{"id":3090,"date":"2012-04-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2012-03-27T21:27:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:27:37","slug":"how-to-do-a-parallel-bible-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/how-to-do-a-parallel-bible-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Do A Parallel Bible Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019re talking about using some digital tools for Bible study with emphasis on highlighting general pros and cons to each tool. If you recall, our text is John 1 but we left off still in the reading stage<\/a>. This post is also going to be about reading but instead on a focus on parallel reading. (Note, to ward off any Evil Eyes: I intentionally changed the order of the Greek to visually correspond with the English so (1) I don’t want to hear the complaint and (2) it doesn’t matter because the subject is still essentially grammatically underscored. There, bases covered.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Parallel reading in Bible Study has a somewhat different meaning, even if connected idea, with schooling.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In schooling, it\u2019s when you have a student and a teacher (or a reader and a more proficient reader, or a parent and a child) read the same text, makes notes on it, and talk about it. We get to see how one reader interpreted a specific text versus another reader. As an example, get kids to read Animal Farm and then get them to read it in High School with their teacher.<\/p>\n

Dual-language speakers know that all translation is interpretation. In other words, to get the words in the original language to mean something to the person reading in their own (and different) language, you have to do interpreting: be it words, idioms, or ideas.<\/p>\n

So parallel reading in a Bible study is when you have two (or more) versions up against each other. Here\u2019s our key text in a couple of different versions.<\/p>\n