Logos Bible Software
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Logos Bible Software is a Bellingham, Washington software company and electronic publisher specializing in Bible study
. Their flagship product is Logos Bible Software 4, a bible study software
application for Microsoft Windows
, Macintosh
, iPhone
/iPad
and Android platforms. Logos licenses electronic rights to more than 10,000 titles from over 100 publishers (including Oxford University Press
, Eisenbrauns
, Brill
, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Thomas Nelson
, Merriam Webster, T&T Clark International, Continuum
, Eerdmans, Moody Press and Baker Books) and publishes its own Lexham Bible Reference Series, consisting of original scholarship related to biblical languages
.
Logos Bible Software publishes the print Bible Study Magazine, named one of the Best Magazines of 2008 by Library Journal, and is funding the creation of the Lexham English Bible
, a new, literal translation of the Bible into English with a Creative Commons
license.
employees, Bob Pritchett and Kiernon Reiniger, along with Bob’s father, Dale Pritchett. The three quit their jobs to develop Christian software.
Bob Pritchett and Reiniger produced one of the earliest Bible software packages for Windows: Logos Bible Software for Microsoft Windows v1.0. After acquiring data from the CDWordLibrary project at Dallas Theological Seminary
(an earlier Bible software package for on Windows 2), Logos released the Logos Library System platform in 1995. In 2001 the LLS was replaced by the Libronix Digital Library Systems (or Libronix DLS), which was partially ported to the Mac OS. On November 2, 2009, Logos announced Logos Bible Software 4, for Windows and Mac, complemented by a free iPhone application featuring free publications and synchronization with the desktop applications. It was awarded the DBW Publishing Innovation Award in 2011.
, Greek
, Hebrew, German
, Spanish
, Swedish
, Norwegian
, Afrikaans
, and many other languages.
The company has added features for studying biblical texts in their original languages. Logos Bible Software includes a number of resources developed in cooperation with scholars and organizations from around the world. These include a syntactically tagged Hebrew Bible
produced from the files of a lifetime project undertaken by Francis I. Andersen and Dean Forbes; a syntactically tagged Greek New Testament being developed by Dr. Albert L. Lukaszewski; and a second syntactically tagged Greek New Testament from data furnished by the OpenText.org project. Also included in Logos Bible Software are "reverse interlinear" Bibles, an unusual format that retains the English translation on the top line and ties each word (or word group) of the underlying Greek
or Hebrew text to an English word (or word group). This enables English readers to view and research the corresponding word in the biblical language.
Headquartered in Bellingham, Washington
, Logos currently has a staff of around 200, with some employees located at a South African subsidiary. Logos occupies three buildings downtown including the Flatiron Building
. The company was named a Best Christian Place to Work in 2006–2008 and 2010-2011 as reported in Christianity Today
magazine. In 2005, CEO Bob Pritchett was named a winner of the Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Pacific Northwest for the category Realizing Business Potential.
Bible study (Christian)
In Christianity, Bible study is the study of the Bible by ordinary people as a personal religious or spiritual practice. Some denominations may call this devotion or devotional acts; however in other denominations devotion has other meanings...
. Their flagship product is Logos Bible Software 4, a bible study software
Bible software
Biblical software or Bible software is a group of computer applications designed to view and study biblical texts and concepts. Biblical software programs are similar to e-book readers in that they include digitally-formatted books, may be used to display a wide variety of inspirational books and...
application for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
, Macintosh
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
, iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
/iPad
IPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...
and Android platforms. Logos licenses electronic rights to more than 10,000 titles from over 100 publishers (including Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, Eisenbrauns
Eisenbrauns
Eisenbrauns is an international academic publisher specializing in the ancient Near East and biblical studies. They publish approximately a dozen new books and reference works each year, as well as reprinting out-of-print books relating to biblical studies. All publications are available in print...
, Brill
Brill Publishers
Brill is an international academic publisher founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes more than 134 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year...
, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Thomas Nelson
Thomas Nelson (publisher)
Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in Scotland in 1798 as the namesake of its founder. Its former US division is currently the sixth largest American trade publisher and the world's largest Christian publisher. It is owned by the private equity firm Kohlberg & Company...
