BibleTime is a powerful Bible study tool written for the KDE environment on the Linux operating system. It is based on the Sword library, which provide the back-end functionality for BibleTime, such as viewing Bible text, searching, bookmarking, etc. Sword is the flagship product of the Crosswire Bible Society.
BibleTime is designed to be used with documents that have been encoded in Theological Markup Language (ThML) and General Bible Format (GBF). These markup languages are focused on the requirements of religious texts. Complete information on the supported document formats can be found in the developers section of the Sword Project, Crosswire Bible Society.
Over 200 documents in 50 languages are available from the Crosswire Bible Society. These include:
Additional documents are being added to the Sword repository frequently, so visit often.
Please read the file Changelog of the sourcecode package if you are interested in more detailed changes.
A listing of the features included in the current package can be found in the sourcecode at CVS log for bibletime/bibletime/ChangeLog