Global Biblical Hebrew implemted in pilot project at PAC University in Nairobi
By June 2026 we have reached an important milestone. We can now evaluate the strenghts and weaknesses in our IMPACT at PAC – to what extent this is indeed guaranteed. This will allow us to improve on the Training-The-Trainers concept for the future.
We now know that the project depends entirely on a supportive local administration marketing the courses, understanding the potential and and providing vital local logistic support.
The TTT operation requires a local staff driving any future development in terms of integrating Global Biblical Hebrew ressources into courses, currriculum, innovative learning processses as well as online learning support.
The story of the succes at PAC has a good handful of first-runners as heroes. It is vital that they are given the opportunity to learn and lead their education and prioritize to the extent that they commit to the project. They should be fully nurtured by the local institutions and partners.
The Online Professor has taught Hebrew for 50 years in 2026 and wants to pursue his vision and mission for BibleOL
The Online Professor since 2024 has not had a staff emloyment and position, but only a paid project as an editor for parts of the Danish Free Bible for a few hours a week.
This has made is possible to carry out pilot projects in Ethiopia and Kenya.
All future operations will depend on donations from former and current students, friends and family, as well as the larger Christian community in Denmark.
Collaboration with Wycliffe Denmark can become a window of opportuniy for this mission. A local consultant in training sent from Denmark is using the material. Also in 2023 we served Wycliffe Ethiopa and translation advisors have shown interest in our Hebrew courses over the past years.
The new results from Kenya indicates that Bible translation consultants can use our material with great results.
BibleOL was handed over to the Nida Institue for Biblical Scholarship in 2023. The steering committee under Director Reinier de Blois is the director for the Nida partnership.
The BibleOL project has a great potential and raising interest and involvement. Resources for New Testament Greek are being explored and developed by Oliver Glanz and his team at Andrews University. We now have highly quaified programmers like Timothy McCormick and Lars Gunnarsson under the supervision of Ernst Boogert working for the project.
Claus Tøndering, Willem van Peursen and I still continue to work on this revolutionary learning tool and support it any way we can.
BibleOL is a non-commercial, open-source application. For this reason it inevitably relies on people working without payment, but it will need further funding for scale-up. We seek funding for maintenance, development and dissimination.