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04 What is the World English Bible?




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This article is from the World English Bible Translation FAQ, by Michael Paul Johnson mpj@ebible.org with numerous contributions by others.

04 What is the World English Bible?

The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version
of 1901, which is in the Public Domain. The revision is also in the
Public Domain, which sets it apart from other revisions of the ASV, like
the New American Standard Bible and the Revised Standard Version.

The first pass of the translation, which has already been done, was to
convert about 1,000 archaic words and word forms to modern equivalents
using a custom computer program. The second through seventh phases
consist of manual editing and proofreading. The initial manual pass is
to add quotation marks (the ASV of 1901 had none), update other
punctuation, update usage, and spot check the translation against the
original languages in places where the meaning is unclear or significant
textual variants exist. The subsequent passes are to review of the
results of the previous pass. In each pass, volunteers read the current
draft, looking for typos, unclear passages, etc., then report back to
the main editors <editors@ebible.org>, who check the suggestions and
merge the best suggestions into the master draft. As this is going on,
the draft at the WEB web page is updated.

 

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