Our Sources

Where does the content for Digital Manna's Encyclopedia come from?

Our goal is to provide the most updated, general consensus of information from scholars who believe that the 66-Book Bible (in it's original form) is the inerrant Word of God. This page lists some of the primary sources that we've used to create a high-level view of each subject in the Bible. However, this is not an endorsement of these sources since not all of them hold to this belief. Some sources are simply experts (some secular) in their particular field of study.

Note: Sources for Articles and Contributors for Resources are mentioned within those pages and will not be covered here.

Event Data
The majority of dates on this site are approximate, and our main goal is to set events in their proper context and order. As we move forward, however, we’ll be showing what dates are more concrete than others.

We are starting with an event timeline that mostly follows the Masoretic Text which place the creation year at 4004 BC. That said, we do have plans to see various timelines side by side for comparison in the future, and it is likely that we will add a “preferred timeline” setting at some point.

Floyd Nolen Jones Ministries’ Chronology of the Old Testament
Archbishop Ussher’s The Annals of the World

Proper Name Meanings
Strong’s Concordance
Abarim Publications

Location Data
Openbible.info – from the cartographer of the ESV Bible Atlas

Content Sources (titles, descriptions, etc.)
The Bible / God’s Word (literal English translations with references to original languages)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Easton’s Bible Encyclopedia
Brown–Driver–Briggs Lexicon
Nave’s Topical Bible
The Lexham Bible Dictionary
John Hutton Balfour's The Plants of the Bible
H.C. Hart's The Animals Mentioned In The Bible

Various
Theographic
Blue Letter Bible
Defending Inerrancy
Creation Ministries International
Complete Bible Genealogy
Biblical Archaeology Society
The MacArthur Study Bible
Encyclopedia Britannica
Wikipedia