Bible is the essential religious text of Christianity and Judaism. Its faithful composition is reliant on the spiritual traditions of particular denominations. The current Judaism practice, commonly recognized as “a single set of canonical books,” is also known as the Jewish, Hebrew or Tanakh Bible. It contains three parts, namely; Writings, the Prophets and the Torah.



The Tanakh consists of 24 books. It is a short form for the three branches of the Hebrew Bible such as the Ketuvim, Nevi ‘im and the Torah. It is used by the Jews but is unfamiliar to numerous English speakers. The Torah is also called as the Five Books of Moses. The Torah comprises of five books such as Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. It focuses on the three, especially when it comes to changing relationships between the people and god.

The Nevi'im or the Prophets tells about the rise of the Hebrew Monarch. It comprises of eight books such as Joshua; Judges, Samuel, Kings and Isaiah as well as Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the twelve prophets, including all Minor Prophets.

The Ketuvim, Scriptures or Writings should have been written after or during the Babylonian Exile.

The Ketuvim contains philosophical expressions on life the stories of prophets and lyrical poetry as well as of other Jewish leaders throughout the Babylonian exile. It comprises of eleven books such as Psalm, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs and Ruth, Lamentations as well as Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra and Chronicles.

Bible Software

Bible Software is a type of software used for studying and reading the bible. It has a wide variety of capabilities; along with several mere displays of the texts of the bible on the screen. It includes a wide range of bible study programs that helps theological resources.

The software can include numerous bible translations in different charts, maps, theological writings and lexicons, cross references as well as commentaries, languages and languages that aids with the original language text, on dictionaries and grammar.

Most of the Bible Software allows the user to choose from several different databases containing a number of different base packages, including different recourses. The common features of a bible are for searching and reading. This is along with other software features such syntactical searches of sentence diagramming, lectionary viewers, morphological and gospel synopsis.

Bible Software for Windows

Here are some possible free software. There is the Alkitab Bible Study used a SWORD task environment. Try the BPBible Desktop. This is freely available and an open source. Another one is the Bible Analyzer, an analysis application and freeware bible study program. It is a compact disk with application modules and can be bought for a nominal fee.

The BiblePRO software uses an interface which highlights programming IDE. The light version may be downloaded for a fee. The E-Sword software is available in several commercial modules. It is one of the favorite free bible software around.

The SwordBible software is the simplest you can read and understand. Meanwhile, the SWORD Project has numerous front end programs of this software s are available in PDAs, Mac, Linux and Windows.

As for the commercial types, there is the BibleWorks. This software is the most recommended type for Hebrews and Greek studies. The Logos Bible Software is a famous high-end bible software in the market. It offers advanced tools for Hebrew and Greek studies.

There is also the SwordSearcher. This one is an inexpensive and simple bible software study program. And then, the WORDsearch offers a wide library of English resources.

There are two popular programs for Mac OS. First is Ilumina, the animated bible software. The second one is Accordance.