Cibridrypha

Continuing on with the abridging, brings a books with internal fragmenting and questions for my process.

On the most simple level the aim is to trim it down to the basics of what I understand of God and people working together. Then tidy it into modern language and try to put it consistently in third person past tense for easy reading.

Following the same process as the first two parts the result was this; https://simpleasadezahnite.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cibrid.pdf

It stuck to the goal to focus on the story of getting out of Egypt, wandering, having commandments in a chest eventually in a holy tent and organising the people. Eventually to the point where there is an entire family of the people making sure things go well.

The main thing I’m worried about is that at this stage it has left things a little two dimensional. When does cutting out the details stop from showing What God was working at? When does ignoring the drama, hide what God and some of the people were overcoming?

Processing it this way makes a much heavier bit of writing. Would you have a lite version for kids and people reading for the first time and a heavy version for later exploration? Or would something in this style be correct;

https://simpleasadezahnite.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cibridrypha.pdf

The other opinion I would like to introduce today, is that the time we live is not going to stop us from learning from the Bible.

Let’s take an example which is usually ignored. It is easy today, to oversimplify that Moses was using the smoke pillar network app, for face-timing with God, then wanted a real life meet up.

Try explaining that to the person in the next tent back then.