On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Danny Freedman wrote: > --- Joshua Holman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In some > of the Psalms in the RSV, it seems that the > > Psalm title is > > considered the first verse throwing off the number > > of verses in that > > Psalm off by one. > > This is correct and is not a module bug, the RSV does > not follow the standard verse numbering (i.e. the KJV > verse numbering) rather it follows the more supported > Jewish numbering scheme. The Psalms, in Hebrew do not > have 'titles' since they are a form of oral poetry, > their beginning is a title. As regards sword, this > poses a problem (most obvious in Malachi 4:6), since > Sword adopts the more universal KJV numbering...
No, this really is a bug. The source files identify the titles as "verse 0" but I had ignored this in my conversion and simply changed to verse 1 upon the start of a new chapter. I know what you're referring to as some versions do have this; RSV just doesn't happen to be one of them. --Chris
