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Description
The Menge-Bibel is a German literary and scientific Bible translation by Richard Menge, published in its revised 1939 version. This file contains all 66 books of the Bible, aligned by verse with OSIS verse IDs, cleaned running text, and complete metadata. The dataset was uploaded by Geliebter to Hugging Face.
Use Cases
Train language models on historical German prose based on the described literary and philologically precise translation.
Perform verse-aligned comparative text analysis based on the OSIS verse IDs and cleaned running text.
Study translation techniques and linguistic precision in religious texts based on the described philological fidelity to the source text.
Strengths
Contains all 66 books of the Bible, providing a complete canonical text.
Text is verse-aligned and includes OSIS verse IDs for precise reference.
The translation is described as emphasizing linguistic precision and philological fidelity.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Last updated 2026-06-14 10:48:13; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
Source
Hugging Face dataset uploaded by Geliebter.
Collection Method
The dataset appears to be a digital conversion of the published Menge-Bibel (1939) text.
Time Range
The text is a 1939 revised edition of a translation by Richard Menge (1837–1916).
Freshness
Last updated 2026-06-14 10:48:13.
License is unknown; users should verify licensing and public domain status before use.