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0 pointsZancarius2y ago0 comments

The Berean Standard Bible[1] provides their Bible and its translation tables under the public domain[2]. It's a pretty readable translation, too, but I don't remember off-hand what formats they provide. I believe they also have an interlinear (partial, NT only). There is also a version based on the Majority Text[3].

Not sure if this is something that might be of interest to you, but I've been using this occasionally in Logos and rather enjoy it.

[1] https://berean.bible/

[2] https://berean.bible/licensing.htm

[3] https://majoritybible.com/

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thrtythreeforty2y ago· 2 in thread

I have wanted a searchable literal and interlinear text for a long time. I may spend some time converting this to .yes for my phone. Thanks for the link.

Can you speak to the credentials or reliability of the Berean project? Even something as "straightforward" (not minimizing the work!) as a literal translation can have lots of nuance in certain passages.

ZancariusOP2y ago

Dr Grant Osborne is on their NT translation board, and his commentary series are well regarded (I've been going through Revelation: Verse-by-Verse, and it was recommended to me by my pastor). I can't remember some of the others on their board[1], but as far as I know it seems that they've selected from fairly well-known scholars.

The project itself is funded by Bible Hub. I don't know if that will affect your view of the text or not, but their objective was to have a fully transparent translation accepting feedback from academics, pastors, and lay-readers for each revision. As such, I've found it quite readable and it seems to fall somewhere between ESV and NET in terms of readability (not as terse as ESV, not as verbose as NET).

Have you considered Logos? It's not exactly cheap, but the search tools are extremely powerful. They have a Hebrew-English interlinear for both the MT and the DSS and you can quite easily search on the MSS words, the lemma, or roots throughout the entire text. The mobile version isn't quite as feature-full, however, but I use it with some regularity in church and during Wednesday night classes (currently covering Revelation).

[1] https://berean.bible/committee.htm

thrtythreeforty2y ago

Logos is unfortunately out of my budget, but it looks really nice and I've considered it several times.

Thanks so much for the additional info. I'll do some additional research on the project, but that sounds encouraging. I hope the literal translation ends up as a sort of modernized ASV, which sticks very closely to the original Greek sentence structure but the verbiage is a little dated sometimes.

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