Reading project - what's done - what's left

Here's where I'm at. I wonder where I should go and how.

The Hebrew Bible divides nicely into 7 sections.

1. Torah, the Books of Moses, represents 25% of the verses. That's the T section of TNK.
2. The Prophets divide into 3 subsections: 
1. The Former, Joshua-Judges, Samuel, and Kings represent 19% of the Bible by verses.
2. The Latter, are the big three: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. They are 17% by verses.
3. The Twelve are part of the Latter and are also called the minor prophets. They are 5% by verses. So altogether the Prophets are 41%. That's the N section (N for Neviim - plural of Nabi or prophet.)
3. The Writings also divide into 3 sections: 
1. The Books of Truth, so called for the word that the initial letters of the three book titles can be formed to spell out the Hebrew word for Truth ('emet): Aleph for Job (Job's name begins with a guttural), Mem for the Proverbs (mashalim), and Taf for the Psalms (tehillim). These are 19% of the verses.
2. The five scrolls: Song, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes or Qohelet, and Esther. (3%.)
3. and the rest: Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles. (12%.) That's the K section (Ketuvim from KTB, write) a total of 34%.

Here's where I'm at in each section:

Books	Chapters	Verses	Final - see the Kata Bob Page	% Complete
Torah	187	5843	9	4.8%
Former Prophets	147	4297	9	6.1%
Later Prophets	166	3923	7	4.2%
The 12	67	1050	27	40.3%
Books of Truth	223	4502	168	75.3%
Scrolls	39	745	30	76.9%
Other	100	2791	5	5.0%
Totals	929	23151	255	27.4%

You can see I have concentrated on three of the seven sections. I like to have things complete. It feels like I am getting somewhere. Yet even then one must just keep walking. There are no real short cuts. I can reduce the difficult work of consistent memory with the computer, but I must read every word myself no matter what help my R2D2 provides. (It takes about 1 or 2 minutes to reread the whole Bible for me - but it's too fast for me to keep up.)

So sometimes I say - what can I finish next?
Here's an estimate of the weeks of work remaining by section for a total of 118.7.

Books	Verses to do	Estimate (weeks)
Torah	5480	37.3
Former Prophets	3979	27.1
Later Prophets	3786	25.8
The 12	610	4.1
Books of Truth	810	5.5
Scrolls	135	0.9
Other	2645	18.0

When you look at it this way, it seems, if I want to finish some section or other, I should stay on the three shorter sections. But - if I do that and have not read much of the other sections, I will miss concepts. A central part of Torah is the building of the sanctuary and the sacrificial system. I think I must work on that a bit at least to confirm terminology. Also every time I translate a verse of the primary history, R2D2 improves its reading of some part of Chronicles. So I get double value from that effort.

Also, I have translated all of Job once (in 2010) and I am stuck in the conversation. This book is too important to rush. So I think I will drag out the shorter sections over the next several months up to a year and keep my somewhat random walk through the text. I also want to get to some of the major prophets. There's so many ways in which the Psalms relate to them, and I think that will be revealing.

At the same time, I have to refine my semantic domains and manage changes to work already done.

I welcome useful feedback. I hope eventually to publish the translations in book form for the sake of the music in 18 shortish volumes. I am actively seeking English readers and Hebrew readers. Anyone who loves language and music and can let their yes be yes and their no be no. (I will listen.)

Volume	Contents
1	Genesis
2	Exodus
3	Leviticus
4	Numbers
5	Deuteronomy
6	Joshua, Judges
7	Samuel
8	Kings
9	Isaiah
10	Jeremiah
11	Ezekiel
12	The Twelve
13	Psalms
14	Proverbs
15	Job
16	The Scrolls
17	Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah
18	Chronicles

These are my reasons for doing this work.

1. to see into the mind of the human Jesus who would have thought in the Hebrew way from his childhood, maybe Greek and Aramaic too, but Hebrew is where the puns and word-plays are in his language.
2. to resolve the problem of Christian vs Jew - so obviously highlighted by what happened before I was born - the holocaust.
3. and now that I have discovered the music, (see the Music page) to allow a close translation that will fit the music - as concordant as possible.