User:RockOfVictory/Scripture Database

This is a personal project of mine that I've been considering for years. It's mainly a scratch pad of my ideas, but you can use this discussion page if you have any input! I'm looking for people to help out with it. --J. J. 20:43, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Scripture Database
Since Wikipedia is not meant to be a storage space for people's personal projects, I'm working on consolidating the links and ideas below to http://zepfanman.com/scripturedb - you can see a more polished description of the project there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29 I've been able to find a few projects that relate to using databases with Wikipedia/MediaWiki, although the concepts are a little over my head. Are there others that you recommend looking into?

I'd like to see if there are better ways to organize some of the data floating around Wikipedia. Specifically, a lot of the data fields in the WikiProject_Bible (like date, region, culture, language, author, page length) could be more easily organized in a table. Instead, a clumsy combination of templates and lists are used (see ) For a long time, I've been looking for the best way to implement a Scripture Database. http://zepfanman.com/archives/000066.php scripturedb http://www.bloglines.com/blog/RockOfVictory/2004_12 N: Scripture Database Dec. 14 http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-US/Translations/Stats/NRSV.htm?QueryStringSite=Zondervan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cambridge_Paragraph_Bible

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kessler http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_%28lists_of_works%29#Other_issues film disco bibli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Easton%27s_Dictionary_topics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Saints http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Religion Nov'05 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biblical_people

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/51567 siskel ebert http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/20/contemporary-character-design-mojizu/

http://wikible.org/en/User_talk:Ymmotrojam#Wikipedia_and_Theopedia_collaboration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament#The_history_of_translation_and_usage_of_the_phrase_New_Testament

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Biblical_Literature#External_links http://www.biblestudywiki.com/ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bible http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Bible http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Differentiating_BibleWiki_from_Wikipedia mentions WP Bible_verses conversation http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Christianity/The_Bible/KJV points to Wikisource

Believers confirm possible ark location
JUNE 16. A team of Christians returned this week from Iran to confirm the existence of a previously-encountered "possible Noah's ark". See ArkFever.com, the official site of the expedition, for details.

JUNE 16. A team of Christians returned this week from Iran to confirm the existence of a previously-encountered "possible Noah's ark". In 1943, Sergeant Ed Davis, a WWII construction engineer, claimed to have seen the ark. Before his death, Davis gave Robert Cornuke a map showing the way to the object, 13,120 feet above sea level in the Alborz mountain range. Cornuke's 14-man team included Barry Rand (former CEO of Avis), the author and Christian apologist Josh McDowell, Frank Turek (co-author with Norm Geisler of I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist), Boone Powell (former CEO of Baylor Medical Systems), and Arch Bonnema (president of Joshua Financial) and producer of The Genius Club movie. The following quote is from ArkFever.com, the official expedition website; photos and a video are also on the site. "Bob Cornuke, president of the BASE Institute, is a veteran of nearly 30 expeditions looking for yet-to-be-discovered locations and artifacts described by the Bible. He is cautiously, but enthusiastically, optimistic about the find: 'We have no way of confirming for sure that this object is Noah's Ark, but it is probably the most interesting and baffling object ever found by ark searchers...it sure gets my heart to pumping just thinking of what it could be.'"

The team brought back to the U.S. pieces of the 400-foot long object purported to be petrified wood. The discovery counters the traditional claim that the ark lies on Mount Ararat of Turkey, but the Genesis 11 account says descendants of Noah came to the Mesopotamian valley from the east'. The team also found wood splinters and broken pottery at 15,300 feet, as well as sea shells at 14,000 feet.

Manuscript history

 * http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/bibleorigin.html overview of major texts
 * http://www.christianseparatist.org/ast/hist/qumran.htm Says Dead Sea agrees more with LXX
 * http://www.christian-thinktank.com/baduseot.html Lengthy discussion about DSS, LXX, and Masoretic
 * http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?action=msg&f=1&t=351&m=1 Evo/Crea forum discussion RE above
 * http://www.studylight.org/com/tsk/view.cgi?book=ge&chapter=001&verse=001#Ge1_1 Example of commentaries
 * http://mb-soft.com/believe/txc/septuagi.htm Good chart of books included in each of the early texts