Olaf Bacon

Will the new (2020) translation of the Afrikaans Bible be made available soon?

Please contact the Bible society of South Africa, because the text is under their copyright. Bible Support website only provides copyright information with specific permission of the copyright holder. Suggest this option to them. e-Sword provides the text of verses in verse order, in chapter and book order using SQLite database format. Explain that Rick Meyers would be able to provide their copyright version for individual users to use, under their copyright with permission, which would be read using the e-Sword Bible Study application, for Microsoft PC, for Apple Mac, for Apple iPad, for Apple iphone and e-sword for Android devices - so that the user can compare the results with many other translations. Inform them how to view Rick Meyers's options at https://e-sword.net

Suggest to them that they provide the option including the Deuterokanonieke Boeke, in addition to Ou Testament, Nuwe Testament, and also Voorwoord, Verantwoording, Woordelys, and Kaarte, and all Inleidings to each book, and .they can forward this in electronic format, together with permission to provide this freely for use with the e-Sword application, to Rick Meyers (Rick@e-sword.net)
Bible Society of South Africa
134 Edward Street, Bellville
Tel: 021 910 8777
Fax: 021 910 8799
E-mail: biblesa@biblesociety.co.za

I sent a copy of your query to the Designer of e-Sword, from https://www.e-sword.net/android/contact.htm

MAC Users have a different issue. It doesn't use the BBLX files and if I drop it into the e-Sword folder, the program locks up. So, it needs converted to run on the MAC but I have found no conversion tool to work. Anyone found a solution?

The files that you find on the Bible Support website are mainly designed to run from the e-Sword Personal Bible Study application. This is a Bible Study application, which runs in a SQLite database structure, in which the separate verses of the Bible (Old Testament) and (New Testament) and (Apocrypha) in their chapters, and their associated books of the Bible, in the selected version of the Bible and for the selected language are arranged and listed in numerical order inside a database module. The result is to be used and read inside the e-Sword application. You will need to load the e-Sword application to be able to see the contents of these files. e-Sword is copyrighted, worldwide, and is exclusively designed and provided by Rick Meyers. There are separate varieties of e-Sword for [1] e-Sword: Free Bible Study for the PC running Microsoft Windows.

e-Sword is also available for purchase, as follows: [2] e-Sword X for the Apple Mac from iTunes, [3] e-Sword HD for the iPad from iTunes, [4] e-Sword LT for the iPhone from iTunes, and [5] e-Sword for Android from Google Play. The information you want can be found at https://www.e-sword.net/links.html on the available links provided there.

Because of the database format, the verses of the selected Bible can also be quickly compared with links to these same verses in e-Sword Bible Commentaries, e-Sword Bible Dictionaries, e-Sword Bible Lexicons, and other e-Sword Reference Library modules, in different Bible versions, and in different Languages. You can even search on Strong numbers, as used in the Exhaustive Concordance to sort words in the English Authorised version of the King James Version (1769) into Hebrew and Greek roots of the words, as they were grouped by James Strong in the Hebrew and Greek languages. Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries were published in 1890 and are in the public domain.

On the Bible Support website many out-of-copyrght books about the Bible have been compiled by volunteers, and the content has been reformatted into a format suitable to use with e-Sword, to assist users with their personal Bible Study.

CONVERSION OF bblx MODULES FOR USE BY e-SWORD ON THE MAC
If you find modules on the Bible Support website that were designed for the e-Sword for the PC and wish to have these converted to HTML formatting so that they can be read with e-Sword on Apple or Android devices, there is a conversion module, designed to run on the Windows PC, available for use from Rick Meyers. This is available from https://www.e-Sword.net on the option EXTRAS under the heading MODULE CONVERTER. Rick Meyers notes: "If you have been one of those adventuresome users who have created your own custom e-Sword modules, and you want to use them in e-Sword on your Apple or Android device then this utility should convert them." This is designed to run on a PC with e-Sword 13 installed on it.

