Travels with the N800: Finally a Bible and a Study
So I finally have been able to get a Bible onto my N800 Internet Tablet. And this is a good thing, except that I should have done this Monday when I made the decision that I wanted to blog a bible study. In thinking about how to expand the ability to spread the wealth (so to speak) when it comes to a Bible study; I wanted to blog the study and then go back and link the verses and highlight the notes in order to have something that is not just good for me, but for any who decide that they are studying on a particular piece of the Bible and wanted to have some modern commentary along with their study.
So instead of a study that was done with Rapier and posted via Wordply; I just rolled along with a simple study using BibleGateway and the browser, along with the built in Notes application. Simple on both accounts and mostly effective. The following are the lightly edited notes of the study as I intended to post them:
Title: Blogging A Bible Study Via A Tablet
Tool: Maemo WordPly beta
Purpose: To investigate the ability to blog a Bible study, and the hypertext social constructs of meeting in a place where mobility is now an assumed cultural norm.
Some goals: To outline, write personal and community notes (annotated properly), and to later insert links to relevant verses that pertain to the discussion; to then share the entire study as a blog posting on Mobile Ministry Magazine
Ironically, I am starting this offline because I am having issues getting connected via the network here in the coffeehouse (It's A Grind). Not that I am complaining, because I have a really good drink. But this doesn't bode well as a start.
Study of Leviticus
Chapter 8 to (hopefully) the end
Where did it take place: Sinai
How Long; About 14 months
Types of offerings (he used candy analogies to describe these): chocolate and bitter
- what was also required on a guilt offering: pay the person back 120%
- Some sins have different consequences, but all are sin in the same weight
Chapter 8-10: The Priesthood
Chpt. 8: do this, o
Chapter 9:1-7, 22-24
- one of the signs to be completed consumes means that it was accepted
- There was a specific order, and now instead of there just being Moses as the priest, now Aaron and the sons take over those responsibilities
- the theme of Leviticus being holiness
Chapter 10: incorrect offering by the sons of Aaron
- how we do things is more important than what weee do
Clean and Unclean (Chapters 11-19)
- usually those things temp clean or unclean had to do with humans
- this was done for distinction from other cultures
- an aspect of hygiene that was not observed (personal note)
- What did God have in mind about this that it was not so much the rules, but the consequences behind what we do that effect other people
- year of jubilee
- these principles are in place for a specific order; are we distinctly set apart as Christians because of these
Chapter 19
v9-19: the justice of God; this hierarchy is for order
Chapter 20
penalties for social and family disobedience
Feasts
- there were seven feasts
- God was a hands on God who engaged the senses of the faithful
- passover; feast of unleavened bread; feast of first-fruits; Pentecost (50 days after the 7th sabbath); feast of the trumpets; day of atonement; feast of booths/tabernacles
Chapter 24, Year of jubilee
Chapter 26:
v3-5: if you do these things then you will prosper; the reason to bless them was to display God's holiness, for them to be distinct and bring fame to God not themselves
- cannot have the mindset that the blessings is for you, but meant to make you distinct for God
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I should mention here that the study we are doing is a light OT survey. For such a study, its good to have the ability to annotate/tag items for reference, but also relate them to other resources so that one is adept in discussions later. My setup with the IT did not maximize on these points, but the building blocks are there for such integration.
A big thanks too DWatts and all the rest who have been very encouraging in helping me to get Rapier installed on the IT; now let's see what can be done to change things up a bit.
Labels: Bible, community, internet tablet, mobile accessories, mobiles, N800, software, Sword Project
posted by Antoine @ 1/30/2008 09:00:00 AM
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2 Comments:
I have struggled with on-line bibles, softwrae bibles, and trusty old paper bibles. I must admit I have my fair share of each. What I ended up using is a combination of on-line and PC based. I use the different formats as follows:
Ultra-portability: Laridian on iPhone
Deep study/ note taking: Accordance Bible on OS X
Relaxing reading/reflecting: My faithful always ready Cambridge Press NASB goat skin bible.
I'd love to have one tool I could use for offline and online syincing and Laridian is coming close to this if they'd just release an OS X client.
I hear you there; I'm trying to find a balance between the one-tool methodology that I'd prefer, and the wealth of what all is already out there in terms of resources. I've always figured though that to get the most out of one's device that they had to learn the programs that came with it. So I kinda see the fact that I've done things this way as a benefit. I know what I want to do, and now I have a better idea of how the software should work.
Thanks for visiting Dopo Ognora; its always great to hear another's position as to what they are using and how it works best for them.
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