was from a conversation I had about this w/ a scriptural scholar:
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I love the NRSV Bible
You know.. you are so right. The NRSV Bible is truly one of the best translations out today. I love it. This translation of the bible makes it so easy to understand for the modern day Christian.
I am a Pastor, and I love to help new christians as well as more mature saints. I always recommend the NRSV Bible. I even made a blog about it at http://nrsvbible.brighterplanet.org For anyone who is still questioning.. I encourage you to check out my blog about it! It'll help you. Pastor Bell ![]() ![]() |
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Translations can be copyrighted. The NRSV is a translation. Translating a series of ancient religious texts, especially when there are no definitive original documents, is a monumental task requiring multiple people with different areas of expertise. I believe that anyone who undertakes such a task should be compensated for that work.
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One thing is "I have worked, and I have to be paid". Another is "I have created the pater noster and I claim copyright and I.P. on it". I am not English nor American, but I'm pretty sure that they're not synonyms on neither side of the Atlantic Ocean.... Translation is handwork, not creation of new content! It has to be paid, not copyrighted!!!! What if I translate the Bible on my own and accidentally end up with the same exact phrase? Can I be sued? There other perspectives, of course: If the Holy Bible has been written by the Holy Spirit, like the Catholics Tradition says, then to claim IP and put monetary rights on it, even translated, is definitely simony. If the Book is nothing more then a book, and it was written by ancient mortal people, like atheists believe, then to put rights on it (albeit legal) is something close to theft (people making money with somebody else's ideas without any compensation for the original creator). If the modern translator of the text is the actual creator of the content, than the Bible is definitely his own IP, but it opens up a brand new perspective about Faith itself.... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What I think is that to put copyright on God's Spell is Evil, from whichever point of view (maybe except the one of the guy who gets the money, who will always find an interpretation of the Word and the Law to morally justify it). |
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Whatever your opinions on the rightness or wrongness of it may be, FC, the fact is that a translation of any work - public domain works included - carries its own copyright which is totally independent of the copyright status of the original work. Eg, if you translate, say, Shakespeare into French, then you hold a copyright on that translation (lasting, in most cases, for your lifetime + 70 years), even though the English original is in the public domain.
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Selected quotes from A Man For All Seasons:
Margaret More: Father, that man's bad. Sir Thomas More: There's no law against that. William Roper: There is: God's law. Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake! |
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