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Jan 07

Free Greek bible tool - ReGreek

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The Resurgence Greek Project
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A simple but powerful website for reading and understanding the original Greek text in the bible.

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Ancient Greek Bible
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The Resurgence Greek Project is a great website if you want to dig deeper into the bible text and review the original Greek text. Whilst some other websites also allow this (such us the Blue Letter Bible) the advantage of Regreek.com is that it is very simple to use. The whole focus of the website is on reviewing the Greek text and words.

You can browse any given veres/s in the Greek bible (or other English texts should you so wish) and view the original text. Hovering over any Greek word brings up a brief summary of the meaning, whilst clicking on it brings up a more complete analysis of the word, whilst even showing in graphical format where else the word appears in the bible.

There are so many other parts to the Resurgence Greek Project including

  • A graphical analysis of the books by person, tense etc..
  • Verse for the day, in Greek
  • A Betacode converter
  • A concordance of all Greek words in the bible

Reviewing the original Greek text is not for everyone, but this website could well be useful if you are interested.



Jan 02

Free ESV bible reading plans

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Psalm 91
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The ESV website has a great selection of reading plans to help you read the bible in one year. Firstly all of the plans are available in several formats as follows:

  • Web
  • RSS (full text included)
  • Email
  • iCal (no text included - just the verse references)
  • Mobile
  • Print

I use the RSS feed as it allows me to read it easily wherever I am. The big advantage of this RSS feed over many others on the internet is that the full feed of the bible text is included. The RSS feed also allows you to subsribe to a podcast so you can listen to the bible.

The selection of reading plans available are:

  • Daily Reading Bible
    Daily Old Testament, New Testament, and Psalms
  • Outreach Bible
    Daily Old Testament, Psalms, and New Testament
  • Outreach Bible New Testament
    Daily New Testament. Read through the New Testament in 6 months
  • M’Cheyne One-Year Reading Plan
    Daily Old Testament, New Testament, and Psalms or Gospels
  • ESV Study Bible
    Daily Psalms or Wisdom Literature; Pentateuch or the History of Israel; Chronicles or Prophets; and Gospels or Epistles
  • Literary Study Bible
    Daily Psalms or Wisdom Literature; Pentateuch or the History of Israel; Chronicles or Prophets; and Gospels or Epistles
  • Every Day in the Word
    Daily Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs
  • Through the Bible
    Daily Old Testament and New Testament
  • Chronological
    Through the Bible chronologically (from Back to the Bible)
  • Book of Common Prayer Daily Office
    Daily Psalms, Old Testament, New Testament, and Gospel


Nov 26

iPhone bible verse quiz

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Which Verses
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Quick bible quizzes to test your knowledge.

iphone-verses.jpgWhich Verses is a simple iPhone based website that test s your knowledge of the bible.

It is straightforward to use, and dye to it’s simple layout is quick to load. One very useful feature added recently is the ability to save your scores. This obviously helps see if you are getting any better. You need a gmail account to do this.

You select a group of books from the bible and then have to say which of those books a specific verse comes from. So for instance here is one of the questions:

Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place. After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

  • Jeremiah
  • Isaiah
  • Ezekiel
  • Lamentations

It would be good if there was a difficulty setting for those that are more well studied in scripture. Other potential improvemts might include different types of question (e.g. How many wives did Soloman have).

You can also play it on a normal web browser on your computer, which is a slightly easier version to use due to the larger screen

All in all this is a fun application to use that is a good way to get you to read a variety of verses.



Oct 28

Bible Gateway acquired by Zondervan

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bible gatewayRich Tatum from Blog Rodent has confirmed that Bible Gateway will be purchased by Zondervan. You can read all the details at Rich’s website, but this is great news for those who regularly use Bible Gateway.

Who knows, maybe Bible Gateway will get even better over the coming years?



Oct 18

ESV study bible now available

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esv-study-bible.jpgMany people are excited that the ESV study bible has been released. I certainly hope I’ll be getting it as a gift for Christmas as by all accounts it is a very high quality study bible.

If you still aren’t sure if you want to buy it (even after reading a few of the free extracts) the ESV team are also allowing you to access to Matthew Chapter 1 free online.

If you purchase the ESV study bible you can have access to the whole study bible online “free”. The ESV blog has a summary of the online features.

Alternatively, you may want to read the comprehensive review of the ESV study bible written by Tim Challies.



Oct 08

Bible Gateway up for grabs?

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bible gatewayRich at the Tatumweb blog has recently written that Gospel Communications is closing down its online communications. Gospel Communications currently provide Bible Gateway, so it is sad to see this happening. However, hopefully someone else will purchase Bible Gateway to allow it to continue spreading the gospel and helping Christians study the word of God.

Rich says:

Former coworkers of mine have related that some Bible Societies (likely the International Bible Society, copyright holder for the NIV and TNIV) have been bidding to purchase the Bible Gateway to keep it alive in one form or another. There will likely be big news to announce on this front in the next few weeks when the secret corporate handshakes are all done.



