The scriptures of the world,laid side by side.
Read the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, the Tao Te Ching, and the Vedas in one place — then trace the figures, the places, and the ideas that thread through them.
Seven traditions. One reading room.
The Bible
Old + New Testament (KJV, 1611)
The Torah
The first five books (JPS / KJV)
The Qur'an
Arabic with English translation
Bhagavad Gita
Selections — Sir Edwin Arnold (1885)
Vedas
Rigveda — selected hymns (Griffith)
Dhammapada
F. Max Müller translation (1881)
Tao Te Ching
James Legge translation (1891)
The same river, seen from different banks.
Noah and Nuh. Jesus and Isa. Mary and Maryam. Abraham's sacrifice. The great flood. The awakening under a tree. Figures and episodes the traditions share — and exactly how they diverge.
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The Great Flood
A worldwide deluge sent as divine judgment, from which a single righteous man saves his family and representative life aboard a vessel. Versions appear across Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Christian, Islamic, and Hindu traditions — evidence of shared cultural memory or independent theological convergence is debated by scholars.
The Binding — Abraham's Sacrifice
A father is commanded to sacrifice his own son as a test of faith; at the last moment a substitute is provided. Central to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic identity, though the identity of the son differs between the Bible and the Qur'an.
Moses and the Exodus
A Hebrew infant is hidden, raised in Pharaoh's household, flees to the desert, encounters God at a burning bush, and returns to lead his people out of Egypt through parted waters. The foundational liberation narrative of Judaism; honoured in Christianity and Islam.
Six lives, many scriptures.
Where scripture touches the earth.
An interactive map pinning Jerusalem, Mecca, Varanasi, Bodh Gaya, Mount Sinai, Patmos, the cave of Hira — each marker opens the passages set there. Walk from the burning bush to the Sermon on the Mount to the deer park at Sarnath without closing a tab.
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Ideas that cross every border.
Love
From agape to maitri to hesed — the call to unconditional care for the other runs through every tradition.
Justice
The call to order rightly what power has bent — a thread that runs from the prophets to the caliphs to the Mahabharata.
Mercy
The stepping-back from strict justice; the compassion that each tradition places at the centre of the divine character.
Creation
How each tradition narrates the beginning — from the six days of Genesis to the breathless One of the Rigveda to the nameless Tao.
"This is an academic comparison, not a devotion and not a debate. Every translation here is public domain; every editorial note is ours and is open to correction."
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