Online Bible Deluxe CD v. 7.06

Idiosyncratic CD

ONLINE Bible DeLuxe CDv7.06
Available from Timperley Evangelical Trust

This £30 CD-ROM brings you 50 versions of the Bible, including most Western European languages and some others, such as Vietnamese and Maori! The English module includes KJV, NKJV, ASV and RSV, all with cross-references. The NIV, NAS and NRSV require unlocking, costing £10 extra per version. An unpointed Hebrew text, three unpunctuated Greek texts (but no modern critical text such as Nestle's), the Apocrypha, Vulgate and the Qur'an are also present.
From Bible texts, you can call up commentaries, including Matthew Henry, John Gill and James, Faussett and Brown. No modern evangelical scholarship is included, nor are single book commentaries, except Treasury of David.
Also present are Eastons Bible Dictionary (1897), Bible maps and simple Hebrew and Greek lexicons. Apologetics is almost entirely Young Earth Creationism. Some recent American doctrinal (Calvinistic Baptist/Post-millennial) articles are included, but ethics, missiology, hermeneutics and the charismatic gifts are virtually untouched. Pink's Sovereignty of God and his article on Saving Faith are there, also Bunyan's Holy War and Pilgrim's Progress, and Spurgeon's Morning and Evening readings, and picture Bible stories for children.
It runs on Windows 95/98 or 3.1, with 16Mb RAM. It is reasonably user-friendly, and you can add your own notes, and copy material to a word-processor. The selections are sometimes idiosyncratic (credit cards have the mark of the beast), and the small amount of up-to-date material (probably because of copyright) is a disadvantage.

CD-ROM review

Idiosyncratic CD

Ivan Stringer