Tuesday, December 18, 2007

eBible - The Best Online Bible



To date, I have not found anything that can match the power of the Blue Letter Bible for research. Though it is ugly and not good for reading, it's probably the most useful tool for studying meanings and translation.

In fact, most online Bible's are not good for reading, which I think is sad. At least I was sad until this morning!

eBible.com

eBible does include good search, tagging, and commentary tools, but what I like most is the simple streaming interface it uses. In "study" mode (just click the magnifying glass to turn it on), it has pleasant, readable, text that is not cluttered with countless notes and numbers and scrolls forever. There is no scroll bar or bottom of the page and it even features a parralel mode if you'd like to compare two translations.

Although it won't be replacing the Blue Letter Bible for studying particular passages, I think it will become one of my favorite casual reading Bibles. Very nice!

Photo Courtesy of: Rachel Pennington

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I personally like Bible Study Tools at Christianity.com. Bible Study Tools not only has an 29 translations and an amazing set of commentaries, devotionals, maps, historical books, etc., but you can also highlight vereses, save your own notes, use a split screen panel so you can see two translations, a translation and a commentary, etc. Definitely check it out!