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# # spec file for package sword-bible-en-asv1901 # # This file and all modifications and additions to the pristine # package are under the same license as the package itself. # # norootforbuild Name: sword-bible-en-asv1901 Summary: The American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible Version: 1.3 Release: 1 License: Public Domain Group: Productivity/Scientific/Other Url: http://www.crosswire.org/sword Vendor: openSUSE-Education Source: ASV.zip BuildArch: noarch BuildRequires: unzip Requires: sword > 1.5.1 Provides: locale(sword-bible:en) BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build %description The American Standard Version of 1901 is an Americanization of the English Revised Bible, which is an update of the KJV to less archaic spelling and greater accuracy of translation. It has been called "The Rock of Biblical Honesty." It is the product of the work of over 50 Evangelical Christian scholars. While the ASV retains many archaic word forms, it is still more understandable to the modern reader than the KJV in many passages. The ASV also forms the basis for several modern English translations, including the World English Bible (http://www.eBible.org/bible/WEB), which is also in the Public Domain. The ASV uses "Jehovah" for God's proper name. While the current consensus is that this Holy Name was more likely pronounced "Yahweh," it is refreshing to see this rendition instead of the overloading of the word "Lord" that the KJV, NASB, and many others do. Pronouns referring to God are not capitalized in the ASV, as they are not in the NIV and some others, breaking the tradition of the KJV. Since Hebrew has no such thing as tense, and the oldest Greek manuscripts are all upper case, anyway, this tradition was based only on English usage around 1600, anyway. Not capitalizing these pronouns solves some translational problems, such as the coronation psalms, which refer equally well to an earthly king and to God. %prep %setup -q -T -c %name -a0 %build %install mkdir -p %buildroot/%_datadir/sword cp -r * %buildroot/%_datadir/sword/ %clean rm -rf %buildroot %files %defattr(-,root,root) %_datadir/sword %changelog
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