Hi Friends,
I am very sorry for a misunderstanding that I caused a couple of months back, when something I wrote was taken by someone to impy that the Trinitarian Bible Society is supporting a translation project. I have never asked the Trinitarian Bible Society to back a translation project, and I have never claimed to be working on their behalf. I regret using the word 'mentoring' to describe the assistance and encouragement given occasionally and informally to this project in a purely private capacity by one of the Trinitarian Bible Society's editors. I continue to respect the fine work that the Trinitarian Bible Society does, and I have no wish to offend anyone.
Many thanks for your encouragement. The goal of this project is to render a word-for-word translation of the Received Text into 21st century US spoken English that our seven year old son can read out to our five year old son, and have our seven year old son understand with the occasional word that stretches his vocabulary.
We have accumulated a small team of people working on an ad-hoc basis.
Please feel free to look at the drafts which are available as pdf files, and make suggestions. Here is the link -
Trinity Bible - work in progress - Windows Live SkyDrive
There is a folder called Trinity Bible- translation suggestions. If you download the word doc inside, you can use that as a template to respond with suggestions to -
trinitybible@hush.com
So far, a preface has been written with a glossary of all words changed from the King James version, and the following books have been translated in draft -
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel up to chapter 19
All the Old Testament books are grouped into one pdf file called 'Trinity Bible'
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts
Romans
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
In Christ Jesus,
Nigel