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.
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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 Version. This 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
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