cms@gatech.edu (12/04/90)
Sorry if anyone's posted this information before but I thought you'd
like to know that the November/December 1990 issue of Biblical
Archaelogy Review (BAR) contains an article called "Computers and the
Bible" by John J. Hughes. In it, he discusses all the different
Bible-related programs; it isn't an exhaustive survey but gives you
some good ideas. It discusses various Bible concording programs,
grammatical concording programs, CD-ROM resources, electronic Bibles,
Greek and Hebrew fonts, machine-readable Biblical texts, and
computer-assisted language-learning programs. It gives a sample
listing of programs, sources, and addresses. Some computer
publications addresses I thought I'd post are:
Bits & Bytes Review
6230 Iowa Ave.
Whitefish, MT 59937
406-862-7280
Church Bytes
562 Brightleaf Sq. #9
905 West Main Street
Durham, NC 27701
Christian Computer Magazine
Hewlen, Inc.
P.O. Box 439
Belton, MO 64012
816-331-3881
The Hebrew Users' Group Newsletter
c/o Berkeley Hillel Foundation
2736 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
415-845-7793
The author says that the most comprehensive and current listing of
Bible-related computer products is the
Hermeneutika Catalog
P.O. Box 98563
Seattle, WA 98198
(800) 55BIBLE
His own publication he considers the most comprehensive source of
detailed information about Bible-related computer resources:
Bits, Bytes, and Biblical Studies: A Resource Guide for the Use of
Computers in Biblical and Classical Studies
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1987, 643 pp.;
Zondervan Electronic Publishing
1415 Lake Drive, SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
800-727-7759
He notes that the immediately preceding contains dated reference work,
program reviews, and extensive bibliographies and comparitive charts.
BAR says that it is starting a new column in its magazine called
Computer Corner. A forthcoming issue is supposed to contain
archaelogical applications.
I have heard from my Greek professor, confirmed in BAR, that you're
better of with an Apple than an IBM, but for those of us who have
IBM's, and WordPerfect 5.0 or 5.1 and who would like to be able to
enter, edit, display and print fully accented Greek and properly
pointed Hebrew, ScriptureFonts is available, a WordPerfect add-on.
It could be that Chuck's listing is more comprehensive than this
article in BAR....
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Sincerely,
Cindy Smith
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