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Scripture & Its Readers
The Bible, its ancient witnesses, and the ways it has been read.
Reading editions
The Bible with Wesley's Notes
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The King James Bible alongside John Wesley's Explanatory Notes Upon the Old and New Testament, side by side — free to read, cover to cover.
Read the edition →Topographia Sacra
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Geographical editions of the place-heavy books of scripture — the World English Bible with maps and a gazetteer of every named place.
Read the edition →Loci
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Thematic reading editions of biblical books, each organised around an interpretive frame — Leviticus as an architecture of approach, Lamentations as an alphabet of grief.
Read the edition →Catena
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Intertextual reading editions tracing how scripture quotes scripture — every quotation, allusion, and echo a book reaches back to, marked, sourced, and weighed. Seeded with Hebrews.
Read the edition →Annales Sacra
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Chronological reading editions that lay scripture's years flat — two kingdoms on one timeline, the reigns and synchronisms Kings tells in a braid, the life of Paul, a gospel harmony.
Read the edition →Voces
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Reading editions that color every line by who is speaking — the debate buried in Job, the divine voice inside the Psalms, the unlabeled dialogue of the Song of Songs, the choirs of Revelation. Seeded with five books.
Read the edition →Difficult Passages
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A pastoral reference mapping the scholarly landscape on hard places in scripture — each entry gives the difficulty, then several historical responses.
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The Douay-Rheims with the Glossa Ordinaria
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The Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision) alongside the Glossa ordinaria, the standard medieval marginal commentary on Scripture, in a fresh English translation.
Read the edition →The Wroot Press Bible
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A fresh English Bible translation under written rules, published a chapter at a time.
Read the edition →Bereshit / In Principio
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Genesis 1:1–5, read as ten cruxes across three benches — the Latin, the rabbinic, and the Greek-Jewish traditions — with every witness dated, sourced, and threaded to the ones it cites, echoes, contests, or answers.
Read the edition →Talmai
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Which traditions preserved only in the Greek Bible survived in rabbinic memory? The Greek Additions to Esther, searched against the rabbinic and medieval Jewish bench, every parallel dated, sourced and ruled.
Read the edition →Named in Acts and the Letters
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An interactive prosopography of the New Testament, Acts through Jude: every named person, every verse, colored by attestation and linked across books.
Read the edition →Verbum
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Scripture read by sound. A reader's lens that sets the Hebrew beside the English and keys the words that play against each other — surfacing the puns, name-plays, and sound-echoes the translation flattens.
Read the edition →Lectern
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A preacher's workbench over the church year: the day's readings anchored, with Wesley sermon companions, hymn recommendations, and calls to worship arranged around them.
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In print
St. Matthew
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume I. The full King James text of Matthew with Wesley's note printed beneath each verse, and a critical apparatus tracing his sources. Mark, Luke, and John also available.
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St. Mark
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume II. The shortest Gospel, and the one where Wesley leans on almost nothing but Bengel — the apparatus shows him 'barely translating the Gnomon,' just as he said he would.
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St. Luke
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume III. The Gospel of the great parables — where the pastoral warmth long felt to be Wesley's own proves, in the apparatus, to be Doddridge's.
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St. John
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume IV. The most Bengel-dependent of the four — where the famous Logos gloss and the great anti-heresy readings are Bengel's, and Wesley's own hand shows in his grace-and-freedom re-slants.
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The Acts of the Apostles
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume V. The narrative bridge from the Gospels to the Epistles — the birth of the Church and the journeys of Paul, with Wesley's note beneath each verse and the apparatus tracing his sources.
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Romans & First Corinthians
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume VI. The first of the Epistles — the doctrinal core where Wesley's own hand shows most plainly, with his note beneath each verse and the apparatus tracing his sources.
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Other shelves
- Fontes Patrum — The Fathers and the medieval masters, in Latin, Greek and English.
- Reformation & Methodism — The Protestant and Wesleyan tradition, from Arminius to the Wesleys.