5 December 2009
This is the account of the first day of competition at the National Bible Bee.
In the morning I rose early (at least relatively to my normal schedule)—around 6:30, I believe. The night before I had got into bed early also, but as the heat was turned up to 68·5°F, I could not sleep: we do not heat the house at night, and so I am used to the house being relatively cold during the autumn and winter months. Furthermore, I am not used to the sheer number of sheets and pillows provided at the hotel. It wasn’t until after I turned the heat down to 60°F that I slept; I probably did not actually fall asleep till midnight. […]
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14 November 2009
Well, now that my eight-week blogging break is over, I’m going to try to give as full an account as possible of my whole experience at the Bible Bee. (After all, everyone’s just been waiting for it, right?) During the summer I did not do nearly as much studying—and that not as efficiently—as in the [...]
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18 September 2009
I’m in! I’ll be competing in the National Bible Bee in Washington, D.C., 4–6 November. I’ll have to be studying a lot—there are around 1500 verses to have memorized. I’ve done somewhat less than half of them. So until then, I am taking an official eight-week blogging break. Comments are more than welcome; e-mail if [...]
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10 September 2009
In two days, on September 12, is the local competition of the National Bible Bee. I’ve studied quite a bit during the summer, including on walks with Apple’s iPod shuffle—I had recorded most of the Bible memory passages myself.
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29 April 2009
In my last post I talked about how painstaking it is to copy a text even with the help of computers. It is even more interesting, however, to look at ancient manuscripts of the New Testament. The oldest extant Bible, called Codex Sinaiticus because of its former location at St Catherine monastery on Mt Sinai, [...]
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28 April 2009
Last September I typeset the original preface to the King James Version of the Bible, called ‘The Translators to the Reader’. I think it’s worth reading: it gives insight on the minds of the translators. (It also directly attacks some ideas held by proponents that the KJV should be exclusively used.) When I was preparing [...]
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