The Open English Bible is the anticipated end product of a project intended to create an English translation of the Bible that is:
- under a licence enabling the maximum reuse, remixing and sharing without requiring the payment of royalties or the obtaining of permission from copyright holders; and
- a translation reflecting modern English usage and Biblical scholarship.
The OEB is being formed by editing the public domain Twentieth Century New Testament, which was a new translation of the New Testament published in the early twentieth century, based on the Greek text of Westcott and Hort.
As such, the OEB as a translation does not stand within the Tyndale tradition but has a separate tradition in a similar manner to the NIV and New English Bible.
Our website is at http://openenglishbible.org
This source tree contains:
final-usfm/ The final generated usfm. This is probably what you want if you want to use the OEB's usfm files.
sources/ These are the source English translations we are working from.
staging/ These are altered usfm files.
patches/ These are changes to be automatically applied by build.py to the files in staging, and then copied to final-usfm
build.py The python 2.x script to do the patching.