| Re: Commentary? Wikistyle?
Well - I've given it a great deal of thought already because I have been teaching our teen class for the last year in a pure Bible reading and "quick commentary" format. We have read Acts, The "T's" (Thess. Timothy. Titus), Corinthians and now we're working on Philippians. They are responsible for each chapter's gist and a memory verse or two. (We are memorizing Philippians 4:4-13 right now - We did 1 Cor 13 last quarter)
The quandry has been providing them with consistant reference material. I've been a Christian since 1975 so I can manage fine with me, a Bible, and a Strong's numbers. Some of my brothers that need to also be teaching or learning to teach a class aren't so well versed. Since we limit the pulpit and teachers to reading from ASV, KJV(preferred) or NKJV, those that use something else to study from aren't comfortable teaching (that is an excuse anyway)
So we need a commentary that we can recommend without saying "That's a good one except for _________________ "
The Wikipedia Software (MediaWiki) is free and is capable of being locked down to the Nth degree so limiting the contributors is no problem.
I think the hardest part of the technical nature would be the layout. ie. How do you comment on a verse or a section of verses and keep it organized?
The task seems daunting until you realize that if 100 people give 100 hours, we have 10,000 hours of sound scripture contemplation searchable in Google for the world to find.
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