Credits and licences
Build: python3 build.py (everything) or python3 build.py --public-domain-only (drops the three non-commercially-licensed layers marked ★ below).
Texts shown in columns
| Column | Text | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hebrew · MT | Westminster Leningrad Codex | Public domain | github.com/scrollmapper/bible_databases |
| English of MT | JPS 1917 | Public domain | same; 13 missing verses filled from Mechon Mamre's JPS 1917 (JPS_FILL in build.py) |
| Greek · LXX | Brenton's Greek Septuagint (1851) | Public domain (ebible.org); LaTeX packaging CC0 | github.com/mrgreekgeek/Brenton-LXX-Latex-print-project |
| English of LXX | Updated Brenton English Septuagint | Public domain; updates CC0 (Adam Boyd) | ebible.org eng-Brenton_vpl.zip (put in sources/) |
| ★ Samaritan Pentateuch | A. Sigalov (Kennicott 1780, checked against von Gall 1918) | "Copyrighted; free non-commercial distribution" | github.com/scrollmapper/bible_databases (SP) |
| ★ English of SP | A. Sigalov, Samaritan Pentateuch in English (KJV-based) | same terms | CrossWire SPE.zip (put in sources/) |
| ★ Dead Sea Scrolls & Judean Desert MSS (incl. Ben Sira 2QSir and 11QPs^a; Tobit 4Q196–200; 1 Enoch 4Q201–212; Jubilees; Psalm 151 in 11QPs^a) | Transcriptions by Martin G. Abegg Jr., James E. Bowley, Edward M. Cook; Text-Fabric edition by the ETCBC (Jarod Jacobs, Martijn Naaijer, Dirk Roorda) | CC BY-NC 4.0 | github.com/ETCBC/dss |
| 1 Enoch, Jubilees (English) | R. H. Charles, 1917 translations | Public domain | github.com/scrollmapper/bible_databases_deuterocanonical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hebrew Ben Sira (optional) | Kahana edition, from Hebrew Wikisource via Sefaria | CC BY-SA (attribute Wikisource/Sefaria; derived files share-alike) | Sefaria download, put in sources/bensira/ |
| ◆ Masada Ben Sira scroll (optional) | Transcription by Eric Reymond, bensira.org (Rutgers) | No licence stated — personal use only; ask bensira.org before publishing | Masada_I–VII.pdf, put in sources/bensira/ |
◆ = left out of --public-domain-only builds; get permission before any public use.
Required attribution for ★ DSS (CC BY-NC 4.0): "Dead Sea Scrolls transcriptions © Martin G. Abegg Jr., James E. Bowley and Edward M. Cook; Text-Fabric edition by the ETCBC, CC BY-NC 4.0." Scroll sigla: compiled from the DJD numbering (Wikipedia "List of the Dead Sea Scrolls"); edition references from Abegg's readme. The Ben Sira scroll lines carry no verse numbers in the data; their placement against Brenton's verses (2Q18 = Sir 6:14-15, 20-32; 11QPs^a col. 21 l. 11 - col. 22 l. 1 = Sir 51:13-20, 30) was made for this app. The copies of Tobit, 1 Enoch, Jubilees and Psalm 151 likewise carry no verse numbers; dssmeta/nonbiblical.json gives each fragment's verse range (after the DJD editions and Milik 1976), and lines are spread over those verses by length, so placement is approximate within a fragment. Kahana's Hebrew Ben Sira (Hebrew-order numbering) was matched to Brenton's verses by content (dssmeta/kahana_brenton.json, computed for this app).
Word data (hover cards and concordance)
| Data | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hebrew lemmas, extended Strong's numbers, morphology, contextual glosses (TAHOT); also applied to Samaritan and scroll words by alignment with the MT | CC BY 4.0 — "Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge" | github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data |
| Hebrew brief lexicon (TBESH, abridged BDB) | CC BY 4.0, STEPBible.org | same |
| Greek brief lexicon (TBESG, Abbott-Smith/LSJ based) | CC BY 4.0, STEPBible.org | same |
| Greek form→lemma/parse table: Swete LXX with Morpheus analyses | CC BY-SA 4.0, QuantForge Software | github.com/QuantForgeSoftware/lxx |
STEPBible asks that people be referred to github.com/STEPBible for the data rather than redistributing it; the build downloads it from there. The derived Greek tags (data/tags, data/lex/grk.js, data/conc/g*.js) fall under CC BY-SA 4.0 because of the Swete morphology.
Supporting material
- Verse mappings: SIL
lxx.vrs(MIT, © SIL International) —versification/. - Fonts: Noto Sans Samaritan, Noto Sans Phoenician (SIL Open Font License 1.1) —
fonts/. - KJV (public domain in the US) is used only to check versification; not displayed.
- Alignment, variant comparison and viewer code: written for this project.
Notes: the JPS text renders the divine names "HaShem"/"G-d" (an edit of the electronic edition, not of JPS 1917). Greek parses are machine-assigned and can be wrong for ambiguous forms. MT–LXX alignment and the variant marking (DSS and SP against MT) are computed; check a critical edition before relying on them.