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Progress Update
This page is to let our visitors know what is going on with the Modern Young's Literal Translation™.
When I started doing the modernization of the New Testament, I was working for a local Christian publisher/Christian bookseller.
After I finished with the New Testament, I was laid off at the Christian publisher. Since my income from the books and Bibles I was selling
wasn't enough to pay the bills, I had to take another job. The job I took was as a truck driver. I am now on the road about 3 weeks at
a time and then home for a couple of days. I purchased a laptop computer to be able to keep working on the Old Testament
section of the Bible.
Modernizing the Old Testament is harder than the New Testament, I found that out while working on Psalms and Proverbs. Maintaining the proper tenses as Robert
Young translated it takes a lot of effort. It also takes a lot of mental effort to read and reread the verses and chapters during the process of modernizing
the sentence structure. In order to modernize a verse, you need to make sure you are not changing the meaning of the verse, passage, and chapter. This involves a lot
of reading and rereading and then setting it aside for awhile before working on it again (in order to not get so familiar with the verse as to mentally change the meaning of the verse).
All this is tiring mentally. While driving truck is mostly sitting,
it is very tiring physically and mentally. I find that there are days that I am too tired mentally to work on the Old Testament.
I have done a lot of work on the Old Testament so far, but have so much more to do. I am trying to redouble my efforts on this and get it completed
as soon as possible. At this point, I am hoping for the springtime of 2010.
I do need the prayers of our visitors and customers to be able to concentrate on this task and work on it as much as possible.
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