Oct 04

Free chapters available from the ESV study bible

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esv-study-bible.jpgThe ESV study bible blog has recently put online free copies of some of the chapters from the new ESV study bible. If you are interested in purchasing the ESV study bible or are doing a study on 1 John or Esther. then no doubt these pdfs will be of great benefit The essay titled “Introduction to the Prophetic Books” by Paul R. House (associate dean and professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School) is also provided.

Theses extracts from the ESV study bible show the quality of the ESV study bible. It is very thorough and well laid out and shows the hours of prayer and dedication that have gone into its production.

Click on the links below to go to the relevant page on their website:



Oct 02

Sword Drill 2 brings Bible Gateway to the iPhone

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Sword Drill 2
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A fast front end for the Bible Gateway website

iphone-bible.jpgSword Drill 2 is a very simple iPhone application that harnesses the power of Bible Gateway. If you are a big fan of Bible Gateway then this would be a useful application, otherwise you will probably find there are more powerful bible study applications on the iPhone (such as YouVersion’s bible application) that suit your needs.

One of the limitations of the program is that is needs an internet connection to access the verse, so if you are offline it will not work.

Using the bible software

When you open the application you are presented with a list of books, and when you select a book you can then type in the chapter and verse. The application then loads the relevant verse from the Bible Gateway site. The typing is done manually, which is probably quicker than scrolling through a list.

iphone-bible.jpgOnce you select the verse the Bible Gateway website loads in a new screen within the Sword Drill application. This is good as if it moved you to the main Safari application you would need to be switching applications a lot.

One downside of using the Bible Gateway website is tat the font is rather small. You can select a large font at the top of the Bible Gateway website to help mitigate this.

Translations

The default application is the NASB, but as the author describes in his notes you should be able to change this to any translation that Bible Gateway provide. This would require a little bit of digging around but it has been set up in the option page to allow it to be changed relatively easily. A future improvement may be to allow the translations to be selected by name



Oct 01

iPhone Mantis bible study application review

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Mantis Bible Study
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A very well designed bible package for the iPhone, but with only the KJV provided free with the application

iphone-bible.jpgMantis Bible study is a feature rich offline bible study application for the iPhone or iPod Touch. There is a large range of bibles, commentaries and dictionaries available however only the KJV translation is packaged as free. Any others would have to purchased (the ESV for instance costs about $20).

Whilst the software is very well designed if you are looking for a free bible application package on your iPhone the lack of translations available is a stumbling block.

Using the bible software

Using the iPhone Mantis application is easy. On the top menu you can switch between translations (if you have purchased any) and also choose which book or chapter you would like to read. This works pretty well and allows you to quickly navigate the bible.
How does it look?

The design is good with full customisation of the font that you read the text in. There are various other options too to customize the view. The navigation bars and tab bars are well designed and serve their functions very well.

Notes, bookmarks and history

ipnone-bible.jpgThere are a few features which other free bible applications on the iPhone tend not to have at the moment which may make this a tempting choice.

The first of these is notes, which allow you to write your own notes linked to any verse that you may be reading. As you can see from the image to the right these can then be read “in-line” (you can toggle this option off) as you read the text. This is a well implemented feature for anything that may crop into your head as you are reading. You can also browse through all of your notes by clicking on the Notes option on the tab bar.

You can also make bookmarks in the bible to help you remember any key verses you may be reading. On top of this there is also a histories section which shows you the recent verses you have read. Once again this could prove invaluable if you are hopping around the bible quickly.



Sep 27

Olive Tree’s offline iPhone bible - Bible Reader

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Bible Reader
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An easy to use offline iPhone bible that would benefit from additional translations

iphone-bible.jpgOlive Tree have made a name for themselves by providing bible software on various mobile applications, so it is no surprise that they are branching out onto the iPhone. The early versions (this review is based on version 4.0001) are good and are based around providing offline translations. No doubt further updates and improvements will be coming to software.

More translations would obviously be great, and any further improvements to the applications design would help make this a superb iPhone bible application. I’m not sure what the likelihood of additional translations would be, as they do provide an ESV version for £10 (£15 for an ESV study pack).

Translations available

Olive Tree’s Bible Reader application currently includes the ASV, Darby, French Darby, German Luther Bible, MKJV, NET, SpanishRV, WEY-NT and the YLT.

You can change the translations quickly by tapping on the acronym for the translation you are reading and then selecting your new choice.

Using the bible software

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The small icon in the middle of the tab bar pulls up a table of all the books of the bible on on screen. This sounds too much for one iPhone screen but it actually works really well and does not feel to small or cramped. This may be more difficult for those whose eye sight is not 100% but I found it a quick way to select the books. You then simply click on the book and verse and you are taken to the relevant verse.

You can also directly type a verse in the top bar (though this would take longer) or search for a specific word or phrase.

It is very easy to use and takes less than a minute to understand.

How does it look?

The simple design generally fits the iPhone well, and there is full customization available for the font and font size. It doesn’t quite look the part as much as the YouVersion bible. Not that it creates a bad experience when using it but it feels more PC than Mac. Whether that is bad no doubt depends on you preference!



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