Does anyones have an EDD for the Bible?

Daniel Doornbos danield at promise.com
Wed Jun 20 11:13:21 PDT 2007


I think you are correct, Steve. Paper in those days was made of goat and
other skins. I guess papyrus from Egypt was too expensive. I wonder if
any of the technical material we write today will be remembered 2K years
from now...

Daniel


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:47 AM
To: Daniel Doornbos; peter at knowhowpro.com
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Does anyones have an EDD for the Bible?


At 10:32 -0700 20/6/07, Daniel Doornbos wrote:

>Now those comments show just how much you guys know about the Bible. 
>The 10 Commandments are in the Old Testament. But Bodvar is working on 
>the New Testament.

Ah... so that's what 'NT' stood for. I though it was a Windoze reference
;-)

>The NT writers used pen and paper, incidently.

I'm disappointed: I always thought it was goat skin. Better for the
goats, I guess.

>Bibles, whether you are translating or formatting the pages, are 
>especially challenging work.

Don't doubt it.

>I don't have the FM skills Bodvar asked for but I do appreciate the 
>work has undertaken from a professional as well as a spiritual 
>perspective.

I expect we all do, Daniel.

-- 
Steve



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