Online Bible - Version 2.5 "Since its introduction in 1992, Ken Hamel's Online Bible has been the standard by which all others are judged." Kay Hall, MacHome Journal, 8/94 "I have Zondervan's macBible KJV+NIV and your product is superior by far." Thomas S. Kiser, Pastor "Do I like it? A resounding yes! It is one incredible program!" Pat Seewald, Editor. "This program is for the serious Bible student, but it can be used by anyone who wants to get more out of their Bible study and still not use all of its amazing features." John Severson, Christian Computing, 12/92 "Your program has far exceeded my highest hopes for a Macintosh application for Bible study and sermon prep." Roger E. Davin, Pastor "I have waited six years for a good Macintosh Bible study program (I have tried several) and it has finally arrived, thank you." John Osbron "Thanks beyond measure for the production of Online Bible. I have been using it for almost a year now and use it daily. It is the best Bible program on the Macintosh." Tony Lawrence, Pastor "I want to highly congratulate you. And not to say the price it is so reasonable. Tell everyone not to waste their money on other programs, this is the one to have." Ruben C. Arellano, Pastor "Incredible! I have Godspeed, all applications of The Word, & Hyperbible, and truly Online Bible is the easiest and most useful! Thank you for making this available." Brad Bowling "I get free copies of everything out there, but it is Online Bible that will stay on my hard drive when this comparison is finished. I highly recommend it for users at all levels." Kay Hall, Communion, 5/94 "Online Bible is simply the best package available." Steve Deyo, Computer User, 12/93 What more could you ask for? ¥ Fast, easy, and powerful Macintosh interface ¥ Perform word searches in under 1 second ¥ Complete set of search operators including AND, OR, XOR, NOT, wildcard, and proximity ¥ Search and view the original Greek & Hebrew words using Strong's numbers ¥ Verb parsing information including tense, voice, and mood ¥ Greek & Hebrew lexicons with definitions in English ¥ Point and click hypertext linking ¥ Load, view, and search eight or more translations at once ¥ Synchronized scrolling of search results, Bible passages, and verse notes ¥ Open as many as sixteen verse note/commentary sets at once ¥ Unlimited windows ¥ Bookmarks for Bible passages, verse notes, and topical studies ¥ Extensive collection of English as well as foreign translations to choose from ¥ Actual Greek and Hebrew texts for original language work ¥ TrueType Greek and Hebrew fonts ¥ Over half a million cross references ¥ Commentaries by A.T. Robertson, Matthew Henry, John Wesley, and others ¥ Topical studies by Naves, Thompson, Torrey, and others ¥ Integrated personal verse notes with built-in editor ¥ Bible FKey for quick and easy passage lookup without switching applications ¥ View Bible passages and verse notes using any installed font ¥ Color support for searches and verse notes ¥ Print or export as a text file any Bible passage, search result, verse note, or topical study ¥ Disk-based User's Manual with tutorial and reference sections ¥ Runs on any Macintosh from a Mac Plus to the newest Power PC ¥ More program features, more translations, and more add-on modules than any other Macintosh Bible study package available ¥ Get the best in Bible study software and pay less Version 2.5 of the program is fully compatible with any version 2.0 material you may currently have. A comprehensive CD-ROM containing all the material distributed on floppy disk plus many additional works is being developed. It should be ready before the end of the year. Please take this into consideration before placing an order for a large number of items on floppy disk. Orders Online Bible 2.5 program with disk based User's Manual .................................................... $5.- (Note: The program disk is free when ordered with any Bible text module listed below.) Bible Texts KJV with Strong's numbers, footnotes, and alternate readings (3.8 meg on 2 disks) ......... $10.- (Note: All KJV versions come with these features.) KJV with Strong's, 1984 NIV with footnotes, and 1989 NRSV (7 meg on 4 disks) ............. $40.- KJV with Strong's, 1890 Darby, and 1898 Young's Literal (6.8 meg on 4 disks) ............. $20.- 1984 NIV with footnotes (2.2 meg on 2 disks) .................................................................... $25.- 1989 NRSV (2 meg on 2 disks) ............................................................................................ $15.- 1993 Modern KJV by Jay P. Green, Sr. (2 meg on 2 disks) ................................................ $15.- 1993 Green's Literal Translation (2 meg on 2 disks) ......................................................... $15.- 1973 Revised Standard Version (2 meg on 2 disks) ............................................................ $10.- 1912 Weymouth New Testament (650K on 1 disk) ............................................................. $5.- 1901 American Standard Version (2 meg on 2 disks) ......................................................... $10.- 1898 Young's Literal Translation (2 meg on 2 disks) ......................................................... $10.- 1890 J.N. Darby Translation (2 meg on 2 disks) ................................................................ $10.- KJV with Strong's and Spanish 1989 RVA (7.3 meg on 4 disks) ......................................... $20.- French 1910 Louis Segond with Strong's and 1991 Darby (6.5 meg on 3 disks) .............. $15.- KJV with Strong's, German 1912 Luther, and 1905 Elberfelder (9.4 meg on 4 disks) .... $20.