Deep Dive Bible is built from the work of many people and projects. Here is where each part comes from, and under what license.

The Bible texts

• King James Version, with the Apocrypha. Public domain. From eBible.org.
• Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.esv.org Read a chapter at a time from Crossway’s ESV API.
• The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide. Read a chapter at a time from API.Bible (American Bible Society).
• NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® NASB® Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation A Corporation Not for Profit La Habra, CA All Rights Reserved www.lockman.org Read a chapter at a time from API.Bible (American Bible Society).
• NET Bible® (netbible.org). Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NET) are from the NET Bible® copyright ©1996, 2019 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved. From eBible.org.
• Berean Standard Bible (berean.bible). Public domain. From eBible.org.
• American Standard Version (1901). Public domain. From eBible.org.
• Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner’s revision (1749–52), from eBible.org. Public domain. Set in the King James Version’s chapters and verses with STEPBible’s TVTMS (STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. From eBible.org.
• World English Bible. Public domain. From eBible.org.
• JPS Tanakh (1917), the Jewish Publication Society’s Hebrew Bible in English. Public domain. From eBible.org.
• Young’s Literal Translation (1898). Public domain. From eBible.org.
• Geneva Bible (1599), in its original spelling. Public domain. From eBible.org.
• Geneva Bible (1599), modernized: its words in the King James Version’s spelling, by Deep Dive Bible (about this edition). Dedicated to the public domain. From eBible.org.
• Literal Standard Version. Literal Standard Version © 2020 Covenant Press, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. From eBible.org.
• Majority Standard Bible (majoritybible.com). Public domain. From eBible.org.
• Sir Lancelot Brenton’s English translation of the Septuagint (1851, public domain), in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).
• Hebrew text (Leningrad codex) from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0.
• Old Testament: the Septuagint, Brenton’s Greek text (public domain), in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS. New Testament: the Textus Receptus (Scrivener 1894) from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0, checked against Dr. Maurice Robinson’s public-domain Scrivener text.
• The Targums in Aramaic (Onkelos; Jonathan on the Prophets; the Targums of the Writings and of Chronicles), public domain, from Sefaria (toratemetfreeware, Mikraot Gedolot, Wikisource), in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).
• The Targums in English. Onkelos: J. W. Etheridge, 1862–65 (public domain, eBible.org). Isaiah: C. W. H. Pauli, The Chaldee Paraphrase on the Prophet Isaiah, 1871 (public domain, from Sefaria; 9:6 from the Internet Archive’s scan). Jonah: Sefaria community translation (CC0). Nahum: F. J. Gurney, C. E. Crandall and O. O. Fletcher, The Hebrew Student, 1882 (public domain). Song of Songs: Jay Treat, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Unported. In KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).
• Targum Pseudo-Jonathan in Aramaic, public domain, from Sefaria, in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).
• Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Deuteronomy in English: J. W. Etheridge, 1865 (public domain, from Sefaria), in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek, the lexicon, and the parallel view

• Short entries and Abbott-Smith from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Thayer (1889) are public domain. Concordance from the KJV with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org).
• Hebrew and Greek words from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0. The KJV’s Strong’s numbers from eBible.org (public domain).

Names and cross-references

• The names linked in each translation, and their spellings: STEPBible’s TIPNR (Translators Individualised Proper Names), STEPBible.org, from Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0.
• Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
• The other cross-reference lists in Reading options: the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (about 1880, public domain), from CrossWire’s SWORD module; the UBS Parallel Passages, © 2023 United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0, put into the English verse numbers with STEPBible’s TAHOT; and the chains of Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1934).

