[sword-devel] Catholic module?

[Keith Ralston]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Ralston [mailto:keith@kharis.biz]
> Sent: Thu, November 20, 2003 5:07 PM
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: RE: [sword-devel] Catholic module?
>
>
> Those books are also important for research.  Having them
> available as Bible modules provides significantly more
> functionality than having them as general books.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sword-devel-admin@crosswire.org
> > [mailto:sword-devel-admin@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Tom Pollard
> > Sent: Wed, November 19, 2003 5:57 PM
> > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > Cc: Tom Pollard
> > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Catholic module?
> >
> >
> > Geoffrey,
> >
> > You wrote:
> > > Couldn't it be added as a general book. IMHO that's where it probably
> > > belongs.
> >
> > Except that that's not where they belong.  They were part of the KJV
> > Bible, the Vulgate, the Douay-Rheims, the Septuagint, etc., and (IMHO)
> > you can't really say you're providing those texts unless you include
> > all the the books they originally contained.  For Catholics, 2
> > Maccabees, Wisdom and Sirach are all regularly proclaimed in the
> > liturgy.  To really be useful to Catholics studying the Bible (which we
> > hopefully all encourage) the deuterocanonical books ought to be
> > included in the Bible translations that have them.
> >
> > Please don't take from this any implied criticism of the Sword team for
> > not including those books up to this point.  As far as I'm concerned,
> > if there isn't anyone with the interest, time and skills to support
> > this, then neither I nor anyone else has a right to complain about it.
> > I'm deeply appreciative of the substantial and impressive work the
> > Sword team /has/ done.  Between work, my family, preparing for the
> > Bible study I lead and advancing my other extracurricular projects, I'm
> > not sure I have the time to help work on this, but I'd very much like
> > to.
> >
> > Yours in Christ,
> >
> > Tom
> >
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