Contribute to the corpus

The corpus is freely searchable. The costs below are what it takes to translate the remaining Greek public-domain sources via Claude Opus and ingest the result into the same searchable, semantically embedded knowledge base. Estimates include a ~40% buffer for re-runs, quality passes, and API price changes; any surplus on a funded item rolls forward to the next. Pick a specific work to fund, or contribute generally.

General contribution

Not tied to any specific work, applied wherever it’s needed most (hosting, indexing, the next gap line item).

Translation fund

$1 raised of $2,225

St Maximus the Confessor
Ambigua, Mystagogy, Centuries on Charity, Questions to Thalassius, the architecture of theosis and the cosmic Christ.
$350
St John Climacus
The Ladder of Divine Ascent, the foundational Orthodox ascetic text.
$75
St Symeon the New Theologian
Hymns of Divine Love, Discourses, Theological & Ethical Treatises.
$300
St Gregory Palamas
Triads in Defense of the Holy Hesychasts, 150 Chapters, Homilies, the essence/energies distinction.
$350
Desert tradition
Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings), Macarius, Anthony, Poemen, Sisoes et al., plus the Macarian Homilies (foundational for hesychast theology) and Palladius's Lausiac History (early monastic biographies).
$225
Philokalia
The 5-volume Greek anthology compiled by Sts Nikodimos & Makarios, most of the hesychast tradition in one collection.
$500
Select feast hymnography
Hymns for the twelve great feasts (Nativity of the Theotokos, Exaltation of the Cross, Theophany, Annunciation, Pascha, et al.), apolytikia, kontakia, and select stichera from the Festal Menaion tradition. Narrowed from the full liturgical corpus since poetic Byzantine Greek doesn't translate well by AI alone.
$200
Brief synaxaria readings
The short daily commemorations that introduce each saint's feast day across the Orthodox liturgical year, translated from the public-domain Greek Synaxaria of Constantinople. Concise paragraph-length entries, not full hagiographies.
$150
Influential pseudepigrapha (received critically)
Protoevangelium of James (source of Orthodox Marian tradition, Joachim and Anna, the Entrance into the Temple, perpetual virginity) plus select narrative apocrypha (Acts of John, Andrew, Thomas) that shaped Orthodox hagiography. Excludes the Gnostic gospels.
$75

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