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<chapter id="hdbk-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<sect1 id="hdbk-intro-about">
<title>About &bibletime;</title>
<para>&bibletime; is a Bible study tool with support for
different types of texts and languages. Even large amounts of works
modules are easy to install and manage. It is built on the
<ulink url="http://www.crosswire.org/sword">Sword</ulink> library,
which provides the back-end functionality for &bibletime;, such
as viewing Bible text, searching etc. Sword is the flagship product
of the <ulink url="http://www.crosswire.org">Crosswire Bible
Society</ulink>.</para>
<para>&bibletime; is designed to be used with works encoded in
one of the formats supported by the Sword project. Complete
information on the supported document formats can be found in the
<ulink url="http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/index.jsp">
developers section</ulink> of the Sword Project, Crosswire Bible
Society.</para>
<sect2 id="hdbk-intro-works">
<title>Available works</title>
<para>Over 200 documents in 50 languages are available from the
<ulink url="http://www.crosswire.org">Crosswire Bible
Society</ulink>. These include:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Bibles</term>
<listitem>
<para>The full Bible text, with optional things like
Strong's Numbers, headings and/or footnotes in the text.
Bibles are available in many languages, and include not
only modern versions, but also ancient texts like the Codex
Leningradensis ("WLC", Hebrew), and the Septuagint ("LXX",
Greek). This is the most advanced section in the library of
the Sword project.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Books</term>
<listitem>
<para>Books available include "Imitation of Christ", "Enuma
Elish", and "Josephus: The Complete Works"</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Commentaries</term>
<listitem>
<para>Commentaries available include classics like John
Wesley's "Notes on the Bible", Matthew Henry's commentary
and Luther's "Commentary on Galatians." With the
<emphasis>Personal</emphasis> commentary you can
<link linkend="hdbk-op-parts-desk-write"> record your own
personal notes</link> to sections of the Bible.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Daily devotionals</term>
<listitem>
<para>Many people appreciate these daily portions from
God's word. Available works include Daily Light on the
Daily Path, and the Losungen.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Lexicons/Dictionaries</term>
<listitem>
<para>Lexicons available include: Robinson's Morphological
Analysis Codes, Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon and the
International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia. Dictionaries
available include Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary,
Strong's Greek Bible Dictionary, Webster's Revised
Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language 1913, Nave's
Topical Bible.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="hdbk-intro-motivation">
<title>Motivation</title>
<para>Our desire is to serve God, and to do our part to help
others grow in their relationship with Him. We have striven to
make this a powerful, quality program, and still make it simple
and intuitive to operate. It is our desire that God be praised,
as He is the source of all good things.</para>
<blockquote>
<attribution>James 1:17, NASB</attribution>
<para>Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there
is no variation or shifting shadow.</para>
</blockquote>
<para>God bless you as you use this program.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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