Though I still have a job doing something I don’t want to do, I now have a little more spare time than I did the last few years. Also, I moved to the state of Florida. I am currently working on 3 projects at once:
1.) Revising and updating my translation of the Apocalypse of John, or the Book of Revelation. My original edition I did about 15 years ago, and it still refers to the UBS4 and NA27. I am updating the GNT editions cited to include the SBL and Tyndale House editions, and of course UBS5 and NA28, as well as the BG, family 35 and Antoniades here and there. In addition, I am eliminating the accentuation of the Greek in the textual variant footnotes, since the direction of the accents would be technically incorrect when outside of the sentence and punctuation of the actual Bible text, and the early manuscripts did not contain them. This is what the Nestle-Aland editions do in their footnotes. This is all in preparation for publishing on Amazon.
2. Revising and updating my translation of the gospel of Matthew, since, again, my original was done 20 years ago or more, and I have learned much since then, and also become less closed to the Byzantine text stream. Like with Revelation, I am adding citation to the SBL and TH editions, but also adding many more textual variants in comparison to the Robinson-Pierpont text, as I am simultaneously creating a Robinson-Pierpont (RP) edition. This is all in preparation for publishing on Amazon.
I am making audio files of my translations. Here are links to a page where it will read out loud for you my translation of Acts and of Revelation. Click the link, and when on the page, click the play button. This is good for if you are sick in bed, or driving, etc. After it finishes reading with a premium voice, you can switch to a free voice, and also control the speed.
My translations are now being published in print form, book by book. You will still be able to freely download PDFs of them from this site, and copy and paste from them, and quote them.
Thus far, nine books are available in print on Amazon. My books are under the name David Robert Palmer, this link is my profile page showing all my publications on Amazon.
NEW and LATEST: The Apocalypse of John (the Book of Revelation) • large size- 8.25 x 11 inches • 12 point font size • 168 pages • 518 footnotes • 82 endnotes • 3 tables
I have published the gospel according to Matthew. Alternates verse by verse between the Robinson-Pierpont Majority Greek text and English translation. 671 footnotes, 226 pages. Paperback. $6.89, this is basically my cost.
Update March 3, 2023- I have published the gospel of Matthew. Alternates verse by verse between eclectic Greek text and English translation. 671 footnotes, 228 pages. Paperback. $6.99, this is basically my cost.
NEW November 2022: The Gospel of Mark, alternating verse by verse between the Robinson-Pierpont text and my English translation. 157 pages.
NEW November 2022: The Gospel of Mark, alternating verse by verse between an eclectic Greek text and my English translation. 151 pages.
June 2022: The Gospel of Luke, alternating verse by verse between an eclectic Greek text and my English translation. 167 pages. Also in Kindle edition.
June 2022: The Gospel according to Luke, alternating verse by verse between the Robinson-Pierpont Greek text and my English translation. 176 pages. Also in Kindle edition,
June 2022: The Gospel of John, alternating verse by verse with my English translation. 164 pages. Also Kindle edition.
June 27, 2022: The General Epistles, English Bible verses translated from and alternating with the Robinson-Pierpont Greek text of all the General Epistles, also known as the Catholic Epistles. This includes James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Jude.
A couple years ago my father, Tom Palmer, retired after a dedication ceremony of the latest revision of the Hamtai New Testament he did with a Hamtai man named Malcolm Parks. The dedication ceremony made the national news TV program:
I have completed and uploaded editions of the Revelation of John based on the Robinson-Pierpont Greek text, and also another one based on the Textus Receptus. In addition, my previous eclectic edition of Revelation has added to it many more footnotes. There are now 508 footnotes in these editions, showing the textual variants, and the ancient witness support for each.
Here you can download the Textus Receptus edition of the Apocalypse of John or the Robinson-Pierpont edition of the Apocalypse of John
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Mark Twain was asked if he had any problem understanding the Bible. He answered, “It’s not the parts I don’t understand I have a problem with. It’s the parts I do understand.”
Announcing a new Greek-English diglot of 2nd Epistle of Peter, with TC footnotes citing 9 Greek editions: TR, Tregelles, Westcott-Hort, Antoniades, VonSoden, Robinson-Pierpont, Byzantine Greek New Testament (f35), SBL, and NA28/ECM2. And citing Greek MSS P72 P74 01 A B C K L P 044 048 049 0142 0156 0209 0247 5 33 307 623 665 1175 1241 1243 1448 1735 1739 1852 2298 2423 2464 2805.
TR edition cited is Stephens 1550, except in 3:7, where Stephens, Beza, Elzevir, Erasmus, and Scrivener are split.
