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1 | Why not Jesus' words in Red? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 2672 | ||
Aside from probable savings in printing cost, and possible vision problems, why are some bibles printed without Jesus' words in red? Why do, I guessing here, some people prefer Bibles printed in all black? |
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2 | Why not Jesus' words in Red? | Bible general Archive 1 | kalos | 2707 | ||
To answer your question, let me say for starters, I myself have a strong preference for red letter editions of the Bible. Why would some scholars prefer black and white only? I suspect it may be for the same reason some prefer not to insert quotation marks into the text: because it is not always clear who is speaking, Jesus or someone else. You or I might *think* its clear who is speaking, but I for one have never translated the Bible from the original languages, in which there are no chapter and verse divisions, no quotation marks, no red letters, and definitely no capitalization (not in the Greek). When translating the Bible into English, even the placement of periods, commas, colons, and semicolons is an arbitrary decision on the part of the translators. . . . Keep in mind that for centuries all Bibles were printed in black and white only. If I'm not mistaken the first edition of a red letter Bible did not appear until the 1880s or 1890s. . . . Why do some consumers prefer Bibles printed in all black? Who knows? Why do consumers have a lot of the preferences they do? I guess all we can do is let those who prefer no red letters speak for themselves, which I hope they will. It would be interesting to know. . . . Why do I prefer the red letter edition? One reason is because my grandmother read to us children out of her red letter Bible, so red letter seems more like "the" Bible. Not a very rational reason, but a very honest one. |
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