CSBS [P3]
The majority of us are not programmers and there’s not a kit out there that has the KJV (or other public domain translation) in a CSBS structure / format. So we have to start from scratch. CSBS is a bottom to top approach. You start off with a single or more verses without thinking too much about how they will all come together. You build things slowly, and wrap them, pair them, parent-child them and Callout-embed them as you move along. Wrap, Pair, Parent-Child, Callout-embed.
We have looked at the BOOK-OF file and here’s the overall and complete structure with css class for YAML (just a suggestion):
- CSBS
- Book-of
.csbs-bookof - Chapter
.csbs-chapter - Commentaries
.csbs-cm - My Notes
.csbs-mt - Page
.csbs-page- Topic
.csbs-page-topical - People
.csbs-page-people - Article
.csbs-page-article - Book
.csbs-page-book - My Thought / Journal
.csbs-page-mt
- Topic
- Book-of
I’ll show how I put them all together and how this system helps me to study the Bible and aid me in theological discussions with others. Usually, you’ll spend a lot of time building the TOPIC and CHAPTER files. You’ll tend to it like a garden. Chapter files is where you do exegetical studies focusing on the finer details, verse by verse (micro). TOPIC files is where you pull together all passages of Scriptures from CHAPTER and many other files to build a TOPIC (macro). Here’s an example of a TOPIC file. It can be something simple, or complex (large). Usually you start off with not much, but it will grow as you tend to it. Constantly refining your topic file.
The fun part is building topic files. Topic files is where you go to when you need knowledge on a specific topic. It’s also a reflection of what you currently know about a particular topic/subject. As you research and study, you’ll build a lot of topic files. They will grow and link to one another. Topic file is where you connect theological dots. The more in depth your topic file is for a particular topic/subject, the better you will debate and discuss that particular topic. A few more samples:
TOPIC file links to many CHAPTER files for biblical support. It also link to many other files as well (commentaries, books, articles etc…). A lot of time, a topic is so vast that it stands on its own as a topic file and you link to it from a CHAPTER file. Otherwise your CHAPTER file will be bloated and complex. In a CHAPTER file, the idea is to keep things simple and clean (whenever possible) by linking to TOPIC, PEOPLE, ARTICLE, BOOK, COMMENTARY FILES etc…
If not, it could quickly end up looking something like this:
That’s why the COMMENTARY file is for commentaries. Commentary and My Note files have the same layout as Chapter file. We’ll get more into this later. There are a lot of nuances and overlaps when it comes to biblical studies and I have come up with a few techniques to get around it.
To be continued…