Bibloi 8.0

Bibloi 8.0 is the continuation of the Bible Windows product (See, What happened to Bible Windows?). The major new feature is the ability to add texts to the program. Bibloi includes a C# program that reads texts into an MS Access database that can then be used in Bibloi. The source code for this program will be available on request to registered users. So, while there are a number of formats supported, users could extend the import program to include other formats. The import program and Bibloi are Unicode compatible so that a wide variety of translations and texts can be imported.

New Options for Interlinear Display

Bibloi 8.0 has new options which allow a user to easily and quickly customize the Interlinear display. For example, if you were just interested in the tense of the verbs, you could turn off every tag except for the verb tense and then the tense of each verb would be immediately obvious.

New Texts

Bibloi comes with a few sample texts that have been imported using the Bibloi Import utility. The new texts in Bibloi include:

•     Douay-Reims Bible with Apocrypha.
•     Apostolic Fathers in English
•     Didache in Greek
•     OT Pseudepigrapha
          Letter of Aristeas
          Book of Adam and Eve
          Assumption of Moses
          Apocalypse of Moses
          Psalms of Solomon
          Life of Adam and Eve
          Revelation of Esdras
          Pirke Aboth
          Book of Jubilees
          Book of Enoch
          Martydom of Isaiah

OLB Texts

The BibloiImport program can convert OLB texts to the Bibloi format. The process involves printing the Bible text in Online Bible and then importing the resulting Rich Text File (RTF) into Bibloi. This will allow Online Bible users with modern English translations such as NIV, NASB, etc. to import these translations into Bibloi.

Unbound Bible

The BibloiImport program can import texts from the Unbound Bible Project (http://undev.biola.edu). At this point, only the Bible texts can be imported, not any of the Bible Tools such as Bible Dictionaries or Commentaries. If you are interested in importing a non-English version, we strongly recommend that you use the UTF8 version of the file. UTF8 is a way to encode Unicode text in a plain text file. You will see the option to import the text as either a UTF8 file or as an ANSI file. It is impossible for the BibloiImport program to automatically determine if the file is a UTF8 file or an ANSI file. Most of the Unbound Bible UTF8 text files have UTF8 as part of the file name.

Beta Code

Bibloi can import texts in the TLG "Beta Code" format (see http://www.tlg.uci.edu/BetaCode.html). An example of Beta Code would be:

~a"LXX"b"031"c"Cant"x"t"
@@@@@@{1<20*A*S*M*A>20}1
~x1
@@{1*)=A|SMA A)|SMA/TWN, O(/ E)STIN TW=| *SALWMWN.}1
~y
@*FILHSA/TW ME A)PO\ FILHMA/TWN STO/MATOS AU)TOU=,
O(/TI A)GAQOI\ MASTOI/ SOU U(PE\R OI)=NON,

Currently, Bibloi can only import English, Latin and Greek Beta Code texts.

Plain Bible Texts

The BibloiImport program can also import texts from a generic format of one line per verse. This allows people with Bible texts in other formats to easily reformat their texts and import it into Bibloi.