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Lantern Modern Standard

The Lantern’s default reading text — a modernized Authorized Version, with the critical apparatus disclosed up front. Other translations are options in the catalog below. Be skeptical of it — that is how it wants to be read.

Genesis 1John 1Psalms

Scripture

27 translations · 31,102 verses each

Modern & literal

Lantern Modern Standardthe default2026Berean Standard Bibleevery word tappable2016TappableMajority Standard BibleMajority Text sister to the Berean2022TappableYoung's Literal Translation1862Literal

The classics

King James Versionevery word tappable1611TappableCoverdale PsalterCoverdale’s Prayer Book psalter1535Geneva Bible1560Tyndale Bible1526

Tanakh & original tongues

Westminster Leningrad Codexthe Masoretic textHebrewByzantine Majority TextGreekTextus Receptus1550GreekJPS Tanakhthe Tanakh in English1917

Further shelves

Lantern DirectLantern Modern CatholicStatistical Restoration Greek New TestamentGreekTischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece (editio octava)Greek

Second Temple & Apocrypha

68 works · 7 cases

The Deuterocanon

Lantern Modern Apocryphathe modernized deuterocanon — companion to the Standard2026Additions to Estherc. 100 BCBel and the Dragonc. 150 BCI Baruchc. 150 BC

Testaments of the Patriarchs

Testament of Reubenfirst of the Twelvec. 100 BCTestament of SimeonTestament of LeviTestament of Judah

Apocalypses & visions

Apocalypse of Abrahamc. AD 100Apocalypse of Elijahc. AD 250Apocalypse of Peterc. AD 135Apocalypse of Sedrach

Lives & legends

Book of Nathan the ProphetGad the SeerHistory of the RechabitesI Adam and Evec. AD 100

Psalms & odes

Five Psalms of DavidOdes of Solomonc. AD 100Psalms of Solomonc. 50 BC

Dead Sea & inscriptions

Apocryphon of JoshuaQumranBalaam Inscriptionc. 800 BCInscriptionBook of Giantsc. 100 BCQumranGenesis Apocryphonc. 100 BCQumran

The early church

General Epistle of Barnabasc. AD 100Gospel of Nicodemusc. AD 350I Hermasthe Shepherd, visionsc. AD 140II Hermascommandsc. AD 140III Hermassimilitudesc. AD 140

Philosophy Hall

Plato to Wittgenstein — classical, patristic, Reformers, and the moderns

The first shelf

The Confessions of St. Augustinec. AD 400The Consolation of Philosophyc. AD 524The Imitation of Christc. 1420Pascal's Pensées1670

The classical alcove

Dialogues of PlatoJowett — Apology through the Lawsc. 380 BCNicomachean EthicsAristotle — tr. F. H. Petersc. 350 BCPoliticsAristotle — tr. William Ellisc. 350 BCPoeticsAristotle — tr. S. H. Butcherc. 335 BC

The Reformers' gallery

The Ninety-five Thesesthe spark at Wittenberg1517A Treatise on Good Works1520The Large Catechismtr. Bente & Dau1529Commentary on GalatiansLuther’s favorite of his own books1535

The modern question

Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionHume, posthumous — the design argument on trial1779The Critique of Practical ReasonKant — the moral law, and God as its postulate · tr. Abbott1788Lectures on the History of Philosophy (Vol. 1)Hegel — the Greeks to the Cynics · tr. Haldanec. 1825Lectures on the History of Philosophy (Vol. 2)Hegel — Plato, Aristotle, and the Neo-Platonistsc. 1825

The Beit Midrash

Mishnah, both Talmuds, the Midrash, and Jewish thought

The Oral Torah

Talmud Bavli37 tractates · Davidson / Steinsaltzc. AD 500Talmud Yerushalmi39 tractates · Guggenheimerc. AD 400The Mishnah63 tractates · Kulp translationc. AD 200

The Midrash

Ein Yaakovthe Talmud's aggadah · Glick1516Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmaelhalakhic midrash on Exodusc. AD 250Midrash TanchumaGenesis & Exodus · Bermanc. AD 800Pirkei DeRabbi EliezerFriedlander translationc. AD 750

Jewish thought — the Rishonim & the moderns

Duties of the HeartBachya ibn Paquda · tr. Sebag & Hyamsonc. 1080Eight ChaptersMaimonides on ethics · tr. Gorfinklec. 1168Guide for the PerplexedMaimonides · tr. Friedländerc. 1190KuzariYehuda Halevi · tr. Hirschfeldc. 1140

The Stacks · Church Fathers

110 authors, whole works — Clement to Chalcedon

The Apostolic Fathers · to AD 150

Clement of Romed. c. AD 99Didached. c. AD 100Ignatius of Antiochd. c. AD 108Odes of Solomon (Ante-Nicene)d. c. AD 125

The apologists · AD 150–200

Polycarp of Smyrnad. c. AD 155Shepherd of Hermasd. c. AD 160Justin Martyrd. c. AD 165Hegesippusd. c. AD 180

The third century · AD 200–280

Irenaeusd. c. AD 202Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicityd. c. AD 203Clement of Alexandriad. c. AD 215Tertulliand. c. AD 220

Toward Nicaea · AD 280–325

Liturgy of Saint Markd. c. AD 300Theonas of Alexandriad. c. AD 300Victorinus of Pettaud. c. AD 304Pamphilus of Caesaread. c. AD 309

