Please excuse me if I seem to be a little over-excited this morning, but I have some brilliant news.
Today, I can finally announce that I have been asked to coordinate an exciting new project, which I believe will have a significant impact on the UK and worldwide. In an initiative which will draw together my experience in Bible translation, mission and blogging, I’ve been asked to take the lead in the development of a new English translation of the Bible, provisionally titled “The Blogger’s Bible”.
The Blogger’s Bible will be an entirely new translation into contemporary English from the original King James Version. The idea is not to print this translation, but to make it available online or as a smartphone app. Each Bible chapter will be presented in the form of a blog post, with tags that link it to other similar passages.
Avril Poisson, marketing director of the online publishers Tu-Blagues, who are sponsoring this project writes;
The Blogger’s Bible is a unique, once in a lifetime project. In today’s world, there are simply not enough translations of the Bible in the English language and it there are virtually no websites or apps that allow English speakers to consult the Bible online. We believe that it is our mission to bridge this gap. We are very encouraged pleased that Eddie Arthur has agreed to lead this project. His experience in promoting the translation of the Bible into minority languages can be well used in the far more important task of helping English speakers.
As you can imagine, I’m really excited about this project. We expect to complete work by the end of today.
ps. For those who receive this blog post by email, please imagine that you were reading it yesterday (and check which category I’ve filed it under).
pps. If anyone does actually produce a “Bloggers’ Bible”, I came up with the idea first and demand a cut of the proceeds!
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April 1st thoughts…
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@kouya (Eddie Arthur) has plans for a new ‘Blogger’s Bible’: https://t.co/yhALz2uj8K
Nanosecond 1 – Eddie’s gone bonkers. Nanosecond 2 – ah tis that day!
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Lol!!!!! Took me a few minutes of confusion first though!!
Well finally, something usable in english! I look forward to using it tomorrow!
About time, what took you (I mean them) so long?
Verily! Mine heart rejoiceth! May its very completion come forth in a little space!
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Well done Edd! I look forward to the King Eddie Version (KEV – has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?) Publication date; 01.04.17?
“King Arthur” might sell more, and that’s what it’s all about!
I though the Hokey Cokey was what it’s all about!
Superb. I really like the idea of a translation from the original KJV 🙂
Great idea!
am waiting for the LolCatz translation for Facebook users myself
Love that idea!!! 😃
Wait no longer: http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Can I haz buk?
HA!!
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Cos we know you love new English translations .. There’s not enough already!!
how do us English speakers ever get to read the Bible? (Eddie – over to you…)
Happy 1st April to you too!!
@vickybeeching https://t.co/kmCTl3OO7p – the new Bloggers Bible, because we don’t have enough translations of the Bible into modern English!
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Brilliant. Loved it! Avril Poisson is absolutely correct!
Took me a second. It was the KJV that did it.
Good one
I’d like to share an exciting announcement about my future, while I still can https://t.co/719Wxia7bF
How comes it will take you so long?
@kouya Je pense que … tu blague!
😉
RT @kouya: I’d like to share an exciting announcement about my future, while I still can https://t.co/719Wxia7bF
RT @kouya: I’d like to share an exciting announcement about my future, while I still can https://t.co/719Wxia7bF
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Got as far as There are simply not enough… befor i realised the date
like the spaghetti harvest in Italy…
by the end of today? c’mon give yourself a more reasonable timeframe, say two weeks
You will be very good at it!
Drop dead brilliant! However, you failed to let us know where to send money in support of this critically, desperately needed initiative.
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