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[Olaf Bacon]

Ebibilia Enchenu (Ekegusii) Bible.

Please goto http://www.biblesupport.com/e-sword-downloads/file/11956-bbli/ 

That file is difficult to find, unless you search for e-Sword downloads, and search on the name BBLI. The entry in Bible Support ought to have been created with the name of the Book, as a proper NAME, since the program finds the name BBLI to be an error, expecting that "bbli" should refer to a filetype, not to a filename.
 

This Bible consists of the Old Testament and New Testament, without notes, without the Apocrypha. This is the BIBLE in the Ekegusii language. In the option "Bible", "Information", we expect to read the publishing details for the Bible. It appears that this may be for the old Protestant edition of the Old Testament and New Testament by the Bible Society of Kenya, publication date 1990. The downloader, Kodhek, forgot to load all details about the Title and Publishers, and previous edition, and who has the copyright, and also did not load the preface, and Introduction chapter of the new Bible.

The downloaded file provides the Bible, which appears with the tab name "Ebibilia Enchenu", which expands when the pointer is hovered over the tab, to show "Ebibilia Enchenu (Ekegusii) by Kodhek". 

 

The Ekegusii language (also known as Kisii or Gusii) is a Bantu language spoken in the Kisii district in western Kenya, whose headquarters is Kisii town, north Migori, and Nyamira counties; Narok county: Thimjope area; south of Kavirondo Gulf, (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania). It is spoken by the Gusii people, numbering about 2.0 million. A few Gusii people are bilingual in Luo.

 

The downloaded filename is eke.bbli. This is applicable to run on both the e-Sword for Mac, and on other Apple devices, and also for e-Sword loaded on Microsoft devices. It is applicable to e-Sword version 9, 10, and later.

In October 2021 the new translation of the Bible was published. There is an edition with, and an edition without, the Deuterocanonical books. This revised Bible has a new spelling of the name, which is now "Ebiblia Enchenu". Notice the revised spelling of the first word (only two letters "i"). This revised Bible is printed to included notes, and additional maps and a concordance, and also other helpful material.

Edited by Olaf Bacon, 22 November 2021 - 06:23 AM.

[JPG]

You only need to contact the maker of the module, not the whole forum as there isn't anything anyone else can do about this module.

[Olaf Bacon]

JPG, on 15 Nov 2021 - 11:44 AM, said:

You only need to contact the maker of the module, not the whole forum as there isn't anything anyone else can do about this module.

Thank you for your advice, JPG. I have sent an email from Bible Support option, requesting the uploader that the filename be expanded from BBLI which is totally uninformative.

Could the admin of BibleSupport.com in consultation with Josh Bond, please consider to create a document in step-by-step option, to assist creators of Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, Devotions, Graphics and maps, and Reference books, and other modules, as to what to add in the module "Information", pages, regarding previously published details of the source.

Please would this give a comprehensive example of how to set out the display page. Could this refer to the e-Sword User's Guide chapters, and illustrations, to detail who had the copyright, whether that expired, or who now has the copyright today for printed editions, where to find publishers to get a printed copy, who to contact to get in contact with the e-Sword coder, or how to contact the original translators, and whether additional footnotes, and notes, and supplementary chapters and introductions will be provided in a Commentary to be read in conjunction with the book which they provide as a module on Bible Support.

For example, e-Sword User's Guide page 20 for the Bible Information page to detail the full name of the published Bible, so that it is not just classified as BBLI, which is very uninformative.
For example, e-Sword User's Guide page 30 indicates that the Introduction and Preface could be added in the Introduction page.
For example, e-Sword User's Guide page 31 indicates that the Title page, copyright, dedication, contents, prefaces to the print edition, (edition one, and the revised edition), and preface to the e-Sword edition, indicating who gave permission to put this into e-Sword format, and who to contact for queries, could be provided in the "Information" page before the text.

The details of the publisher and publishing dates, who the translators were, where to get the book in a printed edition, and the permission to provide the document in e-Sword format, and who to contact and how, if there are queries, is all missing.

Refer to Information page examples, in the e-Sword User's Guide, illustration picture on pages 72, 97, 180, 224. note the title, copyright, preface, occurring before the text pages.

The Bible Society of Kenya launched the Revised Ekegusii Bible on 8th October 2021 at Kisii School in Kisii County.

At present the first page to detail the name of the original Book from which the document was made, and its history, and the content of the Preface and Introductory chapters in the original document, and appendix notes, is missing in many of the document modules, whether in "bbli" or "topx" format, which are loaded by the maker of many modules, in Bible Support resources.
Thanks again for your advice. From Olaf Bacon 2021-11-15.

Added note: When I click on the link in the first item in this blog, www.biblesupport.com/e-sword-downloads/file/11956-bbli/ then I receive the following error which appears at the very top line of the screen:
Warning: mysql_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/ipboard/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_1/skin_downloads.php on line 1127

Then on the following screen, after proceeding to download, and having accepted the license to download, the following error warning is received, which appears at the very top line of the screen:
www.biblesupport.com/e-sword-downloads/download/11956-bbli/ produces a warning error at the very top of the page content
"Warning: mysql_num_rows() expects parameter1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/ipdoard/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_1/skin_downloads_other.php on line 113

Please take this up with Josh Bond. I think the problem is that the filename is BBLI without the name of the Bible EBIBLIA ENCHENU for the REVISED EKEGUSII Bible being mentioned in the filename. The revised edition is written in Ekegusii language for the Kisii people. The review I left also does NOT appear in latest reviews.

At present I would like someone to confirm whether the wording in the file downloaded by Kodhek is for the old Protestant version of the EBIBILIA ENCHENU, which is now out of stock at the Bible Society of Kenya - OR is the wording which is actually for the New edition, of the Revised version, published October 2021, which has the new name, EBIBLIA ENCHENU OGOONCHORWA GWA KABERE.

Information updated 2021-12-31.

Edited by Olaf Bacon, 31 December 2021 - 06:41 AM.

[Olaf Bacon]

Because the person who uploaded the EBIBILIA ENCHENU did not provide evidence that he had obtained permission from the publisher, Bible Society of Kenya (January 1, 1990), to provide the Bible in e-Sword format, the entry has been inactivated by a Bible Support Moderator. Currently unavailable. https://www.amazon.c...i/dp/9966480609

Revised Ekegusii Bible Launched 8 October 2021 in Kisii County - See https://biblesociety...ekegusii-bible/