A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
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From Deep Dive Bible (https://deepdivebible.org/downloads), built October 31, 2026.

License: the text: Public domain in the USA; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Credit: A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Biblical, Biographical, Geographical, Historical,
Practical and Theological, Elias Benjamin Sanford, editor (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890). Public domain in
the USA. Text from Oldpedia. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge
Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: articles our source ran together split apart; false
headings joined back to their articles; duplicate articles merged; stray text from the page edges left out.

Made for Deep Dive Bible by AI agents (Claude, by Anthropic) at Larry Sanger’s direction: the verse links;
the corrections to the text.

What is here:
- verse_links.json and verse_links.csv: the verses each article speaks of (slug: the article’s address on
the site and its ZWI file’s name) (3,338 rows). Columns: slug, title, book, chapter, verse, verse_end.
- zwi/: 3960 articles, one ZWI file each (the Encyclosphere’s open format for encyclopedia articles:
https://wiki.encyclosphere.org/ZWI_file_format). Each is a zip holding the article as HTML and text, and its
metadata.

Books are named by their USFM codes (GEN, EXO, … REV; the Apocrypha’s as TOB, JDT, 1MA, and so on). Verse
numbers are the KJV’s; verse 0 is the whole chapter, and a blank verse_end is the one verse.
The site’s software, Chatiferous, is free software: https://gitlab.com/globewalldesk/chatiferous
