Biblical Audio

CURRENT AUDIO WORKS IN PROGRESS (as of 2023/09/08):

History of Judah (Josephus) (editing stage: all voices recorded, no editing yet started)
Judean War (Josephus) (editing stage: all voices recorded, now editing chapters 47+)
Jubilees (editing stage, all voices recorded, no editing yet started)
Sirach redo (manuscript revision stage: revision in progress)
Early Life of Moses (Josephus) (recording stage: some recording done)

Other Books to be possibly redone in the indefinite future, primarily to have higher more-professional sounding audio quality, but also to be based on a more accurate translation of the text:

Shepherd of Hermas
1 Ezra
2 Ezra
2 Baruch
3 Maccabees
Tobi
Esther
Judith
Didache
Chief Priests (more pronunciation fixes)
Daniel (misc. voices)

Other current projects:

Translation of all Old Testament Hebrew books
Retranslations of Sirach, Maccabees, Esther
Adding more textual variants to Wisdom of Solomon and Jubilees and other books
Manuscript for volume 2 of Christian History.

2023/09/08

Judean War (Joseph(us) composite)

Chapter 40~46 (of 106) finished and available to the public.
(Some minor audio level adjustments have been made for chapters 32~39)

Texts

Progress has continued to be made on various translations. I usually uploaded any updated corrections or anything else every few months.

2020/09/27

Judean War (Joseph(us) composite)

Chapter 32~39 (of 106) finished and available to the public.
(Some further audio level adjustments may be planned. Let me know if there are any places where music or sound effects are just too loud.)

Texts

Direct link to various texts that are in process of being translated. Most of these are finished, but are rough drafts. The New Testament documents have had the most work done of them, and all others will be brought up to that level of translational consistency. I may try to make a specific index in the future.
http://www.biblicalaudio.com/text/
NOTE: Despite the website's name, this project actually started as a personal translational project. While proof-reading the documents aloud, I was given the idea to record private audio books for myself and a few friends while doing so. From there, the project evolved into higher quality recordings and adding voices for every character.

2019/06/21
This is simply an update to inform that this project is not dead. I have been involved in much translational work in the last couple years and also the writing of Christian History books. Also, I had to change employment about two years ago which left me with much less freetime. I am transitioning back to audio books again, so more of Judean War will hopefully be ready for release within a month from now.

2018/04/30

Judean War (Joseph(us) composite)

Chapter 23~31 (of 106) finished and available to the public.

2018/04/22

Judean War (Joseph(us) composite)

Chapter 14~22 (of 106) finished and available to the public.
Some minor music editing done in a few places in Chapters 1~13

2018/02/28, etc.

Tobi, Esther, Chief Priests, Ascension of Moses

Reduced the bass of several lines in each of these productions (which was very noticeable on a newer speaker system having more bass). These are somewhat temporary fixes, as there is the intent to redo some of these earlier books after some other projects are completed.

2 Maccabees

Fixed some minor editing errors, where the music transitions accidentally became offset in some places.

Enoch

Fixed a minor SFX error in chapter 40~44

2017/09/06

Judean War (Joseph(us) composite)

Chapter 1~13 (of 106) finished and available to the public.

2016/09/14

Aristeas

Fixed pronunciation of 'Phoinike' (which involved re-recording the King's letter in chapter 2)

2016/08/25

Papias

Deleted the end of Excerpt/Fragment 12, which are words of the commentator who was quoting Papias, but not part of the quote of Papias.

2016/08/08

Aristeas

Fixed pronunciation of 'Philokrates'

Chief Priests of Judah

Fixed many incorrect pronunciations of proper names.
(There are still more to fix. The ones that are still not fixed are ones which appear in both narration and spoken by other actors. These will not be fixed in the narration until they can be fixed in every voice actor, in order to prevent inconsistencies within the book as a whole.)

2016/07/31

Daniel

Replaced the voice of the messenger in Chapter 14 with higher quality performance.
Several other very minor fixes between chapters 7~12.

2016/01/??

Enoch (redo)

Chapter 83~91 finished and available to the public. (Entire book is now finished.)
Chapter 72 re-recorded, due to poor audio quality/performance.

2016/01/16

1 Maccabees

Fixed the audio level of an ambience track in Chapter 4, which was accidentally way too loud.

