Announcement of New Releases
Normally we prefer to keep our planned releases "under wraps" until they are almost ready. However, to allow our users to know what we are working on, and to help them plan their purchases, we do announce some of our upcoming products on this page.
The following new products are now in development:
The Göttingen Septuagint (Vetus Testamentum Graecum: Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum) is a major critical version, comprising multiple volumes published from 1931 to 2006 and not yet complete. Its two critical apparatuses present variant Septuagint readings and variants from other Greek versions.
Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture). The Göttingen Septuagint features two apparatuses (as does the Larger Cambridge Septuagint), the first for LXX/OG textual evidence proper and the second for so-called hexaplaric evidence, i.e. "rival" translations/revisions of the translated LXX/OG (such as circulated under the labels "Theodotion," "Aquila," and "Symmachus"), preserved largely through the influence of Origen's Hexapla. For LXX/OG research the importance of both apparatuses is second only to the critical text itself. (Taken from the discussion on the website of The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies.)
Accordance is pleased to announce the upcoming release of the volumes for the Pentateuch and the book of Ruth, with additional volumes to follow. Each of these modules will include the morphologically tagged text of the Göttingen Septuagint together with the apparatus, introduction, and all accompanying notes.
Planned release date: November 2009
Liddell and Scott: A Greek-English Lexicon
Commonly known as LSJ or the Big Liddell or Great Scott, we are proud to offer the complete Ninth Edition with Revised Supplement from Clarendon Press and Oxford University Press.
Originally compiled and published in 1843 by H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, the Ninth edition was revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones, with the co-operation of many scholars.
Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (9/e 1940) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date ancient Greek dictionary in the world. It is used by every student of ancient Greek in the English-speaking world, and is an essential library and scholarly purchase there and in W. Europe and Japan.
The main dictionary covers every surviving ancient Greek author and text discovered up to 1940, from the Pre-Classical Greek of the 11C - 8C BC (for example Homer and Hesiod), through Classical Greek (7C - 5C BC) to the Hellenistic Period, including the Greek Old and New Testaments. The Revised Supplement (1996) includes the latest discoveries from papyri and inscriptions.
Planned release date: November 2009
On the occasion of the 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, we announced a new series of Rabbinic texts.
The electronic texts are provided by the Primary Textual Witnesses Project (PTWP) of Bar Ilan University, directed by Prof. Shamma Friedman.
The texts are accurate transcriptions of the best available MSS or early printed editions, with versification, but without any morphological tagging. They can be viewed and searched in parallel with other texts to which they act as commentaries, such as the Torah and Mishna.
The Tosefta and the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael are now released and available for download.
Currently in preparation are:
to be followed by the Talmud Bavli.
The Tyndale Commentaries have long been a trusted resource for Bible study. Written by some of the world's most distinguished evangelical scholars, the forty-nine volumes included on this CD-ROM offer clear, reliable and relevant explanations of every book in the Old and New Testaments.
The introduction to each volume is a concise yet thorough description of the authorship, date, and historical background of the book under consideration. The commentary itself examines the text section by section, drawing out its main themes. It also comments on individual verses and deals with problems of interpretation.
The aim throughout is to get at the true meaning of the Bible and to make its message plain to readers today
Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (TOTC)
Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (TNTC)
The set includes 49 volumes with over 12,000 pages and a print value of $773.
Retail price: $260.00
Planned release date: November 2009
Holman NT and OT Commentary Series
Each volume answers the questions students of the Bible ask rather than the ones Bible scholars play with, but are unable to provide clear answers for. An eight-step approach to Bible study grabs the reader's attention, shows the main points of the text, leads verse by verse through the logic of the Bible writer as he taught his original readers, then brings it all home in principles and applications illustrated for the modern reader.
Quotations from the church's important voices, the teaching in a nutshell, and a quick statement of the main point of the text prepares the reader to study.
The eight-point study leads the reader from an introduction with contemporary illustrations, through verse-by-verse commentary, to a conclusion and life application. Deeper discoveries help the reader understand the most important words, phrases, and teaching of each chapter. A teaching outline allows the reader to review what has been read, organize its message, and prepare to share it with others. The 'Final Issues for Discussion' section brings closure to the reader's study.
The 32 volumes in these two series were edited by Max Anders.
Old Testament Volumes:
New Testament Volumes:
Planned release date: December 2009
A new Spanish CD-ROM to replace the now obsolete Compubiblia para Mac is now in preparation. Version 8 of Accordance is already localized to Spanish, but the CD-ROM will offer the following Spanish language resources:
Planned release date: October 2009
The Swedish People's Bible is a contemporary translation of the Bible in Swedish, first published in 1998.
It was produced by conservative Christians who believe the new Bibel 2000 is influenced by liberal theology and higher criticism. The New Testament is a new translation, while the Old Testament is a revision of the official 1917 Swedish Bible.
Planned release date: November 2009
