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Ninety-Sixth Annual Report of the Charleston Bible Society
PRESENTED AT THE Annual Meeting, January 22, 1906.
THE DAGGETT PRINTING CO.,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
153 EAST BAY
1906https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/methodistbooks/1006/thumbnail.jp
Comparative Study of Ethics in Librarianship and the Bible
This paper is a comparative study that discusses ethical issues in librarianship and the Bible. Such issues include: Laws in librarianship vs. laws in the Bible; censorship in librarianship vs. censorship in the Bible; Bible teachings on access to information and access to information in librarianship; purification (i.e., book binding), conservation and preservation practices in the library and in the Bible; weeding of library collections and weeding practices in the Bible; privacy and confidentiality in the library and in the Bible; orderliness of the library collections and the Bible; consortium building of library collections and in the Bible; and consequences of human action in the library and in the Bible. These topics are carefully discussed in order to discover the differences and similarities between the library and biblical ethics. The paper concludes that there is correlation between some ethical issues in the Bible and that of librarianship. It is clear that some aspects of librarianship are rooted in the Bible
The Odyssey of Archbishop Gavrilâs Translation of the Bible
Translating the Bible is not an easy task in any language. Every translation of the Bible is a confirmation of the capacity of a language to convey the Bibleâs manifold depths and meanings. The publication of the Macedonian Bible has been received as a historic event in Macedonia. Archbishop Gavrilâs translation remains a unique pillar in the development of the Macedonian literary language. The entire process of the planning, translation, and printing of the complete Macedonian Bible encompassed a period of some 50 years. Drawing on these references, the article explores the impressive journey of Archbishop Gavrilâs translation of the Bible into Macedonian as documented in his personal letters and correspondences
Quakers and Scripture
This chapter explores how the Quakersâ use of the Bible has developed, recognizing changes both in the Friends movement and in its historical and cultural settings. Friendsâ approaches to Scripture have varied widely as they have responded over time to the influences of the Enlightenment, revivalism, fundamentalism, Modernism, and other factors. The chapter describes how Quakers have viewed the authority and inspiration of the Bible and how they have held the importance of the Bible in tension with the inward teaching of Christ, whom they refer to as the âWord of Godâ. The chapter also contrasts various forms of Bible study with reading the Bible with empathy as a fruit of Quaker spirituality
Introducing the Bible
Title: Introducing the Bible. Author: Drane, John Introducing the Bible 730 p. Publisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Pr, 2005
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Title: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible. Author: Collins, John Joseph, 1946- Introduction to the Hebrew Bible xxvi, 613 p. Publisher: Minneapolis : Fortress, 2004
Finding Answers from the Word of God: Domain Adaptation for Neural Networks in Biblical Question Answering
Question answering (QA) has significantly benefitted from deep learning
techniques in recent years. However, domain-specific QA remains a challenge due
to the significant amount of data required to train a neural network. This
paper studies the answer sentence selection task in the Bible domain and answer
questions by selecting relevant verses from the Bible. For this purpose, we
create a new dataset BibleQA based on bible trivia questions and propose three
neural network models for our task. We pre-train our models on a large-scale QA
dataset, SQuAD, and investigate the effect of transferring weights on model
accuracy. Furthermore, we also measure the model accuracies with different
answer context lengths and different Bible translations. We affirm that
transfer learning has a noticeable improvement in the model accuracy. We
achieve relatively good results with shorter context lengths, whereas longer
context lengths decreased model accuracy. We also find that using a more modern
Bible translation in the dataset has a positive effect on the task.Comment: The paper has been accepted at IJCNN 201
Equipping Children and PreâTeens to Read and Study Their Bibles
There is a shortage of material which teaches children and preâteens how to read and study the Bible. It is important for educators to help them become good Bible readers and interpreters. This paper presents five crucial steps that are important to instruct children and preâteens in the skills necessary to work out the appropriate meaning and application of the Biblical text. Because children and adolescents learn by âdoing,â this article suggests core activities to help them understand and develop Bible interpretation skills
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