Diviane

About Diviane

An open-source platform for exploring the Bible — hybrid vector and graph retrieval, with every generated claim grounded in a cited source.

About the name

Diviane reads, in French, as div(IA)ne — "IA" (French for AI) hidden inside "divine." It's also, independently, a real name in the Diane / Viviane family, which is exactly why it works in English too, even though the AI pun itself is French-specific and won't be obvious to English-only readers. Both readings are true; neither needs the other to work.

Editorial principles

  • No modern copyrighted translation is ever ingested, quoted, or reproduced. WEB and other public-domain/openly-licensed texts only.
  • No single doctrinal position is presented as "the" Diviane position. Interpretation cards are sourced and multi-perspective by construction.
  • Traditional chronologies (e.g., Ussher) are labeled as historical/traditional artifacts, not as scientific consensus or fact, consistent with how they are understood in contemporary scholarship.
  • The introspection/journaling feature is reflective, not clinical. It does not diagnose, does not simulate therapy or pastoral counsel, and will point users toward real human support for anything beyond reflective journaling.
  • What is stored, and where, is written down. Journal entries never leave your browser — no accounts, no server-side journals, no analytics — and the transient caches that do exist expire within 24 hours; the full inventory is docs/PRIVACY.md.
  • Every generated claim is grounded and cited. If retrieval doesn't surface a source for a claim, the claim is not generated.
  • Rewrites are always paired with, never a replacement for, the source text.

Credits & licenses

Diviane’s own code is AGPL-3.0. The Bible text is public domain. The structured datasets are openly licensed, and the credit lines their licenses require are below. The full per-source record, with licenses, pins and fetch dates, is the project’s data ledger, data/SOURCES.md. Interpretation cards carry their own source’s citation beside every quote.

  • BibleData

    Person, Place, Event, Epoch, PersonRelationship, PersonVerse, the 613 commandments, HebrewStrongs, Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary and the Alamo Polyglot — the knowledge graph's structured backbone.

    Brady Stephenson. (2026). BibleData: Structured Datasets from the Holy Bible (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19539956

    CC BY 4.0 Source

    Per-file contributors credited within BibleData: Dan Raby (PersonLabel) and Fernando Falci (PersonRelationship).

  • Ussher's Annals of the World

    The traditional 17th-century chronology, served as a labeled traditional artifact — never as scientific consensus or fact.

    Brady Stephenson. (2026). BibleData: Structured Datasets from the Holy Bible (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19539956

    CC BY 4.0 — the same terms as BibleData, which is where it ships from Source

  • OpenBible.info cross-references

    The ~345k verse cross-references behind a verse's cross-reference list.

    Cross references from OpenBible.info (www.openbible.info), used under CC BY 4.0.

    CC BY 4.0 Source

  • OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding

    The place identifications and coordinates behind place pages.

    Bible Geocoding data from OpenBible.info (https://www.openbible.info/geo/), used under CC BY 4.0.

    CC BY 4.0 Source

  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB)

    The Hebrew Masoretic text's lemmatization and morphology, read by the interlinear.

    Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb

    CC BY 4.0 — for the annotations; the Westminster Leningrad Codex base text is public domain Source

  • SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)

    The Greek New Testament critical text the interlinear reads.

    The SBLGNT is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software.

    CC BY 4.0 Source

  • STEPBible TAGNT

    Word-level tagging of the Greek New Testament: extended Strong's numbers, morphology, transliteration and glosses.

    Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

    CC BY 4.0 Source

  • STEPBible TIPNR

    The proper-noun layer: people and places with their disambiguated names and the references to them.

    Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

    CC BY 4.0 Source

  • World English Bible (WEB)

    Every verse of scripture the reader shows.

    World English Bible text (public domain, ebible.org), in the structured JSON packaging by TehShrike.

    Public domain — no credit required, credited anyway Source

  • Strong's Greek Dictionary

    The Greek lexicon entries behind a Strong's lookup and the interlinear's per-word glosses.

    Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML with real Greek, prepared by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen.

    CC0 1.0 — no credit required, credited anyway Source