The e-Sword modules were initially designed for the Windows PC when RTF formatting was applied to letter characters. These modules have filenames with a file type that all have the fourth and final letter of the file type with the letter "x". The e-Sword modules with a file type with the fourth and final letter of the file type with the letter "i", were designed for devices in which programming is in HTML format. For example Bibles (*.bblx and *.bbli), Commentaries (*.cmtx and *.cmti), Dictionaries (*.dctx and *.dcti), Lexicons (*.lexx and *.lexi), and Library Reference Files (*.refx and *.topx and *.refi). The file types with the last letter of the file type "i" can also be read in e-Sword for the PC running e-Sword versions 11, 12, and 13.

Please note that files created with the e-Sword built-in Editors for Journal Notes, Study Notes, and Topic Notes are installed in a user's folder on the PC and are not readily interchanged with users on the same PC, nor with users on other types of devices. Each user of the PC logs in with their user name. This was because RTF coding was in use, which is not compatible with the programming methods used on Apple and Android devices, which use other proprietary coding structures, based on HTML coding of characters. Each user of the PC will have their e-Sword Profile, when they install e-Sword on their user name and profile. This is to keep personal files "personal", and not available for other users to access from the same device or from another device.

There is no application available, at present, from Rick Meyers, which is designed to convert topics files created on Apple and Android devices to be readable in the personal folders on the PC.

For Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about e-Sword X on the Mac, please view answers from Rick Meyers at: https://www.e-sword.net/mac/faq.htm

Requested for e-Sword: Spurrell Old Testament: A Translation of the Old Testament Scriptures From the Original Hebrew

 

A Translation of the Old Testament Scriptures from the Original Hebrew, by Helen Spurrell ((1819–1891)) London: James Nisbet & Co, (Jan 1885)

https://sacredtruthm...original-hebrew

It is now again available from Sacred Truth Publishing:

—not actually original, "paleo-Hebrew," but unpointed Hebrew; the first and one of the only translations undertaken by an individual woman (as opposed to an entire Bible Translating committee); very scholarly; VERY rare. 

Also contains an Introduction by the Modern Publisher explaining the Hebrew Language (paleo, square unpointed, and square pointed), and a Table of Contents Page (Modern Publisher has added new larger page numbers at the top of each page, since the page numbers of the originals at the bottom were so incredibly small).

Read a sample / selection on-line for free: The Book of Ruth. https://sacredtruthm...sample-ruth.pdf

the explanation of Helen Spurrell's notations. explains Helen Spurrell's treatment of the emphatic in the Hebrew. https://sacredtruthministries.com/sites/default/filessites/default/files/images/stories/R-S/Spurrell-Key.JPG

Try: https://e-sword.informer.com/8.0/

The lists of names of the books of the Holy Bible, Old Testament (OT) and New Testament (NT), provided by Biblesupport.com member Katoog will be visible when you select a Bible in e-Sword which has been set up for the English language. These are the abbreviations selected as standard for use by e-Sword. The SQLite database correlates Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, and Lexicons on these standard cross-reference abbreviations. The books are divided into chapters numbered from 1. The chapters are divided into verses, numbered from 1.

Remember, when you refer to Bible abbreviations in a document that you write, that all Bible publishers are entitled to invent their own series of abbreviations for the names of the books of the Bible, in their publication and in the cross-reference margin and notes, which is usually copyrighted by the printer, or by the author. The proofreaders are responsible to try to ensure that the abbreviations are used consistently in the printed documents. You must ensure that your references are correct in the Bible available for use by the readers in the translation language.

If you refer to a Bible in another language, please double check the name of the book, the number of the chapter, and the numbering of the verses. Do not expect that the chapter number and verse number will be the same as appears in your printed copy of the KJV Bible.

