New Year - New Goodies

Scripture Journals

I write this on 06 January 2025. In the past year I have been busy studying a Diploma of Graphic Design. My hope is that I can use this to improve the work I have been doing and, of course, to earn a living doing the things I love.

To start the new year I have added Scripture Journals for the Greek H.B. Swete versions of the 12 Minor Prophets to the downloads page. The next step will be to begin the longer books in the order Dr William Ross suggests for reading the LXX from easiest to hardest. God willing I will have these up by the middle of the year.

I have also done some housekeeping with the Greek New Testament and reordered the entries to reflect the traditional ordering of the books - Gospels, Acts, General Epistles (James, I & II Peter, I-III John, Jude), the Pauline Epistles (Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I & II Thessalonians, Hebrews, I & II Timothy, Titus, and Philemon), and finishing with Revelation and giving them numbers that match the LXX books including the Apocrypha.

The plan is to eventually add the books referred to variously as Νόθοι (spurious) and Ἀντιλεγόμενα (spoken against). The latter also includes some of the books now widely accepted as canonical (e.g. Jude, 2 & 3 Peter, 2 & 3 John, and Revelation) but in this case will be books that were never considered canonical apart from small groups of early Christians and were included in manuscripts such as the Epistles of Clement, The Epistle of Barnabas, The Shepherd of Hermas, and the Didache.

Alexandrinus Transcript

Along with these I have uploaded an updated Codex Alexandrinus transcript with Luke, and I & II John completed as well as the first two chapters of the Gospel of John. The next update will come when John is complete along with at least II Peter, maybe I Peter as well.

After that will likely be Acts and James to complete the first two sections of the New Testament.

What Else?

Well ... I am also putting the finishing touches to a transcript of books 1 to 9 of the Preparation For the Gospel by Eusebius of Caesarea and hopefully will have a version for publication shortly. In addition, there is a typeface in the works based on Alexandrinus and other ancient manuscripts and I plan to work on an iOS version of the Bible App.