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Each study takes one passage, or one claim about one passage, and works it to the bottom: the original language, the ancient versions, and the reception read at their own loci. Where a widely repeated claim turns out to have no source behind it, these studies say so and show what was searched.

The Story of Salvation — an abridged reading that carries the story of scripture without stalling in the genealogies and law codes, in three lengths, with the translation of your choosing.

For the making and reception of complete biblical versions, see the biblical translation histories.

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Abraham and the Daylight Stars (Genesis 15:5) PDF · Read PDF · Read The chapter's own clock, its Hebrew, Greek, and Latin witnesses, historical alternatives, and the limits of a daylight reading.
The Linen Cloths at the Empty Tomb (John 20:6–7) PDF · Read PDF · Read Observation, inference, patristic readings, and the modern folded-cloth claim.
Bread from Heaven (John 6 and the manger) PDF · Read Tests how early Christian reception joined John 6 to Bethlehem, the manger, and the swaddled child while preserving serious nonsacramental alternatives.