Logos Bible Software Explained

Logos Bible Software
Developer:	Faithlife Corporation
Programming Language:	C#, C++^[1]

Logos Bible Software is a digital library application developed by Faithlife Corporation. It is designed for electronic Bible study. In addition to basic eBook functionality, it includes extensive resource linking, note-taking functionality and linguistic analysis for study of the Bible - both in translation and in its original languages.

History

Windows and Macintosh versions

Logos Bible Software was launched in 1992 by two Microsoft employees, Bob Pritchett and Kiernon Reiniger, along with Bob's father, Dale Pritchett. The three quit their jobs to develop Christian software.^[2] After acquiring data from the CDWordLibrary project at Dallas Theological Seminary (an earlier Bible software package for use on Windows 2), Logos released an updated version called the Logos Library System platform in 1995.^[3]

Mobile versions

An iPhone app was released alongside Logos 4 in November 2009.^[4]

An Android app was released in 2012. The initial release allowed little more than the reading of Logos books, so version 2.0 followed quickly in August 2012, which added notes, highlighting, reading plans, Bible Word Study, the Passage Guide and a split-screen view. This brought much closer parity with the iOS app.^[5]

Rebranded versions

Faithlife Corporation has also produced rebranded versions of Logos Bible Software with almost identical functionality. Verbum Catholic Software is aimed at Roman Catholics (and adds databases of Catholic topics and Saints, and more data from the Deuterocanonical Books). From 2014 to 2020, Faithlife produced Noet, which focused on scholarly work in the humanities, particularly the classics and philosophy.^[6]

Reception

It has been noted for being user-friendly,^[7] having the largest number of resources for software of its type,^{[8] [9]} and offering unique tools and datasets not found in other products.^[10] It has also received some criticism for its high cost^[11] and lack of speed when compared with other Bible software packages.

External links

Logos Bible Software official websites:

• Logos
• Verbum

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hiatus . Bradley . Grainger . Faithlife Code Blog . 2 November 2009 . 11 November 2020 . https://archive.today/20201111190250/https://faithlife.codes/blog/2009/11/hiatus/ . 11 November 2020 . live .
2. News: High-tech survivors . Whatcom County Business Pulse . 2006-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060823014240/http://www.businesspulse.com/businesspulse/bp2003/june/0603bpfshightech.html . 2006-08-23 . dead .
3. Web site: Bible Software History 101. W Hall . Harris, III . February 6, 2008 . June 13, 2010.
4. Web site: Logos brings free Bible study tools to the iPhone. Luoma. TJ. 5 November 2009. Engadget. 15 November 2023.
5. Web site: Logos Brings More Parity Between Android and iOS Bible Apps. August 2012. 3 January 2015. Christian Computing Magazine. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201146/http://www.ccmag.com/2012_08/ccmag2012_08kevin.pdf. 23 September 2015.
6. Web site: Bellingham's Faithlife introduces new product for scholarly research . Dave . Gallagher . The Bellingham Herald . 25 December 2014 . 11 November 2020 . https://archive.today/20201111184633/https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article22265934.html . 11 November 2020 . live .
7. Logos Bible Software 5 . Barrett . Charles M. . April 2013 . 38 . 1 . 84 . PDF . . The Gospel Coalition.
8. Logos Bible Software 3. Challies. Tim. Fall 2006. The Journal of Modern Ministry.
9. Logos Bible Software 5 Platinum . Tabb . Brian J. . April 2014 . 39 . 1 . 82 . PDF . . The Gospel Coalition.
10. Logos Bible Software Series X. Parker. David. July 2003. Evangelical Review of Theology.
11. Baker Academic Biblical Studies Bundle . Naselli . Andrew David . April 2014 . 39 . 1 . 80 . PDF . . The Gospel Coalition.