FOS(OA) Biblical Textbooks

A couple of visitors stopped by recently looking at the post from aeons ago wherein I mooted the possibility of a free Open Source/Open Access Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible/New Testament/Non-Canonical Texts. I posted that back in 2012, when such things were unfamiliar to many potential contributors and readers; nowadays, especially with a generation of younger scholars with recent experience on the consumer side of the cost of textbooks, institutional Open Access programmes have made such publications look less outré.
With retirement on the horizon, I’m thinking of revisiting the possibility. With the advent of AI-slop publications, a great deal rides on name recognition and publishers’ brand assurance; it would be helpful to engage, if possible, some press or another to offer an ink-and-paper version of such a thing. At the same time, though, part of the basic of producing a modular introduction lies in the possibility of avoiding AKMA’s chapter on James if there’s a more agreeable alternative (say, by Margaret Aymer Oget) available within the same format.
The passage of time has shown that some of my initial proposals didn’t last. That’s par for the course, and I’m not embarrassed to have been unduly impressed by Apple’s iBook authoring app. (I’m still waiting for a convincingly clear, useable book and page production app, but once I retire I may just have to bite the bullet and learn one of the ‘This is the cold, hard, world and this is how we do it’ apps. But if anyone else is interested in coordinating efforts, it still looks to me like a project worth doing — with an appreciative dedication to Tim Bulkeley.