Sources
The instruments are built entirely from public texts and open datasets. Nothing here belongs to someone else in a way that forbids its use, and nothing was scraped off anybody's site. This page exists so that any result can be traced back to what produced it.
Biblical text
| Text | Edition | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Statenvertaling | Extended export, with the original marginal notes and Strong's numbers on every word | Reading text; the quotation and thematic analyses |
| King James Version | Public domain | Reading text; the thematic analysis, jointly with the Dutch |
| Berean Standard Bible | Public domain | Reading text |
| Reina-Valera | 1909, public domain | Reading text |
| Versión Biblia Libre | 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0 — Jonathan Gallagher and Shelly Barrios de Avila, with Gustavo Sanabria and Rebekah Põldaas; translated from the Hebrew and the Greek | Reading text |
| Hebrew Bible | Westminster Leningrad Codex, with the Open Scriptures morphology (OSHB 2.0.2, CC BY 4.0); the codex itself is in the public domain | Lemmas, Strong's numbers, full morphology, the reading marks (maqaf, sof pasuq, paseq) and the paragraph marks (pe, samekh, reversed nun) |
| Greek New Testament | SBLGNT with the MorphGNT parsing | Lemmas, full morphology |
| Septuagint | Swete, 1909–1930 | The Septuagint bridge; the Greek form of Old Testament verses |
Datasets
| Dataset | Source | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-references | openbible.info — about 700,000 directed verse pairs with vote scores | CC-BY |
| Proper names and places | TIPNR, Tyndale House — biblical proper names with the geo-positions from openbible.info | CC-BY |
| Map base | Natural Earth — coastlines, lakes and rivers, cropped to the biblical world and simplified to a few hundred kilobytes | Public domain |
| Lexicons | Strong's Hebrew and Greek dictionaries, including the etymological links that tie Δαυίδ and דָּוִד into one entry | Public domain |
| The meaning under the word | The short English glosses under the source text come from STEPBible (TBESH and TBESG, Tyndale House Cambridge); the Dutch and the Spanish are my translation of them, and the English original stays in the word panel | CC BY 4.0 |
| Moon photograph | "Full Moon Moon Png Clipart" by Andrea Stöckel, via publicdomainpictures.net — cropped to the disc and reduced to 384 pixels; the shadow over it is computed, not supplied | CC0, public domain |
| Crucifixion week | The shape of the strip and the argument follow the teaching Was the Last Supper a Passover Meal? by 119 Ministries. Every date, weekday, sunset and candidate year is computed here from this site's own calendar | Used for the layout and the argument only; the reckoning is our own |
| Torah portions | The division of the Torah into 54 portions as Sefaria records it in the alt structure of its book indexes; converted here to the numbering of the translations on this site and checked against Moria's own chapter and verse counts | CC-BY |
| Haftarot | hebcal's leyning tables (@hebcal/leyning), with the Ashkenazi and the Sephardi custom kept apart; likewise converted to the numbering of the translations shown here | GPL-2.0, used as data only |
| Menorah | The relief on the Arch of Titus in Rome, put up shortly after 81 CE, by way of Wikimedia Commons: Menora_Titus.png. Reduced here to one colour and set on a transparent ground; the flames are computed, not supplied | The relief itself is in the public domain; for this rendering see the file page |
| The years | The regnal years follow the common scholarship: Josephus (Antiquities and The Jewish War) for the Herodians and the high priests, Roman sources for Augustus and Tiberius, the inscription found at Caesarea in 1961 for Pilate, and the coin series of Antipas and Philip for their length. Where the sources contradict each other it says so at the band itself, and the band is hatched; death years resting only on later tradition are not drawn | Ancient sources, public domain; the compilation is our own work |
Algorithms
The calendar is Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd edition (Willmann-Bell, 1998) — chapter 7 for the Julian Day and the weekday, chapter 10 for Dynamical Time, chapter 12 for sidereal time, chapter 15 for sunset, chapter 22 for the obliquity of the ecliptic, chapter 25 for the position of the sun, chapter 27 for the equinoxes and solstices, chapter 47 for the position of the moon, chapter 48 for the illuminated fraction of its disc, and chapter 49 for the phases of the moon. ΔT follows the polynomial expressions of Espenak and Meeus in NASA’s Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses, which extend chapter 10 back to 500 BCE.
Those results were checked twice over: against the worked examples printed in the book, and against an independent ephemeris built on different theories altogether. Moon phases agree within seconds for recent centuries and within a minute at 501 BCE; equinoxes and solstices within about forty-five seconds across the whole span; sunset at Jerusalem within three seconds, in 2026 and in 501 BCE alike.
The analyses inside Moria use tf-idf weighting, truncated singular value decomposition for the 300-dimensional semantic space, log-likelihood (G²) for distinctive vocabulary, pointwise mutual information for collocations, and dynamic time warping for the Septuagint alignment.
On licences. The instruments are given freely, but the corpora and datasets keep their own terms — the CC-BY sets above require attribution wherever their data is reused. If you build on any of this, attribute the sources, not just the tools.