With Phase 2 now solidly complete, we have a wording of the KJV/ASV/DRA and other, Genesis only, with many custom word choices and phrasings, which we may now lay copyright claim to as the NSV. The link for this project will now be set as http://www.noachide.ca/wiki/nsv:start What follows is a theological consistency pass. This means […]

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 […]