Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew
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Built an auditable AI (Bible) translation pipeline: Hebrew/Greek source packets -> verse JSON with notes rolling up to chapters, books, and testaments. Final texts compiled with metrics (TTR, n-grams).This is the first full-text example as far as I know (Gen Z bible doesn't count).There are hallucinations and issues, but the overall quality surprised me.LLMs have a lot of promise translating and rendering 'accessible' more ancient texts.The technology has a lot of benefit for the faithful, that I think is only beginning to be explored.
HN · launched Jan 22, 2026 · 55 upvotes (top 18%) · 0 views
Niche: religious and scripture study apps · 82 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is an automated batch pipeline that feeds ancient Greek and Hebrew texts to commercial LLM APIs, structures the output into JSON schemas, and displays them via a reading interface.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: LLM translations produce inferior quality compared to existing professional translations, AI chatbots designed to maximize user engagement pose spiritual risks and false elder dynamics, Diacritics missing from text representation, Loading issues with main content pane
Feature requests: Add diacritical marks to original text representation, Support for multiple browser/OS compatibility, Blog documentation of translation process details
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Launched 82 days after the earliest competitor.
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