The Layman’s Parallel Bible
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Bible Publishers, 1973
“[The four versions of the Bible are set]…in 4 columns side by side across 2 pages. Parallel bibles have been with us ever since the earliest middle ages, and what is new about this one basically is that it was set on a computer — Videocomp—which would automatically cut off the 4 columns at the right place, and would number the footnotes automatically and correctly. I had these footnotes for all 4 versions numbered consecutively for each double page spread, and then placed together into a short column, thus achieving a more harmonious as well as a shorter book. It still ran longer than the compositors had figured; when, after several hundred pages this became apparent, we decided on a larger reduction and different widths, recast the whole page, and brought it down from about 3,600 pages to about 3060.”
