Lectionary Thoughts

The Idea of the Lectionary

The Statistics for the Revised Common Lectionary

I loaded a copy of the canonical books from a copyright-free internet source, and a copy of the dueterocanonicals from a different source, into a data table in a postgres sql database. I created a table of the readings designated for the Revised Common Lectionary as reported by the Vanderbilt Library website. Joining these two data sources, I have used to made the following calculations:

The King James translation of the Bible including the deuterocanonical books comprises 35,481 versus. This number is approximate, as some verses are included or dis-included, or ar broken differently, according to different scholars' analyses. The Revised Common Lectionary covers 6900 verses, or 19.4% of the Bible.

Developing a Weekday Lectionary companion to the Revised Common Lectionary

The Romans