There are a lot of pointless notes in the ASV, such as in Genesis 41 where the ears of corn are called ‘rank[b] and good,’ where rank is stated as meaning ‘fat’ in Hebrew. I think it is better to just pick a more sensible word (here ‘bountiful’) than to have a note explaining ‘fat’. […]

As it turns out, the Rashi on sefaria.org is public domain.  According to their blog post “Rashi in English“, Sefaria is very fortunate to receive pro bono counsel from Simpson Thacher and our amazing intellectual property attorneys were able to help us in our effort to determine the status of the Silbermann Rashi’s copyright. Since the translations were published in the […]

I didn’t get as far as Genesis 4 before encountering some thorny issues with rewording the Bible before doing a theological pass, but once I hit Genesis 6 it became obvious that something was wrong with the process. Allow me to illustrate; the problem verse for today is Genesis 6:4. Genesis 6:4 There were giants […]

The previous phase system was very difficult to implement and track. What would happen is that the individual steps would merge together into a sort of first, second, third pass, which really was the same thing. I’m going to revise this all based on how it actually worked out during the edit for Genesis. Phase […]

I’m going to move away from the original ‘phase’ idea into a more streamlined workflow. Here is the general idea; Phase 1: The KJV (see below) is copied into the project and reformatted to match our standard. Appparently this alone lets us claim Copyright (See: AKJV vs KJV). Phase 2: A quick modernization phase where […]

In this post I will compare DokuWiki with the custom web app I have been designing. For the last few weeks I have stopped editing the NSV and have been working on a web app which is intended to allow me to edit the NSV and allow people to read it online. I almost finished […]

Now presenting, the NSV. Forget, for a moment, what that might stand for; originally I had thought to call it the NSB (Noachide Study Bible) and then later other ideas such as NSV (Noachide Study Version) came to mind. I had also kicked around the CMSB (Counter-Missionary Study Bible), but the reality is that it is […]

As we have seen in the previous two posts, it would seem as if the best bible translation is the best bible translation for you. But aren’t all bibles the same? Technically, yes, they are — the Bible is a term used to describe the Hebrew scriptures. In that sense you could even capitalize the […]