SOURCES & RESOURCES

Serves the app's 172 verified complete Bibles in 124 languages.

The English Standard Version, used by permission. ESV® © 2001 by Crossway.

The 344,753 reader-voted cross-references behind the Woven Word and Connected Bible (CC-BY).

Verified Quran text (Pickthall translation) used for word-for-word quote checking.

The source of the original-language study tool (CC BY 4.0): the tagged Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT), the brief lexicons (TBESG, from Abbott-Smith; TBESH, from BDB), and the full Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek lexicon (TFLSJ). Word glosses, transliterations, Strong's numbers, morphology codes, manuscript-variant markers, frequency counts, and the word-study concordance are all derived from this dataset.

The plain-English parsing decodes the standard morphology systems in the STEPBible data — Robinson's codes for Greek and the OSHB/ETCBC scheme for Hebrew — into readable labels. The underlying codes are STEPBible's; the decoder only translates them.

LDS canon (D&C, Pearl of Great Price), the King Follett sermon as published in the Ensign, and the Gospel Topics essays.

The Watch Tower Society's own publications, quoted verbatim.

The Sahih hadith collections — every excerpt verified word-for-word.

Classical commentary cited in the Quran exhibit.

Arius's letters (Urkunden) in scholarly translation.

Athanasius, Alexander of Alexandria, Ignatius of Antioch, the Nicene documents.

The Babylonian Talmud (uncensored manuscripts), incl. Sanhedrin 43a.

Pliny, Mara bar Serapion, the Testimonium survey, and more.

Josephus (Whiston) and Suetonius (Loeb) in checkable editions.

Tacitus, Annals — verified against the Church & Brodribb translation.

The 1-in-10¹⁷ probability chapter, maintained by Stoner's family.

The Unitarian movement's own pages, quoted as made.

The Pilate Stone, the Caiaphas ossuary, and the Yehohanan crucifixion evidence.

The 2009 first-century Nazareth excavation.

Papyrus P52 — the earliest fragment of John's Gospel.

The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts — digitizing the manuscript tradition.

Crucifixion-burial scholarship and field reporting.

Verse explanations linked throughout the Bible reader, and the prophecies overview.

Manuscripts and textual reliability; Can I Trust the Bible?

Apologetics & evidence for the faith.

Law-and-grace evangelism — the method behind the Gospel guides.

Documentation of Joseph Smith's prophecies, cross-checked against LDS sources.

The 100-prophecies chart used to curate the Prophecy Loom.

The sole data source for the chronology exhibit — every patriarch's age and lifespan, and the Table of Nations. Verified word-for-word against api.bible (WEB & KJV).

Archbishop James Ussher's reckoning of the genealogies to a creation date of ~4004 BC — the method, not a claim, used to total the years.

The oldest recorded reconciliation of Matthew's and Luke's genealogies of Jesus (early 3rd c.) — Joseph as son of Jacob by nature and of Heli by law. Used in The Scarlet Thread, labeled as perspective.

A fair modern summary of the main explanations for why Matthew 1 and Luke 3 differ. Used in The Scarlet Thread, labeled as perspective.

The young-earth perspective in the exhibit's "two views" panel. Notably also publishes "Arguments Christians Shouldn't Use" — a credibility standard we share.

The balanced framing that the age of the earth is not a salvation issue and that faithful Christians hold both young- and old-earth views.

Scholarship on the Masoretic vs. Septuagint genealogy figures — the source for the exhibit's honest manuscript-range toggle.

The primary source for the whole exhibit — the account, the Ark's dimensions, and the day-by-day chronology of the Flood. Every date and measure verified word-for-word against the text.

The young-earth creationist case for a global Flood, the Ark's feasibility, and the geologic evidence presented in the exhibit's "evidence in the rocks" panel.

Flood geology — continent-spanning sediment, marine fossils on mountains, and rapid burial — as a creationist reading of the rock record.

A plain summary of the biblical and textual case that the Genesis Flood was worldwide, not local.

A neutral reference for the worldwide flood traditions mapped in the exhibit — from Mesopotamia and Greece to the Americas, India, and the Pacific.

The overview behind the globe's claim, and the source of the shared-motif figures (≈95% a global deluge, 88% a family saved, 70% a vessel, about a third send out birds).

Flood traditions catalogued across the continents with their common themes — our source for the Greece, India, China, Pacific, Australian and African accounts on the globe.

The North-, Meso- and South-American traditions (Ojibwe, Hopi, Aztec, Maya, Inca) behind the New-World points on the globe.

The Mesopotamian parallels — Utnapishtim, the sealed boat, the birds sent out — and why a shared event, not borrowing, best explains them.