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This is a list of resources. Just because something is listed here doesn't mean we agree with it or approve of it!
Underlying Primary Language Texts
These are the primary, normative, source language texts for the OEB
- Wescott & Hort Greek New Testament, a high quality public domain critical text based primarily on Alexandrian text types, in particular Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.
- Westminster Leningrad Codex, which is a public domain transcription of the Codex Leningradensis
Main English Sources
The OEB does translate from scratch but starts from an existing public domain English language translation. The main ones are:
New Testament
John Edgar McFadyen
- The Psalms in modern speech and rhythmical form
- Isaiah in modern speech
- The wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes); also Lamentations and the Song of Songs in modern speech and rhythmical form
Charles Foster Kent
- Shorter Bible
- Student's Old Testament:
- Volume 1: Narratives Of The Beginnings Of Hebrew History, From The Creation To The Establishment Of The Hebrew Kingdom
- Volume 2: Israel's Historical And Biographical Narratives, From The Establishment Of The Hebrew Kingdom To The End Of The Maccabean Struggle
- Volume 3: The Sermons, Epistles And Apocalypses Of Israel's Prophets, From The Beginning Of The Assyrian Period To The End Of The Maccabean Struggle
- Volume 4: Israel's Laws And Legal Precedents, From The Days Of Moses To The Closing Of The Legal Canon
- The Songs, Hymns And Prayers Of The Old Testament
Jewish Publication Society (1917)
Resources on other translations
Greek Dictionaries
- Liddle-Scott-Jones Very high quality but primarily Ancient Greek
- Souter
- Abbot-Smith
- Thayer
- Moulton and Milligan
Interlinears/Electronic Aids
- Jesus.com.au - Great resource, but note based on Tischendorf and not W&H.
- Biblos Interlinear
- Scripture4All Interlinear - Based on TR
English Tools
- UQAM Vocab Profiler
- Corpora: Google N-Gram, Metafilter links to online corpora, List of six important corpora which includes the Corpus of Historical American English and the Corpus of Contemporary American English.