Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: cms@dragon.uucp Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: online Bibles (was: masturbating, politicking, other I can't remem Message-ID: Date: 8 Aug 90 07:49:06 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Projects Unlimited Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Our Fearless Moderator comments: > I think these days I'd recommend a computerized Bible rather than a > concordance, for those who have computers. > > --clh] Oh, I concur on the usefulness of an online Bible, although I currently only have King James with no Apocrypha, drat it! If I want to read the KJV Apocrypha, I have to look it up in a separate publication (hardcopy-wise). The only hardcopy KJV w/Apocrypha I've ever seen was in a catalog, pulpit edition, to the tune of $220 (sigh). So I keep them side-by-side on my bookshelf. At any rate, I followed up to comment: Whenever I use the search option on my online text, it doesn't separate them out into book-divisions, making it difficult for me to determine which section of the Bible I've retrieved this gem; I'm sure I just have lousy software. So I often resort to Eerdman's. It'd be nice to have an online concordance that would point you to passages according to various translations. I've often searched online KJV or Eerdman's (which is RSV) only to discover the passage I wanted was there but not in that translation, if you follow my frustration. -- Sincerely, Cindy Smith emory!dragon!cms [The program I use -- QuickVerse -- lets you constrain searches to a particular range of books. It does not have the Apocrypha available though, as far as I know. --clh]