The text was read aloud and sung in church. The nonprofit society, which is supported by gifts, puts rare religious texts on CD-ROMs and distributes them for a donation. Electronic versions of Scripture range greatly in their offerings. Some include a small resource library. Others just have multiple English translations.
Internet sites are free.
The software is gaining a large following in seminaries and among ministers, said John R. Walters, associate professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky. For example, concordance software can be used to track the occurrence of Greek or Hebrew words and how their English translations differ throughout the Bible. But intellectual pitfalls await the uncritical user. Walters said some Bible readers mistakenly assume that a word or phrase in one passage is synonymous with the same word or phrase in another. Such differences are more difficult to notice in electronic resources because they quickly transport the user from one verse to another.