The Nicene age · AD 325–400

Alexander of Alexandriad. c. AD 328Arnobius of Siccad. c. AD 330Eusebius of Caesaread. c. AD 339Council of Gangrad. c. AD 340

The golden age · AD 400–451

Epiphanius of Salamisd. c. AD 403Macarius Magnesd. c. AD 403Chromatius of Aquileiad. c. AD 406John Chrysostomd. c. AD 407

After Chalcedon · to AD 500

Dioscorus of Alexandriad. c. AD 454Theodoret of Cyrusd. c. AD 458Leo the Greatd. c. AD 461Sidonius Apollinarisd. c. AD 490

The Scriptorium

38 authors after Chalcedon — Gregory to de Sales

After Chalcedon · AD 500–604

Joshua the Stylited. c. AD 507Jacob of Serughd. c. AD 521Philoxenus of Mabbugd. c. AD 523Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagited. c. AD 532

The age of Bede · AD 604–900

Venantius Fortunatusd. c. AD 609Isidore of Sevilled. c. AD 636Council of Constantinople of 681d. c. AD 681Quinisext Councild. c. AD 692

The schoolmen · AD 900–1300

Robert of Tombelained. c. AD 1078Theophylact of Ohridd. c. AD 1107Bernard of Clairvauxd. c. AD 1153Bonaventured. c. AD 1274Thomas Aquinasd. c. AD 1274

Mystics & moderns · after 1300

John of the Crossd. c. AD 1591Francis de Salesd. c. AD 1622JB Lightfootd. c. AD 1889

The Cell of the Saints

The saints in their own words — Bede to Newman

In their own words

The Rule of St. Benedictthe rule that built the West · tr. Doylec. 530Bede's Ecclesiastical History of EnglandSt. Bede · tr. SellarAD 731Letters of Catherine BenincasaSt. Catherine of Siena · tr. Scudderc. 1375The Autobiography of St. Ignatiusdictated to da Câmara1555

Beloved companions

Revelations of Divine LoveJulian of Norwich · the first English book by a womanc. 1395The Practice of the Presence of GodBrother Lawrence1692

Further shelves

The Roman Martyrology

The Poets' Corner

Christian epics — and Virgil beside them

The great poems

The Divine ComedyInferno · Purgatorio · Paradiso — tr. Longfellowc. 1320Paradise LostMilton’s epic of the Fall1667Paradise Regainedthe brief epic — the temptation in the wilderness1671The Pilgrim's ProgressBunyan’s allegory, both parts1678

Classical epic

The AeneidVirgil — tr. John Drydenc. 19 BCMetamorphosesOvid — Standard Ebooks textAD 8On the Nature of ThingsLucretius — tr. William Ellery Leonardc. 55 BC

Further shelves

Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other PoemsPoems (1876)Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II

Mythology Wing

Babylon, Attic drama, Homer’s Greece — and the North

Origins & floods

Enūma Eliš (The Seven Tablets of Creation)c. 1100 BCThe Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)c. 200 BCThe Book of Jubileesc. 150 BCThe Epic of Gilgamesh (Old Babylonian)c. 1800 BCThe Story of the Deluge (Atra-Ḫasis)c. 1650 BC

The Greek shelf

Hesiod and the Homeric HymnsWorks and Days · Theogony · the Hymns — tr. Evelyn-Whitec. 700 BCThe Iliadtr. Samuel Butler — prosec. 750 BCThe Odysseytr. Samuel Butler — prosec. 720 BC

The Norse shelf

The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga)tr. William Morris & Eiríkr Magnússonc. 1270The Younger Edda (The Prose Edda)Snorri Sturluson — tr. Rasmus B. Andersonc. 1220

Homeric Greek

Iliad (Homeric Greek)Monro–Allen via Perseus — original Greekc. 750 BCGreekOdyssey (Homeric Greek)Murray Loeb Greek via Perseus — original Greekc. 720 BCGreek

Lantern Modern Homer

Lantern Modern Iliadfrom the Greek · Books 1–24 · rage / plain Americanc. 750 BCLantern Modern Odysseyfrom the Greek · Books 1–24 · plain Americanc. 720 BC

Attic drama

AgamemnonAeschylus — tr. Gilbert Murrayc. 458 BCAntigoneSophocles — tr. Francis Storrc. 441 BCMedeaEuripides — tr. Gilbert Murrayc. 431 BCOedipus at ColonusSophocles — tr. Francis Storrc. 401 BC

The Language Shelf

Hebrew, Greek and Latin — taught from the Lantern’s own words

The courses

Biblical Hebrewthe aleph-bet, the vowels, and the words the Direct keepsEcclesiastical Latinthe Vulgate’s Latin, and canon law’s terms of artNew Testament Greekthe alphabet, the article, and the cases

History Hall

Josephus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch

The Jewish historian

Antiquities of the JewsJosephus, tr. WhistonAD 94The Wars of the JewsJosephus, tr. WhistonAD 75

Greek and Roman historians

History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides — tr. Richard Crawleyc. 400 BCPlutarch's Livestr. A. H. Cloughc. AD 100The HistoriesHerodotus — tr. G. C. Macaulayc. 440 BC

Built to grow

This catalog is designed to hold thousands — the 905 Church-Fathers commentaries already in the estate’s pipeline, the open Talmud and Midrash, the complete Ante-Nicene library. Collections and search carry the weight; no wall of spines to scroll.

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