Others started to contribute too, and the project moved forward to where it is now. In 2004 some programming work was done that aided Bible translation work, and as I foresaw a greater future use for this program, I called it Bibledit.Īfter that God gave sufficient energy to work on the project in the spare time. After the decision was made and the actual move, I regained my peace. It seemed to me a bit an unusual cause for this unrest, but nevertheless I could not find another one. I remember that at that time I had lost peace with God for a good while, was in great unrest of mind, and examined myself thoroughly to find out what it was, and then came to the above decision. A lot of programming needs to be done to move the Bible translation programs to Linux. God will help here, and the future will show why this decision had to be taken.
I made the decision to move from Windows to Linux. It started with an entry in the programmer's diary of Teus Benschop:įriday.
We are working on it for not only a core group of users at Bibles International, but also to promote free, open-source Bible translation software on both Linux and Windows. Programming MinistryĬode development on Bibledit is a ministry of Fellowship Bible Church led by Pastor Matt Postiff. Furthermore, this program has interfacing capabilities with other software that we use, like the premier Bible exegesis software on Windows, Bibleworks. Our main users are not able to reliably connect to the Internet. But it is now supported once again because our dev team believes there is still a lot of life left in this desktop program. The old Bibledit website states that Bibledit-gtk, the desktop version of Bibledit, is out of date. This is to keep the traffic on this list very low. To post a message to all the list members, write to Only announcements should be posted to this list. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe" to the same address. To subscribe to this list by email, send email to with the word "subscribe" in the subject line or the body of the mail. There you can subscribe, unsubscribe, view archives, etc. To post a message to all the list members, write to For announcements there is the bibledit-announce mailing list. There is also the bibledit-development mailing list.
Read more about code development or troubleshooting.Feature requests can be submitted at Github.Mail the forum through The archives from October 2013 and back of the previous mailing list are still available. We discuss Bibledit and the Desktop variation of the software on.Interfaces to external programs including Xiphos and Bibletime.Collaboration through USB drive, or through the Internet.
Bibledit-Desktop is a program that aims to help Bible translation be faster and more accurate.