Scrollwork — the whole of Scripture on one canvas

What Scrollwork does

The whole account, drawn to be explored — and what comes next.

The Lineage of Jesus Christ

Every generation from Adam to Jesus Christ, drawn as one river of descent and laid out on time. Zoom from the whole line to a single life, and open the Nativity, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection where they stand on His line. Scrollwarp™ it into one era or any span of years and the scroll is redrawn for that time alone, showing all it holds, at a link you can share.

A Scrollwarp of the Lineage to the Divided Kingdom, 974 to 597 B.C.: Rehoboam, Jehoshaphat, Uzziah and Jehoiachin on their lines, the Exile coin, and above the era’s ruler the strip of related events and the band of archaeological finds

Key features

Scrollwarp™, unique to Scrollwork: redraw the whole scroll for one era or any span of years — Creation to the Flood, the Divided Kingdom, the life of Jesus — and share the view as a link
Twelve eras mark the ruler, from Creation to the Flood, through the Patriarchs, Egypt, the Judges and the Kingdoms, to the Exile, the Return and the Life of Jesus Christ — each with its summary and its passages, and where a date is contested (the Exodus, the kingdom’s division, the year of His birth, the year of the Crucifixion) the faithful positions are shown with the scholars who hold them
Related events rise above His line in their own band, each at its date: the first promise of the Seed, Sodom destroyed, Samuel anointing David, Hezekiah’s tunnel, Babylon’s fall, Esther, Herod, the Magi and Pontius Pilate — 79 prophecies, events, people and places, each a click from its account
Archaeological finds beneath the events, where the stones and scrolls speak beside the text: the Merneptah Stele, the Tel Dan Stele naming the house of David, the Mesha Stele, Hezekiah’s Siloam inscription, the Taylor Prism, the Lachish letters, the silver scrolls of Ketef Hinnom, the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Cyrus Cylinder, the Caiaphas ossuary and the Pilate Stone — in full-colour photographs wherever a free licence allows, each with its museum, its credit and its sources
Gold coins on His line open the great accounts — Creation, the Flood, Sinai, David, Ruth, the Exile, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and more — each told station by station in Scripture’s own words, with paintings and the evidence, and every coin yours to move aside as you read
The Drawer: choose any name and their whole record opens beside the scroll — every verse they appear in, their family, the places they knew on a map, the paintings of them, and the sources for it all — and up to four people side by side to compare
The three pillars in every Drawer: Faith — the verses, His words, the miracles, the commentaries and the cross-references; Evidence — what the stones and the scrolls show; History — family, reign, contemporaries, places and dates. And where faithful scholars differ, an Integrity tab sets out each position with those who hold it
Search from anywhere on the scroll: type a name, a place, an event or a verse and be taken straight to it

Open the Lineage Free. You sign in, and it opens.

Stories

Stories you can step into

Gold coins on His line open eleven of Scripture’s great accounts — Creation, the Flood, the Ark of the Covenant, From Passover to Sinai, Isaac, Ruth and Boaz, David, the Exile, the Nativity, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection — each walked station by station, in Scripture’s own words.

Key features

The Gospels side by side: where Matthew, Mark, Luke and John each tell a moment, every account is there, and a Gospel that is silent says so
Nine translations at every passage, each named
Great paintings by Tissot, Rembrandt, Doré and others, and Scrollwork’s own scenes, every work credited
How Christians have read it, from the Church Fathers to today’s scholars, each reading with the one who holds it
Every source named

Step into a story

The days of Creation: Genesis 1 in the King James Version beside a painted scene

Search that takes you there

Type a person, a place, an event, a book or a verse — Gen 7:11, jn3.16 — and Scrollwork finds it as you type, then carries you to it on the scroll or the chart where it lives.

