You can also go to the Brown University site, Bible Browser:
<http://mama.stg.brown.edu/webs/bible_browser/pbform.shtml>
It allows you to search nine different Bibles, including the Jerome's
Vulgate and the KJV.
At 04:08 PM 4/7/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I fear that part of the problem is knowing what is available (and also how
>they became available in the first place!). Just because one site or
>another has certain things available does not mean they produced them.
>Much on the Wheaton site came from elsewhere -- I'm not at all sure how
>much of it is "new" to Wheaton (my alma mater!).
>
>Indeed, much of the biblical stuff "out there" came through the CATSS/CCAT
>projects here at UPenn, usually gathered from elsewhere and reformatted
>into a consistent body of materials in the mid 1980s. If you want the KJV
>and/or its Apocrypha, save yourself the $29 and go to
>
>gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:3333/11/Religious/Biblical/KJVBible --
>
>if it makes you feel better, send me the $29 and I'll invest it in the
>current attempt to put all the Old Greek ("LXX") variants into electronic
>form for the public domain!
>
>Bob
>
>> > One wouldn't use a
>> > > CDROM
>> > > version of the King James Bible if what one needed to find was in one
>> > > of the
>> > > apocryphal books.
>> >
>> > One might, since that version does contain those books.
>> >
>> > Oriens.
>>
>> I know it did originally. But I believe they were removed at some point.
My
>> $29 KJV CDROM doesn't have them.
>>
>> It's OK guys, that $29 version. I don't do Biblical research. Just need to
>> find the source of a quotation once in a while, and this is a lot faster
than
>> flipping through print editions, of which I do have several in the house.
>> They're for reading, not source-hunting.
>> ...
>> pat sloane
>
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