User-database: Miles Coverdale version (1535) of the Bible

Thanks to Bob Venem who has put together a few other great modules on the early English Bible we now have another version at our fingertips.

While I personally haven't much experience with Miles Coverdale's version, I was able to learn from Wikipedia that Coverdale was not proficient with either Hebrew or Greek (hardly the first!), and so made his translation from "'five soundry interpreters' in Latin, Enlgish and 'Douche' (German)." So while it may not be great for exegesis, it will be useful to those who are interested in early versions of the Bible in English.

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Updates: Bishops', King James 1611, Wycliffe

As was promised earlier, Bob Venem with the help of others (especially Mark Eddy) have finished verse-mapping files (.VMF) for the three olde English versions Bishops', King James 1611, and Wycliffe, which are now available. The files will look the same if you have already downloaded them, but included will be a file that ends in the extension .vmf. You will want to place the .vmf file in the subdirectory/folder called "databases" in your BibleWorks directory. The verse-mapping file ensures that when you read a verse in these versions, even if their versification doesn't agree with another Bible version you are reading, that you will get that same verse as long as it is contained in that Bible version.

For instance if you look in the browse window in the ESV for Psalm 3:5 you will get: ESV Psalm 3:5 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.

but if you also have the Hebrew WTT shown, you will see that the corresponding verse to that in Hebrew is not referred to as Psalm 3:5, but Psalm 3:6. The reason that you get the correct verse to show up (even if it is a different number) is because someone spent the time making a verse-map for the ESV and WTT.

Now this same feature will extend to these three Bibles.

DOWNLOAD KJV 1611!
DOWNLOAD BISHOPS' BIBLE!
DOWNLOAD WYCLIFFE BIBLE!

User-database: Horace's Works (Latin x2 and English)

Well it's been a quiet time lately, but both of your hosts have successfully completed major portions of their Master's degree programs. In addition to that, I have been very busy attempting to put together some major projects for BibleWorks users. Trust me, you'll love 'em!

But meanwhile, I was able to complete a first edition of Horace's works in two Latin versions and one English translation! The difficulty with finding English translations for poetical works is that line breaks never agree with the Latin line breaks which makes it impossible to line up texts without lots of work. But then again it takes a lot of work to translate the Latin into English in the same number of lines and still maintain a good poetic feel to the text.

In any event, Horace is a great poet who lived during the time of the great transition from Caesar of the name Julius to Caesar of the name Augustus. If you need some more basic material you can start at Google or perhaps Wikipedia.

DOWNLOAD Latin, Latin version 2, English!

Look for some more hints on how to use Latin in BibleWorks in the coming days!

User-database: Bishops' Bible, 1568

Yet another addition by Bob Venem to the early English Bible collection is the Bishops' Bible edition of 1568. This version is a precursor to the King James Version and perhaps will be a little easier to understand than the Wycliffe edition. While the King James Version has become the gold star, the Bishops' Bible is an important piece in the history of the translation of the English Bible.

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Note that both this database and the King James Version 1611 might have some verse mapping issues (mostly in the Psalms), these will eventually be fixed in further releases. Those will be released here, so stay tuned.

User-database: King James Version, 1611

Another great Bible version for those interested in the early English Bible, Bob Venem has now made available the King James Version of 1611 for users of BibleWorks. This will be a treat for people who can't get enough of their thees and thous.

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User-database: John Wycliffe's Middle English Translation of the Vulgate (1388)

For fans of the (pre-)Reformation period, the history of the Bible, Beowulf, and Bible databases in general, Bob Venem, a fellow BibleWorks user, has made available to all BibleWorks users the text of John Wycliffe's translation of the Bible from the Vulgate into Middle English. This will be a fun one for the linguists and philological nerds out there including myself!

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UPDATE: (4/11/07) Files were updated to include James (which was inadvertently missing from the first release)