Today, PlanetPreterist.com, a leading website in the field of Christian Eschatology launched The Open Bible Project, an online collaborative project aimed at developing the very first Covenant Eschatology study Bible. Using the latest online collaborative technology and the same powerful software that is behind the popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia, the Open Bible Project will attempt to deliver the first study Bible created by Christians, for Christians from a Preterist perspective.

While its main focus will be Covenant Eschatology, the online collaboration will also be an interesting experiment in online interaction and development of "open-source theology" where each person interested and willing to participate can add and edit notes, and improve on the content created and edited by others.

"This project has been dormant for a while, but now we have some resources to move forward and get something tangible accomplished" said Virgil Vaduva, founder of PlanetPreterist.com. "It is by far the largest project we are undertaking so far, and it will consequently require a herculean effort to finish. We feel that just as the Scofield Reference Bible pushed Dispensationalism into mainstream, Preterism can also gain popularity from this project. Our goal is ultimately to create a Preterist study Bible and use it to reach as many believers as possible with the good news about God's living presence in our lives and the reality of Christ's Kingdom," said Vaduva.

The project will be "open" in the sense that everyone will be able to add notes, comments and footnotes using the online tools available at the project's website. Under the tutelage of the General Editor Samuel Frost, noted author and scholar, the project will be built on an already existing baseline of study-notes provided by the public domain Geneva Bible. "The Geneva Bible is wonderful," said Frost, "it is the Bible I use regularly, and it will provide us with a great head-start and a quality foundation on which to build."

The Open Bible Project will use the World English Bible (WEB) translation as its foundation for the English text of the Bible, and will aim eventually to replicate the success of the project in other languages, using other translations as they become available.

The final result of the project will expectantly be a quality print study Bible that will be available to the general public through one or more of the large Christian publishing houses in the U.S. and eventually the world. While still copyrighted, the content of the project will be available under the Creative Commons License, which allows the reproduction and distribution of content under non-commercial terms. More details can be found at http://openbibleproject.org.