Commentaries

• The commentaries out of copyright were imported from SermonIndex’s modules (among them Haydock, Hodge, and Kretzmann), CrossWire’s SWORD modules, Bible Hub (Poole, Wesley, and the People’s New Testament), and the CC0 edition of the Catena Aurea in Newman’s translation. What we changed in all the commentaries: references to Bible verses are links, which in print they could not be. In those from SermonIndex’s modules, also: Greek words the modules ran together spaced apart again (tens of thousands in each of Meyer, the ICC, Lange, Alford, the Expositor’s Greek Testament, and Bengel); Hebrew the modules had turned into Greek letters put back into Hebrew (in Lange, the Cambridge Bible, Benson, Ellicott, and Keil and Delitzsch), with its vowel points only where the word is one of its verse’s own; a passage of Scripture reprinted before the comment on it left out, since the verses are on the page (most often in Matthew Henry).
• Curated Best-Of: the best one to three comments on each verse from about thirty of the commentaries below, chosen, summarized, and credited by AI agents (Claude, by Anthropic) at Larry Sanger’s direction.
• CrossWire SWORD module TCR 1.1, Frank Charles Thompson, 1934.
• Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible, Matthew Henry, 1708–10. Romans to Revelation were finished after his death (1714) by thirteen other Nonconformist ministers. Public domain.
• Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, Matthew Henry, 1708–10. An abridgment of the full commentary, by a later hand. Public domain.
• Barnes' Notes on the Bible, Albert Barnes, 1832–72. Barnes wrote the New Testament, Job, Psalms, Isaiah, and Daniel; the other Old Testament books are by other writers, as in the later editions of Barnes’ Notes, among them James G. Murphy (Genesis), F. C. Cook and others (Exodus to Esther), and E. B. Pusey (the Minor Prophets). Public domain.
• Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871. Public domain.
• Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, John Gill, 1746–63. Public domain.
• Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible, Adam Clarke, 1810–26. Public domain.
• Annotations upon the Holy Bible, Matthew Poole, 1683–85. He reached Isaiah 58; the rest was finished after his death (1679) by others. Public domain.
• Calvin's Commentaries, John Calvin, 1540–65. In English by the Calvin Translation Society, 1843–55. Public domain.
• Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Bible, John Wesley, 1754–65. Public domain.
• The Pulpit Commentary, Spence and Exell, 1880–97. Public domain.
• Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Charles John Ellicott, 1878–84. Public domain.
• The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, J. J. S. Perowne (ed.), 1878–1918. Public domain.
• The Expositor's Bible, W. Robertson Nicoll (ed.), 1887–96. Public domain.
• Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, Joseph Benson, 1811–18. Public domain.
• Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, John Peter Lange, 1857–76. In English, edited by Philip Schaff, 1865–80. Public domain.
• Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, George Leo Haydock, 1812–14. Public domain. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: notes on the Psalms moved from the Latin numbering to ours.
• Expositions of Holy Scripture, Alexander MacLaren, 1904–10. Public domain.
• William Kelly's Commentary and Lectures, William Kelly, 1860–1900. Public domain.
• Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament, Keil and Delitzsch, 1861–75. In English in T. & T. Clark’s Foreign Theological Library, translated by James Martin and others, from 1864. Public domain.
• The Treasury of David (Spurgeon), C. H. Spurgeon, 1869–85. Public domain.
• Gnomon of the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel, 1742. In English as translated under A. R. Fausset, T. & T. Clark, 1857–58. Public domain.
• The Greek Testament, Henry Alford, 1849–61. Public domain.
• Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament, Marvin R. Vincent, 1887–1900. Public domain.
• The Expositor's Greek Testament, W. Robertson Nicoll (ed.), 1897–1910. Public domain.
• Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, H. A. W. Meyer, 1832–59. In English, T. & T. Clark, 1873–82, edited by William P. Dickson. Public domain.
• The People's New Testament with Notes, B. W. Johnson, 1889–91. Public domain.
• Chrysostom's Homilies, John Chrysostom, c. 390. In English in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, edited by Philip Schaff, 1886–89. Public domain.
• Commentaries on Romans, 1 Corinthians and Ephesians, Charles Hodge, 1835–64. Public domain.
• Catena Aurea (Aquinas), tr. J. H. Newman, 1842, Thomas Aquinas, c. 1263. Public domain.
• The Popular Commentary of the Bible (Kretzmann), Paul E. Kretzmann, 1921–24. Public domain.
• The International Critical Commentary (New Testament), various, 1895–1928. Public domain.
• 1599 Geneva Bible Notes, the Geneva translators, 1560–99. Public domain.
• Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, John Trapp, 1647–62. Public domain.
• Whedon's Commentary on the Bible, D. D. Whedon (ed.), 1860–89. Public domain.
• A Commentary on the Holy Bible, Thomas Coke, 1801–03. Public domain.
• A Commentary on the Holy Bible, J. R. Dummelow (ed.), 1909. Public domain.
• Peake's Commentary on the Bible, A. S. Peake (ed.), 1919. Public domain.
• Horae Homileticae (Discourses on Every Book of the Bible), Charles Simeon, 1819–33. Public domain.
• The Biblical Illustrator, Joseph S. Exell (ed.), from 1887. Public domain.
• The Sermon Bible, W. Robertson Nicoll (ed.), 1888–93. Public domain.
• Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, William Burkitt, 1700–03. Public domain.
• Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, Philip Schaff (ed.), 1879–83. Public domain.
• Word Pictures in the New Testament, A. T. Robertson, 1930. Only the volumes of 1930 (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Acts), whose copyright has run out. Public domain.
• A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica, John Lightfoot, 1658–78. Public domain. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: word-processor codes left in the source’s text turned back into italics, bold, paragraphs, and tables.
• Saint Paul's Epistles to the Galatians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon, J. B. Lightfoot, 1865–75. Public domain.
• The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide, Cornelius à Lapide, from 1614. In English, translated by T. W. Mossman and W. F. Cobb, 1876–1908. Public domain. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: word-processor codes left in a few of the source’s notes turned back into italics, bold, and paragraphs; Genesis left out, as the source has only two placeholder lines on it.
• Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, J. C. Ryle, 1856–73. Public domain.
• McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries, J. W. McGarvey and P. Y. Pendleton, 1863–1916. Public domain.
• Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, John A. Broadus, 1886. Public domain.
• Godet's Commentary on Selected New Testament Books, Frédéric Godet, 1864–87. Public domain.
• An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, James Alexander Haldane, 1860. Public domain.
• Owen's on the Epistle to the Hebrews, John Owen, 1668–84. Public domain.
• Thomas Scott's Explanatory Notes on the Bible, Thomas Scott, 1788–92. Public domain.
• Hengstenberg's Commentary on Selected Books, E. W. Hengstenberg, 1842–68. Public domain.
• A Commentary on Proverbs, Charles Bridges, 1846. Public domain.

