Open Data

    The tables behind the books

    The data behind the True Testament and our books, free to download, check and cite. Every file comes as a CSV that opens in Excel and as JSON for software, with a guide to its columns.

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    Every verse, everywhere

    For each True Testament verse, every place in the Library's data that cites it: Tertullian's chapters, Epiphanius's scholia, the lexicon, the scripture indexes and the rest

    Scripture

    The True Testament itself

    • Verses

      Every verse with its Luke or Paul reference, the English and the Greek, whether it is attested or probable, and the early writers who quote it · 1,507 verses

      The True Testament
    • Commentary

      The verse notes, each keyed to the verse it comments on, with its cross references · 520 notes

      The True Testament
    • What the scholars decided

      Each edition's call on every verse of Luke and the ten letters, from Hahn in 1823 to the modern reconstructions, with page numbers for Ritschl, Baur and Hilgenfeld · One row per verse, one column per edition

      The True Testament

    Replies

    Our answers to the church's critics, passage by passage

    • The 118 scholia

      Each of Epiphanius's extracts from Marcion's Gospel and Apostolikon: Holl's pages, the Greek and our English, the Luke or Paul reference and the True Testament verse, Epiphanius's charge and our answer · 118 scholia

      Against Epiphanius
    • Against Marcion, section by section

      All five books of Tertullian's Against Marcion in Latin with our English, and the True Testament verses each chapter is cited for · 1,191 sections

      Against Tertullian
    • Institutes passages answered

      Each passage of Calvin's Institutes the reply cites, his words where the book quotes them, the chapter that answers it, and the True Testament verses that chapter cites · 1,013 rows, 706 passages

      Against Calvin
    • Speeches answered

      Each speech of Thus Spoke Zarathustra the reply cites, Nietzsche's words where the book quotes them, the chapter that answers it, and the True Testament verses that chapter cites · 294 rows, 82 speeches

      Against Zarathustra

    Translations

    The reconstructions and studies we brought into English

    • Harnack's text, verse by verse

      The Greek of Harnack's 1924 reconstruction for the Evangelion and the ten letters, with the matching True Testament verse

      Adolf von Harnack’s Reconstructed Marcionite New Testament
    • Zahn's text, verse by verse

      The Greek of Zahn's 1892 reconstruction for the Evangelion and the ten letters, with the matching True Testament verse

      Marcion’s New Testament (Zahn)
    • Ritschl's decisions

      Every verse Ritschl rules on, whether Marcion had it, altered it or struck it, with his page

      The Gospel of Marcion and the Canonical Gospel of Luke
    • Baur's decisions

      Every verse Baur rules on, whether Marcion had it, altered it or struck it, with his page

      Marcion and the Gospel of Luke
    • Hilgenfeld on the Apostolikon

      Every verse of the ten letters Hilgenfeld rules on in 1855, with his page

      Marcion’s Apostolikon
    • Hilgenfeld on Galatians

      Every verse of Galatians Hilgenfeld rules on in his 1852 study, with his page

      Marcion’s Galatians
    • Readings Harnack discussed

      Each place Harnack discusses a verse of Marcion's Gospel or Apostolikon in 1923: the reading, his view in his own words, and the page · 46 readings

      New Studies on Marcion
    • Passages argued over

      Each passage of the Gospel that Semler, Wegener and Löffler, and Schmidt argue over, what each says in his own words, and the page · 116 passages

      Did Marcion Falsify the Gospel?
    • The recovered fragments

      Each fragment of the lost book recovered from Augustine's reply: where Augustine gives it, whether verbatim, reported or reconstructed, the Latin and our English, and Harnack's page · 111 fragments

      The Lost Marcionite Book of Carthage

    Theology and history

    Our own books

    • Every reconstruction

      Each reconstruction or study of Marcion's Gospel and Apostolikon from Simon in 1689 on: who made it, when, what it covers, its method and its view of which text came first · 86 reconstructions

      The History of Marcionite Reconstruction
    • The lexicon

      Each of the sixteen key words: its Greek, its part of the book, its meaning in the book's own words, and the True Testament verses it rests on · 16 terms

      Key Words of Our Faith
    • Timeline

      Dated events, people and assemblies from Marcion to Theodoret: the date, the place, who, what happened, and the ancient source · 41 entries

      The Marcionite Centuries
    • Scripture index

      Every True Testament passage the book cites, the chapter it appears in, and how often · 45 rows

      Christ Without Bloodline
    • Scripture index

      Every True Testament passage the book cites, the chapter it appears in, and how often · 287 rows

      Perishing
    • Scripture index

      Every True Testament passage the book cites, the chapter it appears in, and how often · 51 rows

      Aeonic Dispensationalism
    • Scripture index

      Every True Testament passage the book cites, the chapter it appears in, and how often · 236 rows

      Beyond the Rupture
    • Scripture index

      Every True Testament passage the book cites, the chapter it appears in, and how often · 19 rows

      May I Ask?

    How to cite

    How to cite

    Muenchow, W. C., IV. True Testament: Open Data. True Testament Assembly, 2026. truetestament.org/research/data

    English text, notes and tables by W. C. Muenchow IV, under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Greek, Latin and German sources are public domain.

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    Use and rights

    English text, notes and tables by W. C. Muenchow IV, under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Greek, Latin and German sources are public domain. You may share and adapt the files for any purpose, including commercial work, as long as you credit the source. The files are rebuilt from the live text, so they always match the current release.