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I’m wanting to get started with study the Bible more seriously. I’m a novice pretty much but have read most of the Bible once.
I have (5) Bibles right now: The New American, The RSV-CE, KJV, Douay-Rheims, and Harper Collins NRSV Study Bible. I most use the RSV-CE and the Douay most of time, and use the other merely for comparison. I also have 11 Volumes of the Navarre series, A New Catholic Commentary on H.S, and A Practical commentary on H.S
and Daniel-Ropps Daily Life in the time of Jesus .I here people on this website talking about having other things like Bible dictionaries and atlas but am not really familar with these. What are these used for? I noticed a lot of Catholic Apologists using transliterated greek “Anomnesin” and similar things. Does one need to know greek to make us of this. If, not how would one go about it relatively inexpensively. What all should I have in my Personal Bible study toolkit?
 
As you say you are a novice, may I suggest that for a while you not buy any more books. Before you devote time to bible study, spend time in prayer with scripture. You can find all kinds of books about lectio divina (sacred reading), but begin with Mark’s gospel. Read it all the way through in one sitting. then go back to the beginning, read it slowly one chapter at a time, or even one section. If it takes all year, so what. Read the passage once for meaning. Think about it. Pray to the Holy Spirit for enlightenment. Read the passage again, slowly. Every time a word or phrase strikes you, stay with it. Read it over, close your eyes and think about it. You might even want to right it down to remember it later. then move on again, slowly. for a shorter section of a chapter (like one of the parables or miracles) this might take 15-30 minutes a day. When you are done, close your eyes, pray the thought in your heart. Then sit quietly for a while, listening, just being with Jesus who is with us in the Word.

Before you begin formal study, looking for human interpretations, allow God to speak to you through prayerful reading. When you have made time in your day for that kind of prayer, you will be ready to move on to more formal study, as a means of preparation for passages you will read devotionally later.
 
The advice you have been given by puzzleannie is excellent.
However, for those times when no amount of meditation is
going to provide an answer (e.g. Who was X? Where exactly
was Y located? What did a Z look like?) there are excellent
tools. Two I can recommend are:

DICTIONARY: John L.McKenzie - Dictionary of the Bible (NY:
Touchstone, 1995) ISBN 0-684-81913-9

ATLAS: Thomas V. Brisco - Holman Bible Atlas (Nashville,
Tennessee, 1998) ISBN 1-55819-709-5

If you go to Amazon and punch in these ISBN numbers in
SEARCH - BOOKS you’ll be led to good reviews.

You might also consider downloading e-Sword from:

e-sword.net/index.html

I think you’d find it useful if you don’t already know it.

As for Greek, by all means learn the Greek alphabet.
Then you’ll be able to hold your own with the Grecians by
consulting such books as the superb interlinear:

Paul R. McReynolds - Word Study Greek-English New Testament
with Complete Concordance (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House
Publishers, 1999) ISBN 0-8423-8290-9.

None of this, BTW, is intended in any way to contradict
puzzleannie. It’s her approach you should cultivate.
They’re just a few tools that may help out when you get
stuck, as we all do.

I too love Daniel-Rops book. Another truly superb book
on Jesus is Romano Guardini’s ‘The Lord.’ That will take
you VERY DEEPLY into things. His profundity is mind-
boggling.

God bless.
 
I thouht that “Scripture Matters,” by Scott Hahn was great book to read when starting a study of the Bible, because the essays in it give you different analytical tools or approaches for studying the Bible. It is not one of the books based on the idea of giving you a meaning for a story, but different ways of looking at whatever you read.
 
Xavier said:
bible.crosswalk.com/

Click on Bible Study Tools

Note that this references a non-Catholic resource. Thus it is necessarily deficient as it does not reference 7 books and 2000 years of Catholic teaching.