2016/01/12

Enoch (redo)

Chapter 17~36 finished and available to the public.

2016/01/05

Enoch (redo)

Chapter 1~16 finished and available to the public.
Chapter 71 - minor fix of some audio levels/spacing

2016/01/04

Enoch (redo)

Chapter 37~71 finished and available to the public.
(Note: Noah voice in chapters 69~71 is not new, and therefore retains the incorrect transliteration of 'angel' instead of being correctly translated to 'messenger')

2015/12/18

Enoch (redo)

Chapter 92~108 finished and available to the public.

2015/12/11

1 Maccabees

Re-recorded one of Jonathan's lines in Chapter 9, due to poor audio quality.

2015/12/10

Enoch (redo)

Chapter 72~82 finished and available to the public.

2015/12/03

Passage of Fursei

Slight fix with a single heavenly-messenger line in Chapter 3, using an alternate take instead.

2015/11/30

Passage of Fursei

Audio book finished and available to the public.

2015/11/21

Suffering of Perpetua

Replaced several dialogue lines (Overseers, Heavenly-Messengers) with much better quality audio/actors.

2015/10/31

Letter of Barnabas

Re-recorded and reedited the entire audio book with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation.

2015/10/23

1 Maccabees

Audio book finished and available to the public.

2015/09/14

2 Maccabees

Some very minor fixes.

Testimony/Martyrdom of Polykarpos

Replaced four dialogue lines (Herodes, Crowd, Generic Man) with much better quality audio/actors.

2015/08/03

Ascension of Moses

Audio book finished and available to the public.

2015/07/11

Traditions of the Elders Fragments

Re-recorded and reedited all of the narration with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation.

2015/07/07

Papias Fragments

Re-recorded and reedited all of the narration/Papias with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation.

2015/07/04

Testimony (Martyrdom) of Polykarpos

Re-recorded and reedited all of the narration with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation. (Several more misc. voices may be re-recorded and replaced in the near future.)
More sound effects were added, and some of the music is edited differently due to the audio book length now being noticeably longer.

2015/06/29

Ignatios Letters and Testimony (Martyrdom)

Re-recorded and reedited all of this material (except for the voice of Trajanus in the testimony) with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation.
More sound effects were added, and some of the music is changed/edited differently in the Testimony of Ignatios.

Polykarpos to the Philippians

Re-edited the audio to give more pauses between sentences and paragraphs.

Letter of Jeremiah

Re-recorded the short intro narration with a higher quality audio recording.

2015/06/15

Testimony (Martyrdom) of Isaiah & Suffering of Perpetua

Some minor adjustments to audio volumes in a few places.

Clemens to the Korinthians

Fixed the title, so that "Clemens" was pronounced correctly.

2015/06/13

Daniel

Re-recorded and reedited the Narration and Susanna's voice with much higher quality audio recording and reading. (There are still some misc. characters which might be re-recorded at some point, but not any time soon.)

2015/06/11

Testimony (Martyrdom) of Isaiah

Re-recorded and reedited almost the entire audio book (except for the voice of Belchira) with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation.

Suffering of Perpetua

Re-recorded and reedited almost the entire audio book (except for some characters who only have a few lines) with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation.

2015/06/01

Wisdom of Solomon

Re-recorded and reedited the entire audio book with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation.

Letter of Aristeas to Philokrates

Some minor adjustments to audio volumes in a few places.

2015/05/26

Letter of Aristeas to Philokrates

Audio book finished and available to the public.

2015/05/24

Chief Priests of Judah

Re-recorded all of Sanballat's lines (mainly to make the 'Darius' pronunciation consistent with the rest of the book)

2015/05/18

2 Maccabees

Fixed two typos in the audio and text versions, which originally read "fearful" instead of the correct "fearsome"

2015/05/15

Clemens to the Korinthians

Re-recorded and reedited the entire audio book with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation.

2015/04/25

1 Baruch

Re-recorded and redited the Narrator and Baruch's lines with much higher quality audio recording and reading, and using my updated translation. (NOTE: The recording of the 'Prayer of the Exiles' section is the same, with some slight editing to put more pauses between some sentences and paragraphs.)

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