[WikiEN-l] Bible websites

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 08:08:05 UTC 2009


2009/7/6 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:

> Hm. Of course, Tim is right - if its public/open domain then
> wikisource should host it and we will then link to it. The issue with
> the hebtools site/script is that most of its links go to BibleGateway.
>  Obviously the current script's sources need to be changed to include
> both other gateways like bible.cc and of course wikisource. A choice
> of gateways would be preferable.
> The current hosted translations/versions on wikisource are:
>    * Bible (Wycliffe) (1380s)
>    * Bible (Tyndale) (1526)
>    * Douay-Rheims Bible (1610)
>    * King James translation, or “Authorized Version” (1611)
>    * King James translation, Oxford Standard (1769)
>    * American Standard translation (1901)
>    * Bible (Jewish Publication Society 1917)
>    * World English translation (in progress since 1997)
>    * Wikisource translation (in progress since 2006)


Is there anything that will show the same verse in several
translations at once? That would be ideal - highly educational. That
would require something less like wiki pages and more like a database
at the other end. Or someone laboriously compiling wiki pages of the
form en.wiki---.org/wiki/John/3/16 .


- d.



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