As to a Bible Study tool kit, beside what you already have, here’s what I’d recommend (after you take puzzleannies advice):

Guide To The Bible, by Antonio Fuentes
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1851820221/qid%3D1087274726/sr%3Dka-1/ref%3Dpd%5Fka%5F1/102-3222543-6691334

Ignatius Study Bible (Currently Matthew thru 2 Corinthians)
ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=824&Category_ID=6&TabID=1

Commentary and Study Guide To St. John’s Gospel, by Steve Ray
ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=418&SKU=BSGC:JN-P&ReturnURL=search.aspx%3f%3fSID%3d1%26Keywords%3djohn

Student Bible Timeline
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0948902817/qid=1087274492/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-3222543-6691334?v=glance&s=books

The Student Bible Atlas
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0806620382/qid=1107570935/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-3222543-6691334?v=glance&s=books

or
The Holman Bible Atlas
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684819139/qid=1107571050/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-3222543-6691334
(Protestant, but free from bias)

The Dictionary of the Bible
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684819139/qid=1107571050/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-3222543-6691334

A couple of these have already been recommended, but I am just seconding their suggestions.
 
Get a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (about $40) and a classic King James Bible as a kind of “intermediary” between your Bible and the Concordance, like this…

In another thread, I said that in John 6, when Christ vastly multiplies “five” loaves, “Five” is a “type” or symbol meaning “Jesus.” In other words, “five” loaves are “Jesus” loaves.

So, look in your Catholic Bible, in John 6.

There you will mention of “five” loaves.

Check you King James Bible to make sure that it says “five” loaves, there. It does. (The King James Bible is slightly more literal than the Catholic translation, which is still afflicted with “dynamic equivalency” – departures from literalist Hebrew and Greek translation to “elegantize” the English.") Then go to “five” in your Strong’s Concordance, and look up every verse where “five” occurs, to test whether “five” always somehow refers to Jesus. (It does.)
 
The advice you have been given by puzzleannie is excellent.
However, for those times when no amount of meditation is
going to provide an answer (e.g. Who was X? Where exactly
was Y located? What did a Z look like?) there are excellent
tools. Two I can recommend are:

DICTIONARY: John L.McKenzie - Dictionary of the Bible (NY:
Touchstone, 1995) ISBN 0-684-81913-9

ATLAS: Thomas V. Brisco - Holman Bible Atlas (Nashville,
Tennessee, 1998) ISBN 1-55819-709-5

If you go to Amazon and punch in these ISBN numbers in
SEARCH - BOOKS you’ll be led to good reviews.

You might also consider downloading e-Sword from:

e-sword.net/index.html

I think you’d find it useful if you don’t already know it.

As for Greek, by all means learn the Greek alphabet.
Then you’ll be able to hold your own with the Grecians by
consulting such books as the superb interlinear:

Paul R. McReynolds - Word Study Greek-English New Testament
with Complete Concordance (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House
Publishers, 1999) ISBN 0-8423-8290-9.

None of this, BTW, is intended in any way to contradict
puzzleannie. It’s her approach you should cultivate.
They’re just a few tools that may help out when you get
stuck, as we all do.

I too love Daniel-Rops book. Another truly superb book
on Jesus is Romano Guardini’s ‘The Lord.’ That will take
you VERY DEEPLY into things. His profundity is mind-
boggling.

God bless.
Over 10,000 hits on the site, over 20,000 downloads in less than 1 year…

The following may be helpful for seminary students, religious professor/faculty- teachers, any Catholic students taking religious education classes, and also may be of use in helping priests prepare sermons for Gospels readings of the day using Catholic commentaries, and church Fathers quotes, religious Education Directors and CCD Teachers, and of course it may be useful for any Catholic in learning more about their faith, Scripture etc… Please be sure to pass this along.

A great Catholic Bible and Catechetical Downloadable Study Software Program, and best of all its Free. From: esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics
These are all eSword modules-Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, and Topical all for the eSword base Bible software program… All to help Catholics and those interested in knowing more or understanding what the Catholic Church truly teaches and why. **All modules are free as well as the Base esword **program for download.

The Base progam is a free download at:
e-sword.net/downloads.html .