Select the KJVA King James Version w/ Apocrypha, provided as a download from within e-Sword itself, to see the additional abbreviations used for the other books. After Nehemiah are 1 Esdras 1Es, 2 Esdras 2Es, Tobit Tob, Judith Jdt.
After Esther are 1 Maccabees 1Ma, 2 Maccabees 2Ma, 3 Maccabees 3Ma, 4 Maccabees 4Ma.
After Psalms is Psalm 151, and the Prayer of Manasseh Man.
After Song of Solomon there are two books Wisdom Wis, Sirach Sir.
After Lamentation is Baruch Bar. This includes the Epistle of Jeremy.
The additions to Daniel are in chapter 3 The song of Azariah and the Song of the three young men, chapter 13 The story of Susanna, and chapter 14, The idols Bel and the Dragon.

In the KJVA (1611, 1769), these books appeared between the OT and the NT. Many of the Bibles printed after 1885 removed the cross-references provided by the KJV translators in the margins that referred to verses in the books of the Apocrypha. Some Bible printers also decided not to print the books of the Apocrypha, which had been okayed by the British Parliament, to be read for edification and information, in the Bibles printed for the people of the world in countries where they read English as their vernacular language. The printers often leave out the essential Preface, by the Translators to the Reader, and the dedication of the Bible to King James in the introduction. They usually leave out many other interesting lists, and maps, that were in the KJV-1611 Bible.
You will find a good quality scanned PDF copy of the KJV-1611 at:
https://www.originalbibles.com/the-original-king-james-bible-1611-pdf/

Rick Meyers, the developer of e-Sword, has provided for the display of additional chapters and verses as these are brought to his attention as required for various Bibles that use the verse numbering provided by Robert Stephens in 1551 which differs slightly from the verse numbering in the Geneva Bible, the KJV, and other translations.

Select the e-Sword tab “Option” and “Language”, to select one of the listed 29 languages. The names of the Books and the accompanying abbreviations, including the diacritical modification of the letters, will be listed and can be accessed. The language of the text displayed will be as it was initially loaded into e-Sword. e-Sword does not provide dynamic translation facilities from one language to another.

Please contact Rick Meyers at rick@e-sword.net if you have useful suggestions for further development in e-Sword.

Please see replies at the following link http://  www.biblesupport.com/topic/12142-where-to-put-modules-on-a-family-computer/

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@SpiritualMadMan  Here is an answer to a query about why a user may experience that downloaded files are not loading directly into the C:\Program Files (x86)\e-Sword folder on the C: drive on their Windows PC. If each person logs in with a personal login profile to e-Sword, their personal user files from the e-Sword Editors are in their own directory - and that directory folder can be located wherever that user has arranged to assign it. That is part of the set up of the user profile, when they loaded e-Sword for their use.
You have to tell the PC who is allowed to access the different folders - and that includes access from https://www.e-sword.net because this is part of the computer security applied to your PC to try to keep hackers out of your personal files, and out of writing to selected folders. Here is an answer from the designer of e-Sword for Windows, Rick Meyers.

 

Olaf,

 

Windows places files into a "Virtual Store" folder if it doesn't have the proper permissions to place them into the e-Sword program directory.  These files will appear within e-Sword as if they were where they belong, but when you look in the e-Sword program directory they are not actually there.

 

You will need to Google for instructions on locating the "Virtual Store" folder for your particular version of Windows.  Once you locate that folder you can move the Bibles and other resources into the actual e-Sword program directory.

 

The permissions "fix" is to set the "Security" on the e-Sword program directory (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\e-Sword\) to allow the "Everyone" account Full Control.

 

In His service,

 

Rick Meyers

rick@e-sword.net

e-Sword USER GUIDE - MANUAL FOR e-SWORD FOR WINDOWS - Hint for Celebratejesus and other new users. This will help one to learn about e-Sword most efficiently.

While using e-Sword for Windows, while e-Sword is running, tap your pointer into the e-Sword open window, to identify to the PC what you are interested in looking at, then press the F1 function key. This will call up the e-Sword User's Manual from the folder in your PC where you downloaded your e-Sword Resources. The file name is e-sword_guide.pdf and will open with any appropriate internet browser, or with Adobe Acrobat. This can be printed. (pages i-xii and 1-245). 

