ELECTRONIC VERSIONS OF THE HOLY BIBLE
The first edition of the electronic version of the New Photo-Illustrated Bible (2009) was presented in its test version at www.sacralion.org (inactive previous edition of our web site). Despite the fact that this public version included only the Gospel according to Matthew, it reached the first position among 20 top electronic Bibles. After this, SACRALION Publishing House spent several years to format and process the biblical texts, so when they were placed at the web sites with thousands of photographic pictures their retrieval was not seriously impeded by the limited memory size, and the reading software (with its numerous supplementary functions) operated seamlessly.
SECTION I. PHOTO BIBLES
In 2013, we have launched several new biblical sites:
www.fotobiblia.ru (For Slavic languages)
www.photobibles.com (For European, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages)
It is worth noting the novelty and uniqueness of the electronic version of the New Photo-Illustrated Bible that does not have any analogs among known biblical programs. For the first time, reader of the Holy Bible can retrieve the photographic picture that not only corresponds to the highlighted text, but it also can be magnified zoomed in via electronic “magnifying glass”. Considering a high quality of the restored photographs, the latter tool allows readers to distinguish some details of architecture, artifacts and life features of the past epoch.
Both printed and electronic versions of the New Photo-Illustrated Bible include a unique genealogy table of the Old Testament kings and characters that was developed by experts from SACRALION Publishing House. It provides the Holy Bible readers with easy understanding of the Old Testament book materials at the expert level.
SECTION II. MUSIC BIBLES
At the present time, SACRALION Publishing House continues its work on the New Photo-Illustrated Bible accompanied by music soundtracks by various composers, e.g., the first example of such product as the Catholic version of the German language Photo-Illustrated Bible accompanied by Slavic composers’ soubdtrack at www.bibleunique.com, or German Bible with Mozart soundtracks from Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Koechel catalog at www.mozartbibel.at. These links contain only fragments of the future products, and the full versions of these bibles will be available for the general public by the end of 2018.
SECTION III. 3D PHOTO BIBLES - Special Project ITW - I TOUCH THE WORLD
In addition to the aforementioned electronic photo- and musical bibles, SACRALION Publishing House plans releasing the similar versions of the Holy Bible for the blind persons. They will be able – in addition to listening to the text reading and music playing – to sense raised photographic images at the specially designed electro-mechanic panel that will appear in a synchronized manner along with sounds of the corresponding biblical verse or upon the voiced request from the user. The same tools will be implemented for blind users of the biblical Atlas mentioned above. At this time, SACRALION Publishing House negotiates these issues with Israeli developers of such gadgets for the blind persons. Read more ...
