Name Change

My good friend, Bill Chamberlin, and I started calling ourselves "Bible Hunters" several years ago when we started corresponding about Bibles. Both of us are working on our books - Bill on a new work to follow up and replace his 1991 "Catalogue of English Bible Translations." And yes, I thought of it after hearing and watching Steve Irwin's "Crocodile Hunter" shows. It seemed hilarious to imagine a bespectacled researcher creeping through a bookstore like Steve did in the wilderness. The name stuck. Bill and I continue to hunt and record information from Bibles. Sometimes we release them back into the wild. Others we keep in specially maintained preserves where the Bibles are free to roam with others of their kind. Today I realized that my blog name was very clunky, so I changed it to the title I'd adapted many years ago.

Catholic Lectionary ESV

A Catholic Lectionary version of the ESV is underway. It may be finished by 2014. I read about it at the Catholic Bibles blog.

It looks like that post was referring to this post on the blog "Dominus mihi adjutor."

The Love Bible

This is currently just a couple posts on the blog I Was Lost & Now I'm Found. The editor is replacing references to God and Jesus with "Love." Working under the understanding that "God is Love" he has edited the beginning of Matthew, yielding phrases like "After Love was born in Bethlehem in Judea."

New New Testament

This is the second one I've seen with this same name. This one is called The New New Testament: The good news minus the misinformation. It appears to be a revision of the King James version. The reviser, Johnathan M. Carter, has changed words he says were mistranslated. Also, entire passages that were "later insertions by copyists or the Roman Catholic Church" have been removed.
The New New Testament: The good news minus the misinformation

The Voice update

The Voice OT is due out in April. Two books (Genesis & Isaiah) are available for download from the web site. The Voice of Psalms has already been published.

Composite Bible

This one is a "three for the price of one" deal. This is the Composite Bible by Gary D. Rose. It has three versions in parallel (horizontally). There are modified versions of Webster's, Darby's and Young's Bibles. The principal modification has been to replace "Jehovah" with "Yahweh." In the New Testament "Jesus" is replaced with "Iesous [Yashua]." There are several formats available: A software version with installer, PDF format and a print-on-demand from Lulu.com.

The Holy Bible (Binary Code)

This isn't a version in English, but it is a revision of English texts. This is the Bible converted into binary code. Judging from the cover (aha!), it appears that it was converted by taking the ASCII code for each English character, then representing that number in binary. The word "Holy" is thus rendered 01001000 01001111 01001100 01011001. I'll leave potential applications for this work up to you. You can get your copy, should you be so inclined, on Lulu.com.

Logos Bible

Here's another new one for today: Logos Bible. This should not be confused with another Logos Bible which is a translation by Paul Esposito. This Logos Bible is by Michael Mauseth. The Amazon.com description reads:

The Logos Bible is a combination of the Aramaic Peshitta New testament, with a reconstruction of the Hebrew gospel of Matthew, the gospel of Thomas, and the Secret gospel of Mark. Things that were taken out by early church fathers have also been restored to the text. The book is based on Ethridge's translation of the Peshitta but all the odd English has been replaced by Elizabethan English.

Gabriel Version

Today's new version is the Testimony of Yeshua: Gabriel Version. This is based on Murdock and Etheridge's translations of the Peshitta. This was done by Lonnie W. Martin. It is available in Hardback, paperback or a free PDF with links on Lulu.com.
The New Testament is also online here. The Old Testament, called the Word of Elohim, is not yet finished but the work in progress is available here.

New Douai Rheims Bible

The New Douai Rheims Bible is based on the original Rheims NT from 1582 and the Douai OT from 1609-10. The reviser has changed the spelling and punctuation. The books recognized as apocryphal by protestants have been removed. The editor(s) retyped the entire Bible from a microfiche copy of the original Douai Rheims Bible! This self-published Bible is available through the website, eBay or through Amazon. The Bible is a product of Straightway Ministries.

The New Messianic Version of the Bible

The New Messianic Version of the Bible is a new translation by Tov Rose. So far he has published the Torah. It is marked as Volume 1, so I assume he will be publishing more.

The New Messianic Version: The Book of GOD: Volume 1

Update: Just got word from the author that he has released the book of Matthew as well. View the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew - The Real Thing on Amazon.com (Kindle format).

Lexham English Bible OT

The Lexham English Bible is now complete. The OT was released sometime this month. Unfortunately, the OT is only available in Logos Bible Software right now.