This website was started as one of many "spare time" (ha!) projects, and is currently maintained and updated when I have a few spare hours and the inclination to work on it. The idea for this site came after being involved for several years in the study of Bible versions, history and translation - with a large amount of investigation into, and subsequently opposition to, KJV-onlyism.
During my early research into KJV-onlyism, the names of B.F. Westcott and F.J.A. Hort came up very often, because of their work on the Greek New Testament of 1881 and their extensive work in the area of textual criticism. The very first book I read on the subject contained entire chapters dealing with "exposing" Westcott and Hort as heretics and occultists. I tried to locate some of Westcott's and Hort's books so I could verify the claims for myself, but I quickly discovered the books are quite rare and hard to come by (several reprints have been recently made available, check out the Bookstore for a list). All I could find out about Westcott and Hort, and their books, was what other KJV-only authors repeated.
Eventually, in a little Christian bookstore, I came across a reprint of "Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek" and purchased it. For the most part, it was cumbersome, dry reading - but it showed me that Westcott and Hort had a passion for scripture and that the claims I had previously read about them were misleading. I began to search in earnest for more of their books.
A few years later, after collecting and reading several more of their books, I discovered that trying to verify the claims of KJV-onlyists had in fact provided me a veritable treasure of Christian literature. Not only did the books help in the area of investigating KJV-onlyism, but the books were fantastic on their own merit, apart from the Bible version controversy. I was gradually amassing a valuable collection, and thought it would be a great idea to share it - to make the hard-to-find books available in general, to help others in their investigation/refutation of KJV-onlyism, and to help preserve the books in electronic form. Each book is worth reading and packed with wonderful orthodox Christian commentary and information, and I think making them all available to the public (as the texts are now public domain) would be a worthwhile effort.
In the fall of 2003, I began scanning my books into the computer, running the images through OCR software, and then converting the text into webpages and other readable formats. It is a relatively slow, tedious process, but it's coming. To date (Feb '04) I have collected almost 30 of their books, only two of which are reprints - the rest are the original, late 19th century / early 20th century publications. Please visit the Bookshelf to see my collection, request scans, and help me find the ones I'm still looking for - with your help, we can make this site more complete.
The texts on this website are public domain (unless indicated otherwise), but the graphics are not. If you use anything from this site, please mention this site.
