k-mktr/septuaginta_el

Septuagint (LXX, 3rd-2nd century BC)

Description

The ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), traditionally said to have been translated by 72 Jewish scholars in Alexandria, Egypt during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 BC). The Septuagint (abbreviated LXX) is the oldest known Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures and was the Bible of the early Christian Church. It includes books not found in the Hebrew canon (the deuterocanonical books/Apocrypha) and was the primary source for Old Testament quotations in the New Testament. This dataset contains the Septuagint text in Greek using Latin transliteration (not Greek script), making it accessible for text processing and computational analysis. The text itself is ancient and in the public domain.

Dataset Structure

Each row represents one Bible verse.

Column	Type	Description
translation_id	string	Translation identifier
translation	string	Full translation name
language	string	Language code
book_number	int32	Book number (1-66)
book	string	Book name
book_abbr	string	Book abbreviation
chapter	int32	Chapter number
verse	string	Verse number (may include suffixes like 13a)
verse_number	int32	Numeric part of verse
verse_suffix	string	Verse suffix (e.g. a, b) or null
verse_id	string	Unique verse identifier ({book_abbr}_{chapter}_{verse})
text	string	Verse text

Statistics

• Books: 66
• Verses: 31539
• Language: Greek (Koine, Latin transliteration)
• Format: Parquet (ZSTD compressed)
• File size: 1.39 MB

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("k-mktr/septuaginta_el", split="train")
print(dataset[0])
# {'translation_id': 'septuaginta_el', 'book': '...', 'chapter': 1, 'verse': '1', 'text': '...'}

License

Public domain (the Septuagint text itself is ancient, 3rd-2nd century BC).