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This speaks of "multiple translations." What I would really like are APIs to critical editions of the Greek New Testament, Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, Peshitta, Vulgate, etc. I'm not holding my breath; those are all under copyright, as I understand it, and they aren't cheap when added onto the major bible software packages.

I know of at least one public domain edition of the Byzantine majority text of the Greek NT:

https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/bible/greek-byzantine-200...

(not sure if that's the official page)

Edit: I suppose I could create my own API for that one!



The SBL GNT is a freely-distributable version of the Greek NT with a decent apparatus (think UBS, not NA): https://sblgnt.com/download/


You know, I had sort of forgotten all about this edition. I notice that the public-domain Robinson edition I mentioned was one of the source texts.

And the XML is pretty amazing. Every token is tagged!


I don't know anything about the non-Jewish sources, but Sefaria makes basically everything available via an API, no idea if it's free or not. A tonne of their code is available on GitHub as well.

* https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Project/wiki/API-Document...

* https://github.com/Sefaria/


For the Hebrew Bible, I recommend Sefaria:

https://www.sefaria.org/texts


If you think it would be helpful, I can add it to the list of translations on the site as well.




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