Open Word Bible for · Seekers & skeptics
Don’t take our word for it: check the work
Most Bibles ask you to trust their translators. Open Word Bible shows each step instead: the ancient words, what they say word for word, the choices made in translating them and why. Read it, check it, and make up your own mind.
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All articles- How it is madeWhy another Bible translation?Most modern translations are copyrighted, and almost all of them hide their reasoning. Open Word Bible sets out to change both.
- How we got the BibleHow reliable is the Bible’s text?There are hundreds of thousands of differences among the manuscripts of the New Testament, and real differences among those of the Old. What that number means, which passages are genuinely uncertain, what skeptical scholars get right, and how Open Word Bible shows its readers where the doubts lie.
- How we got the BibleWhat the Dead Sea Scrolls show about the Bible’s textThe scrolls confirmed that the Hebrew Bible was copied with great care, and also showed that before the first century there was more than one form of some books. Both findings matter, and neither should be left out.