Original Bible Project


The Original Bible Project is a project to produce a re-ordered new translation of the Bible into English led by James Tabor. The Project is a non-profit organisation. The translation is expected to eventually be published under the name "Transparent English Bible ", although TEB is already a common abbreviation for Today's English Bible.
The project was advertised as early as 1992 in the back of the Bible Review of the Biblical Archaeology Society, and an article Genesis Translation of the Transparent English Bible appeared in the liberal arts magazine of Augustana College in 2006. and has also been mentioned in book jacket biographies of Dr. Tabor. The Project's aim is to produce a new version, the Transparent English Bible by 2012–2014. The first book, Genesis may be published in advance before this date. Tabor said:
The initial translations of the project have already been cited in some non-scholarly works.
Since, however, it is now 2020 and not only has no such translation appeared, but the group which was working on it has consistently refused to revise the projected release date, it can be safely concluded that the project is destined to go nowhere.

Sample translation

Transparent English Bible Genesis Chapter 1:1