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tinjaw:
If they are all based off of the open source code, we should download it and compile it. All the screenshots look like Windows 3.1.

CWuestefeld:
I've used this online reference many times: http://blueletterbible.org/study/ (and elsewhere on the site). It's probably not the tool you want, but an excellent reference nonetheless.

(betcha didn't expect to see a heathen like me here  ;))

Darwin:
(betcha didn't expect to see a heathen like me here   ;))
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No, but I bet no one expected Chaim to start the thread or for me to show much interest, either!

Anyway, ANOTHER nice find - thanks  :Thmbsup:

Edvard:
Excellent references, all...
Being a Linux user, the Sword project is my only choice for such things and their Java interface is interesting, although not as easy to use.

I would love to have tonnes of footnotes and references available. I would love for a version that contained the texts of all the major religions and would let me compare things like references to the same historical event, compare timelines, etc. If there were footnotes/references to secular texts that cover the same item would be icing on the cake.
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For that, my friend, you'd have to study archaeology. Cross-cultural historical cross-referencing is not a pretty thing to dig into, and those who have find the going very difficult, as the existing historical record is fantastically spotty.
I found K.C. Hanson's website to be a nice jumping-off place, as he has links to many other historical archaeology sites and current translations of many ancient records.
Being Catholic, his focus is on the ancient mediterranean (Greece/Rome, Egypt, Middle East) so I didn't find much pointing eastward or westward from there.

Curt:
I am sorry I didn't notice this thread at it's beginning. With the exception of Theophilus I have used all of the programs so far mentioned, and a lot of others, and it is my firm exprience that when it comes to comparative study there really is but one program: Libronix ~ Logos. No one else comes even close - they are all fine, but Logos is The Reference. And quite an expensive reference, that is.

http://www.logos.com/products
http://www.logos.com/training

http://www.logos.com/products/groups/products/boxed-products

But you didn't talk about studying "Christendom", but "religions", and this can be a problem, because I expect you will find that any books on other religions are hard to find or to trust.

Edit: create your very own books for Libronix:
http://www.logos.com/products/details/2095

Edit 2: see "top twenty new features":
http://www.logos.com/logos3/top20

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