More than 130 bloggers will begin Sunday to contribute to a 3-month blog and Twitter tour for the new Common English Bible (http://CommonEnglishBible.com) translation. The “Common English Bible Thank You-Come Again-I Promise” tour extends from November through January, honoring National Bible Week (11/20-27), Thanksgiving (11/24), Advent (11/27-12/24), Christmas (12/25), and New Year’s celebration (1/1-30). The complete tour schedule, participation details, and list of bloggers with links to their blogs are available at CommonEnglishBible.com/CEB/blogtour (http://CommonEnglishBible.com/CEB/blogtour). New bloggers may continue to join throughout the tour.
Background information on the Common English Bible is available at http://CommonEnglishBible.com/CEB/newsroom. Badges that can be placed on blogs are available at http://j.mp/uvrxBL.
The CEB Twitter stream is @CommonEngBible (http://twitter.com/CommonEngBible). The tour Twitter hashtag is #CEBtour (http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23cebtour). Bloggers will be writing posts around the above seasonal events, including commenting on verses from the Common English Bible, reviewing the Bible translation itself, interviewing the translators or associate publisher behind the translation, or discussing the translation with their readers.
Known for being “built on common ground,” the Common English Bible is a collaboration of 120 academic scholars and editors, 77 reading group leaders, and more than 500 average readers from around the world who joined together to clearly translate the Bible’s original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek languages into 21st century English. More than half-a-million copies of the Bible are currently in print. It’s also available online and in 20 digital formats.
For a media review copy of the Common English Bible and to schedule an interview with Paul Franklyn, please contact Audra Jennings, ajennings@tbbmedia.com or Diane Morrow, dmorrow@tbbmedia.com, at 1.800.927.1517.