- KJV with Strong's and Dutch Staten Vertaling (7.4 meg on 4 disks) ................................... $20.- Four Greek texts (1550 Stephanus, 1894 Scrivener, Majority, and Nestle's) and 1977 Stuttgartensia Hebrew Consonantal text. Knowledge of Greek and Hebrew is required (3.9 meg on 2 disks) ...................................... $10.- Add-On Modules Revised Thayer's Greek English Lexicon and Brown Driver Briggs Gesenius Hebrew Aramaic English Lexicon (3.5 meg on 2 disks) ........................................ $10.- Complete Treasury of Scripture Knowledge with over 580,000 cross references and commentary in verse note format (6.2 meg on 3 disks) ................................................ $10.- Thompson's 1934 Chain References, Torrey's 1897 New Topical Textbook, Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, plus other material (8.3 meg on 3 disks) ........................................ $10.- Nave's Topical Bible (4.4 meg on 2 disks) ........................................................................... $10.- 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary (3.7 meg on 2 disks) ........................................................ $10.- 1905 Fourfold Gospel by McGarvey & Pendleton (1.5 meg on 1 disk) ............................... $5.- 1889 People's New Testament Commentary (2.4 meg on 1 disks) .................................... $5.- 1930 Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament (5.5 meg on 2 disks) .................. $10.- John Wesley's Notes on the New Testament (2.0 meg on 1 disks) ...................................... $5.- Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (4.2 meg on 2 disks) .............................................. $10.- 1599 Geneva Bible Notes (5.5 meg on 2 disks) .................................................................. $10.- All the above add-on modules (47.3 meg on 21 disks) ........................................................ $75.- Note: Most material is shipped on high-density disks. If you require double-density disks please indicate that with your order and add 20% to the above prices. Postage To U.S. or Canada .................................................................................................................... free All others countries ............................................................................................................... $5.- Payment Funds must be in U.S. dollars and any checks must be drawn on a U.S. bank. Postal money orders in U.S. dollars are O.K. Make checks payable to "Ken Hamel". Thank you. Ken Hamel Box 168 Oakhurst, NJ 07755 Tel: 908-741-4298 Online Bible Tour The Online Bible is a high quality full featured program designed for serious Bible students. You can display Bible passages and notes in any number of windows, limited only by available memory. Most operations can be performed using either the mouse or keyboard commands. The program is both powerful and easy to use. Complete search facilities include, word, phrase, multiple words, wild cards, and much more. Searches can use AND, OR, NOT, and proximity operators to select verses. The range for searches can be restricted. All verses are displayed in context rather than asking you to choose a verse from a list to display. Searches are very fast, taking only a second or two even on a Mac Classic. The program requires a Macintosh with the capabilities of a Mac Plus or greater. System software version 6.0 or higher. It runs under system 7, is 32 bit clean, and Power PC compatible. By default the program uses 650K of memory, but can run in as little as 400K. It requires a hard disk with at least 4 megabytes free. The actual amount of free hard disk space required depends on the number of versions and add-on modules installed. Since the program contains more features than can readily be described, this document simply highlights some of the more interesting as well as important ones. The File menu is similar to most Mac applications. It allows you to create, open, edit, save, and close text documents. If desired, Bible passages as well as search results can readily be exported as text files. The PreferencesÉ command brings up a dialog that allows the user to change the fonts used to display Bible passages and notes, set defaults for window opening and placement, specify the highlighting color, and create or change verse note and/or topic sets. Printing is supported for any window that's open. The Edit menu allows copying and pasting of information between windows. Bible, cross reference, and search result windows can only be copied from as one would expect. When editing verse notes or topical studies, the current font, size, style, and color of any selected text can readily be changed. The VerseList menu allows you to manipulate and save the results of searches, cross references, as well as user created verse lists. Verse lists can later be loaded and modified. The Show/Hide Range command provides a way to expand or collapse a group of contiguous verses in a verse list. The Show/Hide Context command may be used to display the context of a selected verse found in a list of verses. The Set Range command in the Search menu allows the user to specify the range for word, phrase, and selection searches. Selecting the Find Word or Find Phrase commands brings up a dialog like the one shown below. In addition to searching for a word, groups of words, or a phrase, operators are provided for AND, OR, XOR, NOT, and PROXIMITY searches. Wildcard replacements for prefixes, suffixes, any word, or any phrase are also