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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.