Laridian has released four new devotional titles from the Tyndale Publishing House One Year Series for use with PocketBible. The four titles are:

• One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar – Popular author and motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar, offers his personal insights on what the Bible says about living every day for God.
• One Year Love Language Minute Devotional – Relationship expert, Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the New York Times best seller The Five Love Languages, shows you how to effectively communicate love in a genuine, thoughtful way every day through Scripture, an insightful message and prayer.
• One Year Through the Bible Devotional – guides you through reading the entire Bible in one year.
• One Year Wonder of the Cross Devotional – Delve into Acts, Revelation, and the New Testament letters to discover what you can learn from the radical commitment of the earliest Christians.

Each volume contains 365 daily devotionals/readings. These new One Year devotionals sell for $9.99 each and are available for use with PocketBible for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Windows PC, and Windows Mobile.

Laridian has released the Dictionary of New Testament Background for use with PocketBible. The Dictionary of New Testament Background offers a wealth of Jewish and Greco-Roman background to enhance your reading and understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity. The dictionary offers:

• Articles that take full advantage of the flourishing study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and focus on the most important scrolls.
• Information that encompasses the fullness of second-temple Jewish writings, whether pseudepigraphic, rabbinic, parables, proverbs, histories or inscriptions.
• Articles on aspects of Jewish life and thought, including family, purity, liturgy and messianism.
• Covers the full scope of Greco-Roman culture with articles ranging across language and rhetoric, literacy and book culture, religion and cults, honor and shame, patronage and benefactors, travel and trade, intellectual movements and ideas, and ancient geographical perspectives.

Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, this wealth of knowledge of the New Testament era is carefully aimed at the needs of contemporary students of the New Testament.

The InterVarsity Press Dictionary of New Testament Background sells for $39.99 and is available for use with PocketBible for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Windows PC, and Windows Mobile.

Laridian has released Ryken’s Bible Handbook for use with MyBible and PocketBible. Ryken’s Bible Handbook gives you a quick overview of every book in the Bible. Author Leland Ryken’s distinctive trait is a literary approach to the Bible—understanding the Bible as literature. Ryken and the book’s two other authors help shed light on understanding the Bible as the inspired Word of God and as literature by looking at the Bible’s different literary genres: poetry, narrative, wisdom literature, story, parables, and more.

If you are wondering how this approach could help you understand and/or explain the Bible to others, here are links to three interesting and informative reviews of the book:

• Fundamentally Reformed Blog Review
• Blogging Theologically Review
• A Christian’s Deliberations Blog Review

Ryken’s Bible Handbook sells for $14.99 and is available for use with PocketBible for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Windows PC, and Windows Mobile and MyBible for Palm OS.

Laridian has released the 2011 edition of the New International Version (NIV) Bible. This new edition is the first update to the best-selling NIV Bible in 25 years. While this update reflects developments in biblical scholarship and changes in English usage, about 95% of the text has remained the same. For details on the reasons and the people behind the update, visit the official site of the Committee on Bible Translation (the scholars responsible for overseeing the NIV text).

The PocketBible version of the NIV 2011 is available for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, webOS, Android, Windows PC and Windows Mobile. The updated NIV is available at a new lower price of only $9.99.

Laridian has released the Dictionary of Bible Themes for use with MyBible and PocketBible. The Dictionary of Bible Themes starts with 9 key themes or topics of the Bible and breaks them down into 1,400 topics and 80,000 sub-topics with links to over 80,000 cross-references in the Bible. The 9 topics are God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Creation, Humanity, Sin and Salvation, God’s People, the Life of the Believer and Last Things.

The Dictionary of Bible Themes does not provide definitions but rather leads you to verses that provide information on the topics and sub-topics so you are finding out what God’s Word says on these themes. These may be verses that would not show up if you did a search on a specific word. For example, if you wanted to explore Jesus’ humanity it would be hard to find the right verses by searching in PocketBible for that phrase. That’s where the dictionary comes in because you can look for the topic of Jesus’ humanity to find the verses that explain this.

