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The Hypertext Bible

 



The Bible is considered a sacred text by three major world religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Many devout believers consider it to be the literal truth. Others treat it with great respect, but believe that it was written by human beings and, as such is a complex, often contradictory document.

Modern scholars believe that the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, was composed by four or five writers between 1000 to 400 BCE based on much older traditions. The New Testament was composed by a variety of writers between 60 to 110 CE. The contents of the New Testament were formalized by Athanasius of Alexandria in 367 CE, and finally canonized in 382 CE.

There are many disagreements about the order and composition of the Bible between various religions and sects, some of which are doctrinal in nature. The sequence of books in this hypertext should not be construed as endorsing any particular religion.

Important note: to view the Greek and Hebrew sections of this part of the site you must have Unicode support correctly set up in your browser. Special instructions about getting Hebrew Unicode running properly can be found here.

This page links together all of the Bible resources at sacred-texts. The table below has links to the following texts:

  •  King James Version (KJV), The English reference translation, a masterpiece of English literature.
  •  the Tanakh, (Tan). The Hebrew Bible.
  •  The Apocrypha, (Apo). A set of books left out of some Bibles.
  •  Vulgate, (Vul). The Latin Bible used for centuries by the Catholic Church.
  •  The Septuagint, (Sep), the first Ancient Greek translation of the Tanach.
  •  Greek New Testament, (GNT). The Gospels in the original ancient Greek.
  •  the Polyglot Bible, All the Biblical source texts in parallel with the KJV. The Polyglot King James Version is linked to the Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon entries.

 


Features

This is a list of books and other resources at sacred-texts related to the Bible, Apocrypha, and Biblical scholarship.

 Easton’s Bible Dictionary
 Bible Maps
 The Forgotten Books of Eden
edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. [1926]
A collection of OT apocrypha and pseudepigrapha.
 The Lost Books of the Bible
edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. [1926]
A collection of NT apocrypha and pseudepigrapha.
 The Chronicles of Jerahmeel
tr. by Moses Gaster [1899]
Biblical folklore, preserved from antiquity.
 The Biblical Antiquities of Philo
tr. by M. R. James [1917]
 The Book of Enoch
tr. by R.H. Charles [1917]
 The Book of Enoch the Prophet
tr. by Richard Laurence [1917]
 The Book of Jubilees
tr. by R.H. Charles [1917]
 The Legends of Genesis
by Hermann Gunkel [1901]
 The Jefferson Bible
by Thomas Jefferson [1902]
Thomas Jefferson remixes the Gospels.
 The Holy Scriptures
by the Jewish Publication Society [1917]
The ongoing project to create an open-source JPS etext lives here.
 The Complete Sayings of Jesus
by Arthur Hinds, int. by Norman Vincent Peale [1927]
Read everything Jesus says in the New Testament in one sitting.

 The Biography of the Bible
by Ernest Sutherland Bates [1937]
An introduction to the historical evolution of the Bible.

 Concordance of the King James VersionThis is an automatically generated cocordance of every word in the KJV, cross linked with the online KJV at this site.
 Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
 World Bible. Dozens of Bible translations.
 Bible Data Files, All of the data files used to build the Hypertext Bible in zip format. For experienced website and software developers.

The Hypertext Bible

Genesis KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Exodus KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Leviticus KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Numbers KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Deuteronomy KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Joshua KJV Tan Vul Poly
Judges KJV Tan Vul Poly
Ruth KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
1 Samuel KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
2 Samuel KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
1 Kings KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
2 Kings KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
1 Chronicles KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
2 Chronicles KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Ezra KJV Tan Vul Poly
Nehemiah KJV Tan Vul Poly
Esther KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Job KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Psalms KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Proverbs KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Ecclesiastes KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Song of Solomon KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Isaiah KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Jeremiah KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Lamentations KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Ezekiel KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Daniel KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Hosea KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Joel KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Amos KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Obadiah KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Jonah KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Micah KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Nahum KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Habakkuk KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Zephaniah KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Haggai KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Zechariah KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
Malachi KJV Sep Tan Vul Poly
1 Esdras Apo Sep Poly
2 Esdras Apo Sep Poly
Tobias Apo Vul Poly
Judith Apo Sep Vul Poly
Additions to Esther Apo Poly
Wisdom Apo Sep Vul Poly
Baruch Apo Sep Vul Poly
Epistle of Jeremiah Apo Sep Poly
Susanna Apo Sep Poly
Bel and the Dragon Apo Sep Poly
Prayer of Manasseh Apo Poly
1 Macabees Apo Sep Vul Poly
2 Macabees Apo Sep Vul Poly
3 Macabees Sep Poly
4 Macabees Sep Poly
Sirach Apo Sep Vul Poly
Prayer of Azariah Apo Poly
Laodiceans Apo Poly
Joshua B Sep Poly
Joshua A Sep Poly
Judges B Sep Poly
Judges A Sep Poly
Tobit BA Sep Poly
Tobit S Sep Poly
Psalms of Solomon Sep Poly
Bel and the Dragon Th Sep Poly
Daniel Th Sep Poly
Susanna Th Sep Poly
Odes Sep Poly
Matthew GNT KJV Vul Poly
Mark GNT KJV Vul Poly
Luke GNT KJV Vul Poly
John GNT KJV Vul Poly
Acts GNT KJV Vul Poly
Romans GNT KJV Vul Poly
1 Corinthians GNT KJV Vul Poly
2 Corinthians GNT KJV Vul Poly
Galatians GNT KJV Vul Poly
Ephesians GNT KJV Vul Poly
Philippians GNT KJV Vul Poly
Colossians GNT KJV Vul Poly
1 Thessalonians GNT KJV Vul Poly
2 Thessalonians GNT KJV Vul Poly
1 Timothy GNT KJV Vul Poly
2 Timothy GNT KJV Vul Poly
Titus GNT KJV Vul Poly
Philemon GNT KJV Vul Poly
Hebrews GNT KJV Vul Poly
James GNT KJV Vul Poly
1 Peter GNT KJV Vul Poly
2 Peter GNT KJV Vul Poly
1 John GNT KJV Vul Poly
2 John GNT KJV Vul Poly
3 John GNT KJV Vul Poly
Jude GNT KJV Vul Poly
Revelation GNT KJV Vul Poly