Talk:Hebrew Bible
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Well, at least give me credit for starting the checklist! Anyway, greetings and please have fun with the article. Of course, anyone can edit. However, I would sincerely appreciate it if people not tear apart the opening paragraphs quite yet. Maybe register your complaints and concerns with the opening here. There's so much more to fill in!
Basic orientation -- the article needs to be encyclopedic, but not necessarily boring and conventional. Everyone thinks they know about the Bible, let's try to tell readers some of the unexpected. More importantly, let's try to avoid Religious Points-of-View, which lead to bias, etc. Instead, I suggest a more scholarly apparatus and little or no religious presuppositions. Write as an atheist might about somebody else's religious scripture. For that reason, at least for the first sentence, I use the term 'god' and not God. Of course, 'God' is suitable in giving the reader the Bible's self-description of its creator, deity, and main character.
Since this article is created on the Write-a-thon, I urge people to create spin-off articles linked back to brief summaries under the -- now empty -- many subheadings. Thanks. Good luck! David Hoffman 09:42, 1 August 2007 (CDT)