BibleMachine

A laboratory for long-form text

Whole texts.
New possibilities.

What happens when you treat an entire book as something you can explore, transform, and build upon?

BibleMachine is an experimental AI-assisted system for working with large, structured texts—from the source material to a new edition, with structure and review at the center.

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01 / Anatomy of an edition
SOURCE / STRUCTURED TEXT

Book → Chapter → Passage

BIBLEMACHINE

Structure stays.
Interpretation changes.

AnalyzeTransformReview
01Edition A
02Edition B
03Edition C
One source. Multiple interpretations.
A conceptual view of the workflow.
The underlying idea

A book is more than a wall of text.
Its structure is something worth keeping.

01 / The engine

From source material
to something new.

Changing the voice of a passage is one thing. Carrying an interpretation across a book takes a system: stable references, explicit instructions, resumable work, and room for human judgment.

  1. 01

    Give the text a structure

    Ingest and normalize source material into addressable units. Keep the original words, hierarchy, and source identity separate from their presentation.

    Source
  2. 02

    Look across the whole work

    Inspect references, entities, and relationships. Graph tooling records evidence and supports analysis beyond an isolated passage.

    Analyze
  3. 03

    Change the voice with intention

    Apply an edition’s instructions across passages with controlled AI generation. Save progress, resume interrupted work, and keep editions tied to their sources.

    Transform
  4. 04

    Keep judgment in the process

    Retain review evidence, inspect the output, and adjudicate problems. Automated checks help; they do not certify meaning or literary quality.

    Review
  5. 05

    Make it a book again

    Prepare EPUB and print-ready PDF output from publication snapshots, with artwork and layout support. Editorial review still comes before publication.

    Publish

02 / The experiments

Serious machinery.
Occasionally ridiculous books.

Bible transformations were the starting point. Some were intentionally absurd: a way to ask how far a text’s voice could move while its underlying structure stayed recognizable.

BM / 001

The Fart Bible

An unapologetically irreverent starting point.

Comic reinterpretation
BM / 002

The Canon Protocol: god.log

Scripture meets the language of systems.

Technical reinterpretation
BM / 003

The Bible: A Matter of Procedure

A sacred text with a procedural sensibility.

Bureaucratic reinterpretation
BM / 004

The Holy Smoke

Another experiment in changing the register.

Creative reinterpretation

BibleMachine is the engine. These are projects made with it. They are creative experiments, not the limits of the system. Visit Holy Affairs for the published creative works and their current availability.

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03 / Beyond the first corpus

Started with the Bible.
Built to ask bigger questions.

The architecture is growing beyond verse-based texts to other books and structured collections. The question is the same: how do you transform a whole work without losing your way back to the source?

Graph analysis and study-aid tooling already provide foundations. Richer visualization, comparative editions, clearer provenance, and broader applications to other corpora remain active areas of exploration.

Experimental software · Ongoing development

Source → Structure → Interpretation → Edition

A different way
to work with the whole text.

Discover the creative works