The Blank Bible
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This September Yale University Press will publish Jonathan Edwards's The Blank Bible. Here's a description:
"In 1730, Jonathan Edwards acquired a book-like, leather-bound manuscript containing an interleaved printed edition of the King James Version of the Bible. Over the next three decades, Edwards proceeded to write in the manuscript more than five thousand notes and entries relating to biblical texts (though paradoxically he called the manuscript his 'Blank Bible'). Only a fraction of the entries has ever been published. This volume presents a complete edition of the 'Blank Bible' accompanied by an informative introduction, multiple appendices, and an extensive index."
It's $200. While I admit I'm not yet ready to fork over that amount of cash for this volume, the question should be asked: How much money would you pay if someone offered you an unlimited pass which allowed you to peer over Jonathan Edwards's shoulder as he made notes in his Bible?
"In 1730, Jonathan Edwards acquired a book-like, leather-bound manuscript containing an interleaved printed edition of the King James Version of the Bible. Over the next three decades, Edwards proceeded to write in the manuscript more than five thousand notes and entries relating to biblical texts (though paradoxically he called the manuscript his 'Blank Bible'). Only a fraction of the entries has ever been published. This volume presents a complete edition of the 'Blank Bible' accompanied by an informative introduction, multiple appendices, and an extensive index."
It's $200. While I admit I'm not yet ready to fork over that amount of cash for this volume, the question should be asked: How much money would you pay if someone offered you an unlimited pass which allowed you to peer over Jonathan Edwards's shoulder as he made notes in his Bible?
posted by JT at Tuesday, August 08, 2006
14 Comments:
THAT is a good question; seems near priceless. Ask for it for Christmas!
Justin, thanks for this blog; I check it and benefit from it daily!
Certainly not $200! Maybe $5. But then again, I am not a terribly huge Edwards fan.
$199. So close!
Time travel is not possible for any price.
An animatronic Edwards at the 5 Points Themepark, however, would be able to charge an enormous sum for this.
Perhaps the better question is 'what would Edwards think of a bible, any bible, being sold (!) for $200'?! Shame on us...
I paid over $300 for my ipod... $200 for Edward's Blank Bible is chump change...even for a youth pastor.
rather than peer over his shoulder, i'd take him to starbucks.
Considering I pay to go see pastors, or pay to have books from pastors and other dead guys. I'm sure it'd be worth the cash.
However, the sean has a good point... at which point is too much, too much? Or at which point is spending cash on information taht SHOULD be free to us in Christ just downright... absurd?
Try these on for size - How many (marked-in) Bibles of contemporary Christians:
1. Would you be willing to pay $200 for? or
2. Do you think have an equivalent substance to them as Edwards'?
Tom
Doctrine Matters
WHICH VERSION OF THE BIBLE IS THE REAL WORD OF GOD?
Why... Edwards' version, of course!
If I just give up my four tickets to see Joel Osteen...
Wow, just think how much you'd have to pay for Jesus' bible. I think He used a wide margin Torah version. But then again I'm not so great a student of Hebrew, Greek, and or Aramaic, so both text and notes would be tough to read. I'll stick to the paperback version of the ESV given to me.
Daniel, That's hilarious...Eric, sell the Osteen tickets on ebay.
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