My Personal BibleWorks Page
This page is just beginning development. More will be added as time goes by.
Last Updated: 11/05/04

BibleWorks is “The premier original languages Bible software program.” It really is, this is the program of choice. If you are starting to build an electronic tool box for exegetical study – start here!
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This is where I will place customized add-ons to BibleWorks when I have them, along with any other material that may be helpful.


Paradigms: (These are the Greek and Hebrew Paradigms that ship with BibleWorks 6.0. I copied them and converted them to PDF format, mainly so I could carry them on my Pocket PC.)

Greek Paradigms

Hebrew Paradigms

Training Material:

Beginning in February 2004 I became a Regional Trainer for BibleWorks in the Philadelphia Area. As of now I have conducted training workshop @ New York Theological Seminar, NYC; Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary, Lansdale - PA; RTS, Bethesda - MD in June; St. Charles Seminary - PA in July; Princeton Theological Seminary - NJ in October.

The following are Microsoft Word documents of notes that we hand out at the training workshops. These will be modified over time as we add to and improve the content. Please check back often and check the "last modified" date to see if you have the latest version. Also please check the official BibleWorks training site to see if there are any training workshops offered in your area. BibleWorks Training

These documents originated with Charlie Gibson @ BibleWorks and are being modified by both of us.

Quick Start Guide    Last modified 3/16/04

Beginner's Workshop Notes    Last modified 10/13/04

Advanced Workshop Notes    Last modified 10/25/04

Morphology Version Example    Last modified 7/15/04

Additional Book Names Files:

Save these files to your BibleWorks 6/init directory. You can then open them under the "Book Names" tab, which you can access @ tools - options.

SBL - Apostolic Fathers - Josephus - This is a .bna file that contains books names in SBL format + book names for the Apostolic Fathers and Josephus. The SBL book names and Apostolic Father book names were done by another BW user. I just added the book names for Josephus.


Additional "Version" Files:  (Check the Master List Of BW Add-ons Created By Users for much more!)

Each of these files are available here in .zip format due to their size. You can save the .zip file anywhere on your system. However, unzip to contents into the userdb directory under BibleWorks 6 (or 5)/userdb.

From here you will have to go to tools - Version Database Compiler (VDC) within BibleWorks(BW). Open the .ddf file and compile the new version.

Credit is given to the individual who created/formated the "version" to be imported into BW with a brief description of the "version."

Contributor
Description
File to Download
Pastor Mark Eddy [markeddy@adams.net]
These texts were compiled through a collaboration between Charles Wiese and Mark Eddy.
Charles Wiese describes the English text as follows: The versions I used were taken from the back of "The Psalter" used by the Protestant Reformed Churches. I am aware of several variations of the creed which are used. It is divided up according the legend that each of the twelve apostles contributed a verse and is divided up as such.
Mark Eddy notes: My verse numbering matches up with Schaff's. I think I made a couple changes to the Nicene and/or Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed in order to make the translation more literal. I also divided up the Calcedonaian Symnbol into verses. I took the Greek from the historical introduction to Concordia Triglotta (the Lutheran Confessions). I had to make a few changes to the electronic version of the Triglotta (published by Northwestern Publishing House) in order to fit the BibleWorks system of accents. I also took the Latin and German versions of the 3 ecumenical creeds from Concordia Triglotta. I compare the Greek and Latin to the version in Schaff's Creeds of Christendom. The Greek and Latin of the Calcedonian Symbol come from Schaff. I made the verse numbers the same in all versions.
creeds.zip
Jim Darlack
from the public domain text The Apostolic Fathers by J. B. Lightfoot. Edited and completed by J. R. Harmer. London: Macmillan & Co., 1891. Lightfoots Apostolic Fathers in English
Pastor Mark Eddy [markeddy@adams.net] Apostolic Fathers in English according to Philip Schaff's Ante-Nicene Fathers
Apostolic Fathers in English
Jim Darlack This zipped folder contains both the text and the Data Definition files for Marcion's Version of Galatians. It contains both the Greek database and the Morphological database for Bibleworks.
(Copyright 2004 Hermann Detering)
I reworked Detering's files so they would compile. when I downloaded them for my own use the files were corrupt. He deserves every bit of credit for them! Here is a link to PDF file with an explanation of Detering's reconstruction translated by Frans Joris Fabri.
Marcions Version of Galatians
Jim Darlack This zipped folder contains both the text and Data Definition files for the Aramaic text of Targum Neofiti, for use with Bibleworks. (This file and all other Targum files on this site are based on the texts provided by the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, ASCII text edited in December 2003 by John Ronning and encoded for Hebrew display by Jim Darlack March 2004.) Targum Neofiti
Jim Darlack This zipped folder contains both the text and Data Definition files for the Aramaic text of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, also from CAL. Targum PseudoJonathan
Jim Darlack Edited and translated by Richard Laurence. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883, compiled by Jim Darlack. English Translation of the Book of Enoch the Prophet
Mark Langley

The Gospel of Mark in Gothic
Mark Langley
The Gospel of Mark in Anglo-Saxon
Pastor Mark Eddy [markeddy@adams.net] The "homegrown" text of the Apostolic Fathers has been corrected by Pastor Mark Eddy. PLEASE NOTE: THESE FILES WILL REPLACE THE APF/APL FILES ALREADY INSTALLED ON YOUR SYSTEM IF YOU ARE USING BIBLEWORKS 6.0. Pastor Eddy writes:
Finally I have finished proofreading the Apostolic fathers in Greek (apf.txt) file (at least as much as I'm going to do). As far as I can tell I have restored all the lines that were missing in the earlier apf.txt file (especially in Hermas), so that this text should be just about the same as the Loeb edition. I corrected a few spellings as I came across them, but I didn't check every word. I did add some brackets from another edition (I think it was Lightfoot) where the Greek text is really a back translation from Latin. I did this where I found footnotes in Loeb that said these portions came from Latin. I started doing this in Hermas Similitude 8, but I didn't check the Loeb footnotes for earlier sections...
Apostolic Fathers
Paul Esposito
If the printing press was available 2000 years ago, what would a Bible, carried under the arms of the apostles of Christ, what would it look like? The Complete Apostles' Bible pairs together the a revision of Brenton's English translation of the the Septuagint, with a new translation of the Majority Text. 80% of all Old Testament quotations that the Apostles used in the New Testament come from the Septuagint, this pairing of the Septuagint with the Majority Texts allows us to see would their Bible may have looked like!
The Complete Apostle's Bible
Paul Esposito Update of Brenton's LXX. See the discription at www.apostlesbible.com. Included in the zip file is a verse mapping file provided by Mark Eddy that corrects some differences between Brenton's LXX (LXE in BibleWorks) and the Apostles' Bible (APB). Brenton's LXX