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I agree that it is useful to allow users to read the deuterocanonical/apocryphal books if they like, regardless of your theological or church traditional bias regarding their status. They add historical insight that help us understand the 66 books of the Bible that all true Christians agree on, among other things. I see no harm in preserving or presenting them, even though I grew up in a church that did not use them.

The World English Bible includes the same set of books as the NRSV, for the same ecumenical/church unity reasons. Those who exclude them from their front ends or module creation activities aren't really doing a service to Protestants, and they show that they don't want Christians in Catholic and Orthodox churches reading the Bible in their apps. I support making a user selectable switch to turn display of these books on or off at will, or to display books in Lutheran, Catholic, or Messianic book order, again at the user's choice, but to hard code an exclusion seems to me to be an invitation for competition by people who take unity in the Body of Christ more seriously.

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On 01/31/2014 01:48 PM, Chris Burrell wrote:

+1. Regardless of your view of deutetocanonical books, they can be useful for studying for all alike.  It could be used for example for the context of the use of a particular word which will help define it better.

On 31 Jan 2014 23:23, "DM Smith" <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote:
I'll add that there are several views regarding the deuterocanonical material:
Two are stated earlier in the thread: Part of the Bible and Not part of the Bible.
I'd give a third: Useful for scholarship.

Greg has stated well what the theological position of 

The core libraries SWORD and JSword both support av11n fully including deuterocanonical material.

Some frontends lag in av11n support.

AndBible has full support for av11n. With in the defined av11n, the developer of AndBible has deliberately supported the 66 books of the protestant canon and deliberately left out deuterocanonical books. As noted, by Peter it is a small change in the program to change the support.

I'd suggest that AndBible have a flag to show/hide the material.

When I go to a book store, I get to choose which Bibles I buy. I think the same should be true w/ our Bible programs.

In Him,
DM


On Jan 31, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> wrote:




On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Matěj Cepl <mc...@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,

As a reaction on complains of some Czech Catholics that And Bible
doesn’t support reading of deuterocanonical books (and Czech Bible
modules don’t contain them at all even for translations which have them,
i.e. CzeCEP) I have started to look into it and found
http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/wiki/AlternateVersification

I am not sure whether the author of And Bible doesn’t mix together two
things ... after all the current And Bible does support av11n, doesn’t
it?

Don't let av11n - support for which is purely a technical feat - conflate with the theological position of the AndBible author expressed in that wiki page. He's not saying his application supports or doesn't support non-KJV versification. He's only saying he refuses to display text that he has claimed is "uninspired". Specifically he is referring to the apocrypha. It's entirely possible for him to support NRSV, Masoretic Text, etc versifications and still hide certain books. For instance I would easily write an application that uses the Sword library and could display the current KJV without displaying any of the Old Testament if I held the opinion that such text was irrelevant or uninspired (I do not).

I believe And Bible uses JSword, which had lagging av11n support for a long time. I don't recall any longer if it has added support for that already or not. You'd need to check either with the AndBible developer or try to load a text that uses a non-KJV system and see if it is supported to find out if AndBible support the av11n technology.
 

What is the “official” (or as official as possible) position of the
Sword project on deuterocanonical books / apocrypha? Do other front-ends
support them? Do we have some Catholic Bibles which would contain them?
How much this depends on the module themselves ... i.e., could it be
possible just by using some other versification create fully Catholic
Bible, i.e., with deuterocanonical texts meshed into the canonical text?

CrossWire and Sword have tried to stay as theologically neutral as we could without compromising a core Christian theology. On our website you'll see we even support two modules whose veracity and scholarship are widely panned: http://crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Cults. By adding support for av11n CrossWire has made a commitment to not exclude the theological positions of the Catholic and Orthodox churches who do feel the apocryphal books are inspired. I'm unaware of any desire for additional deuterocanonical works or even more expansive canons presently, though this is likely due only to a lack of material (although ones like the Ethiopian canon have been brought up in discussions regarding av11n, I'm unaware of any Sword versifications or modules that include such works at this time). Chris Little only adds versifications to Sword when material is made available that requires one, and does not do so preemptively under the pretense of, "It might be useful some day."

My understanding is that CrossWire desires to take an inclusive approach to groups whose theological positions might differ. That AndBible has chosen to snub and insult the majority of Christians by calling these texts "uninspired" is sad. However, inclusion of apocryphal material in an appendix rather than in its location within the Catholic or Orthodox canon is not unprecedented. The first two Bibles I ever held that included such material included it as an appendix to the Old Testament before the text of the New. These, however, were decidedly Protestant editions of the text and this reflected the theological position of the editors. I hope that AndBible will support the more inclusive canons in the future without pejorative language such as is found on that page.

--Greg 
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