More on Daily Bible Reading

2009 July 2

by Sam Freney

[UPDATE: I mucked up the passage list somehow, so the verse numbers were often missing (the chapters were right though). I've corrected it, so it should work properly now. Get the new passages archive.]

Further to the script I whipped up for daily Bible reading, I’ve generated some more data sets corresponding to the other plans listed on the Bible Gateway. I’ve only done the full year plans, as mucking around with shorter ones wasn’t something I wanted myself, and are tricky to get to fit. If there’s demand, I can make others, or you can copy the syntax and generate your own plans.

To use any one of these, download the archive and replace your current data file with your choice of the following:

DailyReadingPassages-OTNT.txt � this is the file included in the applescript utility in the previous post. Read through both the Old and New Testaments concurrently.
DailyReadingPassages-TNKNT.txt � this is a modification of the OT/NT pattern, but the Old Testament progresses according to the Hebrew canonical ordering, not the English ordering (’Torah‘, the Pentateuch, ‘Nevi’im‘, the Prophets, and ‘Ketuvim‘, the Writings � Tanakh, for short).
DailyReadingPassages-Beginning.txt � this plan simply starts at the beginning and reads straight through to the end of the Bible (English ordering).
DailyReadingPassages-Historical.txt � this plan orders the readings according to the events within the passages, arranged in chronological order from creation onwards. I’m not sure how the dating was done (there’s lots of places where dates are contested, or unknown), so maybe take this with a grain of salt at points.
DailyReadingPassages-Chronological.txt � finally, this plan is arranged by date of composition. Again, I don’t know the reasoning behind some of the decisions; I’m assuming a conservative set of dates apply.