Cold Library

Texts

  1. seven1m/open-bibles

    Bible translations free of copyright restrictions, stored as OSIS, Zefania and USFX XML files.

  2. openscriptures/morphhb

    Hebrew Bible from the Westminster Leningrad Codex, with lemma and morphology tagged word by word.

  3. openenglishbible/Open-English-Bible CC0-1.0

    Ongoing English Bible translation in current language, dedicated to the public domain so anyone may reuse it.

  4. Faithlife/SBLGNT CC-BY-4.0

    Critical edition of the Greek New Testament from the Society of Biblical Literature, with textual apparatus.

  5. scrollmapper/bible_databases_deuterocanonical

    Apocryphal and pseudepigraphal books beside the Bible, prepared as databases and plain-text files for study.

  6. cbeta-org/xml-p5

    CBETA's digital Chinese Buddhist canon in TEI P5 XML, the source files behind its readers.

  7. svenkatreddy/Ramayana_Book

    Web edition of the Valmiki Ramayana in Sanskrit, with verse-by-verse English, Hindi and Telugu translations.

  8. byztxt/byzantine-majority-text Unlicense

    Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Majority Greek New Testament, with morphological parsing tags and Strong's numbers.

  9. openbibleinfo/American-Standard-Version-Bible

    The 1901 American Standard Version in digital form, with the translators' footnotes and paragraphing preserved.

  10. KilledByAPixel/GatelessGate

    Interactive illustrated edition of the Gateless Gate koans, with a new translation and notes on the Chinese.

  11. PatristicTextArchive/pta_data

    TEI texts of early Christian writers from the Patristic Text Archive, with tokenized and annotated versions.

  12. hadithmv/hadithmv.github.io

    Collaborative Dhivehi translations of hadith collections and other classical Islamic texts.

  13. calfa-co/Patrologia-Graeca

    OCR texts of Patrologia Graeca volumes, writings of the Greek Church Fathers, with lemma and part-of-speech tags.

  14. jjmccollum/solid-rock-hb CC-BY-4.0

    Openly licensed critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, drawing on Masoretic and ancient witnesses, in TEI XML.

Datasets

  1. gaitco/quran-database MIT

    SQL dumps of the Uthmani Quran text with translations and juz, hizb and ruku divisions, with documented provenance.

  2. scrollmapper/bible_databases MIT

    Bible translations and a large cross-reference table in SQLite, MySQL, CSV, JSON and other formats.

  3. risan/quran-json CC-BY-SA-4.0

    Arabic Quran text in several scripts plus translations, served as static JSON files per chapter.

  4. Sefaria/Sefaria-Export

    Full dump of the Sefaria library: Jewish texts, translations and the links between them, as JSON, CSV and text.

  5. robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata CC-BY-SA-4.0

    Linked data on biblical people, places, events and periods, each tied to the verses that mention them.

  6. openscriptures/strongs

    Strong's Hebrew and Greek dictionaries in machine-readable form, keyed to Strong's numbers.

  7. mhashim6/Open-Hadith-Data

    Arabic text of nine major hadith collections in CSV, with and without diacritics.

  8. STEPBible/STEPBible-Data

    Tyndale House data behind STEPBible: tagged Hebrew and Greek texts, lexicons, variants and proper names.

  9. christos-c/bible-corpus CC0-1.0

    Bible translations in many languages, marked up in XML and aligned by verse, for linguistic research.

  10. NoorBayan/Quranic MIT

    Quranic treebank: morphological annotation and hybrid constituency-dependency syntax for the whole Quran.

  11. OliverHellwig/sanskrit

    Lemmatised and morphologically tagged Sanskrit corpus data for quantitative and historical linguistics.

  12. morphgnt/sblgnt

    Part of speech, parsing code and lemma for every word of the SBL Greek New Testament.

  13. openscriptures/HebrewLexicon

    Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew lexicon entries as XML, cross-referenced to Strong's numbers for Old Testament study.

  14. aliftype/quran-data

    Quran text encoded in standard Unicode, prepared to render correctly with Arabic fonts.

