Nave's Topical Bible

Public Domain -- Copy Freely

Nave's Topics were originaly produced by Orville J. Nave, A.M., D.D.,

LL.D. while serving as a Chaplin in the United States Army. He referred

to this work as "the result of fourteen years of delightful and untiring

study of the Word of God." Nave's topics were originally published in

the early 1900's, and a photo-offset reproduction is currently published

by Hendrickson, ISBN 0-917006-02-X. The title page states that this

work consists of 20,000+ topics and subtopics, and 100,000 references to

the Scriptures.

These topics were created from an existing electronic copy which was

being sold commercially and contained so many errors as to render it

nearly useless. After contacting the business in question, and

discussing the copyrightability of Public Domain material, they

concurred that the actual data, seperate from the program and format

they created, is Public Domain. The text has since been passed through

a series of programs searching for a variety of error patterns, as well

as visual spot checking. It is believed the present material is greater

than 99% clean, although a printed copy should be consulted if questions

arise. Great care was taken to remove any non-original material,

resulting in completely Public Domain data original to Dr. Nave.

The current format has been designed for programatic reference, placing

50 topics in a file, preceeding each topic with $$topic_number,

surrounding the topic name with back-slashes, beginning each list of

verse references with a # pound character, and terminating with a |

vertical bar. References to other topics are prefixed with a ¯ (ascii

175) double arrow followed by the topic number. It should be noted that

it is possible to have the topic prefix followed by "(n/a)". This is

due to a very small number of topic references which were unable to be

resolved. These topics are:

flail, forsaking God, gifts, gnat, implements, mathematics, messianic

psalms, purse, proselytes, rhetoric, saffron, schism.

These topics are not listed in the printed edition and it is not

apparent what Dr. Nave intended. It should also be noted that a fair

number of verse reference lists have the word "with" imbedded in order

to tie one verse to the following verse(s).

The most current and correct copies of these files can be obtained from

the following. If any errors are located, please ensure you have the

latest files, and if so, we would appreciate being informed of the

error.

Bible Foundation, http://www.bf.org

Or by contacting:

Mark Fuller

1129 East Loyola Drive

Tempe, Arizona, 85282

602-829-8542 (voice)