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  • The SWORD Project The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's free Bible software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform open-source tools-- covered by the GNU General Public License-- that allow programmers and Bible societies to write new Bible software more quickly and easily. We also create Bible study software for all readers, students, scholars, and translators of the Bible, and have a growing collection of over 200 texts in over 50 languages.

    Current News

    Posted 11:56AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 by refdoc
      A "refresh" release of LcdBible to SWORD 1.5.11 allows LcdBible users to access all of the latest modules.
    Posted 11:50AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 by refdoc
      On the 19th December, 2008 BpBible, a cross platform frontend, version 0.4 was released as a portable application. New features include improved searching (including proximity searches), tagging of text passages, and much more.
    Posted 3:31PM on Saturday, December 20, 2008 by tee
      Not really new, but... GnomeSword 2.4.1 was released 05 Nov 2008. Look for a Windows port soon!
    Posted 3:22PM on Saturday, December 20, 2008 by refdoc
      Not so totally fresh news: BibleDesktop 1.6 was released on the 29th of July, 2008 with many new interface translations, better right to left display, and numerous other improvements.
    Posted 10:39AM on Thursday, June 26, 2008 by Scribe

      CrossWire is happy to announce the immediate availability of The SWORD Project for Windows, v1.5.11. This update includes many bug fixes, the addition of fast indexed searching, image support, and improved locale functionality.

      Get it here: http://crosswire.org/sword/software/biblecs

    Posted 6:32PM on Saturday, May 24, 2008 by Osk
    Posted 7:30AM on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 by Osk

      CrossWire is happy to announce the immediate availability of an RSS news feed, compatible with all of the most popular news readers like Google Reader and the readers built into popular browsers like Firefox, IE7, and Opera. You can use thew new feeds to stay informed about the latest updates to CrossWire releases. You should find a link to the RSS feed in the left menu panel.

      (If you aren't familiar with RSS, you can read a semi-technical explanation at Wikipedia OR you would watch this explanation of RSS in Plain English over at YouTube.)

    Posted 6:30PM on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 by scribe
    Posted 11:02AM on Sunday, July 1, 2007 by DM Smith
      BibleDesktop, the portable JSword-based Bible study tool, for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, now supports Parallel Bibles. And as an added bonus, you can visually compare 2 or more Bibles of the same language. See the JSword Change Log for more details and other improvements.

      You can download it from here.
    Posted 7:58AM on Saturday, March 31, 2007 by DM Smith
      Happy Easter!

      BibleDesktop, the portable JSword-based Bible study tool, for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, has been improved!!! This release completes our support for all Sword modules, except Personal Commentary. See the JSword Change Log for more details.

      You can download it from here.