Reference works

• What we changed in all the reference works: references to Bible verses, and to other articles in the same work, are links, which in print they could not be. Where our source had marked some of them, we kept its marks and found the rest ourselves; a reference we could not read with confidence is left as plain text. Each work’s other changes follow its credit.
• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr, general editor (Chicago: Howard-Severance, 1915). Public domain. Text as published by biblestudytools.com. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: links to 1, 2, and 3 John that our source pointed at the Gospel of John corrected; our source’s section marks set as headings.
• A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Biblical, Biographical, Geographical, Historical, Practical and Theological, Elias Benjamin Sanford, editor (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890). Public domain in the USA. Text from Oldpedia. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: articles our source ran together split apart; false headings joined back to their articles; duplicate articles merged; stray text from the page edges left out.
• The Jewish Encyclopedia: The Jewish Encyclopedia, Isidore Singer, ed. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1901–1906). Public domain. Text as published by jewishencyclopedia.com. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: spaces our source lost restored; 1,663 entries missing from our source added, most of them one-line cross-references, read from the Internet Archive’s scans of the printed volumes (804 are still missing); titles set in the printed book’s capitals.
• The Catholic Encyclopedia: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Charles G. Herbermann et al., eds. (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907–1914). Public domain. Text as transcribed by Wikisource. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: markup our source’s transcribers left unfinished completed; headings printed in capitals set in capitals and small letters; our source’s own headers and notes left out.
• McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia: Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, John McClintock and James Strong (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887). Public domain. Text from SwordSearcher’s module, as published by biblicalcyclopedia.com. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: titles misread in our source corrected from the Internet Archive’s scans of the printed volumes; paragraphs our source broke mid-sentence joined.
• Easton’s Bible Dictionary: Easton’s Bible Dictionary, M. G. Easton (London: T. Nelson, 1897). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
• Smith’s Bible Dictionary: Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith, revised and edited by F. N. and M. A. Peloubet (1884). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: words our source left outside its paragraphs put back in them.
• Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary, Roswell D. Hitchcock, from An Interpreting Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names (New York, 1869). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
• Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary: Adapted from Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary. The original work by Tyndale House Publishers is available for free at http://www.tyndaleopenresources.com. Copyright © 2023 by Tyndale House Publishers. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: text boxes and charts set into their articles; maps shown with the other maps instead of in the articles; section outlines, and pictures (not released with the text), left out.
• Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.
• Nave’s Topical Bible: Nave’s Topical Bible, Orville J. Nave (1896). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
• Torrey’s New Topical Textbook: The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
• Thompson’s Chain References: The New Chain-Reference Bible, Frank Charles Thompson (Indianapolis: B. B. Kirkbride, 1934). Public domain: the 1934 edition’s copyright was not renewed, and the 1929 edition’s, renewed in 1957, ran out at the end of 2024. Keyed by Paul Houghton for CrossWire’s TCR module. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: list headings our source lost written anew by AI (Claude, by Anthropic).
• Ellicott’s introductions: The introductions to the books in Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers, Charles John Ellicott, editor (London: Cassell, 1878–1884). Public domain. Text as published by Bible Hub. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: headings our source broke made whole; Ellicott’s general preface and his introductions to the Pentateuch, the New Testament, and the first three Gospels left out.
• Charles’s Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, R. H. Charles, ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913). Public domain. Text from the scan on the Internet Archive (vol. II: this scan). Changed for Deep Dive Bible: words misread in the scan’s first reading corrected by reading the pages again and comparing the readings; Greek and Hebrew read from the page images.