Use Ctrl+F [that means press Ctrl then while this is depressed, also press the F key. Then release both keys. This will enable you to search to find a word that you think may be appropriate for what you are looking for. This was last updated to e-Sword for Windows version 10.4 in 2014. There have not been too many changes since then. I suggest you read your way through this manual, from beginning to the end. 

Also have a look at the training files from the designer of e-Sword for Windows, Rick Meyers, from www.e-sword.net on the "Training" option. Work you way through these, consecutively. Then read the "About" tab, to get some history of how e-Sword was developed. Also have a look at the contents of answers in the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) option. 

If e-sword, option "Downloads" does not have the Bible, or Commentary, or Dictionary, or other resource you are looking for, try the search option from Bible Support. 

All HTML modules of e-Sword
As a follow up of queries in this thread, answers have been received from Rick Meyers, the developer of e-Sword for the Windows operating system, and for windows for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Android.
Are the same downloads which are available for e-Sword X for the Mac, and e-Sword HD for the iPad, and e-Sword LT for the iPhone and e-Sword for Android also available for e-Sword for Windows? In other words, are the whole range of entries for Bibles, Commentaries, Devotionals, Dictionaries, Lexicons and Reference books also available on all varieties of e-Sword?
Rick Meyers replied: Yes, .bbli, .cmti, .devi, .dcti, .lexi, and .refi files will work on every e-Sword platform. Only user files are OS-dependent.
Rick Meyers explains that e-Sword modules are loaded alphabetically. As such, a BBLI file will load before a BBLX file with the same name. e-Sword will only load one instance of a module with the same abbreviation as described in the Details table of the database.
Rick Meyers commented on the Update program by Bible Support members who are providing conversions of old file modules with .xxxx file extensions, into HTML format xxxi modules.
By the way, having everything in the .xxxi format is a really good idea since the Unicode HTML modules are the only ones I personally support. Rich Text is not portable between operating systems, and modules made for Rich Text are limited to the PC. Also, HTML modules are supported all the way back to e-Sword 10, so that probably covers 99 percent of the users still using e-Sword.
In His service,

Rick Meyers
rick@e-sword.net

Here is the reply received from Rick Meyers, the developer of e-Sword for the PC.
Olaf,

They probably need to rearrange keyboard priority and/or remove keyboards they do not want displayed. Microsoft has instructions for all those various keyboard language issues here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-the-input-and-display-language-settings-in-windows-12a10cb4-8626-9b77-0ccb-5013e0c7c7a2

 

In His service,

Rick Meyers
rick@e-sword.net

Tue 2023-07-25 16:01
 

 

 

Information about the location of user files, and the need for a printer printer driver, received from Rick Meyers, the developer of e-Sword.

"You can host your user files wherever you like, even the cloud.  Just copy the files to the new location, then update the "User Files Location" path to the directory that contains all of your user files."

"A printer driver is needed for the editor control we use.  A physical printer is not needed, but you should at least have an "Adobe PDF" printer set up."

Hi.

What do we know about this Bible written on goat skin and to be claimed the oldest Bible. If so, is there a translation for it.
Nice day

braamizakmunnich
All you need to do is to ask a query on the internet, and artificial intelligence will provide the answer. Stephen (APsit190) is from a continent that is mainly underwater, Zeelandia, with New Zealand above water in the South, where APsit190 lives, and New Caledonia above water in the north. Perhaps he does not read details from the African continent.

