The Greek couple who digitised the Bible from their Malta home

A Greek couple who have lived in Malta for over two years have set themselves the mammoth task of digitising all the hundreds of versions of the Holy Bible in a range of languages and make them available to the public for free.

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It all started about a year ago when George Liapis was sitting in his Rabat living room and wanted to search for an excerpt from the Bible. Since he did not have a hard copy at hand, he searched online – only to be disappointed by the quality of websites dedicated to the world’s most popular book.

Liapis, a marketing specialist employed with Times of Malta, got an idea: to create a beautifully crafted website that offers free access to the Bible in a way that makes it easy to read and enjoy.

He discussed the idea with his wife Christina Athanasiou, also a marketeer, who loved the idea. They started working on the project. They created BlessType, a website still in its infancy, that so far includes one version (known as the King James version) of the Bible in English.

This is just the beginning. The Bible was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and over the centuries it was...