The Dictionary of Bible Themes is like a systematic theology in that it covers major themes of the Bible. It can also be compared to Naves Topical Bible because it categorizes the verses in the Bible by topic.

The Dictionary of Bible Themes is actually two books in one. In addition to the alphabetical index described above, a Scripture index is a PocketBible commentary that works alongside your Bible as you read, giving you links to the themes that are related to each verse in the Bible. Approximately 40,000 passages provide over 100,000 links into the Dictionary of Bible Themes.

The Dictionary of Bible Themes sells for $14.99 and is available for use with PocketBible for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Windows PC, and Windows Mobile and MyBible for Palm OS.

Laridian has released the Personal Promise Bible for use with PocketBible. This new product is available in two translations:

• King James Version
• World English Bible

The Personal Promise Bible is a unique product which takes your first name, last name and spouse’s name (if married) and inserts it in over 7,000 places throughout the Old and New Testaments, giving each promise new life and significance for you personally. As the name implies, the idea is to help you comprehend God’s promises in a more personal way.

Each translation of The Personal Promise Bible sells for $24.99 and is available for use with PocketBible for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Windows PC, and Windows Mobile.

Laridian has released two additional volumes in the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary Series:

• 1& 2 Corinthians, Volume 15
• 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus and Hebrews, Volume 17

When complete the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary Series will cover the entire Bible in 18 volumes. Laridian has released ten of the eighteen volumes to date.

The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary Series is the product of nearly 40 scholars, many of whom participated in the creation of the New Living Translation (NLT). The contributors to this series, who are well-known and represent a wide spectrum of theological positions within the evangelical community, have built each volume to help pastors, teachers, and students of the Bible understand every thought contained in the Bible. In short, this will be one of the premier resources for those seeking an accessible but fairly high-level discussion of scriptural interpretation. Notes are included for each verse and fresh exegetical commentary is provided for each section of the passages.

The volumes retail for $19.99 each and are available for PocketBible on the platforms indicated.

1 & 2 Corinthians: Windows Mobile | Windows PC | iPhone/iPod touch/iPad

1 & 2 Timothy, Titus and Hebrews: Windows Mobile | Windows PC | iPhone/iPod touch/iPad

Laridian Book of Classic Hymns is a collection of over 2000 lyrics to classic Christian hymns. Hymns such as Luther’s A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, Charles Wesley’s And Can It Be, that I Should Gain?, and Issac Watt’s When I Survey the Wonderous Cross are but a few examples of the rich lyrics, filled with Biblical truths, that you will find within the text.

Each hymn includes relevant information such as author and date written (when known) and referenced or related Scripture verses. And, with PocketBible/MyBible you get the convenience of full text searches to find exactly what you are looking for.

Laridian Book of Classic Hymns is a great and useful tool to memorize, meditate on and sing the classic hymns to the glory of God.

Laridian Book of Classic Hymns retails for $12.99 and is available for the following platforms:

Windows Mobile | Windows PC | iPhone/iPod touch/iPad | Palm OS

In a day when words don’t seem to mean much, the need for precision in Christian doctrine and practice has never been more critical. The purpose of this daily reading/devotional book is to share the richness of some of the Greek words used in the New Testament and help make them practical in the reader’s Christian living.

Each daily entry in A Word for the Day examines the nuances of a particular New Testament Greek word. All of the Greek is transliterated (written phonetically in English letters) so you don’t have to know how to read Greek to make use of it.

In addition to entries for each day there’s also a complete index of all the Greek words, English translations, and Strong’s numbers referenced in each reading. (For ease of reference, these additional indexes appear as “readings” at the end of the year.)

A Word for the Day retails for $14.99 and is available for the following platforms:

Windows Mobile  |  Windows PC  |  iPhone/iPod touch/iPad