Rick Myers e-sword site states: e-Sword is a fast and effective way to study the Bible. E-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package. The fact that e-Sword is free is just one of the blessings and does not speak of the quality of the software. I make my living writing software and I believe I have put forth my best effort in this endeavor. The real work, however, was put in by the godly men and women who devoted countless years creating the texts that have been made available for our benefit. (From the e-sword Web site Rick Myers)

The Program has the **ability to accept user created modules **hence a substantial number of user **Catholic modules including the Early Teachings of the Church **in the first few centuries (a must read), **Haydock Commentary, The Great Cornelius Lapide commentary, A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, St Thomas works in the Catena commentary **on Gospels by early church fathers, and his Summa Theologica, The Douay Rheims Catholic Bible plus two other Bible resources, Catechism, 1909 Catholic encyclopedia another must, The 1910 Catholic Dictionary, a Catholic Doctrinal Concordance, How Protestants Study the Bible versus how Catholics study the Bible, and a number of special tools for studying the Bible With Greek and Latin tools for studying the basic Greek Grammer to enhance one’s understanding of definitions etc. This has become a consolidation of free modules for e-Sword base progam, modules scattered across ensips web, and a few other websites on the internet all to make for easier download and finding of Catholic modules and good study tools. Michael Jacques

A Free Greek English-Hebrew English interlinear Bible which is better than the interlinear for e-Sword is available at scripture4all.org/

We need to put word out to our churches, Bible study coordinators, Religious Educators, students, seminarians, for priests material here to help with sermons. etc–of what is available here at their fingertips. Those who are studying and making use of this need to consider now or down line for getting involved in Catholic Religious Ed. This is a work in progress so come on back and see whats new.

I have added some Compiled HTM Linked files for those who have trouble navigating the eSword,small Catholic Bible Study, and Church fathers.

For info on how to make eSword compatible with Mac, and Linaux users : davidcox.com.mx/e-swordmodules/Esword_MAC.htm Linaux made compatible using wine program winehq.org

"This is dedicated to all the cradle Catholics, like myself, who one day woke up and realized they didn’t know anything about Catholicism. "
Hoping to add some good recent Catholic commentary which would be great editions at a $ Cost.
Michael Jacques
 
I have just uploaded a dictionary module “The Biblical Nature of the Mass” for both old and new e-Sword format at
esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics

Over 14,000 hits on the site, over 28,000 downloads in 1 year…

The following may be helpful for seminary students, religious professor/faculty- teachers, any Catholic students taking religious education classes, and also may be of use in helping priests prepare sermons for Gospels readings of the day using Catholic commentaries, and church Fathers quotes, religious **Education Directors **and CCD Teachers, and of course it may be useful for any Catholic in learning more about their faith, Scripture etc… Please be sure to pass this along.

A great **Catholic Bible and Catechetical Downloadable Resource & Study Software **Program, and best of all its Free. From: esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics

These are all eSword modules-Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, and Topical all for the eSword base Bible software program… All to help Catholics and those interested in knowing more or understanding what the Catholic Church truly teaches and why. All modules are free as well as the Base esword program for download.

The **Base progam is a free **download at: e-sword.net/downloads.html .

Rick Myers e-sword site states: e-Sword is a fast and effective way to study the Bible. E-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package. The fact that e-Sword is free is just one of the blessings and does not speak of the quality of the software. I make my living writing software and I believe I have put forth my best effort in this endeavor. The real work, however, was put in by the godly men and women who devoted countless years creating the texts that have been made available for our benefit. (From the e-sword Web site Rick Myers)

The Program has the ability to accept user created modules hence a substantial number of user Catholic modules including the Early Teachings of the Church in the first few centuries (a must read), Haydock Commentary, The Great Cornelius **Lapide **commentary, A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, **St Thomas works **in the Catena commentary on Gospels by early church fathers, and his Summa Theologica, The Douay Rheims Catholic Bible plus two other Bible resources, Catechism, 1909 Catholic encyclopedia another must, The 1910 Catholic Dictionary, a Catholic Doctrinal Concordance, How Protestants Study the Bible versus how Catholics study the Bible, and a number of special tools for studying the Bible With Greek and Latin tools for studying the basic Greek Grammer to enhance one’s understanding of definitions etc. This has become a consolidation of free modules for e-Sword base progam, modules scattered across ensips web, and a few other websites on the internet all to make for easier download and finding of Catholic modules and good study tools. Michael Jacques

