Resources
Reference tools, background knowledge, and context for reading the Bible the way its original audiences understood it.
🌎 Religion Maps of the Biblical World
Two interactive maps: the Old Testament religious geography with shaded territories showing where each god held sway — then an animated map watching Christianity spread from a dozen disciples in Jerusalem across the entire Roman world in four centuries. Click territories and city markers to explore.
Open interactive maps →Weights, Measures & Money
Convert between biblical units and modern equivalents. How much was 400 shekels? What is a talent worth? How long is a cubit? With purchasing power context.
Open converter →Dead Religions & Their Gods
Eight deities the Israelites were commanded not to worship — and frequently did. Who they were, what their worship involved, and what archaeology found. Baal, Asherah, Dagon, Molech, Chemosh, Marduk, Ashtoreth, Tammuz.
Open reference →The 400 Silent Years
Between Malachi and Matthew — the Persian, Hellenistic, Maccabean, and Roman periods that shaped everything the New Testament assumes you already know.
Open timeline →Hebrew Calendar & Feasts
The seven feasts of Leviticus 23 — Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles and more — with their NT fulfillments, the agricultural year overlay, and the Sabbatical Year and Jubilee system.
Open calendar →Social & Legal World
Kinsman-redeemer, levirate marriage, honor-shame culture, covenant meals, city gate as courthouse, betrothal law, blood vengeance, ritual purity — the operating system behind the stories.
Open reference →Commentary History
How the Bible's most contested passages have been read from the first century through today — Genesis 1, the Protoevangelium, Isaiah 7:14, Psalm 22, and Daniel's 70 weeks.
Open commentary history →Manuscript Tradition
The Masoretic Text, Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, 5,800+ NT Greek manuscripts, the Latin Vulgate, and the King James Version — how we got the text and why translations differ.
Open reference →Lineage & Table of Nations
The covenant line from Adam to the 12 tribes, the Table of Nations (Genesis 10's 70 peoples with modern identifications and evidence tiers), and profiles of all 12 tribes with their territories and historical fate.
Open lineage →Gospel Harmony
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in parallel columns across every major section of the life of Christ — prologue, birth, baptism, Sermon on the Mount, miracles, transfiguration, Last Supper, crucifixion, and resurrection. Where a Gospel is silent, the column says why.
Open harmony →