Unless you've been under a rock for the last several years, you're familiar with the runaway success of the user-edited Wikipedia encyclopedia, where anyone can contribute or edit an article, even anonymously. Well the same open-source content is now being applied to the Bible. Yes, you heard that right; budding scholars can take a chapter and translate it themselves. Never mind that this will produce a patchwork of chapters with inconsistent styles and widely varying quality. It's a bit more critical for the Bible than for Wikipedia. Not to mention the religious wars over translation (although it's unclear whether they'll follow exactly the same model as Wikipedia in terms of being completely open to edit by anyone). So far there is no danger of it being done anytime soon; only 21 have signed up so far.
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