Then I added the Byzantine Greek text of the New Testament (Pierpont-Robinson Majority Text), for the complete Bible in Koine Greek -- the Bible of both the eastern and western Gentile Church until the 5th century, when St. Jerome translated the Scriptures into Latin for the western Church (which had earlier Old Latin versions, but nothing standardized like the LXX and Vg).

Initially I had wanted to create a Greek-English Interlinear of the LXX OT, with my own English translation, but, soon after beginning this large project, I discovered that at least one site has beat me to it, completing a Greek-English Interlinear Septuagint (Vanderpool and Neimann)-- http://septuagint-interlinear-greek-bible.com-- a long-term goal of mine but now rendered moot by their efforts. Their interlinear of the LXX is a major accomplishment, along with Jay Green's Hebrew-English OT interlinear released in the 1970s. My efforts pale in comparison. So for now I will put the LXX OT and Byzantine Majority Text NT online, for the benefit of those who want to see what the ancient Greek Bible looked like. Perhaps readers will find my site unique in that most other LXX sites do not seem to include the "Apocrypha" [known to Catholics as the "Deuterocanonicals" and to the Orthodox as the "Anaginoskomena"]; you can find all those books here. I also include both versions of the Greek book of Daniel -- Theodotion's and the 'Old Greek' version.

So now, after decades of having access only to New Testament Greek interlinears, the Christian community has the entire OT, in interlinear form, in both the original Hebrew and the LXX Greek version. Soon we will also have the complete Syriac (Aramaic) Peshitta NT in interlinear form, courtesy of Paul Younan of the now-defunct "www.peshitta.org" but preserved and carried on by http://www.aramaicpeshitta.com (thanks for the update R.L!).

I wonder when a maverick within the Roman Catholic fold will give us an interlinear of the Latin Vulgate, so that we may have a complete and balanced contribution from the textual traditions of all three major historical branches of the Church (Greek, Syriac, Latin)? Looks like we may have a taker in Ron Conte, whose website, http://www.SacredBible.org , carries a project to revise and update the Catholic Douay-Rheims Version (the English translation of the Latin Vulgate) with a new translation of his own. Conte is translating from the Clementine Vulgate, using the Douay-Rheims version as a guide. His work is entitled the Catholic Public Domain Version [CPDV]. He has not yet produced a true interlinear, but does have the Latin alternating with the English, verse by verse, at least in part. We applaud his effort and hope he will consider doing a full Latin-English Interlinear eventually, if that is part of his plan.

Having mentioned the above, it seems only fair to mention that another translator/editor, by the name of Paul W. Esposito, has released an update of Brenton's English translation of the Greek Septuagint [LXX], which he is calling The Apostles' Bible, http://www.apostlesbible.com/ , not to be confused with the recently-released Apostolic Bible, which is the Interlinear LXX mentioned a few paragraphs above.

As a convert to the Greek Orthodox Church, I also have a keen interest in the Bible translations that have been coming out in recent years: First, the Orthodox Study Bible (OSB), which was released in its entirety in 2008; then The Orthodox New Testament (ONT), of which I wrote a critical review (see below) because its literalisms are so glaring. But as I write this in 2009, there have been two more exciting contributions: The Eastern Orthodox Bible (EOB), and the Holy Orthodox Bible (HOB) by Peter Papoutsis. [More on these once I've had the opportunity to study them.] While none of these is "official" in the sense of having been commissioned or blessed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, we welcome them as evidence of an awakening in America with regard to the need for good Orthodox translations of Scripture into the English language.

We are privileged beyond compare when we consider how much information is now freely available via the Internet. To me it is utter irony that there is a general ignorance of, apathy toward, and even certain vested interests against, the Word of God and its cultural and historical associations and influences.... not to mention its eternal power to transform human souls.