Video lectures

• Unlocking the Bible: David Pawson, Unlocking the Bible, © David Pawson Ministry CIO, played from its YouTube channel. More of his teaching: davidpawson.org. Each is played as it is on YouTube; we only chose the chapter each comes before.

Maps

• What we changed on all the maps: each is shown in tiles that zoom, with places pinned on it. The pictures themselves are unchanged except as each set’s credit says.
• Biblica’s Open Bible Maps: Maps: Biblica® Open Bible Maps, Copyright © 2019 by Biblica, Inc. “Biblica” is a trademark registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; from open.bible, as kept on Wikimedia Commons. Places: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0, pinned by the map’s own labels.
• G. A. Smith’s Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land: Maps: George Adam Smith, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land, with J. G. Bartholomew (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915). Images from the Leonard and Juliet Rothman Holy Lands Map Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries, CC BY-NC 3.0. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: plates 53 and 58, each printed with two maps, cut in two. Places: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0, pinned by each map’s lines of latitude and longitude.
• Tyndale’s Bible maps: Maps adapted from Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary. The original work by Tyndale House Publishers is available for free at http://www.tyndaleopenresources.com. Copyright © 2023 by Tyndale House Publishers. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: each map cut to its frame. Places: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0, pinned by the map’s own labels.
• Hurlbut’s Bible Atlas: Maps: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, A Bible Atlas: A Manual of Biblical Geography and History (Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1899). Public domain. Images from the Brigham Young University copy at the Internet Archive. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: each map cut to its frame; eight maps printed sideways turned north up; the large folding Map of Palestine joined from two scans. Places: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0, pinned on six maps by their lines of latitude and longitude.
• The Survey of Western Palestine: Maps: the Palestine Exploration Fund’s Map of Western Palestine in 26 Sheets, surveyed by C. R. Conder and H. H. Kitchener, 1872–1877 (Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office, 1880). The site shows 15 of the 26 sheets. Public domain. Images from the National Library of Israel (Eran Laor Cartographic Collection) by way of Wikimedia Commons. Places: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0, pinned by landmarks on each sheet.
• Maps chosen by the passage’s period, on Archbishop Ussher’s chronology (1650): the dates in the margins of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) and Theographic’s verse years (Theographic, CC BY-SA 4.0).

