| Developer(s) | Logos Research Systems |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 4.3 SR-2 / 10 August 2011 |
| Operating system | Windows XP/Vista/7 / Mac OS X / iPhone / Android |
| Type | e-books, digital library, Bible study |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.logos.com |
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[1] 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.[2]
Logos Bible Software publishes the print Bible Study Magazine, named one of the Best Magazines of 2008 by Library Journal,[3] and is funding the creation of the Lexham English Bible, a new, literal translation of the Bible into English with a Creative Commons license.[4]
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Logos Research Systems, Inc. (also known as Logos Bible Software) was founded 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.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7] It was awarded the DBW Publishing Innovation Award in 2011.
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[8] around the world in English, 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,[9] with some employees located at a South African subsidiary.[8] 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[10][11][12][13][14] as reported in Christianity Today magazine.[15] 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.[16]