Key features

Open it anywhere with ⌘K, Ctrl+K or /
Verses however you type them: Gen 7:11, jn3.16, or a range like Gen 7:11-24
Results grouped as People, Verses, Places, Events and Books, each saying where it opens
Choose one and you are taken there, the scroll or chart moving to it and lighting it up
Forgiving of spelling and accents
Other names found (Rachab finds Rahab, Israel finds Jacob)
Nothing you type leaves your device

Search over the people network, listing people and places for the letters Jerus

Reader

A Bible study reader

Every verse on the scroll and the charts opens in a reader beside you: nine translations to switch between, and the original Hebrew and Greek behind the words, a click away.

Key features

Nine translations, today: the King James, the Berean Standard, Brenton’s Septuagint, the American Standard, the Bible in Basic English, Darby, Webster, the World English Bible and Young’s Literal
Strong’s, today: each name’s original word, its transliteration, its pronunciation, its meaning, and how the King James renders it
The full study reader, coming: an interlinear of every word’s original, cross-references, commentaries and a verse menu of study tools in one place

Abraham’s panel, his Hebrew name and Strong’s numbers, with Genesis 11:26 open in the reader in the King James Version

Charts

The whole Bible, charted

See the shape of Scripture at a glance: the sixty-six books as one library, every cross-reference as an arc, the people of the Bible as a living network, and the people named most, racing book by book.

Key features

The Library: the sixty-six books as one ring, Testament and division around it
141,714 cross-references drawn as arcs between the books they join
A network of 491 people and 1,560 family ties, each a click from their story
Every chart explains its own rings and colours, built from open, credited data

Open the Bookshelf

The Library: the sixty-six books as rings of testament, division and book

Data

The Bible as data, not a picture of it

An engraved chart can only show what was engraved. Scrollwork holds the account itself — 3,067 people, 1,274 places, 450 dated events and all 31,102 verses in nine translations, each joined to the rest — so one account can be drawn as a lineage, a library, a network or a race, and as views not yet made.

Key features

Every fact traced to its source and its licence
Every person joined to their family, their verses and their dates
Contested dates kept honest: each position held with the scholars who hold it, never flattened into one

Read the method

When was the Exodus? The scroll’s own date and the early and late dates, each position with its holder, its tier and its sources, over the lineage’s era band

Evidence

Faith, Evidence and History

Every person and book carries three pillars — what the faith holds, what the evidence shows, what history records. Dates, authors and finds come with their sources, and where faithful scholars differ, each position stands with the people who hold it.

Key features

Evidence named as evidence: the stones, the scrolls and the inscriptions, each with its museum and its sources
No verdict slipped in — the reader weighs it
Where the record is silent, the page says so

The people network: people joined by the verses that name them together

ComingCompanion

Henrichsen Bible Study Methods

Organise and lead Bible studies by Walter Henrichsen’s method — on your own or as a group gathered online — with the whole of Scrollwork open beside every passage you study.

Key features

Start free: one or two of the method’s studies at no cost
The rest by a small monthly subscription
One account: a companion with its own page and its own price, mentioned where it helps and never pushed at you

Moses on the mountain with the tablets of the Law — Illustration · © Scrollwork

ComingScroll

The Story in Gold

Scripture’s great moments struck in gold, from Creation to the empty tomb, laid down the page in order. Touch one, and its story opens beside you.

Key features

The whole account told through its great scenes, one coin at a time
Every coin opens its story, in Scripture’s own words

The Nativity: Mary and Joseph with the child in the manger — Illustration · © Scrollwork

ComingArt

Biblical Art

A winding road through the great Biblical paintings and engravings, and Scrollwork’s own, each set at its place in the account.

Key features

Only art that may be shown, every work credited to its artist and its museum
Scrollwork’s own scenes lead the way
Each work a click from the passage it paints

Gustave Doré’s engraving of a dove sent forth from the Ark — Gustave Doré, *A Dove Is Sent Forth from the Ark*, 1866 · public domain

ComingMaps

Biblical and Historical Maps

Maps come to the Bookshelf as a new kind of artifact: the Holy Land and the ancient world, drawn from the places Scrollwork already knows.

