By Dean Brown, a Christadelphian
Thanks for your patience while this brand-new website is under construction.
Over about the last 12 years or so, I have developed a personal system for learning, studying, and memorizing the Bible that has been very useful for me.
This website is an effort to take the kinds of study tools I have developed and share them with others.
For the time being, follow my daily blog posts introducing the site and how it will work, preferably by starting with the earliest post first (“Getting Started with Observations about 3:16”).
Also, check out the “About” link to the left, and read about the four basic tools that this website will contain once built.
Thoughts on Chapters & Verses
Because the two primary systems planned for this website are chapter-based and verse-based for learning the Bible, it is important to remember that the Bible as originally written had NEITHER chapters or verses, and so I want to share a couple of thoughts about these artificial divisions of the Bible. First, just to get our…
Dean’s Basic Statement on Bible Translations
The vast majority of us cannot read the Bible in the original languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek) and so we must read it in translation. Therefore, the purpose of any Bible translation is to take the original languages that we don’t know and – wait for it – “translate” these texts into a language that we…
Dean’s Basic Statement on Bible Textual Questions
For centuries after the Bible books were written, all copies were necessarily hand-written until the invention of the printing press, and this introduced both accidental copying errors and the possibility of deliberate changes. With the invention of the printing press, the possibility of these accidental and deliberate changes is greatly reduced though not entirely erased.…
Memorize the Bible 