Current News

The SWORD Project now has a presence on Twitter. Follow us to keep abreast of new releases: @TheSWORDProject.

BibleTime 2.5 CE (Christmas Edition) has been released. It has some new Christmas time features in addition to other enhancements and bugfixes. Read more in the announcement.

PocketSword 1.0, the SWORD app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, is now available from the App Store (for free).

Also, be sure to follow PocketSword on Twitter.

Alkitab Bible Study 2.4 has been released. This is a major release with new features and some improvement. For full details and downloads, please check the Alkitab Bible Study website.

The long anticipated Windows version is finally mature enough to get a public release. More...

New features in FireBible 1.1 include support for Strong's words, Greek word morphology and the ability to manage your modules and fonts from within FireBible. More details about this release are available here or go directly to the FireBible website A few instructional videos can be found here: http://thegoan.com/firebible/screencasts

From the MacSword site:
Finally, after more than a year of development, the next generation of MacSword has arrived.

We are very happy this is happening. Many more features and news will come in the next months, stay tuned.

Get it now from the download page. And see the tour page for screenshots and new features of this application.

BibleTime news hasn't kept up with releases. 2.0 was released some time ago, and the latest one is 2.2. Since 2.0, the underlying user interface technology is Qt instead of KDE. We have been able to run BibleTime on Windows and Mac, but due to a lack of manpower, there are no well-working packages or installers available.

Quite a few bugs have been fixed and some new features introduced, most notably a shortcut editor to make using with keyboard easier.

See the BibleTime webpage to keep up with all minor releases which come quite regularly nowadays.

FireBible 1 has been released. New features in this release include commentary support, centralized/categorized bookmarks & history and Ubiquity support for fast verse lookup. More details about this release are available here or go directly to the FireBible website to download.

Are you interested in ancient manuscripts of the NT? Do you have the skills it takes to recognize what Greek text is on a manuscript page? Are you looking for a wonderful project where you can volunteer your time for a very worthwhile cause? If YES to all of the above, please read on.

CSNTM is an organization with a goal to photograph and make freely available images of all important NT manuscripts. Their website is here: http://csntm.org.

CrossWire has been working on a basic manuscript indexing tool that will help volunteers help CSNTM index all of their images. If you would like to help out and don't mind running a VERY early beta of our indexing tool, please follow these instructions:

1) Register an account on our community site at: http://community.crosswire.org

2) After verifying your account and logging in, click on the [Projects] tab, join the CSNTM MSS project, and then click the project link.

3) You will be presented with a status page showing for which documents CSNTM has images. Click the _View Info_ link to see the information CSNTM has for a particular document. Sometimes they will have a PDF already containing Scriptural coverage of their images for a document-- these only require transfer of information from the PDF to the index tool. You might want to find a document with a small number of images, to start. When you've decided on a document you are ready to index, click the _Claim Responsibility_ link.

4) A new document will be created in your personal library for the CSNTM document you've chosen. Fill in any meta information-- much of this can be obtained from the CSNTM information about this document-- and click [Save].

5) Hit the [Load All Images At This URL] button and be patient while the images are slurped down and thumbnails are built.

6) Do some research on your document online, and also using your Nestle-Aland GNT appendix. Click on the first thumbnail to popup the image viewer, zoom in, and using your research and your keen Greek skills, determine and enter the Biblical coverage of this page, e.g., Rom.1.1-3.19. Be sure to hit the [Save] button for this image, and then move on to the next.

7) If you decide NOT to complete work on your document, please DELETE the document from your personal library, which will mark the document as available, once again, for another volunteer to claim.

The CSNTM guys are doing a wonderful work to collect these images and make them freely available. This indexing project will provide the means to manipulate these images usefully from our software and for other projects, and will provide the world with easily accessible evidence attesting to the reliability of the New Testament. I am really excited about this project and about collaborating together with you all and CSNTM on this work! May God make use of these efforts to draw people to Himself. PLEASE ENJOY YOURSELF AND SPREAD THE WORD TO WHOMEVER YOU FEEL MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN HELPING OUT.