[B-Greek] Bible Software FOR LINUX?
Patrick Narkinsky
patrick at narkinsky.com
Tue Oct 4 12:20:22 EDT 2005
Depending on how extensive your needs are, I would highly suggest you
look at running Accordance under an emulator.
The Sword project (and, by extension, BibleTime) is a good effort,
but it suffers from serious problems due to a lack of freely
available texts. This means that there is no standard, modern Bible
translation available in Sword -- the closest you can come in an
english text is the RSV (now many years out of date), although I
believe that there is a Westcott-Hort text with UBS4 modifications
available for Greek. Last time I looked, the only dictionary
available was an ill-provenanced version of Thayer's, although this
may have changed. I haven't kept up with it since I moved to Mac OS
X, but when I was last involved in the project the core people didn't
seem to be interested in any serious effort to make proprietary texts
available unless the copyright holders would make them free, in part
because many of them greatly preferred the King James Version.
I recommend accordance under an emulator because it is what I know
and it seems to be generally recognized as the best out there. You
could probably could run BibleWorks or something under a Windows
emulator, but Accordance has the advantage of being supported under
emulation. For details (Windows centric, but the same emulator runs
on Linux) see
http://www.accordancebible.com/resources/support/emulator.php
Hope this is helpful,
Patrick
--
Patrick Narkinsky - patrick at narkinsky.com
"Hate no man, but correct some, pray for others, for still others
sacrifice your life as a proof of your love."
-- The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (Didache 2.7) ca. 90AD.
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