have you ever had old worn-out bibles? those thoroughly used for years and dog-eared and marked but pages now coming out and the binding breaking? what do you do with these old bibles?
do you just throw them away? pack them with your old newspapers and sell to the 'old newspaper man'? or do you just pack them with your usual rubbish and cart them off to the rubbish dump?
what do the jews in the past do with their old manuscripts and scriptures? what do they do today? i have read of the discovery of the genizah texts, old scrolls discovered in a storeroom ('genizah') in an old synagogue in cairo, egypt.
dr. claude mariotinni has an interesting article (in fact, two articles) on this. read on:
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Oh noooo ... I think I have brought this up in some blogs before - when I was a Sunday School teacher and had to resort to printing bible verses on A4 paper I was so so worried on what to do with them! I won't be surprised they are still stashed somewhere in my store places!
I don't know, old bibles are still bibles and I still keep them. But then again I am not that *old* yet =D so I have to wait and see until I am so old that my bible become really unusable - then I have to make a stand! haha
here is where the earlier postings on peter enn's controversial book and his equally controversial suspension and sacking from westminster theological seminary has something to say on this matter. frankly, i think enn's got the short end of the stick. afterall, when his book first came out, there were hearty endorsements from other reformed scholars e.g. tremper longman III. now the board says enns is wrong and ignoring the faculty vote. as one faculty member says, does that mean we are also wrong?