A Free Greek English-Hebrew English interlinear Bible which is better than the interlinear for e-Sword is available at scripture4all.org/

We need to put word out to our churches, Bible study coordinators, Religious Educators, students, seminarians, for priests material
here to help with sermons. etc–of what is available here at their fingertips. Those who are studying and making use of this need to consider now or down line for getting involved in Catholic Religious Ed. This is a work in progress so come on back and see whats new.

I have added some Compiled HTM Linked files for those who have trouble navigating the eSword,small Catholic Bible Study, and Church fathers.

For info on how to make eSword compatible with Mac, and Linaux users : davidcox.com.mx/e-swordmodules/Esword_MAC.htm Linaux made compatible using wine program winehq.org

"This is dedicated to all the cradle Catholics, like myself, who one day woke up and realized they didn’t know anything about Catholicism. "
Hoping to add some good recent Catholic commentary which would be great editions at a $ Cost.
Michael Jacques
 
I’m wanting to get started with study the Bible more seriously. I’m a novice pretty much but have read most of the Bible once.
I have (5) Bibles right now: The New American, The RSV-CE, KJV, Douay-Rheims, and Harper Collins NRSV Study Bible. I most use the RSV-CE and the Douay most of time, and use the other merely for comparison. I also have 11 Volumes of the Navarre series, A New Catholic Commentary on H.S, and A Practical commentary on H.S
and Daniel-Ropps Daily Life in the time of Jesus .I here people on this website talking about having other things like Bible dictionaries and atlas but am not really familar with these. What are these used for? I noticed a lot of Catholic Apologists using transliterated greek “Anomnesin” and similar things. Does one need to know greek to make us of this. If, not how would one go about it relatively inexpensively. What all should I have in my Personal Bible study toolkit?
Get a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Appendices, and a classic King James Bible for use a “transliterator” transliterating the NAB’s modern English into the Shakespearean English of the KJV, whose words are actually concordized by Strong’s.
 
I have just uploaded a dictionary module “The Biblical Nature of the Mass” for both old and new e-Sword format at
esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics

Over 14,000 hits on the site, over 28,000 downloads in 1 year…

The following may be helpful for seminary students, religious professor/faculty- teachers, any Catholic students taking religious education classes, and also may be of use in helping priests prepare sermons for Gospels readings of the day using Catholic commentaries, and church Fathers quotes, religious **Education Directors **and CCD Teachers, and of course it may be useful for any Catholic in learning more about their faith, Scripture etc… Please be sure to pass this along.

A great **Catholic Bible and Catechetical Downloadable Resource & Study Software **Program, and best of all its Free. From: esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics

These are all eSword modules-Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, and Topical all for the eSword base Bible software program… All to help Catholics and those interested in knowing more or understanding what the Catholic Church truly teaches and why. All modules are free as well as the Base esword program for download.

The **Base progam is a free **download at: e-sword.net/downloads.html .

Rick Myers e-sword site states: e-Sword is a fast and effective way to study the Bible. E-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package. The fact that e-Sword is free is just one of the blessings and does not speak of the quality of the software. I make my living writing software and I believe I have put forth my best effort in this endeavor. The real work, however, was put in by the godly men and women who devoted countless years creating the texts that have been made available for our benefit. (From the e-sword Web site Rick Myers)

The Program has the ability to accept user created modules hence a substantial number of user Catholic modules including the Early Teachings of the Church in the first few centuries (a must read), Haydock Commentary, The Great Cornelius **Lapide **commentary, A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, **St Thomas works **in the Catena commentary on Gospels by early church fathers, and his Summa Theologica, The Douay Rheims Catholic Bible plus two other Bible resources, Catechism, 1909 Catholic encyclopedia another must, The 1910 Catholic Dictionary, a Catholic Doctrinal Concordance, How Protestants Study the Bible versus how Catholics study the Bible, and a number of special tools for studying the Bible With Greek and Latin tools for studying the basic Greek Grammer to enhance one’s understanding of definitions etc. This has become a consolidation of free modules for e-Sword base progam, modules scattered across ensips web, and a few other websites on the internet all to make for easier download and finding of Catholic modules and good study tools. Michael Jacques

