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[Catholic Caucus] Free Electronic Bible Resources for Catholics
Petronski

Posted on 04/23/2008 8:50:09 AM PDT by Petronski

Some of you may be aware of my recent thread about Bible translation preferences.

On that thread that I was introduced to a freeware Bible study program called eSword. It is available here at no cost (Windows only). It comes with the King James Version and Strongs built in, but seems to be unbelievably expandable.

For instance, I have added to mine:

...and probably is still more out there that I've yet to find. I'm focusing on public domain resources, and it seems that almost everything public domain has been made available in this format. Non-public-domain resources are available too, some at no or low cost.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Worship
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I wanted to share this amazing resource with my Catholic friends and have thus made this a Catholic Caucus thread. There are far more resources available for Reformed/Baptist/Protestant folks, and those who want to post about those resources here WITHOUT getting into theological debate or contention are welcome to do so.
1 posted on 04/23/2008 8:50:09 AM PDT by Petronski
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To: Petronski

sounz good to me...


2 posted on 04/23/2008 8:54:09 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: Petronski

Lutheran Ping for later so I can download! Thanks


3 posted on 04/23/2008 8:55:19 AM PDT by 11th Commandment (At least McCain wants to Kill Terrorists - Obama wants to associate with them)
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To: NYer; trisham; Salvation; ArrogantBustard; rbmillerjr; AnAmericanMother; annalex; verga; ...

Come and see these amazing free resources for religious study! Lots of things are available on the internet, but these resources are self-contained and work even where internet access is not available. Truly a great blessing for us and all Christians of any denomination.

Please apply pinglists liberally.

I’ll be happy to help anyone with the technical aspects of installation.


4 posted on 04/23/2008 8:56:02 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: 11th Commandment

There are many many writings of Luther available. Any google search for the desired term and “esword” will yield many automatically.


5 posted on 04/23/2008 8:56:54 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski

The Catholic Resources are here:

http://www.esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics/


6 posted on 04/23/2008 8:58:32 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski

http://www.biblegateway.com/

This site has just about every known translation in any language..............with search engines!


7 posted on 04/23/2008 8:58:51 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Petronski

AND you can embed it into your Firefox search engine menu!........


8 posted on 04/23/2008 9:00:04 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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The beauty of the eSword way of doing this that I wanted to stress is that it does not require an internet connection and, further, indexes the various resources together.

Clicking on a verse of the bible calls up related information in the other resources. It’s really very elegant.


9 posted on 04/23/2008 9:00:52 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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The ad up top was inviting me to "Meet Apostolic Women".

OK.

They looked cute enough, and all ... just young enough that they could be my daughters.

10 posted on 04/23/2008 9:02:25 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

With Firefox and AdBlock, I don’t see such things.


11 posted on 04/23/2008 9:03:41 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: B-Cause

Hat tip to B-Cause for introducing me eSword.

God bless you.


12 posted on 04/23/2008 9:05:00 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Campion; narses; kellynla; sitetest

I think you might appreciate this.


13 posted on 04/23/2008 9:16:09 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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E-sword is awesome! I’ve been using it for a couple of years now. I probably have twenty different bibles installed, though I generally use the 1899 Douhay Reims version.

I also have installed (all free) several dictionaries, maps and commentaries.

E-sword is free, though donations are accepted... much like FR.


14 posted on 04/23/2008 9:16:32 AM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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Yes, very important reminder:

E-sword is free, though donations are accepted... much like FR.

15 posted on 04/23/2008 9:17:39 AM PDT by Petronski (When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth, voting for Hillary.)
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To: Petronski
My favorite resource for all sorts of Catholic info is the Catholic Encyclopedia at www.newadvent.org.
16 posted on 04/23/2008 9:19:35 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: ArrogantBustard
The ad up top was inviting me to "Meet Apostolic Women".

OK.

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LOL! This on a caucus thread. Laughing uncontrollably here.

17 posted on 04/23/2008 9:22:17 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Petronski

Thanks, Petronski!


18 posted on 04/23/2008 9:23:16 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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There is also the Sword Project, http://www.crosswire.org/index.jsp, which has software for both Windows and Linux. GnomeSword and BibleTime, the latter is KDE, are both very good tools which use this library.

There is a large selection of Bible texts available in many languages, as well as commentaries, lexicons, devotionals, maps and so on. My only complaint has been that the Challoner Bible is renumbered incorrectly to follow that used by the AV and others, but that is not a huge problem. E-Sword was, at least in the past, better for Windows users as it had a few more features, but if you don't have that option then the Sword Project is certainly a very good way to go. And it is GPL, which makes it free in every proper sense of the word.

19 posted on 04/23/2008 9:38:24 AM PDT by cothrige (Freedom and whisky gang thegither. -- Robert Burns)
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To: Petronski

Thanks.


20 posted on 04/23/2008 9:40:20 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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