The Progeny
Living, and the Living Bible
First about the Bible...
As part of our homeschool curriculum, each of the children goes through some Bible related subject each year.
It might be a particular book from the Bible, it might be part of a Christian Liberty Press series I use or it might be catechism oriented.
This year I did something different for Nolan, using the The Living Bible for the textual readings that correspond to his weekly lesson, instead of the harder to understand versions that the series requires. Once or twice there have been places where the older kids' heads have perked up with looks of, "That's not accurate," and then we may compare with a translation or just refresh that it's a paraphrase, etc.
This week's lesson concerns the situation with Jonathon and David, and how Jonathon was testing the waters of Saul's attitude toward David, so that Jonathon could inform David whether Saul was out for blood.
While reading aloud from The Living Bible yesterday, I was absolutely shocked and barely able to stop in time before reading out loud Kenneth Taylor's rendition of Saul's outburst. Something to do with vivid terminology casting aspersions on Jonathon's heritage along matriarchal lines.
Now I have to relegate The Living Bible alongside the banished Calvin and Hobbes books?
I am disturbed.
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4 Comments:
When you get to the lesson on Ezekiel 23:20, you may prefer the Living Bible to the NIV!
Who is this "Jonathon" person? Is he anything like Jonathan?
Also ... I rather like the NLT rendering. It strikes me as far more accurate to the meaning of the original than "perverse, rebellious woman" or something similarly Victorian.
Thainamu...all I can say is, "Oh dear !"
Wilson: Argh! You have caught a faux-pax, 'tis true.
*sigh*
Your right in the sense of "perverse, rebellious woman" being less accurate, but when I'm reading aloud to an (ornery) 8-year-old in a room with four other kids working quietly on their studies, I have certain obligations to my family and indeed, the world at large :-)
The Bible in any tanslation isn't kid friendly, though alot of it will go over their heads.
Such as the bag od foreskins a little before the chapter you're on.
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