A Free Greek English-Hebrew English interlinear Bible which is better than the interlinear for e-Sword is available at scripture4all.org/
Downloaded esword 9.0 but can’t download any of esnips files:confused:
We need to put word out to our churches, Bible study coordinators, Religious Educators, students, seminarians, for priests material
here to help with sermons. etc–of what is available here at their fingertips. Those who are studying and making use of this need to consider now or down line for getting involved in Catholic Religious Ed. This is a work in progress so come on back and see whats new.

I have added some Compiled HTM Linked files for those who have trouble navigating the eSword,small Catholic Bible Study, and Church fathers.

For info on how to make eSword compatible with Mac, and Linaux users : davidcox.com.mx/e-swordmodules/Esword_MAC.htm Linaux made compatible using wine program winehq.org

"This is dedicated to all the cradle Catholics, like myself, who one day woke up and realized they didn’t know anything about Catholicism. "
Hoping to add some good recent Catholic commentary which would be great editions at a $ Cost.
Michael Jacques
 
Originally Posted by mijac View Post
I have just uploaded a dictionary module “The Biblical Nature of the Mass” for both old and new e-Sword format at
esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics

Over 14,000 hits on the site, over 28,000 downloads in 1 year…

The following may be helpful for seminary students, religious professor/faculty- teachers, any Catholic students taking religious education classes, and also may be of use in helping priests prepare sermons for Gospels readings of the day using Catholic commentaries, and church Fathers quotes, religious Education Directors and CCD Teachers, and of course it may be useful for any Catholic in learning more about their faith, Scripture etc… Please be sure to pass this along.

A great Catholic Bible and Catechetical Downloadable Resource & Study Software Program, and best of all its Free. From: esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics

These are all eSword modules-Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, and Topical all for the eSword base Bible software program… All to help Catholics and those interested in knowing more or understanding what the Catholic Church truly teaches and why. All modules are free as well as the Base esword program for download.

The Base progam is a free download at: e-sword.net/downloads.html .

Rick Myers e-sword site states: e-Sword is a fast and effective way to study the Bible. E-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package. The fact that e-Sword is free is just one of the blessings and does not speak of the quality of the software. I make my living writing software and I believe I have put forth my best effort in this endeavor. The real work, however, was put in by the godly men and women who devoted countless years creating the texts that have been made available for our benefit. (From the e-sword Web site Rick Myers)

The Program has the ability to accept user created modules hence a substantial number of user Catholic modules including the Early Teachings of the Church in the first few centuries (a must read), Haydock Commentary, The Great Cornelius Lapide commentary, A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, St Thomas works in the Catena commentary on Gospels by early church fathers, and his Summa Theologica, The Douay Rheims Catholic Bible plus two other Bible resources, Catechism, 1909 Catholic encyclopedia another must, The 1910 Catholic Dictionary, a Catholic Doctrinal Concordance, How Protestants Study the Bible versus how Catholics study the Bible, and a number of special tools for studying the Bible With Greek and Latin tools for studying the basic Greek Grammer to enhance one’s understanding of definitions etc. This has become a consolidation of free modules for e-Sword base progam, modules scattered across ensips web, and a few other websites on the internet all to make for easier download and finding of Catholic modules and good study tools. Michael Jacques

A Free Greek English-Hebrew English interlinear Bible which is better than the interlinear for e-Sword is available at scripture4all.org/
Downloaded esword 9.0 but can’t download any of esnips files
We need to put word out to our churches, Bible study coordinators, Religious Educators, students, seminarians, for priests material
here to help with sermons. etc–of what is available here at their fingertips. Those who are studying and making use of this need to consider now or down line for getting involved in Catholic Religious Ed. This is a work in progress so come on back and see whats new.

