Werner VorstmanInstruments for reading Scripture closely
Werner Vorstman

Werner Vorstman

I build instruments for reading Scripture closely, and I put them here for anyone to use. They are made with one purpose: to show what a claim about Scripture rests on, rather than have you take it on the authority of whoever printed it.

What is here is the tooling I needed for my own reading and could not find. An analysis that shows, verse by verse, what a link is made of. A calendar that computes the appointed days instead of copying them out. A timeline that sets the dating scholarship works with beside the years the text itself counts. The curve the ages in Genesis fall on. And the Hebrew alphabet with every mark the text carries around it.

Each instrument comes with its data and its method, including where they are weak. What an instrument cannot show is stated as plainly as what it can — otherwise you learn to trust it too far. More about me, and about how this site is built

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 25:2 · King James Version
Instrument I

Moria

Five independent methods, run over the whole canon in advance, that find texts related to any verse — and show what each link is made of.

31,102 verses5 methods444,000 parsed wordsworks offline
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Instrument II

The Calendar

New moons, full moons, equinoxes, solstices and the appointed days, from 1001 BCE to 3000 CE, computed from first principles rather than looked up.

4,001 yearssunset to sunsetJulian & GregorianΔT corrected
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Instrument III

The Timeline

Adam to the fall of the second temple on one axis, in two reckonings at once — the dating scholarship works with, and the years the text itself counts.

153 entries2 reckonings6 external anchorsevery claim sourced
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Instrument IV

The Lifespans

Twenty-eight ages at death from Adam to Joshua — flat before the flood, and after it falling on one curve that flattens near the 120 of Genesis 6:3.

28 agesR² = 0.927every age sourcedone outlier
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Instrument V

The Alphabet

Twenty-two letters with the shapes they had before the square script, the vowel points, the cantillation marks, and verses to read aloud.

22 letters15 points26 marks4 verses
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Instrument VI

The Moon

Today's moon, drawn as it appears from where you are, with its rising and setting, its distance, and the biblical month and day.

every dayback and forwardwhere you areMeeus 47-49
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