Credits & ownership

Generated from the data the site uses · last built 2026-10-22

This is the full list of whose work appears on Bible Synapse. All rights belong to these owners. Where a work is under a licence, the licence is linked; please follow it if you reuse the work. Photographs of archaeological finds are also credited, with their author and licence, where they are shown, and each archaeology entry and hard-question answer lists the books, articles, museum pages and websites it was checked against.

Bible texts

• King James Version (1769) Public domainUsed for: Bible textCrown patent applies within the UK; text from scrollmapper/bible_databases
• World English Bible (2000) Public domainUsed for: Bible text“World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org, used here for the unmodified text; text from TehShrike/world-english-bible
• Berean Standard Bible (2022) Public domainUsed for: Bible textdedicated to the public domain on 30 April 2023; text from bible.helloao.org (BSB)
• American Standard Version (1901) Public domainUsed for: Bible texttext from bible.helloao.org (eng_asv)
• Young's Literal Translation (1898) Public domainUsed for: Bible texttext from bible.helloao.org (eng_ylt)
• Darby Translation (1890) Public domainUsed for: Bible texttext from bible.helloao.org (eng_dby)
• Bible in Basic English (1965) Public domain in the United StatesUsed for: Bible textmay still be under copyright in some other countries; text from bible.helloao.org (eng_bbe)

Modern copyrighted translations (such as the NIV, ESV, NLT and NKJV) are not included, because their publishers do not allow a free website to show their full text.

Commentaries

• Matthew Henry’s Commentary (1706–1714) Public domainUsed for: commentary, read as you govia the HelloAO Free Use Bible API
• Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) Public domainUsed for: commentary, read as you govia the HelloAO Free Use Bible API
• Adam Clarke’s Commentary (1810–1826) Public domainUsed for: commentary, read as you govia the HelloAO Free Use Bible API
• John Gill’s Exposition (1746–1763) Public domainUsed for: commentary, read as you govia the HelloAO Free Use Bible API
• John Calvin’s Commentaries (16th century) Public domainUsed for: commentary, read as you govia the HelloAO Free Use Bible API
• Keil & Delitzsch on the Old Testament (1857–1878) Public domainUsed for: commentary, read as you govia the HelloAO Free Use Bible API
• Tyndale Open Study Notes (Tyndale House Publishers) CC BY-SA 4.0Used for: commentary, read as you goTyndale Open Study Notes © Tyndale House Publishers, CC BY-SA 4.0

Cross-references, people, places and the original languages

• OpenBible.info cross-references CC BY 4.0Used for: all 344,798 cross-references and their reader votesdata dated 2024-11-04, via scrollmapper/bible_databases
• Theographic Bible Metadata CC BY-SA 4.0Used for: people, families, places, events and their verses; Easton's dictionary textby Robert Rouse; changed: reshaped into compact files, some wrong tags corrected (tools/curated/entity-overrides.json)
• OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data CC BY 4.0Used for: place locations and how certain they are
• Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) Public domainUsed for: dictionary entries for people, places and terms
• STEP Bible (Tyndale House, Cambridge) CC BY 4.0Used for: Hebrew and Greek text tagged with Strong’s numbers; brief lexiconsTAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH and TBESG from STEPBible-Data; reshaped into per-book files

Devotions and classic books

• C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening (1865–1868) Public domainUsed for: daily devotionsvia the CrossWire Bible Society’s SWORD module (text from CCEL)
• Daily Light on the Daily Path (1875) Public domainUsed for: daily Scripture readingsJonathan Bagster and family; via the CrossWire Bible Society’s SWORD module
• J. W. Haley, An Examination of the Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible (1874) Public domainUsed for: a classic source for the answers to hard questions

Maps

• Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (DARE) CC BYUsed for: the map’s Roman provinces, roads and rivers, from the vector files by Klokan Technologies (github.com/klokantech/roman-empire); simplifiedJohan Åhlfeldt, University of Gothenburg
• Natural Earth Public domainUsed for: the map’s land, coastline and lakes; simplified

Illustrations and photographs

• Gustave Doré, illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours (1866) Public domainUsed for: illustrations, shown from Wikimedia Commons
• Sweet Publishing / FreeBibleimages.org CC BY-SA 3.0Used for: story illustrations, shown from Wikimedia Commons
• Wikimedia Commons photographers Public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA (per photo)Used for: photos of archaeological finds; each photo is credited, with its licence, where it is shownonly freely licensed photos are used; finds without one link to the museum instead

Archaeology and hard questions

• Wikidata CC0 1.0Used for: cross-checking the archaeology entries (inventory numbers, find-sites, articles)
• Lists of alleged Bible contradictions References onlyUsed for: the questions the hard-question answers respond to; only the verse references are used, and each answer names the lists that raise itthe Skeptic’s Annotated Bible (Steve Wells), Infidels.org, EvilBible.com (via the BibViz Project’s combined list), Shabir Ally’s 101 Clear Contradictions in the Bible, W. H. Burr’s Self-Contradictions of the Bible (1860, public domain, via sacred-texts.com) and examples from Bart Ehrman’s books; their wording is not reused

Services the site reads from

• HelloAO Free Use Bible API Free to useUsed for: the Berean Standard Bible, American Standard Version, Young’s Literal Translation, Darby Translation and Bible in Basic English texts, and the commentaries, read as you goeach text and commentary keeps its own licence, listed with it

Software and typefaces

• Leaflet 1.9.4 BSD 2-ClauseUsed for: map view
• three.js MITUsed for: 3D brain view
• Cormorant Garamond and Manrope SIL Open Font License 1.1Used for: typefaces, via Google Fonts

The idea

• Chris Harrison & Christoph Römhild, Bible Cross-References (2007) Inspiration onlyUsed for: the original idea; no image or data from it is used

Sources named on individual pages

The archaeology entries and the hard-question answers were checked against museum and excavation records, library catalogues, Wikipedia and Wikidata, public-domain commentaries and books (among them Matthew Henry, John Gill, Adam Clarke, Albert Barnes, Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Keil & Delitzsch and J. W. Haley), and modern works and websites, each named and linked on the page that uses it (for example Bible Hub, Sefaria, Apologetics Press, Got Questions, CARM, Answers in Genesis, Tektonics and bible.ca). Their content belongs to them; the site links to it and does not copy it.

Wording written for the site

Some short texts were written for the site, built from the sources they cite. The facts and ideas in them belong to those sources, and the site claims no ownership of them; only the arrangement and wording are shared, under CC BY-SA 4.0, so that others may reuse them with credit. They were drafted with the help of AI writing tools and checked against their sources before publishing.

• Explained connections CC BY-SA 4.0Used for: 590 written explanations of how and why passages connectcompiled for Bible Synapse from the sources it cites, which own the facts and ideas; only the arrangement and wording are shared
• Reading plans, thread plans and “Reflect & apply” notes CC BY-SA 4.0Used for: written for this project; reflections are reviewed before publishingcompiled for Bible Synapse from the sources it cites, which own the facts and ideas; only the arrangement and wording are shared
• Archaeology entries CC BY-SA 4.0Used for: descriptions of archaeological finds and how they connect to the Bible, written for this project from the sources listed on each find’s pagecompiled for Bible Synapse from the sources it cites, which own the facts and ideas; only the arrangement and wording are shared
• Hard questions (alleged contradictions, answered) CC BY-SA 4.0Used for: the questions and answers, written for this project; only the verse references come from the sceptics’ lists, each named on the questions it raisescompiled for Bible Synapse from the sources it cites, which own the facts and ideas; only the arrangement and wording are shared

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