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Books for studying the Bible and early editions of Scripture that are free to distribute. We publish them as they are: scans and electronic copies we have not edited.

Dictionaries

A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible (1890) — James Strong. Download: PDF (11 MB) · DjVu (13 MB)
A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament (1890) — James Strong. Download: PDF (7.1 MB) · DjVu (8.1 MB)
A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, 1939) — Brown, Driver, Briggs. Download: PDF (84 MB) · DjVu (55 MB)

Early printed books

The Gutenberg Bible. Volume 1 (1455) — Johannes Gutenberg, copy Stamp.Barb.AAA.IV.16, © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Download: PDF (210 MB)
The Gutenberg Bible. Volume 2 (1455) — Johannes Gutenberg, copy Stamp.Barb.AAA.IV.17, © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Download: PDF (192 MB)

Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts

The Pentateuch (1504), Neofiti 1 — the only surviving copy of the Palestinian Targum of the Pentateuch, in Aramaic. © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Download: PDF (190 MB)
The Babylonian Talmud (late 13th or early 14th century), Vat. ebr. 108. © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Download: PDF (41 MB)
The Pentateuch (11th or 12th century), Vat. ebr. 448. © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Download: PDF (193 MB)

Greek manuscripts

The Old Testament in Greek. Volume 1 (10th century), Reg. gr. 1A — the Bible of Leo the Patrician. © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Download: PDF (209 MB)
The Old Testament in Greek. Volume 2 (10th century), Reg. gr. 1B — the Bible of Leo the Patrician. © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Download: PDF (6.8 MB)