Logos 4 Bible study software has been released. See Dan Phillips' post and Adrian Warnock's post on this.
Now, while this may be an amazing piece of software, here in South Africa it is a ridiculously over-priced piece of software. Of course, I wouldn't mind a sponsor or two for the Logos 4 Gold software package, although, the Platinum edition would be much better! Oh, well! A man can dream! Some men dream of cars. This is what I dream about.
However, for the average salaried South African, and even the above average paid South African, Logos is terribly over-priced. Whether I decide to buy Logos locally or online internationally, it can cost me half or more of my salary for the month. Looking at South Africa, taking a rough guess, probably 98% of people in South Africa cannot afford the Logos software.
It is for this reason that I would recommend a much better priced Bible software package. How about a FREE Bible software package? I thought I'd get your attention!
e-Sword is a free Bible software package for Windows, and has a whole range of translations that can be installed with it for free.
| # of free English translation modules | 24 (i.e. ESV, ASV, KJV, RV, Geneva, etc) |
| # of Greek NT modules | 6 + a Hebrew NT |
| # of Hebrew OT modules | 2 + Greek OT Septuagint |
| Latin Vulgate | |
| # of other languages translation modules | 47 (i.e. Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, etc) |
| # of Commentary modules | 16 (i.e. Matthew Henry, John Gill, Adam Clarke, etc) |
| # of Bible dictionary modules | 14 (i.e. Brown-Driver-Briggs, Easton's, ISBE, Nave's, Strong's, Thayer's, etc) |
| # of graphics modules | 9 (i.e. American Bible Society Maps, NASA, CIA World Factbook, etc |
| # of devotion modules | 5 (i.e. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, Day-By-Day By Grace, etc) |
| # of extra modules | 16 (i.e. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Works of Josephus, Calvin's Institutes, History of The Christian Church, etc) |
As you can see, this is a lot to get for free. This is also what I use. Although it is not completely sufficient when doing original language work (for this I use the original way of books), it really is a good package to use.
So, without throwing your budget out of whack, download e-Sword and you have a lot to work with.
UPDATE
6 Nov 2009 - Mark Penrith has written a short review on e-Sword.