  15. openbibleinfo/Bible-Geocoding-Data CC-BY-4.0

    Geographic identifications and coordinates for every place mentioned in the Protestant Bible.

  16. eliranwong/OpenGNT

    Openly licensed Greek New Testament text equivalent to NA28, aligned with open lexical and grammatical resources.

  17. ShathaTm/LK-Hadith-Corpus

    Parallel Arabic-English hadith corpus compiled by the University of Leeds and King Saud University.

  18. BibleNLP/ebible

    Bible translations from eBible.org lined up verse by verse, for machine translation and language research.

  19. shabados/database MIT

    Database of Gurbani and other Sikh scriptures with translations, transliterations and publicly tracked community corrections.

  20. ETCBC/bhsa MIT

    Hebrew Bible (BHSA) with detailed linguistic annotation, in Text-Fabric format for study and research.

  21. Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew

    Word-by-word grammatical analysis of the Hebrew Bible: morphology, syntax trees and further linguistic layers.

  22. Clear-Bible/macula-greek

    Word-by-word grammatical analysis of the Greek Bible: morphology, syntax trees and further linguistic layers.

  23. suttacentral/sc-data

    Pali and other early Buddhist scriptures with translations and the parallels tables that link them across canons.

  24. ETCBC/dss

    Transcriptions of biblical and non-biblical Dead Sea Scrolls with linguistic annotation, in Text-Fabric format.

  25. sanskrit-lexicon/csl-orig CC-BY-SA-4.0

    Master files of the Cologne Sanskrit dictionaries, including Monier-Williams and Apte, where corrections are now made.

  26. DILA-edu/cbeta-metadata MIT

    CBETA catalogue metadata: sections, missing characters, authors and translators, dynasties.

  27. Clear-Bible/Alignments

    Word alignments between Bible translations and the Hebrew and Greek source texts, manual and automatic.

APIs

  1. fawazahmed0/quran-api Unlicense

    Quran translations in 90+ languages as static JSON files on a CDN, for apps and websites.

  2. seven1m/bible_api MIT

    Code of bible-api.com: look up a verse or passage by reference and get JSON from open translations.

  3. fawazahmed0/hadith-api Unlicense

    Hadith collections as static JSON files on a CDN, in several languages and with authenticity grades.

  4. spa5k/tafsir_api MIT

    Static JSON API of Quran commentaries (tafsir) in several languages, organised by surah and ayah.

  5. getbible/v2 GPL-3.0

    JSON API and verse-query service for many Bible translations drawn from open modules.

  6. KhalisFoundation/banidb-api MIT

    API for the BaniDB Gurbani database, for searching shabads, banis and their translations.

Tools

  1. quran/quran_android GPL-3.0

    Open-source Android Quran reader with page images, translations, tafsir and recitation playback.

  2. TarteelAI/quranic-universal-library MIT

    Code for the Quranic Universal Library, which gathers Quran scripts, fonts, translations, tafsir and morphology.

  3. AndBible/and-bible GPL-3.0

    Offline Android Bible study app built on SWORD modules, with commentaries, dictionaries and notes.

  4. Sefaria/Sefaria-Project GPL-3.0

    Source code of the Sefaria site for reading Torah, Talmud and later Jewish texts with linked commentary.

  5. quran/quran-ios Apache-2.0

    Swift source of the Quran.com iPhone app, with page-based reading, translations and recitation audio.

  6. bibletime/bibletime GPL-2.0

    Cross-platform desktop Bible study program that reads SWORD modules.

  7. AlfaazPlus/QuranApp GPL-3.0

    Ad-free Android Quran app with translations, tafsir, recitations and word-by-word reading.

  8. yukuku/androidbible Apache-2.0

    Source of an ad-free Android Bible reader that also handles song books and reading plans.

  9. Alfanous-team/alfanous LGPL-3.0

    Python search engine for the Quran that handles Arabic roots, vocalisation and fielded queries.

  10. ezra-bible-app/ezra-bible-app GPL-2.0

    Desktop and Android Bible app built around tagging verses by topic and keeping study notes.

