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The World English Bible is a translation of the Holy Bible. Actually, it is more of a series. Please allow me to explain. The original, classic World English Bible (WEB, or sometimes WEBUS) is an update of the American Standard Version of 1901, with updates in the New Testament to conform the translation to the …
Read More World English Bible OptionsWho doesn’t have any access to a Bible in their own language? According to the Progress.Bible web site, there are still 980 languages spoken on Earth with no Scripture, and nobody working on Bible translations in those languages. Those are represented by the red dots on the map, below. (Click on the map for a …
Read More Who Doesn’t Have Access to a Bible?I think it was in 1999, at a Colorado Christian Writers’ Conference, that I was talking with one of the presenters about typos, and he said “Typos are the great lost sock of the publishing industry.” I wish I could remember his name to give proper attribution. That is a great analogy! Sock go into …
Read More The Great “Lost Sock” of the Publishing IndustryIt is easy to argue that there are too many English Bible translations, already. It is nice to have multiple translations to compare, to hopefully understand a passage of the Bible better. But having too many Bible translations in one language could also be confusing or divisive, so we don’t want to add variants without …
Read More Why So Many World English Bible Editions?I just did a bit of cleanup on our server farm. I had an FTP server on eBible.org that has been running for over four decades. When I started it, FTP was an old (already) but useful standard for moving files around the Internet. It was invented in a simpler, more trusting time, when sending …
Read More FTP and Internet Bit RotI just updated the history of the World English Bible on eBible.org.
Read More Updated History of the World English BibleA Papua New Guinean youth watched me intently over the half-wall of the church where I was working in rural Madang Province. The pastor there had given me permission to come there to charge my computer’s batteries and work from time to time. At that time, there was no Internet access or cell phone service, …
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