I’m hoping to produce a Boring Bible, and I’d like to start in the most pedantic way possible: with the definition of a word. In this case, that word is Bible. (I will be demonstrating, rather than defining, the meaning of boring as we go along.)

People talk about something they call the Bible, as if they were all referring to a singular, well-defined object. It would be more accurate to speak about Bibles.

This is a sentence in English.

Here is a bit of transliterated stuff: bᵉrešit baraˀ

Another bit: bᵉrešit baraʾ

Here’s a bit of Hebrew: בראשית ברא.

Here’s a bit of Hebrew with diacritics: בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א.

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