Reading plans

• The Book of Common Prayer (1662): its Kalendar and Tables of Lessons (public domain), from the Andrews University transcription, checked against a 1693 printing (Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership, public domain).
• The Book of Common Prayer: the Table of Lessons of 1871 (public domain), from the Andrews University transcription, checked page by page against an 1880 printing (Eyre and Spottiswoode; Internet Archive, public domain).
• Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s Calendar for Daily Readings (1842, public domain), from Truth for Life’s reprint and David Haslam’s transcription, compared with each other.
• The Book of Common Prayer (2019): its Daily Office Lectionary. Excerpts from The Book of Common Prayer (2019), Anglican Church in North America. Used by permission of Anglican House.
• The Book of Common Prayer (1979) of the Episcopal Church: its Daily Office Lectionary (public domain), from the church’s own copy of the book, its slips settled with bcponline.org’s transcription, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s daily lectionary, Mission St. Clare, and Reuben Lillie’s Daily Office Lectionary data (MIT License).
• The Book of Common Prayer (1928) of the Protestant Episcopal Church: its Psalms and Lessons for the Christian Year, the table printed in the book from 1945 (public domain), from the Society of Archbishop Justus’s typeset copy, checked day by day against episcopalnet.org’s.
• The Lectionary for Mass (1969; the U.S. edition of 1998–2002): its references only, from Felix Just, S.J.’s Catholic Lectionary Website (catholic-resources.org); the calendar, which day keeps which readings (the General Roman Calendar), from the Liturgical Calendar project (litcal.johnromanodorazio.com, Apache License 2.0). The Lectionary’s own texts are © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and are not used.
• The Orthodox Church in America’s daily readings: each day’s principal readings, from Brian Glass’s orthocal.info (its calendar data, MIT License), which follows the OCA’s calendar.
• Grant Horner’s Bible-Reading System: his ten lists, as he describes them.
• Reading the whole Bible with the 2019 and 1928 Prayer Books’ plans: the method of placing the added chapters follows Fr. Matthew Brench’s Supplemental Midday Lectionary (Saint Aelfric Customary).
• The order of events, passage by passage, in the plan maker: the Old Testament in the order of George Townsend’s The Old Testament, Arranged in Historical and Chronological Order (1826, public domain; Internet Archive), from its first index; the Gospels in the order of Edward Robinson’s A Harmony of the Four Gospels in English (1867, public domain; Internet Archive), from its table for finding any passage.

Recordings

• The KJV’s narrator: Google’s Gemini text-to-speech (the voice called Enceladus). The KJV’s recordings are dedicated to the public domain.
• The Curated Best-Of: Kokoro (Apache 2.0), in its voices Lewis and Daniel, run on Larry Sanger’s computer.
• The Best-Of’s summaries: Google’s Gemini 2.5 text-to-speech.
• The timing of each word, which lights the words as they are read: OpenAI’s Whisper (MIT).

Spellcheck

• English words: the English Speller Database (formerly SCOWL), copyright 2000–2026 by Kevin Atkinson, used under its permissive license.
• Colloquialisms (lol, gonna): in part from Wiktionary’s categories of internet slang and interjections (CC BY-SA).
• Computer and tech words (agentic, chatbot): in part from Wiktionary’s computing categories (CC BY-SA).
• Websites and brand names (YouTube, iPhone): in part from Wikidata (CC0).
• Names of theologians, divines, and philosophers (Pannenberg, Wolterstorff): in part from Wikidata (CC0); the names and words in our own works’ titles, authors, and headings, from the works themselves.
• Bible names and words: the public-domain KJV, WEB, BSB, LSV, and Brenton’s Septuagint; Latin from the Clementine Vulgate, via eBible.org (public domain).

Icons, fonts, and software

• Topic icons and wallpaper symbols from game-icons.net by Lorc, Delapouite, Skoll, Carl Olsen, Seregacthtuf, and GeneralAce135, used under CC BY 3.0.
• Line icons: Lucide (ISC).
• Fonts: Literata, Gentium Plus, Ezra SIL, IM Fell English, and the Liberation fonts, under the SIL Open Font License.
• Map viewer: OpenSeadragon (adapted, enhanced), under the BSD license.
• Push notifications: web-push-php (MIT).
• The server’s other libraries: Anthropic’s PHP SDK and OpenTelemetry (Apache-2.0); Guzzle, Brick Math, Symfony’s polyfills, Standard Webhooks, the PHP-HTTP interfaces, the PSR interfaces, and the JWT libraries of web-token and Spomky Labs (MIT).
• GIF search: KLIPY.
• The site runs on Chatiferous, free software (GPL-3.0), written by AI agents (Claude, by Anthropic) at Larry Sanger’s direction.