Number of bibles you own
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How many bibles do you own
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Mean: 3.35 Median: 2 Std. Dev 3.04
Mean: 3.35 Median: 2 Std. Dev 3.04
| 0 | 2 (7.7%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 (23.1%) | |
| 2 | 7 (26.9%) | |
| 3 | 2 (7.7%) | |
| 4 | 3 (11.5%) | |
| 5 | 1 (3.8%) | |
| 6 | 1 (3.8%) | |
| 7 | 1 (3.8%) | |
| 8 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 9 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 10 | 2 (7.7%) | |
| 11 | 1 (3.8%) | |
| 12 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 13 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 14 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 15 | 0 (0.0%) |
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Date: 2010-10-27 03:20 pm (UTC)(In which analogy, of course, the Jews run the original repository from which the Christians forked in order to do substantial refactoring, and haven't considered any of their work fit to be accepted upstream :-)
And, of course, people do check out source code without making a local clone of the history, if they're confident that when they do need the history they'll be able to find it elsewhere, and perhaps also that they won't need it often enough for the added inconvenience of doing so to be a serious problem. So yeah, standalone NT, I suppose so: if you don't mind going to the library (or, these days, looking on the Internet) on the rare occasion that you want to check a back-reference, then why not save the shelf space and printing cost?
I suppose it might have failed to occur to me because from my point of view a Bible is primarily something to which literary allusions are made, and since a lot of literary allusion is to the OT since that's where a lot of the memorable narrative bits are, you 'obviously' wouldn't want to be without it.
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