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1. Less than optimal division of the material. The “History” section gives a good overview of the topic, the “Jewish tradition” section has nothing to say about the current division into chapters and verses, and the “Christian versions” section partly duplicates the “History” section. Proposal: reorganize all of this material into 3 sections: “Early subdivisions of the Hebrew text”, “Early subdivisions of the Greek text”, and “The current subdivision into chapters and verses”.
2. Statistics about chapters in the Bible. The number of chapters in a Bible will depend on the number of books in that Bible, and that depends on the canon used by that Bible. But the subsection in this article is only about the KJV, an English translation using the Protestant canon. Why that one and no others? Inevitably there are calls for similar statistics about the Catholic Bible, the Eastern Orthodox Bible, etc. And why not the Septuagint and the Masoretic text (since modern editions of these versions have the chapter divisions retrojected into them)? I see 2 solutions to the narrow focus of the current statistics on chapters. (1) Include the statistics for all the main canons, within a huge table with multiple columns, one for each canon. Does anybody seriously want to undertake such a task? (2) If no one is interested, then simply delete the current statistics about chapters in the KJV as POV.
3. Statistics about verses in the Bible. Most of this material has a broader focus than the statistics about chapters, since various canons are discussed. But the first and second entries need to be corrected to indicate they are about Protestant Bibles. And the link for the last entry about the verse most read at funerals is dead. (Seriously.) MDJH (talk) 23:58, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This article has been subjected to some massive deletions of useful material (notably the Bible statistics section) by Veverve, whose user talk page shows he has a history of officious deletions of Bible and church-related articles. He seems to be under the impression that any citation of primary sources is a breech of the secondary sources rule. I do not know the procedures for getting someone blocked, but can anything be done about this user? Koro Neil (talk) 00:47, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You seem to be under the impression that we're allowed to conduct our own analysis of primary sources. We're not, and Veverve's edits as explained by their edit summaries are clearly correct in general. Remsense ‥ 论01:00, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do not know the procedures for getting someone blocked, but can anything be done about this user?: what a bold move to write this in a first contact...
