Commenting on the Translation
We welcome feedback and input from readers. From the start of this Project, over a decade ago, we have greatly benefited from the views of hundreds of interested students of the Bible, both Jewish and Christian, on every aspect of the translation.
If you do want to provide a comment or ask a question the method we are using is e-mail. You should send your message to:
originalbible@earthlink.net
We have disabled the “Comment” feature on the Web site itself because in our experience it is too difficult to properly monitor a public comment forum on the world-wide Web, particularly one dealing with religion. The range and volume of input one gets, both sincere and questionable in motive and agenda, can be overwhelming, so much so that I would have to spend large chunks of my time just going through and monitoring and responding to embedded comments on the Web site. Only a small percentage of visitors to the Web site take have the time or inclination to work through vast lists of comments back and forth.
A much more effective way to handle questions and feedback is in the Blog itself. I find that people tend to ask many of the same, or related questions, and they can then be grouped together, sorted for relevance and priority, and then properly addressed. We will have a new category on the Blog called “Reader Response” in which I will begin to feature key questions and issues people are asking and raising. This also serves to put the issues right “up front” in terms of visibility and allows the hundreds of visitors to our site to easily follow the ongoing discussion in an organized and concentrated way.
All e-mail messages are read and most are sorted and archived, so you can be sure your response was noted, even if what you asked might not immediately be covered in the Blog. In some cases I will respond directly to e-mails from individuals asking something that can be dealt with quickly.
Let us known what you think of the first TEB Translation Sample…
James D. Tabor
