RELIGION

God’s Word, According to Wikipedia

By Matthew Philips | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Jun 23, 2008

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  • Posted By: crazybilly @ 06/27/2008 9:36:47 AM

    And a couple corrections:

    The page is not a wikipedia page. Here's the URL: http://thewikibible.pbwiki.com

    It IS a wiki, but it doesn't seem to be related at all to the wikipedia.

    There also doesn't seem to be much of a push for absolute seroius scholarship, but rather the site seems to fucntion as a discussion starter.

    • Posted By: bennylin @ 04/15/2009 6:04:07 AM

      there are many "Wiki Bible" project. The one mentioned here seem to be: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Wiki_Bible. Wikisource and Wikipedia are both part of Wikimedia Foundation, so technically they are both (part of) Wikimedia, but they are not the same (Wikisource != Wikipedia)

      • Posted By: bennylin @ 04/15/2009 6:08:50 AM

        there are many "Wiki Bible" project. The one mentioned here seem to be: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Wiki_Bible. Wikisource and Wikipedia are both part of Wikimedia Foundation, so technically they are both (part of) Wikimedia, but they are not the same (Wikisource != Wikipedia)

    • Posted By: bennylin @ 04/15/2009 6:05:54 AM

      there are many "Wiki Bible" project. The one mentioned here seem to be: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Wiki_Bible. Wikisource and Wikipedia are both part of Wikimedia Foundation, so technically they are both (part of) Wikimedia, but they are not the same (Wikisource != Wikipedia)

  • Posted By: dapperdanman @ 06/30/2008 1:30:51 AM

    Clearly, a bit of democratization would be good for Newsweek's "scholarship".

  • Posted By: crazybilly @ 06/27/2008 9:30:20 AM

    I can only assume that Richard Friedman fixed the errors he found.

    He found them. He fixed them. The translation is now more correct.

    Isn't that how the peer-review process works? And doesn't this just facilitate that process?

  • Posted By: l2louie @ 06/19/2008 3:25:06 AM

    Here we go again. The media is going to quote every Tom, Dick, and Dimitri who claims some radical and likely unfounded translation "straight from the Greek!", and every fearful, ignorant backwoods pastor who thinks this postmodern populist religious drivel matters to anyone.

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