Finding sources and reading their status
The source catalogue identifies 260 records. Its biblical baseline is complete at the book-identity level: 39 Old Testament and 27 New Testament books. It also registers major additional works, manuscript collections, and specific comparative families. Some records are components of another record, so 260 is neither a count of independent ancient books nor a claim to encompass every religion.
| Family | Records | Stable ID prefix |
|---|---|---|
| Biblical baseline | 66 | SRC-BIB- |
| Major additional books and components | 29 | SRC-DC- |
| Jewish pseudepigrapha and reception | 30 | SRC-JP- |
| Dead Sea Scrolls works and collections | 13 | SRC-DSS- |
| Nag Hammadi work identities and fragments | 46 | SRC-NH- |
| Other Christian apocrypha and Coptic collections | 29 | SRC-CA- |
| Comparative traditions and discovery families | 47 | SRC-WORLD- |
A record marked catalogue identified has an identity and a planned destination. The research status separately says whether a catalogue page was inspected or bibliographic verification remains pending. Initially, no ancient book has been marked fully read. Subsequent passage dossiers add exactly inspected ranges without turning that into a full-book claim.
Primary URL means a checked starting resource. Its scope field states whether it is an actual work page or only a collection/register. Planned volumes are editorial destinations, not dates, approved plot events, or completed chapter coverage. Caveats retain uncertain canon membership, numbering, recensions, and source limits.
The Biblical baseline uses identities such as SRC-BIB-GENESIS, SRC-BIB-1-SAMUEL, and SRC-BIB-SONG-OF-SONGS. Additional works, ancient authors, later reception, and the author's legacy books remain distinct. The legacy crosswalk uses LEGACY-CODEX-01 through LEGACY-CODEX-30.
The fifteen checked starting references
- USCCB: Books of the Bible — Canonical Order; Old Testament and New Testament lists.
REF-USCCB-CANON. - Sefaria: Tanakh — Torah; Prophets; Writings.
REF-SEFARIA-TANAKH. - Codex Sinaiticus: Content — Content paragraphs 1-4.
REF-SINAITICUS. - Israel Antiquities Authority: Scrolls Content — Manuscript Types; Composition Types; Non-Biblical Compositions.
REF-IAA-CONTENT. - Universite Laval: Nag Hammadi Coptic Library — Welcome paragraphs 2-5.
REF-BCNH-HOME. - Universite Laval: Translations — Codex/tractate tables; BG 8502; Bruce Codex.
REF-BCNH-LIST. - Brill: Coptic Gnostic Library Online — Overview of works; CTS URNs.
REF-BRILL-CGL. - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy: Corpus Coranicum — The project's goals; What is being produced?.
REF-CORPUS-CORANICUM. - University of Gottingen: GRETIL — Introduction; Sanskrit; Pali; contributor and source entries.
REF-GRETIL. - University of Oxford: ETCSL — Introduction.
REF-ETCSL. - USCCB: Historical Introduction — Kings paragraph; Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah; final methodological paragraphs.
REF-USCCB-HISTORY. - Israel Antiquities Authority: Historical Timeline — 586 BCE; Persian Period; 63 BCE; 70 CE; 132-135 CE.
REF-IAA-TIMELINE. - USCCB: Ezra 3 — Editorial note [3:1-2].
REF-USCCB-EZRA3. - Universite Laval: Coptic Gnostic Collections — Nag Hammadi paragraphs; Codex Tchacos paragraph.
REF-BCNH-COLLECTIONS. - Universite Laval Press: Le Tonnerre, Intellect parfait — Publisher description; NH VI,2 pages 13-21.
REF-BCNH-THUNDER.
Next use
Choose the exact edition and translation for a scene, inspect its specified passages, and record what the scene changes. Preserve the source's own tradition and voice. A shared image or word is an invitation to compare; it does not establish historical borrowing or a common theology.