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NA28 Greek New Testament text in Accordance
The NA28 Greek New Testament is now available for purchase in Accordance Bible Software. The text itself is free here. The Accordance version includes the apparatus, marginalia, and other nice enhancements. Here’s a screencast that shows how you can use the NA28 in Accordance: More about the Nestle-Aland edition is here. Its Accordance product page is here, … Continue reading
Logos 5: Gold package, reviewed (part 2)
Logos 5 has been on the market for a few months now. How is it holding up? I reviewed Logos 5 in several parts when it first came out last fall, looking especially at the Silver package. Those reviews are all compiled here. Since then I’ve been using the Gold base package, which I began … Continue reading
Review of Morris Proctor’s “What’s New?” Manual for Logos 5
Logos 5 does not operate in ways that are drastically different from Logos 4, but there are enough new features and modifications that a “What’s New?” guide for Logos 5 is useful. Morris Proctor is president of MP Seminars, “the authorized trainer” for Logos Bible Software. With the release of Logos 5 in November, MP … Continue reading
How to Read and Understand the Göttingen Septuagint: A Short Primer, part 2 (Apparatus)
The one who is serious about getting at the earliest attainable text of the Hebrew Bible will eventually find herself or himself face-to-face with a page like this: The Göttingen Septuagint is the largest scholarly edition of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Its full title is Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis … Continue reading
Creating your own commentary in Accordance 10 (or just taking notes)
I’ve just this week gotten into a particular feature of Accordance Bible Software: the User Notes. As I’m doing some research and writing in the book of Romans right now, recording and storing my notes in Accordance itself is very easy–and fun. I didn’t write about User Notes when I reviewed Accordance 10. It’s a … Continue reading
Going for the Gold (base package) in Logos 5
It’s been interesting to watch Bible software companies make a final sales push before Christmas–Logos and Accordance seem to have been the most active that I’ve noticed. I’ve compared the “Big Three” Bible softwares here, which is hopefully of help to someone trying to decide which Bible software program is best for her or him. … Continue reading
Works of Richard R. Ottley (3 vols.) in Logos Bible Software
I’ve been using R.R. Ottley’s Book of Isaiah According to the Septuagint as I participate in Greek Isaiah in Year. The two-volume work is available in print through Wipf & Stock here on Amazon. Or you can download the whole thing here for free as a .pdf, since it’s in the public domain. This will be sufficient for many … Continue reading
State of the Blog Address: Why I (continue to) blog
Sure, I picked a strange time to start this blog: just weeks before the birth of our third daughter. But I had good reason(s) to, as I enumerated here. Looking back on that blogging minifesto (you heard that word here first), not much of my reasoning for blogging has changed: It’s a creative outlet for me, a … Continue reading
Vocabulary list for Greek Isaiah (via Accordance 10)
I’ve already gotten some good response to my last post about reading through Greek Isaiah in a year. More on that again soon. For now, to whet all our appetites, I’ve just been able to use Accordance Bible software to generate this list. VOCABULARY IN LXX ISAIAH (Rahlfs) (PDF) It lists all the words in Isaiah, … Continue reading
Which Bible software program should I buy? Comparison of BibleWorks, Accordance, and Logos
Which Bible software program should I buy? It’s an important question for the student of the Bible, especially if she or he is on a limited budget. Having now reviewed BibleWorks 9 (here), Accordance 10 (here) and Logos 4 (here) and now 5 (here), I want to compare the three programs and offer some suggestions … Continue reading
