A 1950s computer indexed the entire Bible

1955

Rev. John Ellison, who conceived the idea of using a computer to create a concordance of the Bible.

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When the Revised Standard Version of the Bible released in the 1950s, computer geniuses streamlined a way to document its changes, starting with the text's "concordance."

A concordance is an alphabetical index of every key word in a given book, with each word’s location and context within the text

Accurately compiling a concordance is a tremendously labor-intensive project, and has historically only been done for the most important documents. It took James Strong 30 years to assemble one for the King James Bible, a task he completed in 1894. Read more...