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First sent out November 2006
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Finding the right web Bible tool for the job.
NET Bible have raised the standard for web Bible tools with
their NeXt Bible.
It does almost everything you want, and fast. Of
course it can't touch the big boys
like Accordance,
BibleWorks, Logos etc, but unlike them, it is free.
There are other
free web Bible tools which do some things better than NeXt.
Here are the
best of the best, so you can find the right tool for your next study.
The
NeXt Bible is probably now the best tool for most general
Bible study
* NET Bible with full notes, plus the major commercial
Bibles (incl. NIV, NKJV, NLT)
* Basic lexicon & concordance within easy
reach
* Proper Greek & Hebrew
fonts with easy installation tool
This is a new tool with a few problems,
but it looks like it will go very far.
The
Sword
is the best tool for comparing original texts and translations
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almost every free Bible and many commercial Bibles can be selected in
parallel
* Greek & English Bibles tagged to for parsing and simple
lexicons (incl. LXX, NA27, NASV)
* tagged words link to a concordance search
based on the original Hebrew or Greek
* click on a word to highlight every
word derived from the same Greek or Hebrew original
The
BlueLetter Bible is the tool for doing quick lexical
studies
* easy access to full lexicon entries in Thayer and Gesenius
with a brief preview
* no font problems because it uses multiple images and
scans - surprisingly fast
* useful concordance search based on Greek &
Hebrew.
ZHubert
is the best tool for Greek lexicon analysis
* links to full Liddel
& Scott and shorter lexicons, with bar charts for NT usage.
* readable
hover details (better than interlinear)
* displays a chosen verse in a scan
of Sinaiticus
* complex
searches, eg noun A with verb B as aorist participle. (Not yet friendly
enough).
Laparola
is the best tool for NT Greek variants and textual
criticism
* All the data from Nestle-Aland & United Bible
Societies editions, and more.
* You can arrange sources chronologically, by
text type or by type of manuscript
* Quotations and Allusions from the
Fathers can be usually be read in context
* You can even find all variants in
one manuscript and compare them with another manuscript
Note: ZHubert
presents the same data in a prettier form, though with less flexibility.
For the specialist Biblical Scholars:
The
Tanak verse analyser displays the structure of Massoretic punctuation
diagramatically.
Tyndale Unicode
Bibles - Greek and Hebrew texts as Word docs which you can copy and
paste.
(this needs Unicode fonts - get a free fonts with
Tyndale installer and keyboard)
Links to all English
Bibles on the web - for those who can't get enough translations.
Links
to facsililies
and editions on the web, in Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Latin etc.
Here is the same information, with screenshots:
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The
NeXt Bible is probably now the best tool for most
general Bible study
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The
Sword is the best tool for comparing
original texts and translations
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The
BlueLetter Bible is the tool for doing quick lexical
studies
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ZHubert
is the best tool for Greek lexicon analysis
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| Laparola
is the best tool for NT Greek variants and textual criticism * All the data from Nestle-Aland & United Bible Societies editions, and more. * You can arrange sources chronologically, by text type or by type of manuscript * Quotations and Allusions from the Fathers can be usually be read in context * You can even find all variants in one manuscript and compare them with another manuscript Note: ZHubert presents the same data in a prettier form, though with less flexibility.   |
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For the specialist Biblical Scholars:
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