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Here is a comprehensive reading and study tool for the Bible, emphasizing the variety of traditions in the biblical text, and the depth and breadth of its interpretations throughout centuries, persuasions, and disciplines,

Our digital scroll gives you access to the best results of our research in an innovative interface, which takes you on a journey in a few clicks from the antique scroll to the contemporary database, passing through the medieval glossa.

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Rouleau Bible en ses Traditions

An analytical annotation divided into three large areas

The result of the patient and ongoing work of numerous teams of scholars, here is the Bible for the first time translated in the polyphony of its main versions, accompanied by a complete annotation which draws from the latest biblical research on :

  1. the TEXT itself,
  2. on its CONTEXT,
  3. on the history of its RECEPTION through the centuries, in the various religious and cultural traditions it inspires.

 

    READ

    From Genesis to Revelation, scroll through Scripture right and left — horizontally — just as in an antique biblical manuscript.
    Discover the many voices of Scripture as in a musical score:

    • Hebrew (“massoretic”) : M
    • Greek: G
    • Latin (“Vulgate”) : V
    • Syriac: S.

    For the first time ever, you can read the Bible online as a unique symphony combining the voices which transmitted the Word of God. This English « Polyglot » results from the encounter of biblical scholarship and IT genius: our colleague Gad Barnea has devised an AI robot (“Jerome”!), which could combine the following copyright-free existing translations of the traditional versions.

    (The bases for this preliminary work are: for M : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917 — for Sam: Aleksandr Sigalov, 2012 — for G: L.C.L. Brenton, 1851 — for V: R.L. Conte Jr, 2009 — for S : G. Lamsa, 1933 — for TR: the King James Version — for Nes: (actually Westcott-Hort & Tregelles) ASV, 1901 — for Byz: P.W. Esposito, 2013).

    Besides, you access a new translation and a complete annotation of two sample text: Psalm 1; James 5:13–18
    and one full book: Jonah.

    We allow free access to new translations of these versions as our project progresses.

    STUDY
    with notes

    Turn the “antique” scroll into a “medieval” glossa, and display the notes. Our free edition offers:

    • our English polyglot
    • first introductions to the books of the New Testament
    • countless notes on biblical intertextuality allowing you to understand how the texts fit together in the Bible’s shimmering kaleidoscope.
    • notes with multimedia content in history and geography, archaeology, art history, music, a.s.o.
    • a set of synthetic notes (i.e. short essays) on major biblical themes or facts.

    To all scroll readers who support the research program with a donation, we give access to the entire ongoing work of our collaborators.

    • No less than 26 annotation sections are available for consultation
    • Numerous additional synthetic notes
    • A search engine in the Bible: on a word, an expression or a biblical reference, find all the results in the text and in the notes.

    Customize !
    From among 26 rubrics of notes, choose those which you would like to display or hide

    PARTICIPATE
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    As you read, send your corrections, suggestions and comments.

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    Starting at $14 per year you become a benefactor member of the international non-profit association “The Bible in its Traditions”, and have access for one year, in real time,to all the works in progress of our biblical cathedral:
    hundreds of translations still unpublished, annotations and multimedia content being developed by our teams.