Okay, here is an update of my Genesis translations, I am currently through chapter 15.

Note, I deleted the old file, so this is the only one here. I'm trying to keep the amount of space that I use to a minimum.

I'm doing this as much for myself as for others, it is giving me the opportunity to study every word of scripture, literally, so I would encourage anyone that wants to, to do it.

As for helping, if you want to check mine and find anything that i may have got wrong, or add insight that i may have missed I'm open to that.

If by help you mean divide it up and you translate some chapters or books and I do others. I want to translate all of it my self, so that I will have studied it, I'm even translating the verses Craig has already done, so that I can study them.

But it would be nice to have some one to help me though difficult verses. Someone who I could use as a sound board and who could offer alternatives to me.

As for the format, I decided to use Craig's formating style, because it makes it easier to use as a study tool. So I try to translate it accurately in the bold and then place the Hebrew and the amplified definition in the parenthesis. A fully amplified translation is a bit tricky to read.

As for the Silver edition, I use the Original Languages edition, which is cheaper and has less. Looking at the list there are a few things that OL has that Silver doesn't, but they are nothing I would worry about having. The OL is about $700 less than the Silver, and in my opinion most of the books that you get that aren't in the OL are not useful. It does come with several more interlinears, several history and culture books, which could be good, but not necessary for translating, more maps and photos which are nice but not necessary, a couple of extra ancient text, and the pronunciation tools which would be nice but not necessary. Other than that it comes with a bunch of things in "church" history, ministry teachings, sermon compilation, apologetics, devotionals, counseling, preaching and teaching, reviews, references and commentaries, and a lot more English translations.

So in other words Silver has a few extras, but in my opinion not worth the price difference over OL. So unless you have the money to spend, I would go with the OL, the OL was designed just for word study, whereas the other packages are designed mostly for Clergy and such.

The OL comes with a beginning Hebrew book that is a pretty good way of learning the alphabet, and recognizing the letters, and such. I used to it and another beginning Hebrew book that I bought to get the basics down. The main things I got from them is how to pronounce the letters, and how to write them, as well as tenses and masculine vs feminine and plural singular. I don't care to much for them vocabulary wise, since they give you the most basic definition.

If you have any questions PM me and I'll see if I can help. When I first started I started by re translating verses Craig had done, so I would run the exegetical search on a verse, and then begin looking at each word and piecing a sentence together. There are about 5 or 6 books that I use regularly in logos, and then I would recommend getting The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, the Abegg, Flint, Ulrich version. It puts the parts that differ with the MT in italics, so you can identify them. Also you can find some other good Lexicons in Hardback to supplement logos.

Also when dealing with Hebrew, don't just use the vowel pointing that are supplied, those are the ones chosen by the Masorites, look at the root letters and other words formed by them, and think which fits best in the context, and with Yah's nature. Most of the time all the different words formed with that basis fit and add a layer of depth that just one won't.

The Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database has been Under Development for sometime at Logos, if you were to wait until it was done there is no telling how long you will have to wait. I have the hardback one and plan on getting the add in when it is finally released. You can get a soft-back copy for around $10 on Amazon, so I would recommend getting that now, and then getting the Logos add in when it comes out. Having the DSS database will be awesome if they ever release it. The book version is a translation, so not a transcript of the DSS, it is useful, but having the transcripts would be much better.

The ones I use most are:
Dictionary of Biblical Languages: Hebrew,
Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew Lexicon,
A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament,
Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament,
NASB Dictionaries (I use this mostly for their transliterations, the definitions are simplistic ones.)
Exaustive Dictionary of Biblical Names
The Lexham Hebrew-English Interlinear Bible
The Hebrew Bibke: Andersen-Forbes
Theological Word Book of the Old Testament

At least those are the ones I always have opened.

I also use:
The Hebrew Bible: Anderson-Forbes Marker Analysis
The Gesenius' Hebrew-Grammer
Hebrew Syntax

For some of the tougher grammatical parts.

I've focused entirely on the Hebrew Scriptures. if you are interested in the Greek RC, then logos has a lot more tools from what i can tell, but you might ask Swalchy about the Greek stuff that is much more his department.

Just wanted to thank all of those involved in translating this. I appreciate the work you all put into it.

How far along is the "project" in translating the Old Covenant? How many books are complete, and how many are close? Thanks.

Finally I'm ready to post an update of Bare'shiyth. sorry for the delay, but I let me best friend borrow my laptop so he could do work for school, and haven't access to all of my tools for a while.

This covers through Chapter 20 of Bare'shiyth- Genesis. I've added bookmarks for each chapter so you can quickly search through it. I have to go back and check on certain word usages, as I pointed out above, i found out that Logos was pointing me to 'ish when 'enowsh was being used, so i have to go check all the places where I translated 'ish and see which word was used.

You are all amazing. Thank you SO MUCH for what you do.

I hope these get their own 'links' on YY

Some people never reach this forum...

Worked fine for me

A big THANK YOU

Not so much an update, but a patch, I fixed a few typos, like spelling Abel Able, and also fixed the areas where 'enowsh should have been used instead of 'iysh.

These are spectacular. Thank you very much everyone. I'll be printing and binding these.


Cannot thank you, sufficiently

~bon

It's in a .zip file to download, but the document is in .pdf. The forum won't let me post just the PDF, so I had to zip it. Window's has it's own unzip program, but if it doesn't let you, PM me and I will email you a copy of just the PDF.

I'm almost through Chapter 24 of Genesis, I plan on posting an update once I finish Chapter 25. I haven't had a lot of time to work on it lately, been real busy atwork, and trying to buy a house and move, so free time is limited. hoping once I get moved to have the time to work through some more.

Make that word "complete" and not "compete". Sorry. By the way, what happened to our having the ability to edit our own posts?!

Seems new post wouldn't let me add atachments...but it lets me here.

Here's Psalms taken from previous YY compilation with find/replace Yahuweh&Yahweh with Yahowah.
Then added formatted in Psalms from ItG.

Does anyone think it would go over very well if we printed a thousand copies of these texts and stuck them in the book section at our local stores? I was just thinking how crazy it is that no one else has produced this accurate of a translation before, and then I realized that several probably have but they have all been destroyed or lost due to disinterest or claims of heresy. I'm curious to know what the stories are of the thousands that will be in heaven and how they overcame all the lies and opposition of this world.

er, actually spelled His name correctly Yahowah :)

I thank the both of you. Richard, you made available the download of ITG on your site and my boy, Tim, has put it to his Kindle so he and his wife can start reading it. And Chucks efforts are commendable. You are deffinately an inspiration, brother.
Thank you, both.

No problem, glad so many others benefit too. Richard, I thank you for your website, good stuff!

I really thank James for his previous extraction & compilation of all the verses from YY, which has made these updates w/ItG sooooo much easier!

I can't speak for Yada, but I have no problem with folks taking these, adding translations of missing verses, and (re)posting with explanation of what was added.

If any have objections to translations they can discuss.

Would be great if all the books were completed/improved around the foundation Yada laid.