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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...
...that among American children, television ranks second only to sleeping as a consumer of hours. The average American, both child and adult, watches more than six hours of television daily. By the age of 14, a devoted viewer will have witnessed 11,000 TV murders, claims Wilkins, and will digest 350,000 commercials before graduating from high school. A recent study at Michigan State University discovered that when four-and five-year-olds are offered a hypothetical choice between giving up television or their father, one-third will decide not to make room for Daddy...
...Digest Bible comes with ringing publicity hosannas from the likes of Norman Vincent Peale, Oral Roberts, Pat Boone (an "authentic Bible feast!"), Executive Director John Mostert of the conservative American Association of Bible Colleges, and President Donald Shriver of New York City's liberal Union Theological Seminary ("an important new addition to the life of Christians, the churches and the world . . ."). So far, only cranky Fundamentalists seem to be offended. They argue that Christians must take the Bible straight, the way God gave it. Warns the Christian Beacon: "The Reader's Digest has done a good...