THE SCHOLARLY CORPUS

Our sources. Full transparency. And growing.

Every source is named, licensed, and documented. We curate additions deliberately — with public-domain, open-license, or permitted-use provenance. Nothing scraped, nothing hidden.

How OpenLumin uses this evidence →
14
named sources
5
full-text works
24k+
reference entries
100%
licensed provenance
Full textPublic Domain (CC0)
Matthew Henry Commentary
Full textPublic Domain
John Gill Commentary
Full textPublic Domain
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary
Full textPublic Domain
Adam Clarke Commentary
Full textPublic Domain
Easton's Bible Dictionary
3,964 termsPublic Domain
Michael Heiser / ANE Scholarship
65 entriesOriginal summaries
Ancient Near East Context
106 entriesOriginal summaries
3,067 people · 450 events · 1,274 placesCC-BY-SA 4.0
6,644 entries (people, places, key terms, deities, groups, flora, fauna, realia)CC-BY-SA 4.0
Full coverageCC-BY 4.0
Original Languages (Interlinear)
Hebrew & GreekCC-BY 4.0
Multiple translationsMIT
Denomination Documents (AG)
139 docsPermitted use
LEGENDScriptureCommentaryReferenceScholarshipStructured dataOriginal language
THE CITATION POLICY

Two labels, always visible.

Every claim in every answer is tagged so you always see the lineage — not just what sounds best. When a claim rests on a work we hold in full, it's verified. When it comes from the model's reading of the scholarship, it's training-assisted. We never blur the two.

Direct source-backed evidence points to material in the corpus. OpenLumin original summaries of scholarship are our own synthesis and are labeled separately from source text. Coverage is strongest in public-domain Protestant commentary and remains limited for modern academic, Catholic, and Orthodox works. Inspect the source links, compare perspectives, and make your own theological judgment.

verifiedWE HOLD THE SOURCE TEXT
“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam — not out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”MATTHEW HENRY · COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 2:22
training-assistedTHE MODEL'S READING, LABELED
Drawn from the model's training on published scholarship — surfaced, attributed where possible, and never presented as a text we hold verbatim.
DATA LICENSING

Every license, in plain terms.

All sources above are public domain, openly licensed, or used with permission. Here is what each license lets us do — and what it requires of us.

Public Domain

Works published before 1900 with authors deceased 100+ years. No restrictions.

CC-BY-SA 4.0

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Commercial use allowed. Attribution required (provided on this page). ShareAlike applies to raw-data redistribution, not SaaS output.

CC-BY 4.0

Creative Commons Attribution. Commercial use allowed. Attribution required.

MIT

No copyright restrictions whatsoever, including for commercial uses.

Original summaries

Written by OpenLumin based on published scholarship. Ideas are not copyrightable; these are original expressions.

Permitted use

Included with the rights-holder's permission for use within OpenLumin.

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We add scholars deliberately — with clear provenance and the right to include them. If there's a public-domain, open-license, or rights-cleared work our corpus is missing, tell us. Church Plan subscriptions fund every addition.