The Bible in a Year

Hi--

I just started law school this year. I calculated I read 2600 pages in law books during the fall semester.

I'm home now for Christmas. For some reason, whenever I am home I listen to the Christian radio station. At no other time would it even cross my mind, but here I listen to nothing else. I heard an ad on there for a calendar that gives you daily bible assignments. If you follow the calendar, you can finish the whole bible in one year. I thought, heck, I can do that; the bible's only about 2500 pages long. So that's what I'm going to do.

I've started it about 10 times before, but I never get past Genesis. I think the furthest I have gone is Leviticus. I'm going to give myself a bit of a head start, but I'm going to start again at the beginning.

First thing to do is figure out my daily assignments. Hang on while I find out how many chapters there are total in the bible. I know there are 50 in Genesis. . . .

That was easy! http://www.deafmissions.com/tally/bkchptrvrs.html 929 in the old testament, 260 in the new. 1189 total. So, 1189 / 366 (I picked a good year--one extra day!) = only 3.25 chapters a day. That's nothing. We'll make it 4 per day to give me some leeway.

For you bible aficionados, I will be reading the Oxford Study Edition of the much maligned New English Bible. However, my bible is at school right now, so for the next few days I'll read from whatever I can find online.

So, let's get on with it! As an added bonus, I will provide a daily bible quote from that day's reading.

We all know what happens in the first four chapters, don't we? Creation, then creation again, then I think Abel and Cain. I don't think we get much further than that. But remember, tomorrow, Giants!

--bibletoenail