CD-ROMs at Emmanuel Library

Emmanuel Library has a number of CD-ROMs available for use on our public computers:

Anchor Bible Dictionary

All 6 volumes of the respected 1992 Anchor Bible Dictionary are included in this CD-ROM. Nearly a thousand international biblical scholars – including prominent archaeologists, Assyriologists, Egyptologists, classicists, philosophers, and historians – have written the 6,200 entries on biblical subjects and topics.

The full English texts of the King James Version and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible are also provided.

Features include full-text searching; hyperlinks to cross-references, abbreviations, and illustrations; as well as the ability to annotate, link, and export text.

BibleWorks 6

This concordance program can do anything from a simple word search in the New Revised Standard Version to complex grammatical searches in the original biblical languages. The program includes classic translations such as the Septuagint, the Vulgate, the Lutherbibel, and the King James Version , as well as a number of modern translations. It also covers the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical books.

BibleWorks 6 is only available for use on the public computers at Emmanuel Library.

Note: BibleWorks 8 is available online

The Dead Sea Scrolls 2

This is a comprehensive archive of digitized images of all 800 or so Dead Sea Scrolls texts from the 11 caves of Khirbet Qumran. The collection contains some 2,700 photographs, with annotations that give information about the Cave number, text title, Inventory number, and cross-references to the microfiche and facsimile editions.

Images can be magnified and sharpened for contrast, and the fragments manipulated. A searchable list of biblical passages found in particular fragments is also provided.

This is an ongoing work in progress, to which transcriptions, translations, and other reference material are being added.

The Early Church Fathers:
Their Writings and Teachings

This CD contains the nine volumes of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, as well as the fourteen volumes of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series. These volumes cover selected writings of a wide range of early Christian writers. Keyword, phrase, and Boolean searching are available and users can keep personal comments and highlighting on file.

Voices United Resources

Voices United (VU) is the hymn and worship book of the United Church of Canada.

VU Worship Planner (version 1.0)

This resource CD-ROM is designed to help worship planners select music, prayers and scripture readings for services in which VU is being used; it will play the melody of any musical selection from the book.

VU Concordance (PDF, 2.6MB)

This tool provides an alphabetical listing of the words in the VU hymns listing their locations.

The Works of John Wesley

This is the standard fourteen volume edition of Wesley's works, edited by Thomas Jackson, and published between 1829 and 1831. You can do anything from simple keyword lookups to phrase, proximity and boolean searches of single volumes or the whole set. The publisher has also included a copy of the King James Bible, and hypertext links take you from Wesley's scripture references to the full text of the passages referred to.