"Olympia" translated: Accessible to a wider audience.
The book "Olympia" was originally written in "Neder-Duits", a language form that is not always easy to understand. Especially for people outside the Dutch language area, the work is almost inaccessible. To change this, I translated "Olympia" into modern Dutch.
For this project I used a Word file with the original text of "Olympia", carefully composed by Philippe De Witte. I entered this text into Gemini 2.5 Pro, with the following requirements:
Assignment: Translate the entire text literally into modern Dutch.
Instructions:
Full Translation: Translate the entire text, including all Greek, Hebrew and Latin words, into modern Dutch.
Names and Places: Preserve the original Greek, Hebrew or Latin names of persons and places.
Spirit and Structure: Preserve the original spirit, text structure and page structure of the document.
Page Numbers: All page numbers must be retained.
Paragraph indication: Make the paragraph indications (§ + number) bold.
Bookmarks:
Integration: Move the information from the bookmarks at the bottom of the pages to the corresponding bookmarks in the running text.
Formatting:
Place the integrated bookmarks in brackets.
Make the text of the bookmarks italic.
Remove the indications "Book no.", "chapter no.", and "§ no.".
Removal: Remove the original bookmarks at the bottom of the pages.
Result: The final translation contains only modern Dutch text, while retaining the original formatting of names, page numbers, and the adjusted structure for bookmarks and paragraph indications.
You can find the Dutch translation here
Next step: The next step is to translate "Olympia" from Dutch into English.
The English translation was made using Gemini 2.5 PRO.
I entered the modern Dutch text into Gemini 2.5 Pro, with the following requirements:
Translate the following modern Dutch text into clear, standard English.
Maintain the original page numbers, but format them as 'p. [number]'.
The translation should not contain any bold text.
29-08-2025 > The draft translation 2.5 is now available in English for the following chapters:
Titlepage completed
Approval completed
Assignment completed
Foreword completed
Book 1: Chapter 1 - 9 completed
Book 2: Chapter 1 - 14 completed
Book 3: Chapter 1 - 4
Bookmark the scripture passages: completed
Hebrew and Greek Word Bookmark: completed
Bookmark the essentials: completed
You can find the English version here
The rest will follow as soon as possible.
The adventure has begun to make "Olympia" available worldwide!