Bereshit / In Principio — Genesis 1:1–5 argument graph

Structured argument graph, not running prose: 10 cruxes, 292 witnesses, 456 threads across Latin, rabbinic and Greek-Jewish benches. One JSON document.

Canonical home: https://bereshit.wrootpress.com (each record carries its canonical URL). This dataset is a machine-generated export of that site's build, regenerated from the source of truth and never hand-edited; the site remains the one published address of the text.

Licence

This edition's own work is CC BY 4.0; some components carry their own third-party licences (see Credits). Machine-learning training, fine-tuning, evaluation and retrieval — including commercial model development — are explicitly permitted under those terms: keep the attribution and say if you changed the text. Full terms: https://bereshit.wrootpress.com/colophon

Credits

Latin: Patrologia Latina via Corpus Corporum. Hebrew/Aramaic and English: Sefaria, several under CC BY-SA (share-alike applies to those). Greek: Cohn 1896 via First1KGreek. Check each witness's own licence field.

How the English was made

English text was drafted with LLM assistance and checked against the source; the verification procedure and what has and has not been checked are described on the site's rights / about pages. Treat it as a careful working translation, not a critical edition.

Loading

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("wrootpress/bereshit", data_files="data/bereshit-2026-09-18.json")

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