02-19-2004, 05:25 AM
Dear akhay,
A few years ago I thought of buying Logos Bible Software but I am glad that I decided to wait as they don't have the Peshitta. Until now they still don't have the Peshitta as can be seen from http://www.logos.com/scholars Very sad.
Now there is no doubt that BibleWorks 6 is the best software available for scholars as they have Aramaic Peshitta with Murdock's English translation. http://www.bibleworks.com/new.html
However, the price is quiet expensive for someone like me who already has many expensive reference works in book form. That is why I found that it is not necessary for someone like me who has exhausted his resources to buy books on Biblical studies to add the tools into his library.
e-sword created by our kind brother Rick Meyers has been really helpful to me in my studies. It is a great software! And it is FREE! I can't believe it. Therefore, I would like to urge fellow Aramaic enthusiasts out there who can't afford BibleWorks 6* to write a feedback to Rick Meyers requesting him to include Syriac Bible in e-sword together with the New Testament translations of James Murdock & John Wesley Etheridge and if possible the Aramaic Targum as well.
http://www.e-sword.net/feedback.html
Perhaps the owner of this http://www.peshitta.com/ could help Rick with the database of Murdock & Etheridge's translations.
I hope that one day the finished work of Paul Younan will be included in Logos, BibleSoftware & e-Sword softwares as the interlinear Aramaic NT could aid scholars more than the numerous English translations out there offered by these softwares.
Thank you for your co-operation.
*If you can afford BibleWorks 6 then just do me a big favor will you by asking Rick to include the above works into e-Sword. Can you imagine that he has many versions of the Bible available for free downloading at his great site but not the original Aramaic New Testament? <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: -->
A few years ago I thought of buying Logos Bible Software but I am glad that I decided to wait as they don't have the Peshitta. Until now they still don't have the Peshitta as can be seen from http://www.logos.com/scholars Very sad.
Now there is no doubt that BibleWorks 6 is the best software available for scholars as they have Aramaic Peshitta with Murdock's English translation. http://www.bibleworks.com/new.html
However, the price is quiet expensive for someone like me who already has many expensive reference works in book form. That is why I found that it is not necessary for someone like me who has exhausted his resources to buy books on Biblical studies to add the tools into his library.
e-sword created by our kind brother Rick Meyers has been really helpful to me in my studies. It is a great software! And it is FREE! I can't believe it. Therefore, I would like to urge fellow Aramaic enthusiasts out there who can't afford BibleWorks 6* to write a feedback to Rick Meyers requesting him to include Syriac Bible in e-sword together with the New Testament translations of James Murdock & John Wesley Etheridge and if possible the Aramaic Targum as well.
http://www.e-sword.net/feedback.html
Perhaps the owner of this http://www.peshitta.com/ could help Rick with the database of Murdock & Etheridge's translations.
I hope that one day the finished work of Paul Younan will be included in Logos, BibleSoftware & e-Sword softwares as the interlinear Aramaic NT could aid scholars more than the numerous English translations out there offered by these softwares.
Thank you for your co-operation.
*If you can afford BibleWorks 6 then just do me a big favor will you by asking Rick to include the above works into e-Sword. Can you imagine that he has many versions of the Bible available for free downloading at his great site but not the original Aramaic New Testament? <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: -->
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