Bible Services

Scribe produces and manages Bibles with the highest level of fidelity. We provide Bible editing, production, integrity assurance, and management designed to ensure Bibles are aesthetically pleasing, technologically up to date, error-free, and easily deployed on any platform.

Bible Editing

Our Bible editorial services are the most humanly sophisticated and technologically advanced in the industry. We are available at every stage of the editorial process, whether it’s a single service or a range of our offerings.

Scribing and Cleanup—We apply styles to and clean up Bible ancillaries, ensuring that materials are consistently structured and errors are reduced from project inception.

Copyediting—We edit text to improve readability and find errors, deviations from style, structural inconsistencies, and other problems. Using our Bible tools, specialized dictionaries, and stylesheets, we ensure consistency and fidelity.

Bible Reference Checks—Our procedures ensure that biblical references, citations, quotations, and paraphrases are correct.

Bible Translation Substitution—We can exchange one Bible translation for another (for any English or Spanish Bible) in direct quotations or paraphrases, checking for versification distinctions and vocabulary differences.

Ancillary Text Checks—Our text checks (both human and computer assisted) of Bible ancillaries, such as study notes, devotional materials, introductions, and notes, look for and correct errors, inconsistencies, formatting issues, and deviations from style.

Verification of Alterations—We verify that requested alterations have been made correctly and without unintended consequences at any stage of editing or page proofs.

Proofreading—Our page-proof checks, typically performed on PDFs, are distinct from Word-based editing. Proofreading ranges from a standard read of ancillary materials to our full range of Bible checks.

Bible Production

Our Bible design and typesetting services help you design and typeset your Bible to the highest standards.

Bible Design—Our Bible design accounts for appearance, readability, fonts, page counts, line matching, accessibility, and downstream production needs such as printing and ebook development, resulting in superior appearance and fidelity.

Bible Typesetting—Our sophisticated Bible typesetting meets the highest standards, assures fidelity, and exports cleanly for all standard platforms and ebooks. Scribe’s WFDW and human skills improve the appearance of Bibles, reduce errors, and support multipurpose publishing.

Bible Ebook Development—We develop accessible, error-free Bible ebooks as an extension of the Well-Formed Document Workflow. Scribe’s ebook process supports consistency across formats and improved reader navigation of complicated Bible structures.

Bible Quality Assurance and Integrity

We perform checks before delivery to ensure the typographical and electronic integrity of the Bibles that Scribe produces. These checks are included in Scribe’s Bible production process and are also offered as separate services.

Bible Typeset QC—We perform typesetting quality control checks at every stage, including pagination; running heads; line breaks; layout; typography; book, chapter, verse, and note references; tables of contents; and other page elements through both manual and programmatic InDesign checks. Typeset QC can also be performed on Bibles typeset by others to ensure they meet the required standards for Bible production.

Bible Ancillary Integrity Checks—Our Bible ancillary integrity checks ensure that ancillary content prints and transfers to ebooks exactly as intended by accounting for all ancillary material, outputting the content from typeset files, comparing it to the input files, and examining any differences to confirm they are intentional.

Bible Text Integrity Checks—Our Bible text integrity checks ensure that every part of the Bible text prints correctly and that no unintended changes have occurred to the Bible text. Scribe uses tools to locate text that might not print correctly and compares typeset files to the official Bible text source, combining computer technology and human intelligence in a method superior to human-only proofreading.

 

Bible Translation and Repository Management

For Bible translation copyright holders, Scribe helps develop, manage, and maintain Bible repositories. We also help manage updates to Bible translations, disseminate those updates, and produce Bibles in ways that afford our clients the widest reach. Scribe manages the following translations:

We also maintain faithful database repositories for public domain Bibles:

  • Douay-Rheims Version
  • King James Version 1611 Edition (KJV)
  • King James Version 1979 Edition (KJV)
  • Louis Segond (LSG)
  • Reina-Valera Antigua (RVA)

Major Translations and Languages

In addition to producing Bibles from the translations we manage, we also work with the following translations:

  • Biblia de América (BDA)
  • Cherokee New Testament (CHR)
  • Dakota New Testament
  • Dios Habla Hoy (DHH)
  • English Standard Version (ESV)
  • Geneva Bible (GNV)
  • Hungarian Revised New Translation
  • International Children’s Bible (ICB)
  • La Biblia de las Américas (LBLA)
  • Navajo New Testament
  • New Catholic Bible (NCB)
  • New Century Version (NCV)
  • New English Translation (NET)
  • New International Reader’s Version (NIrV)
  • New International Version (NIV)
  • New Living Translation (NLT)
  • Nueva Traducción Viviente (NTV)
  • Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)
  • Reina-Valera Contemporánea (RVC)
  • Today’s New International Version (TNIV)
  • Traducción en Lenguaje Actual (TLA)
  • United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament (UBS GNT)