Eastern Orthodox Bible

Coming soon: the Eastern Orthodox Bible for the iPhone & iPod touch!

The Eastern/Greek Orthodox Bible (EOB) is a scholarly translation and edition of the Holy Scriptures based on the Patriarchal Greek Orthodox with extensive introductory material. 

This New Testament text is based on the official ecclesiastical text published in 1904 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (documenting all significant variants to the Critical Text, Majority Text and Textus Receptus). It also provides extensive footnotes.  

The main purpose of the EOB is to provide an accurate and easy-to-read English text of the Holy Scriptures that is suitable for use by Orthodox Christian communities and individuals, while providing an outstanding text for scholars.

Read more about the text at the EOB web site.

The EOB app is powered by VerseWise Bible and shares the same easy navigation, reading history, search, highlighting, bookmarking and Scripture sharing.

The initial release includes the New Testament. Psalms and the Old Testament will be added as the text becomes available.

More news here as it is available!

Privacy Policy

Nothing really exciting, but I've written up a privacy policy that details the information our apps might send out while you're using them. The iTunes App Store has never required one but the Facebook App Center does. Go figure!

Let me know if you have any concerns or questions!

iPhone 4.2.1 now in store

Fixes issues detailed in iPhone 4.2 bugs and iPhone 4.2 crashes:

• Crash that could occur if device was not connected to Internet
• Problem with some reading plans not recording progress after 4.2 update
• Highlight select/deselect

iPhone 4.2 crashes

The crash I mentioned previously turns out to be more serious than I thought. VerseWise Bible on iPhone 4.2 can crash quite consistently if your device does not have an internet connection.

I have submitted a fix to Apple and requested an expedited review. I will keep you updated.

Thank you again to everyone sending in the crash reports! This would not have come to my attention without you.

iPhone 4.2 bugs

We've discovered a couple issues with the iPhone 4.2 release and I hope to get a 4.2.1 update into the store soon!

• If you select and then de-select a highlighted verse, the verse appears to lose its highlight. (Thank you to Kevin R. for reporting this.) The highlight isn't actually gone, you'll see it when you return to the same chapter.
• Next & Last Read functionality is not working on some plans that were in progress. (Thank you to Paul R. for reporting this.) I believe this is limited to:
• RSV-CE "Bible in 1 year (mixed)"
• RSV (deuterocanon) "Bible in 1 year (mixed)"
• KJV (deuterocanon) "Bible in 1 year (mixed)"
• Getting a number of crash reports from people running the iPhone app on iPad. (Did you know VerseWise Bible is now available on iPad?) Bah, I thought I had fixed this! If you've experienced this and can tell me where you were in the app when it happened, please email me! See update.

Thank you to those sending in bug and crash reports I appreciate it!

iPhone 4.2 in store!

VerseWise Bible for iPhone update 4.2 (RSV-CE, RSV, KJV and DR) is now available in the App Store! Changes include:

• Additional Reading Plans, improved functionality 
• Improved "low light" mode 
• Fixed crash when running on iPad, rotating 
• Other minor fixes, text corrections 

Thank you to those who have been patient while I've spent the last year devoting most of my time developing the iPad version.

iPad 1.0.2 now in the App Store

VerseWise Bible for iPad (RSV-CE, RSV, KJV, DR) now in the App Store!

See my previous post for details.