supported. In addition to finding all the verses, a statistical count of the number of matches can be done. Also a search history of the last eight unique searches is maintained. It can be used to quickly repeat or try a variation of a previous search. When text is selected in a window, the Find Selection command may be used to do a word or phrase search for the currently selected text. The Note Reference command may be used to quickly display a list of verses previously saved in a verse note note or topical study. The Cross Reference command displays built-in cross references taken from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. The cross reference window, along with the other display windows, contains a pop-up history menu that allows you to chain from one verse to another and then quickly return back to the verse you started with or any other verse in the chain. The Display menu is used to open or alter the contents of various types of document windows. These include Bible passages, verse notes, lexicon definitions, and topical entries. The Open Selection command, much like the Find Selection command, works on the currently selected text. It can be used to open any one of the display windows, with the type depending on the text selected. In the screen shot of the Display menu shown, a lexicon definition for the New Testament Strong's number 5368 is about to be opened. Synchronized scrolling is supported for search results, Bible passages, and verse notes. The Mark command provides a convenient way to place a bookmark at any Bible passage, verse note, topical study, or lexicon entry and then later return to it. A command to switch between versions is provided. Bible passages can be displayed using either a verse by verse form or by paragraph. The display of Strong's numbers, footnotes, and alternate readings is controlled by using the last three commands in the Display menu. A Windows menu is included to easily manipulate any currently open windows. The user can select, drag, and resize any of the windows at will, but the Tile, Stack, and Group commands provide a quick way for the program to automatically resize and position all the currently open windows. Shown here is the results of a Tile where the windows are positioned in a tiled fashion with each one fully visible. The use of Stack will resize all windows to a size slightly less than the full screen and will overlap them in a staggered fashion with the oldest being on the bottom and the most recently opened one on the top and the title bars of all visible. The use of Group positions windows based on their type. The titles of all the currently open windows are also listed in the Windows menu and may be selected to bring that window to the top. This is especially useful when a large number of windows are open and some are partially or completely hidden. The order of windows in the menu is based on when the window was opened. The most recently opened window in this case is TCR #2200, the first entry in Thompson's Chain Reference on love. This was proceeded by a search for the Greek Strong's number 25, signifying agapao. The Notes menu which isn't shown contains commands to import or export definitions, notes, or topic entries as text files. When doing this the user can import or export a single file or an entire range. The scroll bars aren't fully visible in these pictures, but a brief description of how they work follows. The arrows in the vertical scroll bar in the Bible window move to the next or previous verse. The scroll box can be grabbed and used to quickly reposition anywhere within the current chapter. It's position is automatically updated as you move through each chapter. Clicking in the paging region scrolls a full page forward or backward. The behavior of the vertical scroll bar is similar for Bible, find, cross reference, and context displays with the one exception that the scroll box in find and cross reference windows reflects the current position in the list instead of a chapter. The horizontal scroll bar is available on Bible windows and is used to quickly position by chapter or book. Clicking either arrow will move to the beginning of the next or current/previous chapter. Clicking in the paging region will page to the beginning of the next or current/previous book. And using the scroll box, the user can quickly reposition anywhere from Genesis to Revelation with a single move. On note windows the arrows move to the next or previous verse's notes while clicking in the paging region pages to the next or previous note with an actual entry. In the case of lexicon windows clicking in the paging region pages forward or backward 10 entries since every entry is filled. Any note, lexicon, or topic window can be edited and the vertical scroll bar in them behaves as it does in a normal text editor. In addition to the main program, a Bible FKey is included which can be used from within any word processor or editor. When activated it presents a dialog which prompts the user for a verse to be retrieved as show below. Upon pressing return the verse is automatically retrieved and inserted into the document. Certain preferences controlling the formatting of the output can be set by the user via the Prefs button. I hope the above information gives you a little idea of how the program works in spite of not being able to actually try it out. If you own a Macintosh and are serious about studying the Bible, I believe you'll find this program to be a real blessing and I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Ken Hamel Box 168 Oakhurst, NJ 07755 Tel: 908-741-4298