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Subject: RE: Theology software for Apple
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 18:32:00 EDT
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From:	DECWRL::"gwyn@smoke.brl.MIL" "Doug Gwyn  10-Oct-87 0430 GMT" 14-OCT-1987 15:31

>> Does anyone know of software that would permit a minister/priest or
>> whatever to search scripture for occurences of a given word?
 
> You may be in luck -- I recall seeing advertisements for such a product
> for Apple IIs, called "The Word" if I remember correctly, in various
> Apple magazines such as A+.  You may have to look back a year or three
> in the archives; I don't remember exactly when I last saw the ad.
 
Confirmed.  The product is called "The Word" and I have seen it advertised
in A+ as recently as two months ago.  (Haven't looked this month.)  It does
concordance-type searches across the several disks needed to store the
entire Bible.  it also allows the user to print out selected passages, so
it isn't necessary to go digging in a hardcopy Bible after finding the
one(s) desired.  There may be other functions - these are the only ones I 
remember reading about.

In terms of study value, the fact that "The Word" is King James Version
only, isn't so good; but most Protestant clergy are familiar with the KJV
and have access to a Strong's Concordance, so the product would certainly
be useful to some degree.  For a priest, I dunno.

Cheers,
Dick Binder   (The Stainless Steel Rat)

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