New OS X and iOS Bible Study, Devotional, Liturgical and Commentary Apps. Available
• River Bible 1.2 King James Bible Viewer
• Bible App 1.1 The Bible Reader For The Rest Of Us
• Bible App On the Mac App Store
• Divine Office – Audio Prayer – Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church For OS X and iOS
• NICNT New Testament Commentary Now Available for Accordance Bible Software
River Bible 1.2 King James Bible Viewer
Jolon Faichney’s $.99 River Bible Viewer is a project based on an SQLite backend accessed through Core Data allowing for fast searching and retrieval. A simple table-based interface is provided to browse and search the Bible.
River offers a variety of features:
• King James Version
• Beautiful typesetting
• Clean, simple user interface
• Fast Core Data backend
New in version 1.2:
• River Bible now supports daily Journal notes
System requirements:
• Intel
• Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
For more information, visit:
http://river.jolon.org/
Bible App 1.1 The Bible Reader For The Rest Of Us
Surgeworks, Inc. claims that its Bible App: so easy to navigate, you don’t need to be a scholar to use it – the Bible reader for the rest of us – with a beautiful, elegant user interface that allows you to dive into the Sacred Scriptures without all the clutter of Websites.
From the Divine Office Catholic Ministry, developers of the About.com “2011 Best iPhone, iPod and iPad Catholic Apps,” this simple to use Bible App makes a perfect companion for daily inspiration and spiritual nourishment. Use it to keyword search and compare specific verses from 20 editions.
New in version 1.1:
Contents improvements:
• The Douay-Rheims Bible and the Latin Vulgate now include the full set of 73 books from the Catholic Canon.
Navigation improvements:
• You can now select a chapter clicking on the current chapter number in the top right of the reading screen
You can now select a different book clicking on the book title in the reading
System requirements:
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or laterbased Macs).
$9.99
For more information, visit:
http://divine-office.com/
Bible App On the Mac App Store
Mauro Dalu says the first Bible reader on the Mac App Store is just got a lot better, and its ready for Mac OS X Lion, improved on three main fronts: Contents, Navigation and Search features.
From the Divine Office Catholic Ministry, developers of the About.com 2011 Best iPhone, iPod and iPad Catholic Apps, Dalu says this beautifully crafted, simple to use Bible App is the perfect companion for daily inspiration and spiritual nourishment.
Features:
Access twenty English, Latin and Greek versions:
• American Standard Version (ASV)
• American King James Version (AKJV)
• Darby Bible (DBY)
• Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision (DRB)
• King James Version (KJV)
• World English Bible (WEB)
• Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
• (Latin) Biblia Sacra Vulgata (Latin Vulgate)
• (Greek) New Testament 1550
• (Greek) New Testament 1894
Read passages in five other languages:
German:
Luther 1545 (Letzte Hand), Elberfelder 1871
ItalianGiovanni Diodati 1649, Riveduta 1927, La Bibbia CEI 74
French:
Martin 1744, Bovet Bonnet 1900, Traduction del Louis Segond 1910
Spanish:
Reina-Valera 1569
Croatian
Compare multiple translations of the Bible by using the contextual menu and selecting Open same passage in another bible, or immerse yourself completely in the Word of God using the Fullscreen mode.
Use the internal search engine to look inside all the versions. Drill down to bibles in a specific language or a particular selection of your choice. You can search for a specific keyword, an exact phrase or a passage using a standard notation (such as John 1:1-18).
Highlight verses and access all selections from a convenient, dedicated screen where all your selections are organized by bible version and date.
“For the Word of God is Living and Active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)
New in version 1.1:
Contents improvements
• The Douay-Rheims Bible and the Latin Vulgate now include the full set of 73 books from the Catholic Canon (plus, some apocrypha books are also available).
• The User Interface has been fully localized in English, Italian, German and French.
Navigation improvements
• You can now select a chapter clicking on the current chapter number in the top right of the reading screen
• You can now select a different book clicking on the book title in the reading screen
• You can switch bible from the bible title in the reading screen
• You can now set a default bible which will be pre-selected for searches and be shown as the first bible in your collection
• The commands for each verse are now grouped in a menu that stays out of the way until you need it
• You can now select a single word and look it up in the Dictionary or on Google
Search engine improvements
• You can now search for multiple keywords, separated by spaces or comma (such as Jesus, Mary);
• You can now search for an exact phrase enclosing it in quotes (such as Let there be light);
• You can now get an entire chapter using standard notation (such as John 1);
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.6 or later
$9.99
For more information, visit:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bible-app/id416776382?mt=12
The Divine Office Catholic Ministry, in partnership with Surgeworks, Inc., is the developer of several apps including Divine Office – Liturgy of the Hours, an iPhone, iPod and iPad app for the universal prayer of the Roman Catholic Church. Divine Office was selected as the recipient of The NY Times Company’s About.com Readers Choice Award 2011 for The Best Catholic Website, The Best Catholic iPhone App, The Best Catholic iPad App and The Best Catholic Podcast. Visit the Divine Office Website at http://divineoffice.org or view theoir award-winning app in the App Store and Mac App Store.
