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Open Scriptorium

An open reading room for scripture and the voices that have read it.

Parallel translations of the Hebrew Bible, the Greek New Testament, the Septuagint, and the deuterocanon. The Babylonian Talmud with Rashi and Tosafot. Historical commentary from Philo, Josephus, Origen, and later patristic and post-patristic voices. All freely licensed, all cross‑referenced down to the verse.

The beginning

בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ׃

Genesis 1:1 (Westminster Leningrad Codex)


Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος.

John 1:1 (Nestle 1904)

In the corpus

Scripture in many traditions

Scripture in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, French, and German. The Masoretic text beside the Septuagint beside the Vulgate beside modern translations — every verse aligned to the same canonical reference so they can be read in parallel. Word-level alignment data, critical apparatus, and cross-scheme versification across traditions.

The Talmud and commentary

The Babylonian Talmud with Rashi and Tosafot — 37 tractates, 221,000 segments — addressed by the traditional daf system and structured for future Vilna-style page rendering. Historical commentary from Philo, Josephus, Origen, and the Ante-Nicene Fathers will follow, all in the same schema: anchored to canonical references, found by one indexed lookup, freely citable.

Scripture must be free

Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn…

— Deuteronomy 31:12 (JPS 1917)

…Write down the vision and make it plain on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.

— Habakkuk 2:2 (BSB)

…freely ye have received, freely give.

— Matthew 10:8 (KJV)

Every text in the corpus is under a license that meets the FSF definition of free software or the SIL Open Font License. Source code is available on sr.ht.