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I have a few items that may help some people doing Bible study, and a few links, too.

I've put together a graphical map of the geneology of the thrones of Israel and Judah during 1-2 Kings.

My favorite Bible Study tool is Xiphos. It is available for Linux/FreeBSD/etc and Windows (Xp and higher)! Tell your friends! Xiphos 3.1.3 and sword 1.6.1 are now available For openSuse 11.2 on x86_64: xiphos-3.1.3-7.x86_64.suse112.rpm xiphos-lang-3.1.3-7.x86_64.suse112.rpm Sword RPM: sword-1.6.1-2.x86_64.suse112.rpm ...if you want to recompile xiphos, you'll want: sword-devel-1.6.1-2.x86_64.suse112.rpm and the proper spec.in file xiphos.spec.in.suse112 Note that due to a sensitivity noticed to small changes in xulrunner libraries, I've been forced to be very explicit in the version of xulrunner required. This rpm is compiled against the latest update, mozilla-xulrunner191-1.9.1.10 For openSuse 11.1 on x86_64: xiphos-3.1.3-1.x86_64.suse111.rpm Sword RPM: sword-1.6.1-1.x86_64.suse111.rpm ...if you want to recompile xiphos, you'll need: sword-devel-1.6.1-1.x86_64.suse111.rpm Note that due to a sensitivity noticed to small changes in xulrunner libraries, I've been forced to be very explicit in the version of xulrunner required. This rpm is compiled against the latest update, mozilla-xulrunner191-1.9.1.8 Either way, you'll need modules: Modules from Crosswire found here Xiphos also has a nice module repository here You may want additional (Beta) Modules from here

Xiphos packages for i586 PC's are still built for 11.1 and 11.2, but I don't have enough web space. You can email me and I'll send them along or at least I can help walk you through the process. Note that Xiphos 3.1.3 requires at least OpenSUSE 11.1 (due to GTK 2.14 or higher). For those compiling on their own, other spec input files can be found here. You may need to adjust the Requires and BuildRequires to match your specific system: Release Spec.in 11.2 sword.spec.in xiphos.spec.in.suse112 A Brief Guide to compile Sword on your own: download the source code (something like sword-1.6.1.tar.gz) from http://www.crosswire.org/sword/software/swordapi.jsp copy source tarball to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/ cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/ tar -xzf sword-1.6.1.tar.gz (or the actual name of the tarball) cd sword-1.6.1 (or whatever was the created directory) download the sword.spec.in file from above; place in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/ ./configure rpmbuild -bb sword.spec install the rpm A Brief Guide to compile Xiphos on your own: download the source code (something like xiphos-3.1.3.tar.gz) from xiphos.org copy source tarball to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/ cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/ tar -xzf xiphos-3.1.3.tar.gz (or the actual name of the tarball) cd xiphos-3.1.3 (or whatever was the created directory) download the spec.in file from here cp xiphos.spec.in.suse112 xiphos.spec.in ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-scrollkeeper rpmbuild -bb xiphos.spec install the rpm