I have added some Compiled HTM Linked files for those who have trouble navigating the eSword,small Catholic Bible Study, and Church fathers.

For info on how to make eSword compatible with Mac, and Linaux users : davidcox.com.mx/e-swordmodules/Esword_MAC.htm Linaux made compatible using wine program winehq.org

"This is dedicated to all the cradle Catholics, like myself, who one day woke up and realized they didn’t know anything about Catholicism. "
Hoping to add some good recent Catholic commentary which would be great editions at a $ Cost.
Michael Jacques
double click on the title of the item you want to download and it should move you to a screen for downloading. You have to unzip these files and extract to the esword folder under program files.
 
I have a book from the Pontifical Biblical Institute “An introductory Bibliography for the Study of Scripture” by Joseph Fitzmeyer. A bibliography of bibliographies. Some of the books they recommend are
Biblical Bibliographies-Danker,F.W…,Multipurpose Tools for Bible Study
OT Bibliographies-Childs,B.S., Old Testament Books for Pastor and Teacher
NT Bibliographies-Scholer,D.M.,A Basic Bibliographic Guide For NT Exegesis
Periodicals - I recommend The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Introduction to Biblical text and Ancient Versions
OT-Kenyon.,FOur Bible and the Ancient manuscripts A good reliable inexpensive choice.
NT-Metzger,B.M. The Text Of The New Testament: Its transmission, Corruption and Restoration.(considered a landmark.)
Biblical Texts-MT- Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia- again considered the best of it’s kind.
LXX-Septuaginta
General Dictionaries
Mackenzie’s as listed above.
Buttrick,G.A. The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible V.1-4. Excellent - one of the one’s I have.
Introductions to the Bible
OT
Anderson,B.W., Understanding the OT(good solid -owned by me)
Sandmel,S.,The Hebrew Scriptures(good, a little short and not as thorough but ver good for a beginner)
NT
Davies,W.D., Invitation to the NT- (easy non technical, written for lay people)
Commentaries
Too many individual ones to mention
Anchor Bible
Navarre Bible
ST Ignatius just to name a few.
One volume
Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture
New Jerome Biblical Commentary
Harper Colllins Bible Commentary
again just a few.
Archeology
Avi-Yonah,M.( (v.1-4)
Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land.
Geography
The Macmillian Bible Atlas
History
Vaux.,R.de, The Early history Of Israel( Excellent)
NT History
Bruce,F.F., New Testament History (very readable)
Historiesof Ancient Near East(necessary for understanding the OT)
The Cambridge Ancient History
Collections of Translations
Charles,R.H.,The Apocrypha nad Pseudepigraphia of the OT v.1-2 (turgid but essential)
NT Apocrypha
James,M.R., The Apocryphal NT
Studies Of The Institutions Of Ancient Israel
Jeriamias,J., Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus(really great):Life and institutions
Vaux,R., Ancient Israel(exceptional)
Misc.
Pritchard,J.B.,Ancient Near East Texts Relating to the OT(get the 2 vol.paperback (cheaper) edition. Essential to OT Study.
Hope that helps.
 
I have just uploaded a dictionary module “The Biblical Nature of the Mass” for both old and new e-Sword format at
esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics
also uploaded is Strong-Greek in a Nutshell

topical e-sword module An Outline of GREEK GRAMMAR with BRIEF READING LESSONS; Designed for Beginners in the New Testament. BY JAMES STRONG, S.T.D., Professor of Exegetical Theology in Drew Theological Seminary

Over 14,000 hits on the site, over 28,000 downloads in 1 year…

The following may be helpful for seminary students, religious professor/faculty- teachers, any Catholic students taking religious education classes, and also may be of use in helping priests prepare sermons for Gospels readings of the day using Catholic commentaries, and church Fathers quotes, religious **Education Directors **and CCD Teachers, and of course it may be useful for any Catholic in learning more about their faith, Scripture etc… Please be sure to pass this along.

