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We have recently released 9 new collections, including a couple new study Bibles, and we have more collections and study Bibles on the way. We’ve taken a slightly different approach with this season’s collections, trying to bring together resources that cover common themes or topics, and offering some of the most popular texts in that category. Here are a few examples…

We just posted the Bible Biographies Collection, which bundles together all our eBooks that are biographies on different figures in the Bible. So with one download, and at a very discounted price, you can have all 7 of these resources easily accessible on your PDA.

Another of our new collections is the Basic Study Tools Collection. In this package we brought together some of the essential resources for studying the Bible, with the goal of providing a basic, affordable package to get any student of the Bible started with PDA Bible Study.

Here’s one that everyone’s sure to enjoy: the eBook Classics Collection, which includes writings from some of Christianity’s most well-respected authors: Madame Guyon, Martin Luther, Andrew Murray, St. Augustine, John Calvin, and several others - 26 eBooks in all! And as an added bonus, this collection is available absolutely free We have another eBook Classics Collection coming out in a few weeks that includes some of our other Classics that are licensed through a publisher, and will thus be available for sale.

One final thing to make mention of here - we have a new section on our website for Study Bibles, and we have just recently posted a few more: the Catholic Study Bible and New Scofield Study Bible, both with notes from Oxford University Press, and the Ryrie Study Bible.

Well, that’s all for now! Enjoy browsing our new selections!

~ Kristi

We are back from the national conferences for ETS (Evangelical Theological Society) and SBL (Society of Biblical Literature). We had a great time at both of these conferences.

The highlight of the conference for me was meeting and talking with Olive Tree users. We had a great response to the early release of the Unicode Hebrew with BDB. The Unicode Hebrew will be available on our web site within a few weeks. I upgraded numorous people to the new Unicode Hebrew. It was fun seeing their excitement when they saw how amazing the new Hebrew looks! We got many oohs and ahhs over the new Unicode Hebrew. For more information on the Unicode Hebrew you can read these blog articles http://www.olivetreeblog.com/2007/08/02/hebrew-and-aramaic-developments/ and http://www.olivetreeblog.com/2007/08/29/unicode-on-palm/.

While at the conferences we talked with many publishers about electronic publication of their content in the Olive Tree format. We made some good contacts and started the ball rolling on a number of projects.

The most common question we got was, “Do/Will you support the iPhone?”. In February Apple will be releasing a development kit for developing native iPhone applications. Once this development kit is available we will be able to better investigate what will be involved in porting the BibleReader to the iPhone. After we have better information about porting the BibleReader to the iPhone we will make a decision about supporting the iPhone.

Here is a picture of myself, Drayton, and Drew in the Olive Tree booth at SBL. I am on the left, Drayton is in the middle, and Drew is on the right.

For those of you state side, have a great Thanksgiving Holiday!

-Stephen

I’m in San Diego right now standing at the Olive Tree booth at the annual conference for ETS. We were excited to see user responses to the new Unicode HMT. We talked to and helped a lot of happy Olive Tree users - this was my favorite part of this year’s ETS. Now it’s off to downtown San Diego to get set up for SBL. More later…

- Stephen

This week we are headed to beautiful San Diego, CA for the Evangelical Theological Society’s (ETS) national conference and for the Society of Biblical Literature’s (SBL) national conference. We would love for you to come by our booth at ETS and/or at SBL. We will be at booth 517 at ETS and booth 419 at SBL. We will have an early release version’s of the new Unicode HMT available for sale at both of these conferences. For those who have already purchased the HMT you can drop by our booth and we will upgrade your files for free

Stephen

Olive Tree has been releasing new products at a record rate! We have never before delivered such a great selection of Bibles, eBooks, dictionaries, Bible study aids and devotionals at such a pace as we have in the last month. We have posted over 30 new products since the beginning of October, including some very valuable and useful tools and some insightful and inspiring devotionals and eBooks. Although I could talk about all our new products at length, I want to take some time to highlight some of my recent favorites. As always, you can find all our recently released products for the last two months in our New Releases section.

Exhaustive Dictionary of Bible Names: This concise but exhaustive dictionary gives the Greek and/or Hebrew translations of all the names in the Bible. Names have meaning in the Bible, and here is a resource that every Bible student should have. I only regret that the authors did not include verse references for the names; however, since they use the KJV and NIV versions, a simple search in one of those Bibles on  your mobile device would quickly return all the results you need!

Josephus and Philo: As a history major, I cannot help but enjoy studying the context of the Bible, and these two ancient authors, although not Christians, tell us what the world was like when Jesus physically walked the earth. If you haven’t got these yet, you should because they cost you nothing. Like many resources from Olive Tree, these are free.

A Compassionate Roar: John Anderson’s call to Christians to awake to their moral and spiritual duties in the face of an immoral and godless world is a great reminder of our responsibility before God to stand up for Him in a sober, compassionate and firm way.

Norwegian Bible; Basque New Testament; Polish New Testament; Swedish 1917 Bible; Reina Valera 1858 New Testament: One of my favorite aspects about working for Olive Tree is how many free Bibles we offer in many languages of the world for missionaries and Christians all across the globe. These Bible translations, like so many other free Bibles from Olive Tree, are offered to you at no charge.

Complete Bible Discussion Guide: If you have a Bible study or are looking for a systematic way to study a passage in the Bible, this is it! Author Mack Thomas has study questions for every chapter of the Bible that lets you mine the riches of God’s Word.

Teach Me to Pray; Strengthen My Spirit; Grant Me Wisdom; Renew My Heart: These four daily devotionals, containing extracts from Andrew Murray, Charles Spurgeon, Matthew Henry and John Wesley respectively, are treasure chests of inspiration, filled with these classic writer’s faith-infusing, challenging and refreshing words. Each are less than four dollars, and provide a year’s worth of blessings.

These titles above are just a sampling of what Olive Tree has released recently, including devotionals from Frances Roberts, The Way of the Master by Ray Comfort, and more. Like I said before, check out our New Releases section for all the latest products!

-Tim-