

In 1998, David released Scripture for Palm OS, which was purchased by Laridian in 1999 and renamed MyBible.

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1994 – Sword Searcher (first called Bible Assistant, Brandon Staggs, StudyLamp Software LLC).1993 – Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) (Harry Plantinga, Wheaton College now Calvin College).1993 – (Nick Hengeveld at Calvin College, acquired by Zondervan/Harper in 2008).? – Ask God (Integrated Systems, Kirkland, WA) – natural language input, verse output.
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MacBible (Encycloware, Ayden, NC) – from Accordance founder.VERSE BY VERSE (G.R.A.P.E., Gospel Research and Program Exchange, Keyport, WA).INTERNATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY TEXT (The International Bible Society, East Brunswick, NJ).COMPUTER NEW TESTAMENT (The Spiritual Source, Manorville, CA).KJV on DIALOG (DIALOG Information Retrieval Service, Palo Alto, CA).Wordworker: The Accelerated New Testament (The Way International, Knoxville, OH).ComWord 1 (Word of God Communication, Thousand Oaks, CA).1986 – Concordia Bible Study (Christendom Bible Research, Greg Eskridge, Southfield, MI).1986 – GodSpeed (Brian Moore, Kingdom Age Software, Plano, TX).1986 – EveryWord Scripture Study System (Dave Sorensen and Jay Ekstrom, Echo Solutions, Inc., Provo, UT).1986 – The Powerful Word (Dewey Hatley, Hatley Computer Services, Springfield, MO).1985 – COMPUTER BIBLE (Computer Bibles International, Inc., Greeenville, SC).BIBLE-ON-DISK (Logos Information Systems, Sunnyvale, CA).1985 – compuBIBLE (Delmer Hightower and Chris Epps, SASSCO, Borger, TX).Vick Livingston, Omega Software, Round Rock, TX) 1984 – The SCRIPTURE SCANNER (Michael L.First Wave (1980-1987) from Bits, Bytes, & Biblical Studies.1982 – Verse Search – First commercial Bible app (“THE WORD processor” family, Kent Ochel and Bert Brown, Bible Research Systems, Georgetown, TX).Carson, Indiana University, Trinity International University) 1976 – Launch of the GRAMCORD project (D.1971 – Transcribed Leningrad Codex (Francis Andersen).

1920 – Yehuda Ridday’s analysis of Isaiah, concluding that there were at least three authors.1963 – Andrew Morton’s use of computational models to challenge Paul’s authorship.1957 – The world’s first computer generated concordance for the RSV by John Ellison.Major Events and Releases Academic Inquiry (1950s onward) I’ve since converted this to a chronological list that should be a bit more complete. UPDATE: Initially this post had a graphic timeline and some commentary on the major waves of development, but it was far too incomplete. Wikipedia, of course, has some of the major applications organized by operating system, but it doesn’t include release dates or offer much commentary on how they fit together. Surprisingly, it’s fairly difficult to find a clear, chronological accounting of Bible software development.