A great **Catholic Bible and Catechetical Downloadable Resource & Study Software **Program, and best of all its Free. From: esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics

These are all eSword modules-Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, and Topical all for the eSword base Bible software program… All to help Catholics and those interested in knowing more or understanding what the Catholic Church truly teaches and why. All modules are free as well as the Base esword program for download.

The **Base progam is a free **download at: e-sword.net/downloads.html .

Rick Myers e-sword site states: e-Sword is a fast and effective way to study the Bible. E-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package. The fact that e-Sword is free is just one of the blessings and does not speak of the quality of the software. I make my living writing software and I believe I have put forth my best effort in this endeavor. The real work, however, was put in by the godly men and women who devoted countless years creating the texts that have been made available for our benefit. (From the e-sword Web site Rick Myers)

The Program has the ability to accept user created modules hence a substantial number of user Catholic modules including the Early Teachings of the Church in the first few centuries (a must read), Haydock Commentary, The Great Cornelius **Lapide **commentary, A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, **St Thomas works **in the Catena commentary on Gospels by early church fathers, and his Summa Theologica, The Douay Rheims Catholic Bible plus two other Bible resources, Catechism, 1909 Catholic encyclopedia another must, The 1910 Catholic Dictionary, a Catholic Doctrinal Concordance, How Protestants Study the Bible versus how Catholics study the Bible, and a number of special tools for studying the Bible With Greek and Latin tools for studying the basic Greek Grammer to enhance one’s understanding of definitions etc. This has become a consolidation of free modules for e-Sword base progam, modules scattered across ensips web, and a few other websites on the internet all to make for easier download and finding of Catholic modules and good study tools. Michael Jacques

A Free Greek English-Hebrew English interlinear Bible which is better than the interlinear for e-Sword is available at scripture4all.org/

We need to put word out to our churches, Bible study coordinators, Religious Educators, students, seminarians, for priests material
here to help with sermons. etc–of what is available here at their fingertips. Those who are studying and making use of this need to consider now or down line for getting involved in Catholic Religious Ed. This is a work in progress so come on back and see whats new.

I have added some Compiled HTM Linked files for those who have trouble navigating the eSword,small Catholic Bible Study, and Church fathers.

For info on how to make eSword compatible with Mac, and Linaux users : davidcox.com.mx/e-swordmodules/Esword_MAC.htm Linaux made compatible using wine program winehq.org

"This is dedicated to all the cradle Catholics, like myself, who one day woke up and realized they didn’t know anything about Catholicism. "
Hoping to add some good recent Catholic commentary which would be great editions at a $ Cost.
Michael Jacques
 
I apparently made a mistake in my uploading of a zipped file for "A
Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture"
for the new 9.0 esword program.

I recieved the following note after 136 downloads and found this
gentleman was correct:

“I’m having a problem with the Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture,
however. That has been my favorite commentary, so I’m very eager to
get it working. When I extract the file, it extracts as a .cmt file
instead of a .cmtx file, and e-Sword won’t recognize it. I tried
changing the extension, but that didn’t work – e-Sword tries to load
it but says it has a problem with the file.”

I have corrected the problem and reloaded at esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics
my apologies for any inconvenience…
 
Reloaded upgrade for Catholic Concordance


http://www.esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics


A Catholic Concordance
upgrade, fixed search ability problem, added Scripture citations which demonstrate that the use of the term brothers in relation to Christ is generic relating to kinship as in cousins-- 3 out of 4 brothers named in Mathew 13:55 are really cousins. added citations for Mary which show why Catholics and the Eastern rite churches hold Mary as Queen of Heaven, If we believe that Christ is indeed King over heaven and earth, and inherits His earthly throne from David then it follows from Scripture that Mary must be queen see citations and reasons why. Added citations on Baptism . 2 files a Catholic Doctrinal Concordance for Scripture, esword dct. module and Bible Cheat sheet-Topical esword. Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ-- St. Jerome short doctrinal concordance of the Catholic faith. It is not a complete concordance. purpose is to give people interested in Catholicism a quick reference for the most common items of the faith. Particularly in areas where Catholics and other religions disagree.
 
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