The Ethiopian Bible is mentioned in a news item provided by the Orthodox Christian Laity website, at https://ocl.org/ethi...te-bible-earth/
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The world’s earliest illustrated Christian book has been saved by a British charity which located it at a remote Ethiopian monastery. The incredible Garima Gospels are named after a monk who arrived in the African country in the fifth century and is said to have copied them out in just one day. Beautifully illustrated, the colours are still vivid and thanks to the Ethiopian Heritage Fund have been conserved. Abba Garima arrived from Constantinople in 494 AD and legend has it that he was able to copy the gospels in a day because God delayed the sun from setting. The incredible relic has been kept ever since in the Garima Monastery near Adwa in the north of the country, which is in the Tigray region at 7,000 feet.
Experts believe it is also the earliest example of book binding still attached to the original pages. The survival of the Gospels is incredible considering the country has been under Muslim invasion, Italian invasion and a fire in the 1930s destroyed the monastery’s church. They were written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. There are two volumes which date from the same time, but the second is written in a different hand from the first. Both contain illustrations and the four Gospels.

This is only the gospels, as they were written for the people in Ethiopia. It is not the complete list of all the other manuscripts that are still available from Ethiopia. You will find more information at https://orthochristian.com/94812.html
Though the texts had been mentioned by the occasional traveller since the 1950s, it had been thought they dated from the 11th century at the earliest. Carbon dating, however, gives a date between 330 and 650 – which tantalisingly overlaps the date Abba Garima arrived in the country. So the first volume could be in his hand – even if he didn’t complete the task in a day as the oral tradition states. The charity Ethiopian Heritage Fund that was set up to help preserve the treasures in the country has made the stunning discovery. It was also allowed incredibly rare access to the texts so experts could conserve them on site. The incredible relic has been kept ever since in the Garima Monastery near Adwa in the north of Ethiopia.
It is now hoped the Gospels will be put in a museum at the monastery where visitors will be able to view them. Blair Priday from the Ethiopian Heritage Fund said: ‘Ethiopia has been overlooked as a source of these fantastic things. ‘Many of these old Christian relics can only be reached by hiking and climbing to remote monasteries as roads are limited in these mountainous regions. ‘All the work on the texts was done in situ and everything is reversible, so if in future they can be taken away for further conservation we won’t have hindered that.

‘The pages had been crudely stitched together in a restoration in the 1960s and some of the pages wouldn’t even turn. And they were falling to pieces. ‘The Garima Gospels have been kept high and dry which has helped preserve them all these years and they are kept in the dark so the colours look fresh. ‘This was the most astounding of all our projects and the Patriarch, the head of the Ethiopian Church, had to give his permission. ‘Most of the experts did the work for nothing. ‘We are currently undertaking other restoration programmes on wall paintings and religious texts. ‘We believe that preserving Ethiopia’s cultural heritage will help to increase visitor revenue and understanding of the extraordinary history of this country.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.../Garima_Gospels

I have sent an email to the Dean of the Department of Religious Studies, at Kenyon College, since no one of the thousands of Bible Support members were evidently prepared to contact anyone at Kenyon College to get the entry updated, and the links to the College corrected on that website webpage. When the entry is updated on the Kenyon College website, I will then update this entry in Bible Support for the information of everyone.

Olaf Bacon 2023-June-11

 

Hello chrisyetzer, thank you for your news to Bible Support of progress on the task that you have decided to tackle for your further use.

As far as I have seen there is no 1611 KJV module with the change in font for e-Sword. I have been slowly doing that.

I have discovered where you can download a copy of the KJV-1611, already coded to e-Sword.

Look in e-Sword, in the Download option, browse to Bible, then English options, and keep browsing downwards, past English free options, past English Premium options, past English, Anglicized, Premium option, to English, Old. Here you will find free options to Download KJV-1611. This is for the King James Bible (w/ Apocrypha). The Date was 2009-04-02.

At that time, the programming of e-Sword for the PC was in RTF format. If you want more recent formatting options, I suggest you contact Rick Meyers who provided that module for the use of e-Sword users. The Bishops' Bible (w/ Apocrypha) and the Geneva Bible (w/ Apocrypha) were also provided in the same section of modules.

 

I hope this information is useful. This really took me some time to track down where those file modules originated.