11 August 2022 Navigate to biblical-homepage.
biblicalambiguities.net is a website of mine which I'm in the process of winding down, as I migrate whatever content I want to save away from it.
A number of pages on biblicalambiguities contain blocks of the Bible in English. I don't even know whether to call these texts 'translations' because in some cases I didn't do anything close to 'translating' them from Hebrew.
The basic idea is this: I used either the Masoretic Text, or an English public domain translation, and then made whatever tweaks I saw fit, and used that as the base to which I added my notes. At the bottom of this page is a complete list of all the English translation I felt free to borrow from without footnoting each occasion. And 'my notes' is a bit of a complicated phrase too: see the General disclaimer.
How much is my work and how much is the work of those public domain translations varies from page to page and time to time. I have not tracked in detail exactly where the text of every verse came from. However, I can assure you that I didn't copy this material from resources subject to US copyright law. When I use sources written after 1923, I will cite them.
The translation does not in all cases reflect my opinion on what is the 'best' translation. Usually I just slavishly follow the Masoretic Text. If I deviate from the MT on purpose, I footnote the difference. The translation is often more literal than might be optimal for a Bible that is just intended to be read from one end to the other -- the literalness helps in providing English comparisons between different interpretations of the Hebrew, textual variants, and so on.
When I post something, it's not necessarily final. This website was always a work in progress, and I may continue to polish and revise its posts even after bringing them all over here.
List of translations from which I've borrowed freely
The translations I have freely used to create a base text are the King James Version, Revised Version, American Standard Version, Jewish Publication Society Version of 1917, World English Bible, and New Heart English Bible.