diff --git a/00-About_the_ULB/ULB-1-Intro-ULB.md b/00-About_the_ULB/ULB-1-Intro-ULB.md index c6509187..7a4020e3 100644 --- a/00-About_the_ULB/ULB-1-Intro-ULB.md +++ b/00-About_the_ULB/ULB-1-Intro-ULB.md @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ # Introduction to the Unlocked Literal Bible - English +The Unlocked Literal Bible (ULB) is an open-licensed version of the Bible derived from The American Standard Version, and updated using the most reliable Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek copies of the Biblical texts available. It is intended to accurately reflect the meanings of those texts and to be used as a source text for Bible translators to translate the Bible into their own language. (From the Readme file) + +or + The Unlocked Literal Bible (ULB) is intended to be used as a source text for Bible translators who may not have a reading knowledge of the original biblical languages. Some might call it "relatively literal" because it retains many of the grammatical structures, idioms, figures of speech, and semantically complex vocabulary used in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek source documents. But when those grammatical structures, idioms, or figures of speech would be unintelligible or seriously misunderstood in English, the ULB minimally adjusts the grammatical structures and wording in order to express the same meanings in ways that are more clear in English. The ULB is not meant to be a refined, polished English version. It is meant to present the meaning and structure of the original texts in so far as that can be done clearly and simply, so that it can, in turn, be translated into other languages.