Kickstarter’s Million-Dollar Bible Is Finally Finished
Transforming the Bible from its familiar reference-packed pages to a format more like a novel proved to be far more complicated than removing chapter and verse numbers and footnotes. In addition to sorting out design elements and materials, producers had to choose how to present a text that readers have seen the same way for generations.
The timeline was pushed back as Greene used the additional funding for a professional revision of the American Standard Version (ASV), complete with copy editors, Bible scholars, and proofreaders to change archaic words like thee and thou and update verses whose translations have improved since the ASV’s original 1901 publication.
The single column of text with generous margins and bigger type invites readers to stay longer, think deeper, and get “Scripture inside them, truly shaping the way they look at the world,” said Dane Ortlund, executive vice president of...
Rev. Geoff Thomas | 8/21/2015
