The English Bible source maintained today
The KJB ABF Edition is a digital edition of the Authorized Version (AV 1611) based on the Common Cambridge Text. It supplies the shared English source for foundation projects. Its edition records retain source acknowledgments, verification records, and documented approved differences. It is not a new English translation.
ABF Bible Texts maintains the source release. AETS uses an identified, verified copy for its work. A transcription of a particular 1611 printing would have a separate historical identity and retain that printing's own wording and features.
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The planned collection includes identified 1611 King James Bible printings, approved earlier English Bibles, and selected Greek Textus Receptus and Hebrew Masoretic editions. Each proposed witness needs an exact edition and copy, suitable source images, defined transcription rules, and qualified review.
The AETS framework identifies Beza 1598 and Stephanus 1550 as Greek witnesses and the Ben Chayyim Second Rabbinic Bible of 1524-1525 as its Hebrew witness. Earlier English witnesses considered within the framework include the Bishops' Bible, Geneva Bible, Tyndale, Coverdale, Matthew's Bible, and Great Bible. These names describe the intended scope; each particular witness still requires its own assessment and approval for use.
Digital drafts would be checked against images of the printed pages. Automated text recognition can assist transcription, but it cannot establish that a reading is verified. Reviewers would retain page references, differences, gaps, and uncertain readings. Separate witnesses would keep their own text rather than being combined into a newly assembled Bible.
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Our Old Testament textual foundation is the Hebrew Masoretic text. For the New Testament, we identify the Greek Textus Receptus and its relationship to the broader Byzantine manuscript tradition. Antiochian is our description of this New Testament textual heritage; these terms do not name identical editions or establish the history of every reading.
The Byzantine tradition is often called the majority-text tradition because it is represented by most surviving Greek New Testament manuscripts. Modern editions also use the name Majority Text, but they differ in places from the Textus Receptus. ABF's approved Greek witnesses remain the identified Textus Receptus editions. Mentioning the broader tradition does not add another Greek edition to the project or change the King James Bible's governing English authority.
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AETS follows word-for-word formal equivalence. It first studies and defines the Authorized English from its biblical usage. Qualified source reviewers would then document the relevant Greek, Hebrew, or historical English relationships and retain the evidence behind their decisions.
RootPath is the AETS record of those source relationships for a word and its sense. Related alignment records connect particular Bible occurrences to the reviewed source words or phrases. These relationships are not always one English word to one source word. Supplied words, expressions conveyed through a phrase, and unresolved questions need their own documented handling.
Agreement between witnesses is evidence to examine; it does not by itself prove which particular copy a translator consulted. The work would document what the evidence supports while keeping uncertainty visible. The King James Bible remains the governing English text.
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Maintenance of the KJB ABF Edition is active. The wider historical collection, reviewed source alignments, and AETS application remain planned work. This page describes their intended purpose and method, not a completed corpus or an available research service.
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