Ancient Texts — Biblical and Beyond
Claims and their evidence, at every step.
From ancient Mesopotamian writing to today’s translations — one continuous textual tradition, explorable by anyone.
Codexarium publishes composition dates and manuscript attestation for 120 texts of the ancient eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia. Each date is attributed to the scholar who argues it and traced to a citation; where the major frameworks date a text differently, each reading is recorded with an indication of how widely it is held. The dataset is published under CC BY-SA 4.0, downloadable in full and citable; the printed charts and the software are what we sell.
Posters
Data-derived wall charts — scholarly positions on when the major texts were written, drawn straight from the project’s data and printed on archival paper. Available now, printed on demand and shipped worldwide.
The visualization
A navigable 3D view of the ancient-text world — works placed in time, their layers and disagreements kept visible, any canon laid over the whole as a lens. In development.