About Scrollwork
What Scrollwork is, the version of this site you are reading, every change made to it, and the Bibles it shows.
What Scrollwork is
Scrollwork is a Christian tool for studying Biblical history — Scripture, its chronologies, the evidence bearing on it, and the connections between them, drawn as scrolls and charts you can move through. Scripture is treated with reverence. Where faithful Christians read a passage more than one way, those readings stand side by side; what you conclude is yours.
It is not spiritual direction, and it is not authoritative. It is a tool for study, assembled from sources it names, so that what it says can be checked against where it came from. How it is made is set out on How this is made.
It is one person's work, run from Arizona. Scripture, and the sources behind every claim, will never be sold here.
Donate
Most of Scrollwork is free and stays free. Gifts pay what it costs to run; a gift is not a purchase, and it never unlocks anything. What it costs, and what the money is for, is set out on What it costs.
Version
Scrollwork 0.5.0, released .
This is the version of the public site. The application has its own version and change log, which a signed-in reader finds at About the application.
There have been no numbered releases yet. The entries below are the days on which changes reached the public site, numbered afterwards so they can be told apart; work before 29 September 2026 is not listed. From its first release on, every release adds its entry here.
Change log
5 releases and 1 in preparation
v0.6.0In preparationNot yet releasedThe next release of the public site
- Nothing is claimed for it yet. Its changes are listed here when it is released.
v0.5.0Pre-releaseHow we compare, a gift page, and the free band's new words
- New How we compare: a fair side-by-side of Scrollwork's Study Reader with Logos and Blue Letter Bible, opened from the home page's Study Reader section.
- New A gift page for those who wish to give to the Guillory family, apart from donations to Scrollwork, through the same PayPal and GitHub Sponsors accounts.
- Improved The free band reads "Paid for by gifts and donations".
- Improved The home page says how notes will follow a reader across devices.
- Improved The Study Reader's pictures on the home page show the reader as it is now.
v0.4.0Pre-releaseThe home page's pictures open full size
- Improved The home page's pictures open full size in the same viewer as every artwork in the application.
- Improved The privacy page names what the Tribe Race remembers on your device.
- Improved The accessibility statement shows the latest results of the automated checks.
v0.3.0Pre-releaseThe Lineage of Jesus Christ leads the home page; the terms and privacy rewritten
- New The Lineage of Jesus Christ leads the home page, beside its picture, under What Scrollwork does.
- New A carousel of the lineage's screens leads the features.
- New An accessibility statement, showing the results of the automated accessibility checks.
- Improved The features rewritten, the key features set in newspaper columns, and Scrollwarp named.
- Improved The terms of use and the privacy notice rewritten in plain words, saying what stays free and how companion tools will work.
- Improved How this is made, the licensing page and the privacy page brought up to date with the lineage's welcome and stories.
- Fixed The carousel's dots are larger, easier to tap.
v0.2.0Pre-releaseThe home page's features, and what stays free said plainly
- New The home page's features: what Scrollwork does now and what is coming.
- New Rows of their own for the Henrichsen Bible study companion, the Bible as data, and Biblical and Historical Maps, coming.
- Improved The home page says plainly what is free: the core for everyone, and paid things only as separate companion tools.
- Improved The features' row for the lineage names its new powers: eras, Warp, related events and the finds.
- Improved Features is the first chapter in the menu at the top of every page, and Honesty the seventh.
- Improved Contact stands at the foot of every page, and the brand is centred in the menu.
- Fixed The features section's text is easier to read.
- Fixed The site's icon and wordmark restored after the pictures were reorganised.
v0.1.0Pre-releaseDonate beside the way in
- Improved Donate stands beside Sign in, at the top of every page.
- Improved The privacy page names each new script the application loads: the control that shows a form is saving, and the People Race.
The Bibles, and their licences
Every translation Scrollwork shows, with its copyright or public-domain notice, as the licensing page records it. The licensing page also lists every other source Scrollwork is built from, and what you may do with Scrollwork itself.
| Translation | Licence |
|---|---|
| The King James Version with the words of Jesus marked, from eBible.org (eng-kjv2006) | Public domain outside the United Kingdom (eBible.org's statement). Changed here: only its marks of the words of Jesus are taken, laid over this site's own King James text as spans; not a character of the text is changed. |
| The American Standard Version (1901), from eBible.org (eng-asv) | Public domain (eBible.org's statement). Each verse as the translation prints it, a translation to switch a verse to. Changed here: footnotes and markup removed, no word changed. |
| The Bible in Basic English (S. H. Hooke, 1949; 1965), from eBible.org (engBBE) | Public domain in the United States, as eBible.org states it; its status elsewhere is not stated (eBible.org's statement). Each verse as the translation prints it, a translation to switch a verse to. Changed here: footnotes and markup removed, no word changed. |
| The Darby Translation (J. N. Darby, 1890), from eBible.org (engDBY) | Public domain (eBible.org's statement). Each verse as the translation prints it, a translation to switch a verse to. Changed here: footnotes and markup removed, no word changed. |
| Webster's Bible (Noah Webster, 1833), from eBible.org (engwebster) | Public domain (eBible.org's statement). Each verse as the translation prints it, a translation to switch a verse to. Changed here: footnotes and markup removed, no word changed. |
| The World English Bible, from eBible.org (engwebp) | Public domain; "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org, and the text is shown unmodified (eBible.org's statement). Each verse as the translation prints it, a translation to switch a verse to. Changed here: footnotes and markup removed, no word changed. |
| Young's Literal Translation (Robert Young, 1862; 1898), from eBible.org (engylt) | Public domain (eBible.org's statement). Each verse as the translation prints it, a translation to switch a verse to. Changed here: footnotes and markup removed, no word changed. |
| Brenton's Septuagint in English (1851), from eBible.org (eng-Brenton) | Public domain (eBible.org's statement). Changed here: Genesis only, and only chapters whose verses number as the King James's do; footnotes and markup removed, the text otherwise as Brenton gave it. |