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M.G. Easton M.A., D.D. produced his Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, in 1897. This includes the text
portions of that reference work and is a good reference for basic Bible terminology. It includes scripture links to examples
of where the word is used along with a definition or translation in the case of names.
Orville J. Nave, A.M., D.D., LL.D. produced this Topical Bible while serving as a Chaplin in the United States Army. The
reference states that it includes approximately 20,000 individual topics and subtopics, and 100,000 scripture references.
R. A. Torrey produced his Topical Textbook, along with a very good foreword giving methods of Bible study. Mr. Torrey
indicates that there are 20,000 Topics and Sub-topics in the reference work and 30,000 scripture references. Also included is
the Fundamental Doctrines of the Bible, David Allen Reed's doctrinal work. It
provides instruction about im portant Bible doctrines in outline form with fully linked scripture references for doctrinal
study.
This is an electronic reproduction of the 28th printing of the Concise Commentary, with notes about each book and chapter of
the Bible. It has links imbedded in it to display the chapter associated with the running commentary if desired. If you just
want to see the information about a particular book's chapter, you can use this FastAccess to provide quick retrieval. This is generally much faster than loading
the full notes for a particular book.
This is an electronic reproduction of the Full Commentary, with notes about each book and chapter of the Bible. It has
links imbedded in it to display the chapter associated with the running commentary if desired. If you just want to see the
information about a particular book's chapter, you can use this FastAccess to provide quick retrieval. This is generally much faster than
loading the full notes for a particular book.
Table of
Contents: Each reference description displays this symbol as a link to a table of contents. This may be alphabetical for
topcial bibles or dictionaries or oriented by books of the Bible for commentaries. Alphabetical listings are dynamically
created based on the initial letter selected to reduce the amount of information to manageable proportions. Most references
allow you to select the Bible to use for scripture references initially or after topics are selected.
Search: Each reference description displays this symbol as a link to a simple search form which permits word and
phrase lookups in the selected reference work. Note that all topical Bibles and the Dictionary can be searched with a single
query.
Detailed Search: Each reference description displays this symbol as a link to a more detailed search form which
permits additional options such as case sensitivity, partial matches (handling plurals for example), misspellings,
restricting searches to specific works, and changing the maximum number of topic files returned and topics per file
returned.
Download: If you want a copy of a site reference work, this is the way to do it. We have used a hopefully PC
compatible zip program to collect the full text of the site reference in one file. Unix user's can make use of the gzip'd tar
archive which is slightly smaller. This won't give you search capability, or active scripture links, or automated index
preparation, but will give you a local copy for research, reference, or help in preparing sermons or teaching. It's much
faster than grabbing one topic or topic file at a time.