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Trinitarian Bible Society – Quarterly RecordA hill near Jerusalemwith the director of a Christian publishinghouse and his typesetter. The meetingfocused on the layout desired for the threedifferent forms in which the revised Gospelis due to be published. As a general point,the Society is anxious to ensure that thequality of the layout of its other languageScriptures matches that in our own settingsof the Authorised (King James) Version;thus much care andattention is neededto ensure a pleasingoutcome, particularlyfor diglot publications.The digitising of theSociety’s GinsbergHebrew Old Testamentwas also touched upon,and it is a goal, shouldfunds become available,to make the Hebrew OldTestament and GreekThe Western WallNew Testament available for download onour website and also for other media, suchas ebook readers, in order to reach a wideraudience with the Biblical texts underlyingall our Scripture publications.From the Christian publishing house inRishon leTsion, we proceeded to a printingworks in Tel Aviv, and after a short tourof the works, discussed the page sizeand the optimum number of pages inorder to make the printing most costeffective.For the Hebrew John, the planis to print around 3,000 to 5,000 copiesand quotations for these two quantitieswere requested, together with the samequantity for each of the Hebrew-Englishand Hebrew-Russian diglot publications.From the printers, we made our way by carto Mevasseret, a town close to Jerusalem,and the venue of our next meeting.Although the weather was fine, there wasno time (sadly) to stop and admire thescenery, although we did note the almondtrees in blossom in the Ajalon Valley andthe wonderful Judean Hills as we travelledto meet with Mr. Syvanto of the FinnishBible Institute.Mr. Syvanto has been living and working inIsrael for much of the past sixty years, andit was a privilege to meet with him, andto hear about his long-time commitmentto the publication and distribution ofChristianliterature withinIsrael. We were ableto update him asto progress on theproject and weregratified to hearfor ourselves hispledge to continuesupporting therevision work ona shared basiswith the Society.We very muchappreciated the hospitality received.The views from Mevasseret across thevalleys and hills, and the sight of the highhills round about Jerusalem as we returnedto the old city of Jerusalem brought tomind the lovely words of Psalm 125.2. 1 Inthe evening, we were able to join in publicworship with a small, local congregation.Although Russian Jews made up nearlyhalf of those attending, there were aboutnine different nationalities present,reflecting the diverse mix of nationalities to12