Divine Office – Audio Prayer – Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church For OS X and iOS
The Divine Office App has been acclaimed as The Best Catholic iPhone and iPad App [About.com Reader’s Choice Awards 2011]. This app is an opportunity for you to participate in the recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours, an ancient and meditative collection of psalms, hymns and scripture that represent the public prayer of the Christian community.
If you are unable to pray in community, but love the contentment of praying with others, an added feature of The Divine Office App lets you view location where other Christians around the World are simultaneously praying with you.
Features
• Beautiful, easy to use and unique user interface that makes your praying experience even more enjoyable
• Automatically downloads the appropriate prayers for each hour, every day of the year, including Solemnities and many feast days.
• View location where other Christians around the World are simultaneously praying with you – Not available on Android
• Wirelessly download several days of prayers at a time, no need iTunes synchronisation or access to a computer
• Share your favourite prayers with your friends via Facebook or Email
Hours included for each day are:
* Invitatory
* Office of Readings
* Morning Prayer
* Daytime Prayer – text only, no audio
* Evening Prayer
* Night Prayer
This app will automatically update its content while you are running it with an Internet connection.
This App is an audio and text version of the official set of daily prayers from the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church (Breviary). It wirelessly downloads several days of prayers at a time, without the need for iTunes synchronization or access to a computer.
For clergy required to pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily, or laity who recite the daily prayers to maintain their intimate connection with God, The Divine Office App is designed to make praying more convenient, enjoyable, and simple enough for anyone to use. It automatically downloads the appropriate prayers for each office, every day of the year, including Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials.
The Divine Office App uses the current four-volume Liturgy of the Hours with a bias towards the USA calendar. This version is the official prayer book of the Catholic Church, however, it is suitable for those following Eastern Orthodox and Anglican traditions.
When St. Paul advises us in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 to pray without ceasing, he intends more than simply bowing our heads and speaking to God on a regular basis. He means for us to adopt an ongoing attitude of prayer that is a way of life and a constant intercession for the salvation of all mankind.
As the mystical body of Christ prays in unison, it fulfills what Paul advises as Christian conduct, that believers at once pray for the good of themselves, their neighbors, and the world. In this way, prayers become liturgy, a way to fulfill our divine calling and a practical approach for addressing the suffering of the world.
The Divine Office is also available free from http://www.DivineOffice.org or a podcast called Divine Office.
Check out also Divine Office Prayer app – a reference of 2000+ Catholic prayers in several languages.
New in Version 2.2.1
• New feedback link, new about screen, minor bug fixes
Note: This app requires Internet access through wifi or a data connection through the cellular network. iPod Touch users will need to have Internet access through a wifi connection at least every four days for about 10 to 30 minutes (depending on Internet speeds).
System requirements:
• OS X 10.6 or later
• iOS version designed for both iPhone and iPad
• Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
• Requires iOS 3.2 or later
$14.99
For more information, visit:
http://divine-office.com/#
App Store:
OS X version
http://bit.ly/r2cYDP
iOS version
http://bit.ly/9AInoy
NICNT New Testament Commentary Now Available for Accordance Bible Software
The New International Commentary on the New Testament (NICNT) is now available for use with Accordance Bible Software.
NICNT is a highly acclaimed commentary covering all the books of the New Testament except for 2 Peter and Jude. The series mission statement is “to provide earnest students of the New Testament with an exposition that is thorough and abreast of modern scholarship and at the same time loyal to the Scriptures as the infallible Word of God.”
NICNT provides exposition which takes technical questions into account, but which avoids getting bogged down in technical details. More technical aspects, such as grammatical, textual, and historical problems, are dealt with in footnotes, special notes, and appendixes – enabling the main text of the commentary to remain highly readable and accessible.
NICNT is continually being updated, with older volumes periodically revised or replaced with newer volumes more conversant with contemporary scholarship. In the past two years, the volumes on the books of John (by Leon Morris) and James (by James B. Adamson) have been replaced with new commentaries by J. Ramsey Michaels and Scot McKnight. The Accordance edition of NICNT includes both the old and new volumes, enabling users to compare the two side-by-side.
The Accordance edition of NICNT has been painstakingly developed to take full advantage of the software’s capabilities. Intelligent search fields, instant abbreviations, thousands of links to other Accordance resources, and more enable users to interact with this commentary like never before.
The Accordance edition of NICNT includes the equivalent of 20 print volumes worth more than $1000. It retails for $599, and is currently offered at the introductory sale price of $499. It can be used with Accordance for Mac and iOS, and also used on a Windows PC using a free emulator.
For more details, see the Accordance website.
http://www.accordancebible.com