Deeply enamored of the Egyptian Great Book, the Phoenicians translated several copies of it into their own 22-letter alphabet, from which our own English alphabet is derived. One copy made it to Britain, where it was warmly received by the Celtic priests there because many of its stories reminded them of their own Druid folklore.

Sadly, the Phoenician civilization was later smashed by the Roman Empire, and little is left their history, and a similar fate almost befell the Great Book. Much of the original Phoenician translations were destroyed during the 1184 arson fire at the Glastonbury Abbey, and what remained was combined with a collection of ancient Celtic texts called the Coelbook. The texts were later translated into English and collectively published as The Kolbrin.

Your Own World Books, the new publisher of this work chose to re-title it as The Kolbrin Bible: 21st Century Master Edition to honor the Phoenicians and their home port of Byblos. Without them, the wonderful historical accounts of this 3600-year old work would have been forever lost in time.