About Atlas Biblica

Atlas Biblica is a connected reference to the people, places, events and books of the Bible. Every entry links to the entries it touches, so you can follow a thread from a person to the place they lived, to the events that happened there, to everyone else involved.

How entries are built

Each entry is built in three layers, and the pages keep them apart on purpose. Thefacts — names, relationships, places, references — come from openly licensed datasets and are stored as structured data that can be checked and corrected. Anything read out of the text itself carries the verse it was read from.

The descriptive paragraph on most pages is quoted from the dataset that wrote it, set in lighter type behind a rule and introduced by the name of its source. Those are somebody else's words and sometimes somebody else's register; they are reproduced rather than rewritten, because rewriting them would publish new sentences under an attribution that did not write them.

Where Atlas Biblica writes in its own voice, the sentence is drafted with the help of language models working strictly from the anchored facts, and then reviewed. Nothing is published in that voice unless it can be traced back to a record.

This split is deliberate. It means a correction to a fact updates everywhere it appears, and the prose can be regenerated without any risk of altering the underlying record.

Who publishes this

Atlas Biblica is published independently. It is not affiliated with any church, denomination, university or publisher, and it takes no position on whether the events it describes took place — it reports what the text says, and says whose reading it is whenever it goes beyond that.

Corrections

If you find an error, write to contact@atlasbiblica.com. Corrections are welcome from anyone, and you do not need to explain who you are.

The most useful reports name the page and the verse. Every fact here is anchored to a reference you can check, so if a relationship, a place or a date does not match what the passage says, quoting that passage is enough — and if a page states something the text does not state at all, that is the error we most want to hear about. See Sources for what each entry is based on, and Privacy for what this site does and does not record.