, Merriam Webster, T&T Clark International, Continuum
Continuum International Publishing Group
The Continuum International Publishing Group is a publisher of books, with its editorial offices in London and New York City. It had been owned by Nova Capital Management since 2005...
, Eerdmans, Moody Press and Baker Books) and publishes its own Lexham Bible Reference Series, consisting of original scholarship related to biblical languages
Biblical languages
Biblical languages are any of the languages employed in the original writings of the Bible. Partially owing to the significance of the Bible in society, Biblical languages are studied more widely than many other dead languages...
.
Logos Bible Software publishes the print Bible Study Magazine, named one of the Best Magazines of 2008 by Library Journal, and is funding the creation of the Lexham English Bible
Lexham English Bible
The Lexham English Bible or LEB New Testament was published and released by Logos Bible Software in October 2010. It lists as General Editor W. Hall Harris, III. An Old Testament translation is underway....
, a new, literal translation of the Bible into English with a Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
license.
Brief history
Logos Research Systems, Inc. (also known as Logos Bible Software) was founded in 1992 by two MicrosoftMicrosoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
employees, Bob Pritchett and Kiernon Reiniger, along with Bob’s father, Dale Pritchett. The three quit their jobs to develop Christian software.
Bob Pritchett and Reiniger produced one of the earliest Bible software packages for Windows: Logos Bible Software for Microsoft Windows v1.0. After acquiring data from the CDWordLibrary project at Dallas Theological Seminary
Dallas Theological Seminary
Dallas Theological Seminary is an evangelical theological seminary located in Dallas, Texas. It is known for popularizing the theological system known as Dispensationalism...
(an earlier Bible software package for on Windows 2), Logos released the Logos Library System platform in 1995. In 2001 the LLS was replaced by the Libronix Digital Library Systems (or Libronix DLS), which was partially ported to the Mac OS. On November 2, 2009, Logos announced Logos Bible Software 4, for Windows and Mac, complemented by a free iPhone application featuring free publications and synchronization with the desktop applications. It was awarded the DBW Publishing Innovation Award in 2011.
Logos today
Logos Bible Software is one of the largest developers of software for the Christian market. Its platform is being used to deliver Bible reference libraries to customers in 144 countries around the world in EnglishEnglish language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
, Hebrew, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
, Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
, Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
, and many other languages.
The company has added features for studying biblical texts in their original languages. Logos Bible Software includes a number of resources developed in cooperation with scholars and organizations from around the world. These include a syntactically tagged Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...
produced from the files of a lifetime project undertaken by Francis I. Andersen and Dean Forbes; a syntactically tagged Greek New Testament being developed by Dr. Albert L. Lukaszewski; and a second syntactically tagged Greek New Testament from data furnished by the OpenText.org project. Also included in Logos Bible Software are "reverse interlinear" Bibles, an unusual format that retains the English translation on the top line and ties each word (or word group) of the underlying Greek
Koine Greek
Koine Greek is the universal dialect of the Greek language spoken throughout post-Classical antiquity , developing from the Attic dialect, with admixture of elements especially from Ionic....
or Hebrew text to an English word (or word group). This enables English readers to view and research the corresponding word in the biblical language.
Headquartered in Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the twelfth-largest city in the state. Situated on Bellingham Bay, Bellingham is protected by Lummi Island, Portage Island, and the Lummi Peninsula, and opens onto the Strait of Georgia...
, Logos currently has a staff of around 200, with some employees located at a South African subsidiary. Logos occupies three buildings downtown including the Flatiron Building
Flatiron Building (Bellingham, Washington)
The Hamilton Building also known as The was the first "skyscraper" in Bellingham. Built in 1908 for Talifero Simpson Hamilton's growing Bellingham Bay Furniture Company established in 1889, the building cost $100,000 and used thirty-five thousand barrels of cement along with 200,000 pounds of steel...
. The company was named a Best Christian Place to Work in 2006–2008 and 2010-2011 as reported in Christianity Today
Christianity Today
Christianity Today is an Evangelical Christian periodical based in Carol Stream, Illinois. It is the flagship publication of its parent company Christianity Today International, claiming circulation figures of 140,000 and readership of 290,000...
magazine. In 2005, CEO Bob Pritchett was named a winner of the Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms, along with Deloitte, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers ....
Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Pacific Northwest for the category Realizing Business Potential.