[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english text is the RSV (now many years out of date), although I  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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