[WikiEN-l] Bible websites

[Magnus Manske]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanen<cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Charles Matthews wrote:
>> The use of transclusion by section on Wikisource would make it
>> technically simple to bring the existing verses (or chapters) together
>> on pages for parallel reading. Of course it would be a lot of work ...
>> and I suppose it should be done chapter-wise. (Verses are at best a
>> convenience - chapter divisions have I think a wider acceptance, and are
>> at least historically older.)
>>
>
> The really glaring exception to the chapter divisions tradition
> being hard and fast fixed is Book of John. In that case there
> is a scholarly argument that not only are the chapters not
> unambiguously divided, but that there is plausible evidence
> that the order of textual passages has been re-arranged.

No problem, Rome just has to look at the edit history, revert to the
last sensible version, and start again...