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Bible Desktop - Open Source and Free Java Bible Study Program

Submitted by ingram on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 8:31am

Bible Desktop [1] is an excellent cross-platform open-source Bible study application. Bible Desktop is a Java application, so it will run on nearly any operating system, including Windows, Linux and Mac. Bible Desktop uses the JSword [2] project to read modules in Sword format so there is a huge range of Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, Daily Devotionals and some General Books available for download. It is currently at version 1.6. Some of Bible Desktop's most notable features are:

  • Advanced search
  • Side-by-Side comparison
  • Tabbed mode
  • Sword Project module downloader

Bible Desktop is a great alternative to many of the expensive commercial Bible study programs [3]. It has most of the same great features as well.
To download, install, and run on Linux, run the following commands:
wget http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/jsword/release/bibledesktop-latest-bin.tar.gz
tar -zxvf bibledesktop-latest-bin.tar.gz
chmod +x ./jsword-1.6/BibleDesktop.sh
./jsword-1.6/BibleDesktop.sh

Windows:
Download the installer here [4].

*** You need Java installed to run Bible Desktop. To install Java, run the following:

openSUSE: sudo zypper install java-1_6_0-openjdk

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

Windows: If you do not have java installed, the installer will download it automatically

 

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Links:
[1] http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/
[2] http://www.crosswire.org/jsword/
[3] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=shop&q=bible+study+software&oq=bible+study+software&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_l=products-cc.3..0.1581.7162.0.7343.22.14.1.7.7.0.123.1375.9j5.14.0...0.0.U3hdZgb3YQk#q=bible+study+software&hl=en&tbs=p_ord:pd&tbm=shop&sa=X&ei=N6rUT_ewN-fS2AWC1tiEDw&ved=0CEQQuw0oAg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ef5694767e5d831&biw=1366&bih=682
[4] http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/stable/BibleDesktopSetup.exe