WorldEnglish.Bible is live; Wisdom of Solomon; pre-print checks
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Kahunapule Michael Johnson
Jun 8, 2016, 3:25:43 PM6/8/16
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The WorldEnglish.Bible web site is live. It has the same content as WorldEnglishBible.org, which will remain active. The World English Bible files are primarily hosted on eBible.org, along with hundreds of other Bible translations. These sites (and a few others) are kept updated in near real time as typos are corrected and as punctuation and grammar are updated.
Currently, there is a punctuation consistency review and pre-print check in progress for the whole World English Bible. This is resulting in numerous but tiny adjustments, like swapping a colon for a semicolon where modern usage varies from usage common in 1901, and some word order adjustments to match modern usage. No major changes are being done in the 66-book protocanon of the World English Bible without good justification. (It still happens from time to time, but most such adjustments for better accuracy have already been made.)
In the Deuterocanon, the additions to Daniel found in the Greek Septuagint but not in the traditional Hebrew text of Daniel have been combined, in order, into Daniel (Greek). This includes the accounts of the Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon. That provides better context for these stories, and more accurately reflects how they appear in the Greek Septuagint. This is also more consistent with how Esther from the Hebrew and Esther from the Greek are handled in the World English Bible.
Also in the Deuterocanon, the first manual editing pass of the Wisdom of Solomon is done.
The WorldEnglish.Bible web site is live. It has the same content as WorldEnglishBible.org, which will remain active. The World English Bible files are primarily hosted on eBible.org, along with hundreds of other Bible translations. These sites (and a few others) are kept updated in near real time as typos are corrected and as punctuation and grammar are updated.
Currently, there is a punctuation consistency review and pre-print check in progress for the whole World English Bible. This is resulting in numerous but tiny adjustments, like swapping a colon for a semicolon where modern usage varies from usage common in 1901, and some word order adjustments to match modern usage. No major changes are being done in the 66-book protocanon of the World English Bible without good justification. (It still happens from time to time, but most such adjustments for better accuracy have already been made.)
In the Deuterocanon, the additions to Daniel found in the Greek Septuagint but not in the traditional Hebrew text of Daniel have been combined, in order, into Daniel (Greek). This includes the accounts of the Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon. That provides better context for these stories, and more accurately reflects how they appear in the Greek Septuagint. This is also more consistent with how Esther from the Hebrew and Esther from the Greek are handled in the World English Bible.
Also in the Deuterocanon, the first manual editing pass of the Wisdom of Solomon is done.
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