Bible Software?

[MorphRC]

Above Question: Next Question: Where do I get some from?

Im Catholic so anything Catholic would be cool, but I here the KJV lexicon is pretty spot on with translating words from Hebrew/Greek etc to English.

So SHOW ME THE LINKS [Replace * Money = Links-Sites = Fun ]

 

[Durelen]

http://www.crosswire.org/
Runs on any computer system.
Community programmed and offered for free.
Over 250 free add-on modules (Bibles and studdy books many languages)
Customizable.

 

[Oblio]

e-sword is quite good and free.

 

[Durelen]

Devotions
Day-By-Day By Grace (Bob Hoekstra)

Oh wow what a coincidence, I had a couple of Bob’s seminary classes. This guy is really good and he was my favorite teacher. Nice to see someone programmed some of his studies into the e-sword reader. You can listen to some of his commentaries at www.blueletterbible.org , good stuff.

 

[Dracil]

http://www.zeitun-eg.org/freewidx.htm - has the Douay-Rheims, which was "the only official Catholic edition of the Bible available in English until after Vatican II. It is regarded by many to be the best and most reliable translation of the Bible."

Also has a bunch of other Bibles there too.

 

[MorphRC]

Thx All. I found BibleTime, but its only for Linux I think, is there a Windows version?

 

[Durelen]

Yes I use bibletime-KDE on my Linux box. The Sword Project at www.crosswire.org uses the same modules (250+) as BibleTime. Just make sure you download the Windows modules for Sword and not the Linux data files (same download page)
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/software/biblecs/index.jsp

 

[MorphRC]

Yes I use bibletime-KDE on my Linux box. The Sword Project at www.crosswire.org uses the same modules (250+) as BibleTime. Just make sure you download the Windows modules for Sword and not the Linux data files (same download page)
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/software/biblecs/index.jsp

Oh. So Sword is the Windows Version and E-Sword is the Linux Version?

 

[Durelen]

Oh. So Sword is the Windows Version and E-Sword is the Linux Version?

Nah, E-sword is developed by someone else. E-Sword is for Windows. I am going to try that on my PDA though

BibleTime and Sword (The Sword Project for Windows) is developed under Crosswire which is basically a community of developers and testers. The books (modules) are commonly used for all the readers that the community develops. You have Sword, BibleTime, GnomeSword, Jsword, MacSword, Bible+, Micros and QPSword. So for each reader that is developed, they can all use the basic library of books that have been developed (over 250). Hehe I like to point that out. More on the way too . So basicly if you wanted to use BibleTime you would just download the Sword Project for windows; to use the same modules BibleTime does.

 

[MorphRC]

OK. I got Sword and E-Sword, BibleTime has the NAB, which the others dont I think, so how do I combine the NAB from Bibletime to Sword or E-sword?

 

[Durelen]

OK. I got Sword and E-Sword, BibleTime has the NAB, which the others dont I think, so how do I combine the NAB from Bibletime to Sword or E-sword?

It won’t work for e-sword since they are an entirely different group of developer/s. Unfortunately I see NAB is locked for copyright reasons. Yes some Bibles are under full copyright and are not freely distributed just like news articles or regular books. Now there is a NAB module for sword but you must be a developer or tester to download it. I happen to be a tester in the project but I’m not allowed to redistribute these locked modules but it is easy to sign up to be a tester or developer and have access to these modules. Basically though, no matter what reader you use, be it e-sword or any reader for that matter, you must pay for the translation or be a tester/developer to acquire this particular translation text.

To install modules for Sword you simply go to this public download site: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles and download a “windows” version of the “download” for the modules that are unlocked. If you are using another reader other than Sword for Windows you would download the “raw zip” version of the download (i.e. for BibleTime Linux KDE). The Windows module installation is simple, just click on the file you downloaded and it will self install into Sword for windows.

If you want to volunteer as a tester and possibly have access to locked modules you simply follow the “volunteer” link up at the top of the page and fill out the request. Make sure you use an e-mail account that can be flooded with many news group e-mails if you do this. Also there is a Developer link if you are interested in developing the reader or new modules.

If you must have NAB and prefer to pay for it then there are some other readers from other developers that may have the module. Often they will cost around US$20.00 but as of yet crosswire has not set up any pay distributions (working on it). Lots of other modules to choose from at this time though.

 

[Durelen]

grr... dbl post

 

[MorphRC]

Ok. Can find almost no free Catholic Bibles, except the DRV and RSV, but thats the Protestant version..so I wouldnt use that..