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BRUCE M. METZGER probably has saved more trees than Smokey the Bear, and Metzger doesn't even live in the woods. Or at least not literally. A New Testament scholar, Metzger was chosen by Reader's Digest to edit its new edition of the Bible. At the beginning of this month, Reader's Digest published its condensed version, which excludes more than a quarter of a million words from the Holy Scriptures Among other things. Metzger cut half the Old Testament The best known passages remain intact--creation still takes a full week--but some repetitious portions were nixed. Metzger...
...folks as Reader's Digest offer several explanations for their revised Bible Chief among them stands their wish to make the Bible more readable and approachable. "This is a Bible meant for reading, not for study," Metzger recently told Newsweek...
Metzger may soon become something of a hero on college campuses. Students often find classic novels dense and difficult to follow. Perhaps Metzeer and his Bible will spark a trend throughout the publishing world. and it Reader's Digest editors judge 10 percent of Christ's words superfluous, they will; no doubt find mortal writers whose works could profit by a but of careful pruning Imagine the memorandum now making the round at Reader's Digest...
...reader is perplexed: just what are Bainton's skills and education suited to, sales or manufacturing? His next recollection only adds to the mystery: "After learning what the basic process of manufacturing was all about, I transferred some years later into the marketing area for a two-year stint...
...slowly decides that the only thing worse than parting is staying together. The author says that the Maples' long travail was not simply a transcript of what the Updikes were going through: "A novel should never seem autobiographical to the writer, autobiographical though it may seem to the reader." But many moments in the Maples stories betray a knowledge of pain too recent to disguise. The occasion arrives when Richard must tell his children he is leaving: "The partition between his face and the tears broke. Richard sat down to the celebratory meal with the back of his throat...