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The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's
free Bible software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform
open-source tools-- covered by the GNU General Public License-- that allow programmers and Bible
societies to write new Bible software more quickly and easily.
We also create Bible study software for all readers, students,
scholars, and translators of the Bible, and have a growing
collection of over 200 texts in over 50 languages.
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RSS News Feed
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Posted 7:30AM on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 by Osk
CrossWire is happy to announce the immediate availability of an RSS news feed, compatible with all of the most popular news readers like Google Reader and the readers built into popular browsers like Firefox, IE7, and Opera. You can use thew new feeds to stay informed about the latest updates to CrossWire releases. You should find a link to the RSS feed in the left menu panel.
(If you aren't familiar with RSS, you can read a semi-technical explanation at Wikipedia OR you would watch this explanation of RSS in Plain English over at YouTube.) |
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SWORD 1.5.10 Released
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Posted 6:30PM on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 by scribe
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BibleDesktop 1.0.7
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Posted 11:02AM on Sunday, July 1, 2007 by DM Smith
BibleDesktop, the portable JSword-based Bible study tool, for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, now supports Parallel Bibles. And as an added bonus, you can visually compare 2 or more Bibles of the same language. See the JSword Change Log for more details and other improvements.
You can download it from here. |
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BibleDesktop 1.0.6
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Posted 7:58AM on Saturday, March 31, 2007 by DM Smith
Happy Easter!
BibleDesktop, the portable JSword-based Bible study tool, for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, has been improved!!! This release completes our support for all Sword modules, except Personal Commentary. See the JSword Change Log for more details.
You can download it from here. |
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BibleTime 1.6.3b
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Posted 2:36PM on Sunday, February 4, 2007 by Joachim
BibleTime 1.6.3b has been released today. It contains several important bugfixes.
Binary packages for Fedora, Mandriva and SuSE are available at www.bibletime.info. |
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GnomeSword 2.2
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Posted 3:43PM on Saturday, December 23, 2006 by tee
Merry Christmas from the GnomeSword development team!
Release 2.2 (STABLE) of GnomeSword Bible study software is available. GnomeSword builds on the support of Crosswire Bible Society's cross-platform open source tools for scriptural study, to provide a high-quality study environment for those working within the GNOME desktop.
This stable release is the culmination of the extended 2.1.x unstable/development period.
Check it out here |
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NET Bible Available
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Posted 11:18AM on Monday, October 23, 2006 by scribe
We are pleased to announce that bible.org has produced a SWORD module of their NET Bible and is offering both a free version with limited notes, and a for-pay version with their complete note set.
These modules are distributed directly from bible.org. You can find instructions to add these modules to your SWORD library by visiting the bible.org SWORD NET Bible page.
To find out more about the NET Bible, visit the bible.org NET Bible page.
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The SWORD Project for Windows 1.5.9
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Posted 11:52PM on Saturday, October 14, 2006 by scribe
CrossWire Bible Society is pleased to announce the long awaited release of The SWORD Project for Windows version 1.5.9. This new version utilizes the latest SWORD engine to provide access to the exciting new Bible releases from CrossWire. Many bugs have also been fixed. Some of the more noticeable new features include: - the ability to create a search index on a text which will allow very fast and more powerful searching.
- quick access toolbar buttons to show and hide features of a text
- chapter and book introductions are diplayed when present in a text
Download the latest software here: http://crosswire.org/sword/software/biblecs |
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English Standard Version (ESV) Module Released
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Posted 1:58PM on Thursday, October 12, 2006 by DM Smith
We are pleased to announce that Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers, has graciously given CrossWire permission to distribute the English Standard Version (ESV), © 2001.
Quoting from www.esv.org:
The ESV Bible is a new, essentially literal Bible translation that combines word-for-word precision and accuracy with literary excellence, beauty, and readability. The English Standard Version (ESV) is a "word-for-word," essentially literal translation because every word of the Bible is inspired by God. Based on this principle, more than sixty of the world's leading Bible scholars pored over every word and phrase to achieve the unique accuracy, excellence, and beauty of the ESV Bible.
The ESV publishing team includes more than 100 people. This 100-member team, which is international and represents many denominations, shares a commitment to historic evangelical orthodoxy, and to the authority and sufficiency of the inerrant Scriptures.
To find out more about the ESV, visit www.esv.org
You can add this module to your library using the book installer in your favorite SWORD software or by downloading it directly from here. |
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KJV Module Updated
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Posted 1:53PM on Thursday, October 12, 2006 by DM Smith
Announcing the release of a much improved and corrected KJV SWORD module.
This update diligently compared the text to other e-texts and differences were validated against a hardcopy of the "Old Scofield Study Bible". The encoding of the KJV was updated to the latest OSIS, v2.1.1, according to the best practices as mentioned on the Sword-devel mailing list and the OSIS 2.1.1 user's manual. All known encoding errors were fixed. You can read more about the changes here.
You can add this module to your library using the book installer in your favorite SWORD software or by downloading it directly from here. |
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