Thursday, January 13, 2011

Interesting little tidbits ---

1. Do you know who wrote the verse and chapter headings in our LDS Scriptures?
2. Do you know who chose the font/style used in our scriptures?
3. Do you know why some words in the Bible are italicized?

Answers:
1. It was the brilliant Bruce R. McConkie.

2. It was President Thomas S. Monson (a member of the twelve at the time). He wanted one that could be easily read and yet not take up too much space. He actually used to be a printer and became the General Manager of the Deseret News Press before his call to become an Apostle.

3. Because the translators had to add that word or words to make that particular translation understandable in English. There were no identical word or words in the Greek or Hebrew languages.

3 comments:

Tom and Lisa said...
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Tom and Lisa said...

I love these tidbits. Keep them coming! Lisa

Lori said...

How interesting! Thank you for posting this. I love little tidbits like this.