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Bible Without Verses

Last week, some of us began talking about biblical interepretation, and the inherent problems in the versification of scripture. For an alternative, check out Barry Moser's illustrated Bible.
"The text is printed with chapters but no verses, which has the effect of presenting the King James Bible as readable prose; it also dispenses with the italics and syllabified names that distract so many readers in the attempt to read the translation as narrative and caution them to read it as Holy Writ. The relative ease of reading, along with the arresting liveliness of Moser's composition -- he is influenced by the camera angles, croppings and lighting effects of film and photography -- makes the text engrossing in the same way an illustrated book of Arthurian tales might be; it would be pointless to resent the archaisms (or even the real ineptitudes of translation) when the words are paired with those pictures. A book is a world, and one can savor it slowly" (Cross Currents).

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Black Riders says...: My favourite version is typographer Eric Gill's Four Gospels.

Some sample pages can be found here:

Dallas Public Library
Rochester Institute of Technology Library

For any of you in Edmonton, the University of Alberta Bruce Peel Special Collections Library has a copy, but this is a closed stack library, meaning you have to ask to see it, and it stays in the library. And they'll probably have you wear gloves.

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