mrapacz/targum-corpus

Targum Corpus

Targum is a multilingual New Testament translation corpus covering 657 translations across English, French, Spanish, Polish, and Italian, collected from 13 source libraries and spanning 1525–2025. This dataset contains the public release subset: 307 translations distributed under public domain or open licenses; the remaining 350 copyrighted translations are excluded.

Also available on GitHub: mrapacz/targum-corpus.

Dataset summary

Language	Code	Translations
English	en	196
French	fr	44
Spanish	es	29
Polish	pl	25
Italian	it	13
Total		307

Includes public domain (242) and open-license (65) translations. Full translation metadata in index.tsv and manifest.json.

Structure

corpora/
  {site}/
    {iso}/
      {id}.jsonl        # one verse per line
index.tsv               # metadata for all 307 translations
copyrights.tsv          # copyright text and status per translation
book_coverage.tsv       # which books each translation covers
manifest.json           # summary statistics

Each JSONL file:

{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "1", "text": "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ..."}
{"book": "MAT", "chapter": 1, "verse": "2", "text": "Abraham begat Isaac..."}

book uses standard 3-letter New Testament codes: MAT MRK LUK JHN ACT ROM 1CO 2CO GAL EPH PHP COL 1TH 2TH 1TI 2TI TIT PHM HEB JAS 1PE 2PE 1JN 2JN 3JN JUD REV.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load a single translation
ds = load_dataset(
    "mrapacz/targum-corpus",
    data_files="corpora/ebible.org/eng/eng-web.jsonl",
    split="train",
)
print(ds[0])
# {'book': 'MAT', 'chapter': 1, 'verse': '1', 'text': 'This is the genealogy of Jesus...'}

# Load all English translations from one site
ds = load_dataset(
    "mrapacz/targum-corpus",
    data_files="corpora/ebible.org/eng/*.jsonl",
    split="train",
)

Load metadata:

import pandas as pd

index = pd.read_csv(
    "hf://datasets/mrapacz/targum-corpus/index.tsv",
    sep="\t",
)

Source data

Translations were scraped from 13 libraries: biblegateway.com, bible.com, biblehub.com, bible.is, ebible.org, bibles.org, bible.audio, jw.org, biblestudytools.com, bibliepolskie.pl, obohu.cz, crossbible.com, laparola.net.

Only public domain and open-license translations are included in this release. Copyrighted translations (350 of 657 total) are excluded.

License

Corpus metadata and derived annotations: CC-BY 4.0. Individual translations retain their original licenses as recorded in copyrights.tsv.

Citation

Citation TBD. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.09724