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Emacs Bible Study Application

Description

An Emacs Bible study application using the SWORD project's `diatheke' command line program to access SWORD text modules.

Dependencies

The SWORD Project library and utilities and a Biblical Text module (uses KJV by default). Also, Strong's lexicons and morphological databases should be installed:

  • Recommended Bible text modules

    • KJV
    • NASB

  • Optional (original language modules)

    • Byz — Byzantine Greek text
    • SBLGNT — Society of Biblical Literature Greek New Testament
    • MorphGNT — Morphologically parsed version of SBLGNT
    • OSHB — Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Westminster Leningrad codex marked tagged with Strongs Numbers and Morphological tags.

  • Lexicons and morphologies

    • StrongsRealGreek
    • StrongsRealHebrew
    • AbbottSmithStrongs
    • BDBGlosses_Strongs (Hebrew lexicon)
    • Robinson (Greek morphology)
    • Packard (Alternate Greek morphology used for LXX module)
    • OSHM (Open Scriptures Hebrew morphology)

The SWORD Project utility `installmgr' can be used to install text modules and lexical and morphological databases.

Two scripts are provided to make the installation process easier.

  • test This script tests your environment and ensures that Emacs can run diatheke. It also prints out a list of installed modules.
  • setup This script installs various

The program `mkfastmod' should be used to generate indexes so the lexical search method will work.

Usage

  • M-x bible-open

  • Invoke from command line as follows (requires installing Ezra SIL font):

    • emacs -g =150x25 -fn \"Ezra SIL-14\" -l bible -f bible-open

Keybindings

  • b - Select book
  • c - Select chapter
  • d - Toggle XML display (debugging)
  • h - Describe mode
  • m - Select module
  • n - Next chapter
  • p - Previous chapter
  • q - Quit window
  • r - Set search range (see diatheke documentation for syntax)
  • s - Search
  • w - Toggle word study
  • x - Split display
  • / - Search

Features

  • Chapter-based browsing of the Bible

  • Text Formatting

    • Red Letters
    • Strong's Greek (with Lemma)
    • Strong's Hebrew
    • Morphology
  • Greek & Hebrew Lexicon definition lookup
  • Morphology lookup
  • Tooltip display of definitions, morphology
  • Searching