What's New in Library 7?

Our biggest Library upgrade ever, the new Library 7 CD-ROM features more than 30 new modules, including the NET Bible with its extensive collection of notes, a gallery of classic artwork, Manners and Customs in the Bible, ISBE, additional commentaries and works of theology, and for the first time ever, a grammatically tagged Greek New Testament!

See the table below for modules added to each release at each level.

The new Introductory Level adds 13 new modules. The NET Bible is an excellent modern translation, and the NET Notes are like a study Bible, commentary, and introductory critical apparatus all rolled into one. Greek Parsing gives you extensive information about the Greek behind the King James Bible, and makes possible extremely powerful searches. Bible Art is a collection of art by the great masters depicting scenes from the Bible. Also included are Select Works of John Bunyan, Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, Sketches of Church History, Scougal's The Life of God in the Soul of Man, Spurgeon's Faith's Checkbook, Birds' Eye View of the the Bible, The Greatest English Classic: A Study of KJV, and the original translators' preface to the KJV. In addition, the KJVS has been updated with red letter and paragraph markers, and the Creeds module now includes the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. Finally, Beginning in Mark is an introductory guide to doing Bible study with Accordance.

The new Standard Level adds 24 new modules. In addition to the 13 new modules included in the Introductory Level, the Greek New Testament Textus Receptus tagged with Strong's numbers and the Spanish Bible La Biblia de las Americas have been moved to the Standard level from the Premier level. Manners and Customs in the Bible is a modern work which explores the historical background to many biblical narratives. New commentaries include Maclaren's Expositions, Charles Hodge on Ephesians, and Thomas Manton on James. Also included are systematic theologies by A. H. Strong and John Gill, select theological writings of Wesleyan theologian Adam Clarke, apologist William Paley's Evidences of Christianity, and tracts by famed textual critic Constantin von Tischendorf on the date and origins of the Gospels.

The new Premier Level adds 37 new modules. In addition to the 24 new modules included in the Introductory and Standard Levels, it includes the grammatically tagged Greek New Testament Textus Receptus, making possible incredibly powerful Greek searches. In depth scholarly works include the International Standard Biblical Encyclopedia and Philip Schaff's Creeds of Christendom. Also included are the works of Jonathan Edwards and Richard Baxter, Alfred Edersheim's Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah and Bible History Old Testament, Charles Finney's Lectures on Systematic Theology, Heinrich Schmid's Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ramsay's St. Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen, and Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Commentaries include the Catena Aurea, a patristic commentary on Matthew and Mark, along with Charles Spurgeon's Sermons on Proverbs. Finally, the St. Patrick module has been updated with a biography excerpted from J. A. Wylie's History of the Scottish nation.

Modules in each Release of the Library CD-ROM

This table shows the modules included on the three levels of Library 4, together with the additions and other changes in subsequent Library releases.