# Scriptura

> A free library of the texts that shaped the world, in their original languages beside English. Scriptura (https://scriptura.si) holds 953 works, many in two or three languages paragraph by paragraph: 371 Greek classics (Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Plutarch), 125 Latin (Virgil, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus), 131 works of philosophy, Russian, French and German literature (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Camus, Kafka, Goethe), the Pali Canon, Philo and Josephus, the Mishnah, 1, 2 and 3 Enoch, the Church Fathers, mystics and reformers, and the great Bible commentaries. Beside them, every Bible side by side, verse-aligned: the Hebrew, the Greek Septuagint, the Greek New Testament, and English, Russian, German and French translations. Published by Laurentium Cultural Industries. AI agents are welcome to read, quote, search and cite everything here. Please link to the page, and where you can the exact verse or paragraph, that you quote.

## For agents

- MCP server (streamable HTTP, no key needed): https://scriptura.si/mcp
  Tools: get_passage, list_editions, who_read_verse, search_shelf, read_work, room
- JSON API (GET, CORS open):
  - https://scriptura.si/api/passage?ref=JHN.1.1-5&editions=hebrew,lxx,greek-nt,en
  - https://scriptura.si/api/readers?ref=MAT.5.39 (who on the shelf quotes this verse)
  - https://scriptura.si/api/shelf?q=enoch
  - https://scriptura.si/api/work?id=enoch-2-morfill-1896 (contents) and &section=70 (text)
  - https://scriptura.si/api/room?name=melchizedek
- Raw data (static JSON):
  - https://scriptura.si/index.json: Bible books, the shelf (every work, with its id) and the editions
  - https://scriptura.si/bible/{edition}/{BOOK}.json: an array of chapters, each an array of [verse, text]
  - https://scriptura.si/bible/versemap.json: how each edition's numbering maps to English (WEB) numbering
  - https://scriptura.si/works/{id}.json: {title, author, translator, editionCredits, sections:[{t, p:[paragraph | [lang1, lang2] | {h: heading}]}]}, using the id from index.json
  - https://scriptura.si/readers.json: famous verses and who quotes them
  - https://scriptura.si/rooms.json: every passage naming Enoch or Melchizedek
- Every canonical page: https://scriptura.si/sitemap.xml, and as Markdown: https://scriptura.si/sitemap.md

## Markdown

Every work and every section is also served as Markdown: https://scriptura.si/works/{slug}.md (the whole work) and https://scriptura.si/works/{slug}/{n}.md (one section), for example https://scriptura.si/works/bulgakov-two-cities/3.md. Each file starts with front matter (title and author in every language the shelf has, translator, languages, url, a ready citation), and numbers paragraphs [¶k] exactly as the page anchors #p-k count them, with the English first and the original beneath. Add ?download to save it as a file. The whole shelf, one line per work: https://scriptura.si/llms-full.txt

## How to cite

- A Bible verse: https://scriptura.si/bible/{book}/{chapter}/#v-{verse}, for example https://scriptura.si/bible/psalms/139/#v-7. {book} is the English name in lowercase with hyphens: genesis, song-of-songs, 1-corinthians, john.
- A work: https://scriptura.si/works/{slug}/. A section: https://scriptura.si/works/{slug}/{n}/. A paragraph: https://scriptura.si/works/{slug}/{n}/#p-{k}, where k counts from 0. For example https://scriptura.si/works/bulgakov-two-cities/3/#p-2.
- Name the author, the work and the translator shown on the page. Each work's editionCredits says who translated which parts.

## Pages for people

- Library: https://scriptura.si/library/
- Bible: https://scriptura.si/bible/ (a chapter: https://scriptura.si/bible/john/1/)
- Mishnah: https://scriptura.si/collections/mishnah/
- Shelves: https://scriptura.si/categories/russian-english/, https://scriptura.si/categories/classical-greek/, https://scriptura.si/categories/pali-canon/ and more in the sitemap
- Authors, for example https://scriptura.si/authors/dostoyevsky/
- Rooms: https://scriptura.si/rooms/enoch/, https://scriptura.si/rooms/melchizedek/, https://scriptura.si/rooms/temple/
- Visions (paintings and engravings, each linked to its passage): https://scriptura.si/visions/
- Search: https://scriptura.si/search/

## Bible editions

- en: World English Bible
- hebrew: Hebrew Bible (Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures)
- lxx: Septuagint (Greek), with the deuterocanonical books
- greek-nt: Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- lxx-en: Brenton's English Septuagint (1851)
- ru: Russian Synodal Bible
- luther: Luther Bible (1912)
- segond: Louis Segond (1910)
- asv: American Standard Version (1901)
- dra: Douay-Rheims
- web-full: World English Bible with the deuterocanon

Book ids are three-letter codes: GEN, EXO, ... PSA, ... MAT, MRK, LUK, JHN, ACT, ROM, ... REV.

## LCI editions

Laurentium Cultural Industries' own translations, with the original beside the English:

- Two Cities, Sergei Bulgakov (complete English translation): https://scriptura.si/works/bulgakov-two-cities/
- Karl Marx as a Religious Type, Sergei Bulgakov: https://scriptura.si/works/bulgakov-marx-religious-type/
- Vladimir Solovyov and Anna Schmidt, Sergei Bulgakov: https://scriptura.si/works/bulgakov-solovyov-anna-schmidt/
- Religion and Socialism, Volume I, Anatoly Lunacharsky: https://scriptura.si/works/lunacharsky-rs1/
- Religion and Socialism, Volume II, Anatoly Lunacharsky: https://scriptura.si/works/lunacharsky-rs2/
- From Spinoza to Marx, Anatoly Lunacharsky: https://scriptura.si/works/lunacharsky-spinoza-to-marx/
- The Social Revolution and the East, and Other Articles, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev: https://scriptura.si/works/sultan-galiev-articles/
- China and Europe, Vladimir Solovyov: https://scriptura.si/works/solovyov-china-europe/
- Three Conversations, Vladimir Solovyov: https://scriptura.si/works/solovyov-three-conversations/
- How to Work, Aleksei Gastev: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-how-to-work/
- A Pack of Orders, Aleksei Gastev: https://scriptura.si/works/gastev-pack-of-orders/
- European Civilization's "Free Space" and Modern China, Liu Xiaofeng: https://scriptura.si/works/liu-xiaofeng-free-space/
- Geography and Legal Order: Mackinder and Schmitt on Conflict between Empires, Jiang Shigong: https://scriptura.si/works/jiang-shigong-geography-legal-order/

## Rights

The Bible texts and library works are public domain or openly licensed. The LCI editions are the publisher's own translations, shared here to be read and quoted with a link.