The World English Bible (also known as WEB) is a public domain translation of the Bible that is currently in draft form. It is based on the 1901 American Standard Version, the Greek Majority Text, and the Hebrew Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. The New Testament is considered complete and is available in print. The efforts of translating the books of the Bible from the original languages it was written in has spanned for over two millenia. ... The Bible has been translated into many languages. ... A number of Old English Bible translations were prepared in mediaeval England, translations of parts of the Bible into the Old English language. ... Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew. ... The age of Middle English was not a fertile time for Bible translations but saw the first major translation that of John Wyclif. ... 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Work on the World English Bible began in 1997 and was known as the American Standard Version 1997. The World English Bible project was started to produce a modern English Bible version that is not copyrighted, doesn't use archaic English (such as the KJV), or isn't translated in Basic English (such as the Bible In Basic English). The World English Bible follows the American Standard Version's unusual decision to translate the Tetragrammaton, but updates "Jehovah" to be "Yahweh". 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ... Basic English is a simplified English language with a small number of words created by Charles Kay Ogden and described in his book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930). ... The Bible In Basic English (also known as BBE) is a translation of the Bible into Basic English. ... The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (1100 BC to AD 300), Aramaic (10th century BC to 1 BC) and modern Hebrew scripts. ... Jehovah (also sometimes spelled Yehovah) is the Name of the God of the Hebrews as commonly transliterated in English from the Masoretic Hebrew text. ... The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (1100 BC to 300 CE), Aramaic (10th Century BC to 0) and modern Hebrew scripts. ...

There are seven passes of editing and proofreading for each book. An initial automated pass updated approximately 1,000 archaic words, phrases and grammatical constructs. The first manual pass was to add quotation marks (the ASV had none) and other punctuation, and to check the translation against the Greek and Hebrew texts where there are significant textual variants or the meaning is unclear.

Although a complete draft version is available, there is still much editing in progress. It is hoped to have a finished version by Christmas 2005. The entire New Testament is now mostly complete, and the Old Testament is complete except for the books of Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Daniel.

Rainbow Missions is the sponsor of the World English Bible project.

External Links

Source

• World English Bible website

Other

• At Gutenberg Project: Etext No. 8294 (full text), or 8228 to 8293 (by book, Genesis to Revelation)
  • Overview (complete text, Index with Glossary, Readme): http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8294
  • Search for available editions (complete and by book): http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/results?title=World+English+Bible
• At ebible.org: Messianic Edition (WEB:ME), also known as The Hebrew Names Version (HNV)