Major Bible Project

This project is a 10+ year ambition which will reshape the current landscape of Biblical Studies. It involves a fresh take on Lexicography, Textual Criticism, Exegesis and Hermeneutics. The ultimate aims of this project are:

1. New Lexicons incorporating usages from extra-biblical, contemporary sources of Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek (and other ANE languages).
2. Collation of ALL materials of importance to Textual Criticism of the Old and New Testaments.
3. Production of a critical edition based on an alternative set of text critical rules.
4. Two new translations of the Old and New Testaments based on the new textual apparatus.
5. A new commentary of the Bible based upon a barrier-breaking new take on hermeneutics.

Smaller goals will include:
  • A Re-evaluation of the rules of textual criticism and the advocation of a fresh system for conducting textual research.
  • Education process among conservative Christians regarding the need for a Bible in modern readable English.
  • Production of a "Scientific Method" of hermeneutics which is completely self-consistent, accounting for the subjective element of the human interpreter, yet providing an objectively repeatable and falsifiable system of interpreting sacred writings.
  • Establishment of a internet based workgroup of Biblical Language enthusiasts to divide up the major parts of this project - by the people, for the people. 
  • Collection and comparison of word usages in common with the Bible in non-canonical religious and secular writings contemporary with the Bible.
  • Collection of all available pre-publishing manuscripts and editions of the Bible, including papyri, uncials, miniscules, lectionaries, quotations from Christians, and inscriptions and ostracon in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Georgian, Slavonic, Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, and Romaunt.
  • Collection of all available published editions of the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, for a study of the history of the published Bible.
More to come soon.