The Interlinear Bible by Jay P. Green
Published 1986 · 976 pages · Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
How hard is The Interlinear Bible to read?
The Interlinear Bible scores 38 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 62 out of 100
- The book prints the full Hebrew and Greek texts, so readers meet two ancient languages, each word glossed in English beneath it. The English glosses are plain, but the biblical terms behind them are archaic and specialized.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Word-by-word glossing keeps the English in the order of the Hebrew and Greek. The result is fragmentary phrasing that readers must rearrange, though the literal translation in the outside column gives a smoother reading.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- The apparatus is concrete: words, numbers and glosses. The underlying scripture carries theological and moral abstraction, but the book itself presents language rather than argument.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Every word carries an original-language form, a Strong's number and an English gloss, and a literal translation runs alongside. The result is a dense page with several layers of information in small type.
How The Interlinear Bible is regarded
The Interlinear Bible holds a literary regard score of 36 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.