On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM, David Goodmandgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
The current practice in many academic publications on religion for non specialists seems usually to use the NIV, and often add the KJ V if substantially different.
If however one is discussing English literature, one would just link to the KJV
I therefore do not see how we can find a uniform practice.
Yes, the NIV is both necessary and proprietary. It simply means we need to deal with the portals - albeit to a lesser degree than currently.
Summing up, people seem to agree that the bibleref tag needs to point to a local tool, and that tool should do something a bit more tailored and sophisticated about how to present Bible sources - particularly free sources where available.
Where we can, simply replacing BibleGateway with Wikisource links will make things more free.* And replacing most BG references with other competing online portals will make things more fair.*
-S