The Bible Directory
Read the chapter. Enter its world.
Learn how to explore it. Follow the questions, places, words, manuscripts, artifacts, and scholarly debates that connect the text to its historical world—and trace how the Bible itself was written, copied, translated, collected, and preserved.
Begin with the text
Choose where to begin.
Explore all 39 Old Testament books now. The New Testament chapter experience is coming soon.
Old Testament
Open any chapter and follow its time, place, literary form, Hebrew words, maps, artifacts, manuscripts, questions, and research paths.
Choose an Old Testament book →Coming soonNew Testament
The same research-first chapter experience will expand into the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian worlds of all 27 books.
See what is coming →Inside the chapter experience
A Bible chapter becomes a doorway.
The biblical text remains central. Around it, The Bible Directory organizes the historical, geographic, literary, linguistic, manuscript, and material context that is usually scattered across many different places.
Find your bearings
Begin with exactly three points of orientation: the chapter’s time, place, and literary lens.
Open a chapter example →Enter its world
Follow chapter-specific questions through historical context and scholarly discussion that distinguishes consensus, debate, and uncertainty.
Choose a chapter →Examine what survives
Encounter real maps, artifacts, inscriptions, manuscripts, archaeological sites, and literary features selected because they illuminate that chapter.
Explore the historical worlds →Build a research trail
Investigate useful Hebrew pathways, open trusted scholarly sources, save private notes, and join clearly public chapter discussions.
Open My Study →Beyond the chapter
Four distinct paths for deeper exploration
Enter an ancient setting, follow the history of the biblical text, practice a reading method, or return to your own study.
Historical Worlds
Explore civilizations, rulers, maps, artifacts, languages, and daily life surrounding biblical texts.
Enter the historical worlds →MANUSCRIPTS · TRANSMISSIONBible History
Trace how biblical writings were copied, collected, translated, organized, and preserved.
Explore Bible history →GUIDED PRACTICEReading Skills
Learn to examine narrative, poetry, law, prophecy, wisdom, structure, language, and literary form.
Practice with a passage →PRIVATE WORKSPACEMy Study
Return to your private chapter notes, saved observations, questions, and research.
Open My Study →Explore together
Read every chapter together
Follow the shared weekly schedule, exchange ideas, ask questions, and learn together—or begin at your own pace.
The Bible Directory
Many sources. A wider biblical world.
The Bible Directory brings together carefully selected material from museums, universities, archives, archaeological projects, manuscript collections, scholarly resources, and other trusted sources—making it easier to follow connections that are often scattered across the web. Explore the world surrounding each chapter and the long history of how the biblical text was copied, translated, organized, preserved, and studied. We draw on current scholarly research to show what is well established, where scholars disagree, and what remains uncertain.