Mobile Ministry Magazine: Bible Study Software: Part 2 (e-Sword) by J4L

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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Bible Study Software: Part 2 (e-Sword) by J4L

The first piece of software that we want to take a look at is e-Sword, which is coined to be "the Sword of the LORD with an electronic edge." As stated in the introduction to this series, e-Sword is our look at free Bible software that is available for anyone to download who has Internet connection.

A little bit of background about the software, it was created by Rick Meyers and first released in 2000 with the intent of being a free software application with a clean interface and having a study approach. Since its first release in 2000, the software has become one of the most popular Bible software downloads, reaching its 3,000,000th download in August of this year (1,000,000+ since August 2004). Also during that time, it has been improved drasticly and new resources have constantly been added.

The focus of our review on e-Sword is to take a look at this freeware application through its usability, interface, and several other areas. As of the date of this review, the current version of e-Sword is v.7.7.7, which is the version that we will be reviewing.

Click here to read the rest of Part 2.