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Hey… I’m wondering if there is any freeware such as e-Sword that includes the New American Bible or any Catholic Bible with Deuterocanon?.. Or at the least the add-on for e-Sword.

Thanks… that said… this is my 1st thread 🙂 🙂
 
What are you looking for? It’s freeware. It has the entire bible.
 
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silkycath:
Hey… I’m wondering if there is any freeware such as e-Sword that includes the New American Bible or any Catholic Bible with Deuterocanon?.. Or at the least the add-on for e-Sword.

Thanks… that said… this is my 1st thread 🙂 🙂
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E-Sword does have a KJV w/Apocrypha.

As well as a DR Bible.

Both are oldies but foodies… 😃
 
I’m not sure exactly what exactly you are looking for. It seems you want more than just an online Catholic bible. I looked at the website for Esword but I’m still not sure. Are you looking for online Bible commentaries from a Catholic perspective?

As for the New American Bible, it is under copyright protection so it can’t generally be made available for free. The US Catholic Bishops website is the only place that I know of that has permission to have the entire Bible online.
usccb.org/nab/bible/
 
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As for the New American Bible, it is under copyright protection so it can’t generally be made available for free. The US Catholic Bishops website is the only place that I know of that has permission to have the entire Bible online.
usccb.org/nab/bible/
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Oh! I see… okay then… thanks…
 
The *-Sword (there are many Sword programs) repositories call the Douay-Rhiems the “DRC”. It is available from the standard repositories.

It does not, however, have the Deuterocanonicals. Last I heard support for this would require a re-write of the core program.
 
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The *-Sword (there are many Sword programs) repositories call the Douay-Rhiems the “DRC”. It is available from the standard repositories.

It does not, however, have the Deuterocanonicals. Last I heard support for this would require a re-write of the core program.
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I have E-Sword. The Douay Bible with it (or available to download from the site) contains the Deuterocanonicals. According to a little pop-up it is an 1899 edition but that might not mean anything.

There’s also the “King James with apocrypha” and for linguists among us the Septuagint and the Vulgate.

It is available at e-sword.net/ It is free (but if you want to order a CD and support the site there’s a small charge).

I don’t know about any other Sword programs. E-Sword was created by a guy called Rick Meyers as an independent project with the sole aim of providing very good Bible software for nothing.

Apparently he tried to get permission to stick the RSV onto E-Sword but the copyright holders wouldn’t give it to him. Shame.
 
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Timidity:
The *-Sword (there are many Sword programs) repositories call the Douay-Rhiems the “DRC”. It is available from the standard repositories.

It does not, however, have the Deuterocanonicals. Last I heard support for this would require a re-write of the core program.
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Apparently e-Sword does support Deuterocanonicals. I have found the New American Bible (NAB) Catholic translation with Deuterocanonicals as well as the New Jerusalem Bible for e-Sword just recently… If anyone is interested… just go to this mailing list and email the person by the name “eric_haakenson” to get his permission to access the private repository at his account on esnips.com.

EDIT: RSV is there too…
 
Btw I am wondering which Bible version is the most accurate for Catholics?
 
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silkycath:
Apparently e-Sword does support Deuterocanonicals.
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Interesting. I guess e-Sword is separate from the SWORD project. It is the SWORD Project that has problems with the full Bible.
 
silkycathI have found the New American Bible (NAB) Catholic translation with Deuterocanonicals as well as the New Jerusalem Bible for e-Sword just recently.. If anyone is interested.. just go to [url="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/e-sword_modules":
this mailing list
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and email the person by the name “eric_haakenson” to get his permission to access the private repository at his account on esnips.com.

EDIT: RSV is there too…Sounds morally problematic. These texts are protect by Copyright.
 
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silkycath:
I am wondering which Bible version is the most accurate for Catholics?
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They all are, depending how one defines “accurate”. Some think accurate mean word-for-word translation of the original text, while other think that accurate means meaning-for-meaning translation of the original.

There’s other thread about this subject that you could serach for.

Here’s a good page for futher info:
bible-researcher.com/romcath.html (look at the list of versions, not the site owner’s complaints about Catholic theology).
 
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Timidity:
They all are, depending how one defines “accurate”.
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Haha… okay… what I meant is the most “reliable.”
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Timidity:
There’s other thread about this subject that you could serach for.
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I’ll do a search, thanks.

Timidity said:
(look at the list of versions, not the site owner’s complaints about Catholic theology).
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Hehehe… sure!!
 
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