diff --git a/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/StringStreamContainer.cs b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/StringStreamContainer.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2a70274a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/StringStreamContainer.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+using System.IO;
+using SIL.ObjectModel;
+
+namespace SIL.Machine.Corpora
+{
+    public class StringStreamContainer : DisposableBase, IStreamContainer
+    {
+        private readonly string _content;
+
+        public StringStreamContainer(string content)
+        {
+            _content = content;
+        }
+
+        public Stream OpenStream()
+        {
+            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
+            StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(stream);
+            writer.Write(_content);
+            writer.Flush();
+            stream.Position = 0;
+            return stream;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmFileTextCorpus.cs b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmFileTextCorpus.cs
index abb336df..b16bdcf2 100644
--- a/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmFileTextCorpus.cs
+++ b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmFileTextCorpus.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-using System.IO;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
 using System.Text;
 using SIL.Scripture;
 
@@ -38,6 +39,30 @@ public UsfmFileTextCorpus(
             }
         }
 
+        public UsfmFileTextCorpus(
+            IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string> idToUsfmContent,
+            UsfmStylesheet stylesheet,
+            ScrVers versification,
+            bool includeMarkers = false,
+            bool includeAllText = false
+        )
+        {
+            foreach (var pair in idToUsfmContent)
+            {
+                AddText(
+                    new UsfmStringText(
+                        stylesheet,
+                        Encoding.UTF8,
+                        pair.Key,
+                        pair.Value,
+                        Versification,
+                        includeMarkers,
+                        includeAllText
+                    )
+                );
+            }
+        }
+
         private static string GetId(string fileName, Encoding encoding)
         {
             using (var reader = new StreamReader(fileName, encoding))
diff --git a/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmStringText.cs b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmStringText.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bee898d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmStringText.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+using System.Text;
+using SIL.Scripture;
+
+namespace SIL.Machine.Corpora
+{
+    public class UsfmStringText : UsfmTextBase
+    {
+        private readonly string _usfm;
+
+        public UsfmStringText(
+            UsfmStylesheet stylesheet,
+            Encoding encoding,
+            string id,
+            string usfm,
+            ScrVers versification = null,
+            bool includeMarkers = false,
+            bool includeAllText = false
+        )
+            : base(id, stylesheet, encoding, versification, includeMarkers, includeAllText)
+        {
+            _usfm = usfm;
+        }
+
+        protected override IStreamContainer CreateStreamContainer()
+        {
+            return new StringStreamContainer(_usfm);
+        }
+    }
+}