Bad Bible is a living research project. Corrections are part of the editorial process. Submissions are judged by the quality of their evidence, not by the contributor's religious or nonreligious position.
Submission channel
Submit a correction or contribution
Found an error, missing evidence, a useful source, or a technical problem? Send it for editorial review.
Submit a correction or suggestion
You can submit without providing your name or email. Submissions are reviewed before any public content changes. Please submit one issue at a time.
What are you submitting?
- Correction: identify an existing entry, the claim at issue, and the evidence supporting a change.
- New entry or source: identify the passage or research question and provide checkable references.
- Technical problem: give the affected URL and describe what went wrong. A broken-link report does not need a scholarly bibliography.
Types of corrections
- Factual corrections: Incorrect dates, names, quotations, historical claims, or bibliographic details.
- Textual corrections: A mistranslation, omitted variant, misidentified manuscript reading, or misuse of Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, or another relevant language.
- Missing evidence: Primary sources, archaeological evidence, critical editions, academic monographs, or peer-reviewed research that materially affects an entry.
- Alternative interpretations: A serious scholarly explanation that an entry overlooks or represents inadequately.
- Classification objections: Evidence that an issue should be classified differently.
- New entry proposals: A specific problem meeting the project's inclusion criteria.
- Technical problems: Broken links, inaccessible material, or formatting defects.
Before submitting
Read 
What Qualifies as a Bad Bible Entry? and 
What to include
- Entry or page: Title and public URL.
- Specific claim: Exact sentence, classification, citation, or conclusion at issue.
- Proposed correction: Replacement wording or alternative conclusion.
- Reasoning: How the evidence supports the change.
- Sources: Full citation, DOI, stable URL, manuscript identifier, or primary-source reference.
- Relevant passage: Biblical reference and translation or edition.
- Name or identifier: Optional unless follow-up is needed.
- Credit preference: Public, anonymous, or no acknowledgment.
Evidence standards
Preference is given to independently checkable evidence:
- Primary texts, manuscript images, inscriptions, archaeological reports, and critical editions.
- Peer-reviewed articles and scholarly monographs.
- Academic commentaries, lexicons, grammars, and reference works.
- Theses, conference research, and specialist repositories.
- Responsible public scholarship by qualified specialists.
- Popular apologetic or counter-apologetic material when it is the object of analysis, not a substitute for underlying evidence.
A source is not accepted merely because it supports Bad Bible, and it is not rejected merely because it defends a traditional interpretation.
What happens next
We verify the submission, compare it with the existing evidence, and document any resulting correction, qualification, or decision.
Editorial review process
- Receipt: Match the submission to an entry or log it as a proposal.
- Verification: Check quotations, citations, links, and textual data.
- Comparison: Test it against the current evidence and strongest competing explanations.
- Decision: Correct, qualify, reclassify, expand, retain, or mark the issue unresolved.
- Documentation: Update the review date and editorial notes where appropriate.
- Follow-up: Request information when the submission cannot be independently evaluated.
Submission does not guarantee acceptance. The project evaluates evidential support rather than counting religious and nonreligious positions.
What will not be accepted
- Insults, threats, harassment, or arguments about motives.
- Bare assertions without enough information to investigate.
- Proof-texting that ignores context.
- AI-generated citations or quotations that cannot be verified.
- Long videos or podcasts without timestamps and a defined claim.
- Plagiarized material or copyrighted files shared without authorization.
- Repeated submissions that do not answer an earlier editorial response.
Original contributions
Researchers may propose investigations, passage studies, bibliographies, translation notes, or source summaries. Separate evidence from inference, disclose major uncertainties, and provide verifiable citations. Substantial work may be credited with the contributor's permission.
Related pages
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