  11. kdroidFilter/Zayit

    Desktop program for Torah study: open Jewish texts quickly, search across the library and copy clean citations.

  12. Sivan22/otzaria Unlicense

    Cross-platform app for reading and searching a large offline library of Jewish texts.

  13. eliranwong/UniqueBible GPL-3.0

    Offline Bible study program with original-language tools, the Septuagint, lexicons and commentaries.

  14. schierlm/BibleMultiConverter

    Converts Bible texts between study-program module formats and XML standards such as OSIS and Zefania.

  15. ambuda-org/vidyut

    Rust libraries for Sanskrit: Paninian word generation, segmentation, meter, dictionaries and transliteration.

  16. ambuda-org/ambuda MIT

    Code for Ambuda, an online Sanskrit library pairing texts with dictionaries and grammatical analysis.

  17. marwan/quranwbw

    Code for QuranWBW.com, a word-by-word Quran reader with word audio, transliteration and tajweed colours.

  18. Freely-Given-org/BibleOrgSys MPL-2.0

    Python library for loading, checking and converting Bibles and commentaries across many file formats.

  19. kmadathil/sanskrit_parser MIT

    Python parsers that split Sanskrit sandhi and analyse word forms and sentences.

  20. trekhleb/bible-cross-references MIT

    Visual map of the Bible's 344,799 cross-references, plus a reader that shows each passage's connections.

  21. shreevatsa/sanskrit GPL-2.0

    Identifies the meter of Sanskrit and other metrical verse from its syllable weights.

  22. KhalisFoundation/sttm-web OSL-3.0

    Code for the SikhiToTheMax website for searching and reading Gurbani.

  23. zeeyado/quran-ebook GPL-3.0

    Script that builds Quran EPUB files for e-readers such as KOReader, with bilingual layout options.

  24. MrMYHuang/cbetar2 MIT

    Unofficial CBETA reader with catalogue and full-text search, bookmarks, offline reading and vertical text.

  25. ubsicap/usfm

    Specification of USFM, the marker format most Bible translation projects use to encode scripture.

  26. unfoldingWord/translationCore

    Desktop app for checking Bible translations against the original languages word by word.

  27. shabados/gurmukhi-utils MIT

    Code for handling Gurmukhi script: converting legacy ASCII fonts to Unicode, transliterating and checking text.

  28. kahunapule/haiola

    Converts Bible texts from USFM and related formats into HTML, EPUB, PDF and Bible-software modules.

  29. sillsdev/ptx2pdf

    Typesetting system used by SIL to turn Paratext scripture projects into print-ready PDF Bibles via XeTeX.

  30. torahcalc/torahcalc GPL-3.0

    Calculators for Torah study: biblical and Talmudic units, the Hebrew calendar, gematria and more.

  31. tylergneill/skrutable

    Python toolkit for Sanskrit transliteration, syllable scansion and meter identification.

  32. rewayaat/rewayaat Apache-2.0

    Search platform for Shia hadith in Arabic and English, cross-linked to related narrations and Quran verses.

  33. alexamies/buddhist-dictionary

    NTI reader for the Taisho Chinese Buddhist canon, with a built-in Chinese-English Buddhist dictionary.

  34. Webuddhist-tech/Toolkit Apache-2.0

    OpenPecha toolkit for standoff annotation of Tibetan and other texts that survives edits to the base text.

Lists

  1. buddhist-uni/buddhist-uni.github.io

    Pan-sectarian digital library and syllabus site for Buddhist studies, with reading lists and self-paced courses.

  2. meichthys/christian_foss MIT-0

    Directory of open-source Christian apps, sites and APIs, flagged by platform and whether still maintained.

  3. biblenerd/awesome-bible-developer-resources CC0-1.0

    Curated list of biblical text data, APIs and tools for people building software with scripture.

  4. historical-theology/awesome-theology CC0-1.0

    Directory of open software and digital resources useful for Catholic theological research.

  5. gopalindians/awesome-hinduism GPL-3.0

    Curated list of Hindu scriptures, philosophy, digital texts, calendars and institutions.

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