old-fashioned Bible

[Jenni]

(10-21-2011 06:28 AM)bean Wrote:  In my part of the world we tell Ole and Lena stories. Ole, Lena, and Ole's pal Lars are fictional Norwegian-Americans. (Mind you, we tell these stories to laugh at ourselves!!)

Ole had been cleaning up in the attic and was bragging how good of a job he did Threw away a bunch of stuff. Even found an OLD bible but that he tossed.
Lars: Why would you toss that?
Ole: Wasn't worth nothing. It was all in German anyways. It was about 500 years old. Some guy named JOHAN was the printer.
Lars: You dummy! You tossed a GUTTENBERG bible! Did you know that would be worth at a minimum several hundred thousand dollars?
Ole: Mine wasn't worth anything. Some guy named Martin had written notes all over the place.

I think we come from the same area of the country, dontcha know? I told all kinds of Ole and Sven and Lena jokes when I was in high school.

But back to the topic at hand, my school's library is hosting a special collection of stuff about King James and the Bible, so I got to see some really old Bibles displayed - like from before 1611 (how did they survive without an authorized version back then?). Maybe the Fundy MoGs would prefer a Bible like that ...