Key features

An interactive Holy Land map, beside the scrolls and the charts
Built on the 1,274 places already in Scrollwork, the same places search finds today

A first sketch of a map: the Mediterranean and the Near East on Natural Earth’s land (public domain), engraved in walnut and gold, every place in Scrollwork that has coordinates a maroon dot, thickest in the Holy Land — Scrollwork’s places on Natural Earth · a first sketch · land from Natural Earth, public domain

Also coming: a minimap to move around The Lineage of Jesus Christ; a choice of chronologies, the scroll redrawn for each; Prophecies; devotional features; the Bible clock, Bible and world history on one circle; a 3D people network; a prompt that hands a study to your own AI; and companions, each its own product with its own price — after the Henrichsen study companion, the Scroll of the Ages, the whole of Biblical and world history on one great synchronological chart, and tools for deeper study.

IIThe thread

One people, one promise, one unbroken line.

From Adam to Christ the account never actually breaks. Names hand to names, a covenant is made and kept, and a single line of descent carries the whole way through.

We meet it in pieces. A chapter on a Sunday, a verse on a card, a note in a margin. The thread holds — but the connections between its parts end up living in the reader's memory, or nowhere at all.

Methuselah was still living when Noah was born. Almost no one reading Genesis notices.

IIIDrawn before

People have wanted to see it whole for a long time.

In 1871 Sebastian Adams engraved twenty-three feet of history onto a single sheet so that a reader could stand in front of it and see what was simultaneous. Kingdoms drawn as rivers that widen, divide and run dry. Families as lines you could follow with a finger. People still hang it on walls, and they are right to.

An engraving holds one answer beautifully. Scrollwork begins where the engraving ends: the same account held as data, so the surface can be asked again — re-dated, re-sorted, re-drawn — and so a reader can put a question to it that nobody thought to engrave.

IVThe surface

One canvas, read all the way down.

You scroll it like a map and you descend through it. Each level answers the one above, and nothing sends you to another page to find out.

Erawhere you stand in the whole account
Figurewho was alive, and whom they outlived
Eventwhat happened, and what happened elsewhere
Passagethe text it is drawn from
Wordthe original term, everywhere it appears

VThree pillars

Faith, Evidence and History, on the same object.

Faith

what is held

Evidence

what is found

History

what is recorded

Open a passage and all three stand beside it: what the Church has held, what the ground has given up, and what the surrounding world was recording at the time.

Faith leads, and is the only one of the three with something to say everywhere. The other two are given exactly the room the record gives them — and where a pillar has nothing, it says so rather than reaching.

All three in front of you at once, with no verdict attached.

VIChronology

The date is a setting, not a fact.

Two careful scholars can place the Exodus three centuries apart. Both belong on the canvas.

Every timeline picks a chronology and draws it as certainty. The choice is usually invisible and it is doing enormous work — move the Exodus and everything around it moves with it.

Here the scheme is yours to set. Competing chronologies are carried side by side, each event keeping its own confidence, and the canvas redraws when you change your mind. No scheme is the silent default, including the one the underlying data happens to assume.

VIIHonesty

It will tell you when it does not know.

Where a claim can be tested, you are shown the test — the thing that would prove it wrong — and not only the conclusion. Where a claim is of a different kind, and no material test applies, that is said plainly, because measuring a matter of faith with the wrong instrument is its own kind of dishonesty.

Every source is checked against an external authority before it ships. One that cannot be confirmed is dropped rather than printed with a caveat, and positions are attributed to the people who hold them.

Where the record is silent, so is the page. It presents; it does not adjudicate. What you conclude is yours.

Scripture, and the sources behind every claim, will never be sold here. Most of Scrollwork is free and stays free; where a larger work carries a price, it will say so plainly.