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[Josh Bond]

Hello and Shabbat Shalom,

New to this forum and wondering if someone could tell me where to find and download the MESSIANIC RENEWED COVENANT for e-sword 10?

Middle of the page: http://www.freewebs....ksgoodstuff.htm

You will need to convert it to e-Sword 9.x/10.x format.

[sapman]

I would like to see Bullinger's A Critical Lexicon and Concordance !!!!!!

[APsit190]

I would like to see Bullinger's A Critical Lexicon and Concordance !!!!!!

It seems that E.W. Bullinger was quite a prolific author. I first came across one of his works which was regarded as quite controversial, Witness to the Stars. Another work I came across was, Numbers in Scripture. That book I quite enjoyed, but the Witness to the Stars I wasn't too sure about, and still am uncertain about because of the controversy around it.

There is quite a lot of stuff on this site by E.W. Bullinger for both e-Sword (desktop) and MySword (Android Mobile devices), and if you haven't downloaded them, I genuinely recommend them to you.

Blessings,

[Josh Bond]

I would like to see more Pentecostal resources. Unfortunately most are under copyright.

The issue with Pentecostal resources is there's precious few Pentecostal Bible scholars, even today. The number of copyrighted commentaries is slim--but the number of public domain commentaries is, well, 0. Of key interest are resources written before 1923 and before 1963. (Everything before 1923 is public domain, some material between 1923 and 1963 is public domain, nothing after 1963 is public domain).

The 1923 number is important since Pentecostal theology was just conceived at the turn of the century. There's nothing in the public domain and even when you're willing to pay, I can only think of several Pentecostal commentaries. And even then, you might be sorely disappointed with what you find, since there's Oneness Pentecostals, Trinity Pentecostals, and various splits within that movement that see differently on the Holiness doctrine (how women are permitted to look and dress, jewelry, whether men can wear shorts), whether speaking in tongues is required for salvation, etc.

Josh

[Josh Bond]

With Gnomon done, I'm going to make the Thomas Coke commentary set which won't take long.

And then I'm off to re-do William Nicoll's Expositor's Greek NT, so that it's verse by verse, with end of paragraph (or end of comment) footnotes, and the Greek and Hebrew text properly presented. I'm going to break the text like I did with Lange, because the printed publisher combined paragraphs to save space. It's evident that separate paragraphs should appear at certain points (just as it was with Lange's) and it definitely helps with readability.

Someone sent me a copy of this text in Open Office format. That's a good thing because I noticed the chapter-by-chapter version floating around in theWord format has footnotes that are not for the right word. I noticed the footnote placement (what word is footnoted) is just way off much of the time. So I'd hate to start with text with faulty/misplaced footnotes! Expositor's Greek should take about the same amount of time the Gnomon did.

I finished up Nicole's Expositor's Bible Commentary a few weeks ago and took some time off for a church website and some summer time fun with the kids. Now I'm working on Alford's Greek Testament. Like the others, we have it in chapter by chapter format, Greek that's not legible on all PC configurations, and missing footnotes. So I'll do this one as I have the others, verse by verse with proper recognition of Greek and footnotes.

Then after that, I think I'm going to finish Peter Pett's commentary that I started last September. He's a good, modern Baptist author, with a different viewpoint on Eschatology than I have. But if you think you have all the answers on Bible doctrine, you probably shouldn't be reading a commentary anyway—you should be writing one.

[pfpeller]

I would like to see more Pentecostal resources. Unfortunately most are under copyright.

Ryan,

These two resources are very mildly "Pentecostal". I hate to use that label. They are also dispensational. They are Pentecostal in that they believe that the charasmitic gifts in 1Cor 12-14 are still for today and they believe the "coming upon" experience with the Holy Spirit is still for today. However, they will not have the issues that Josh mentions above.

http://www.biblesupp...series-updated/
http://www.biblesupp...tantial-update/

They are mildly Pentecostal because they would teach that all experience is to be tested by the Word of God and experiences that are not consistent with the Word of God must be rejected. Also, in church services, the guidelines that Paul gives in 1 Cor 14 must be obeyed. In addition, the gifts of the Spirit and power of the Holy Spirit are not emphasized in either of these two modules because they take a balanced approach of addressing issues as they come up in the verse by verse teaching of the Word. They also do not believe that all Christians must speak in tongues or experience any of the other charismatic gifts.

Blessings,
Peter

[padeco]

I don't believe e-Sword will ever be natively available on Linux. As for Alford, I'm reworking that module now into verse by verse commentary divisions, with footnotes and proper Greek display.

hi josh!
thanks for the update. great to hear you are working on that project. sad to hear that esword may not be available natively on linux. is that due to any complication in programing? although, never mind one can always find a way around.
many thanks,

[pfpeller]

FYI...

Bible analyzer now will run native in Windows, Linux, and Mac.

[BigPaw]

Sorry put it in the wrong post...

Edited by BigPaw, 08 August 2012 - 07:36 AM.

[ifffam]

Hi all. I'd love if someone could offer the very first version of the Douay-Rheims Bible (that of 1582 for the NT and 1609 for the OT), the versions coming later being very different from the original one. Thank you!

ifffam