Frontends:TyndaleStep Roadmap
From CrossWire Bible Society
The following sections set out the strategy for the first few releases of the Tyndale STEP application
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1st phase: build a multi-platform structure for standard Bible-study tools:
- Bible texts, including original languages, translations and interlinears
- Language aids, including lookup-dictionaries concordance searches
- History tools, including an expandable timeline with scripture links
- Dictionary articles, culled from various sources and edited
2nd phase: add detailed geographic, historic & linguistic data:
- Gazetteer of all named places, with short articles and links to pictures
- Co-ordinates of identifiable places to GoogleEarth
- Map overlays of high-ref 1:20,000 maps of pre-urbanised Palestine
- Flexible timelines which can be altered at key points of uncertainty
- Full-text lexicons linked to the lookup dictionaries in tagged texts
3rd phase: add translation aids and links to modern publications:
- different possible translations for words and passages
- differences in manuscripts, with evidence for each variant
- expositions in modern and older commentaries, articles and books
4th phase: adds link to extra-biblical literature with searching:
- search other ancient literature for similar passages in a similar context
- look up Greek and Hebrew words in other ancient literature
- view ancient texts with translations where possible
