Beta.Lds.org coming along nicely. It now sounds like it won’t be emerging beta-ness until October but with new features forthcoming monthly. It sounds like we will soon have personalized scripture features like bookmarking, annotating, and highlighting. [via NorthTemple.com]
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Yesterday, the Church released its own official iPhone app that’s compatible with the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, called Gospel Library (forgive the App Store’s typo “Gospel Lbry”).
I really like it a whole lot. I have tried most of the previously released third-party scripture apps that range from free to somewhat pricey (~$15) that have a whole range of features on my iPod Touch. Gospel Library may seem basic as a 1.0 release but it looks great and has everything I need. Not coincidentally, it looks like the most like the actual Church typeset scriptures. It also does a great job of getting the buttons out of the way, allowing the most screen real estate for just reading pure scripturery goodness.
Another feature I liked is that the newly downloaded app is basically an “empty shelf” which allows you to then download (and later delete) whichever books of scripture you want as well GC reports, and other Church books. There a lot of Church books and manuals already available and the App Store description promises weekly updates to the available library.
I’d love to see how it looks on the iPad.
A great effort from the LDS Tech team.
Check out Gospel Library.
Tags: ipad, iPhone, scriptures
USA Today: “Update of popular ‘NIV’ Bible due in 2011”
The scholars and publishers behind the world’s leading English language evangelical Bible announced Tuesday that they would publish a updated translation in 2011.
“And we’ll make sure we get it right this time,” says Keith Danby, president and chief executive officer of Biblica, once known as the International Bible Society
More at Christianity Today, “Correcting the ‘Mistakes’ of TNIV and Inclusive NIV, Translators Will Revise NIV in 2011.”
Wow! “Spanish Bible to Benefit Millions of Mormons.” An official LDS-version of the Reina Valera Spanish Bible will be coming out in September.
The 2009 Latter-day Saint edition of the Spanish Bible is similar to the 1979 English LDS edition of the King James Bible, which, with its cross-references and study helps, made the scriptures much more accessible to English-speaking Latter-day Saints. This Spanish Bible project is one of the most significant scripture projects the Church has ever undertaken. The scriptural text of this new edition is based on the 1909 Reina-Valera Spanish Bible and is comparable in the dignity of its language to the King James Version of the Holy Bible in English.
There had been rumors of this for a few years now but so many poo-pooed the thought that the Church would bother with such an understaking, I didn’t think it was legit (also, see Kent Larsen’s “Why Not an LDS Bible in Spanish?“).
A spiffy preview of the new edition can be seen at SantaBiblia.lds.org.
Interestingly, it mentions that while the Church used the 1909 Reina-Valera edition, “[t]his text underwent a very conservative revision, focusing on modernizing some of the outdated grammar and vocabulary that had shifted in meaning and acceptability.”
Would the Church want to do the same with the English KJV? Plus, I also remember hearing talk of a new edition to the Book of Mormon that was presaged by the 2006 Doubleday publication which included a revised preface. Any idea if/when those will be coming?
Tags: Bible, scriptures
While 84% of Americans consider the Holy Bible to be a holy book, a whopping three percent consider the Book of Mormon to be holy too. That may be low but it’s in good company (and over the Torah!?).
Only three books were recognized as holy by at least 1 percent of Americans. The Koran trailed behind the Bible in second place with 4 percent; the Book of Mormon as labeled by 3 percent as sacred/holy; and the Torah was deemed holy by 2 percent of the public.
“Confessions of a News Junkie“ It is sobering to compare how much time I spend on email and RSS feeds compared to reading the scriptures. Urgent news that “we need to know” really isn’t that important.  Â
Scripture is the most important tradition that man can have, and yet how few people make use of it. Instead they read the news. The news is what will be old tomorrow and without interest. Yet it becomes a narcotic that must be taken daily and that yields no lasting satisfaction but only another craving. ‘Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.’ (John 4:13-14.)
Scriptures.lds.org URL Strategy, or API.
In this documentation we will use the following URL as an example. Each part of this URL will be examined to help you understand what each section means and what you can do with it.
Plus, a list of “mashups” using the scriptures.
The Salt Lake Tribune points out that the Church has made a small but significant change in the introduction to the Book of Mormon, acknowledging that today’s Native Americans may not be direct descendants from the Lamanites.
The original sentence in questionis the last sentence of the second paragraph from the Book of Mormon Introduction reads:
After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the principal ancestors of the American Indians.
Apparently this change first appears in Doubleday’s revised edition which reads:
After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are among the ancestors of the American Indians.
The Trib says that the Church will be publishing scripture editions which will also have the change. So far the online edition has not been changed.
UPDATE:Â Mormon Wasp asks some good questions. Post seems to have been taken down.
Tags: book of mormon, scriptures
For you fortunate Latter-day iSaints, online scriptures configured for the iPhone. A Flickr shot as they appear in all their iPhone goodness. Perhaps this will win over the wife?
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