BibleTime is a powerful Bible study tool written for the KDE environment on the Linux operating system. It is based on the Sword library, which provides the back-end functionality for BibleTime, such as viewing Bible text, searching, bookmarking, etc. Sword is the flagship product of the Crosswire Bible Society.
BibleTime is designed to be used with documents that have been encoded in Theological Markup Language (ThML) and General Bible Format (GBF). These markup languages are focused on the requirements of religious texts. Complete information on the supported document formats can be found in the developers section of the Sword Project, Crosswire Bible Society.
Over 200 documents in 50 languages are available from the Crosswire Bible Society. These include:
The full Bible text, with optional things like Strong's Numbers and footnotes in the text. The Strong Numbers hot link to the entry in Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary or Strong's Greek Bible Dictionary. Bibles are available in many languages, and include not only modern versions, but also Ancient texts like the Aleppo Codex (Hebrew), and the Septuagint (Greek).
Commentaries available include classics like John Wesley's Notes on the Bible, and Luther's Commentary on Galatians. With the Personal commentary you can record your own personal notes to different parts of the Bible.
Lexicons available include: Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes, Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Dictionaries available include Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary, Strong's Greek Bible Dictionary, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language 1913, Nave's Topical Bible.
Books available include "Imitation of Christ", "Enuma Elish", and "Josephus, the complete works"
Additional documents are being added to the Sword repository frequently, so visit often.
Please read the file Changelog of the sourcecode package if you are interested in more detailed changes.
A listing of the features included in the current package can be found in the sourcecode at CVS log for bibletime/bibletime/ChangeLog
BibleTime version 1.3 provides a number of bugfixes and stability improvements. You will also find a number of changes to the appearance of bibletime. This is a partial list, for a more complete list, see the changlog.
Main index was reorganized, sorting the modules by type of module, then by language.
Bookmarks are now stored in an XML file, but the old format can still be imported. After upgrading an existing installation the old bookmarks are placed in the "Old bookmarks" subfolder.
Drag&Drop works now for more than one item.
Search default Bible and search open modules options added in the search menu.
Major redesign of the user interface, reducing the number of tabs to two (search and result). Features have been moved to the appropriate tab.
Separated now in "read only" and "write only" windows. Write windows can be opened by right mouse button menu in the main index on the Personal Commentary module (or any other RawFiles module).