Anders Gerdmar, ThD and Assoc Prof of New Testament Exegesis, Uppsala, Sweden

Is there a way to view a module in Reading Mode while changing the module's preferences to appear like the night mode in iOS?

I started using Accordance to project the text onto a whiteboard in Bible class and with my lighting situation, a black background and white text is ideal. But I like how Reading Mode displays minimal interface.

Where did you get all of those fonts? I'm using Accordance 10.1.6, and all of those fonts beginning with the letter "o" do not appear in my list.

Joe

Was wondering about ETAs for the remaining few volumens on Judges, Job, Acts and 1 Cor.

Thanks

I'm sure this is very easy to do, but I can't figure it out and I haven't found the answer yet in the instructions. If there is a simple way, please let me know! 

Thanks, 

PT

tks

Thanks for these mini-tutorials.  I am finding them very helpful in learning how to use Accordance more effectively.

As for the history of Accordance, Accordance was first released in 1994, not 1989. OakTree Software released The Perfect Word in 1989, which eventually was purchased by Zondervan and rebranded as MacBible, so we essentially started over with Accordance.

When it comes to why some resources are available and others not, each developer sets priorities differently, has varying degrees of success establishing relationships with specific publishers, is willing to accept terms the others may not be willing to accept, etc. While Accordance may lack resources other developers offer, we also offer many resources those developers lack, and we're adding more all the time.

Hope this helps.

thank you for all your helpful posts in this series so far. However, this time I wonder whether I missed some initial setup, since the option for "Workspaces" does not show up in my Accordance settings at all:

Greetings

Daniel

I'm a new Accordance user, having switched over from Logos, who is throughly pleased with Accordance's design (its focus on the Holy Bible), speed (very fast in opening my modules), and capablities. Thanks for your blog which offers some insightful tips in utilizing Accordance more effectively.

Anyway, I'm really writing to make a requests for the following e-books that I find, disappointingly, to be missing from Accordance's offerings. I don't know where to pose the request or to who, so here is what I really would LIKE TO HAVE OFFERED:

Hebrew Studies:

• Botterweck's “Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (FULL 15 Vols.)”;

• Girdlestone's “Girdlestone Synonyms of the Old Testament”;

• Holladay's “Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament”;

• Merwe's “Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar”;

• Rosenthal's “A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic”;

• Singer's The Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols.).

Greek Studies:

• Balz's “Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (3 vols.)”;

• Cremer's “Biblio-Theological Lexicon of the New Testament”;

• Lampe's “A Patristic Greek Lexicon”;

• Moulton/Howard/Turner's “A Grammar of the New Testament (5 vols.);

• Muraoka's “A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint”;

• Thackeray's “A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek”;

• Zodhiates' “The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament”.

P.S. I don't understand: how come Accordance has been around since 1989 but Logos since 1992 and yet Logos offers many more modules (e-books) than Accordance? For instance: they offer all my requests (except for Botterweck, Lampe, and Muraoka) albeit Logos 5 is much SLOWERRRRRRRR than Accordance.

Sincerely, Tom.

Thanks for this; it is so true and so helpful. I do hope that lots of users who are considering learning Hebrew see it. I know very little Hebrew but the little I know l learnt from this book. I had recommneded several times on the Forums but with no response. That could be for many reasons! But I felt a little embarrassed that I was recomending such a 'simple' book which might be somewhat frowned upon by the real scholars! I am delighted to see that there is now an Accordance version and that you are highly recommending it. Thanks again,

Kevin.

Well done in the Training Seminar! It was clear. Helpful. Practical. Engaging. Even after 8 hours, it made me want to stick around and learn some more from you. Thank you for serving the body of Christ by traveling & thanks to your family for giving you the flexibilty to go.  

I think schools should move in this direction.  

Josh Ketchum

Follow the steps described above, and if you want the results to be permanent, create a new user highlight style for Greek and Hebrew.  Then, run your search, open the highlights window, and hold shift while you click your highlight style. Bingo - all of the unfamiliar vocab is automatically highlighted each time you open your text.

I've even found a shortcut to turn Accordance into a "readers" Bible for Hebrew or Greek students.  This is especially helpful for Hebrew studies, as the vocabulary is astronomically high compared to the GNT.  Here it goes:

Say you only know the Hebrew words that occur more than 100x.  You want to stay in the Hebrew text and read it, but are discouraged by the sheer number of words you don't know.  Enter this formula into the search bar: [COUNT 1-100] <AND> [RANGE ____]. Enter in any OT book after RANGE.  

Accordance will now hit all of the Hebrew words that you shouldn't know.  What's helpful about this is that it won't show you what the words mean, so you can still sight read and learn new vocabulary without feeling like you're cheating yourself.

In this way, the value of Accordance is amplified [Pun intended!]. No need to buy a Reader's Greek or Hebrew Bible, and it's fully customizable to your own vocabulary needs.

One other thing - textual criticism is also easier with Accordance.  Although you still need to be aware of textual critcism principles [as you still need to know grammar with the languages to prevent fallacious reasoning], because you can hover over the MSS and instantly know what abbreviations are, you're that much more encouraged to use it.

What I did for my class translation assignments was to print out the text of our assignment with wide spacing between lines, and using just a lexicon or two and a pencil, would parse the whole thing, use Accordance to check my parsing, then, finally, translate.  The Mounce Analytical Lexicon was particularly useful here, because the verb parts are right up front.  This process served me very well.

If I came across one of those really tricky verbs, I'd work at it for at least 20 minutes before going to Accordance parsing for help.  That didn't happen very often, but it did happen!

I greatly enjoy your blogs and read them all.  Thanks.

I must admit I'm constantly amazed (and unfortunately confused!!) by the searching in Accordance. So thank's for these posts they do help me to understand the type of things that can be done. 

A couple comments...I'm very impressed that Accordance identified those geminite forms which appear "apocopated" or shortened. Some geminites appear with both double consonants, while others "drop" the second of the doubled consonants. Accordance caught them all!

Secondly, I had a to take a different route to set the parameter of a search for a VERB. I went to the SEARCH menu, then the ENTER TAG submenu, then selected VERB.

Great work on these posts. It's these kinds of tips that demonstrate actually searches that are most helpful to me.

Brad

A couple comments...I'm very impressed that Accordance identified those geminite forms which appear "apocopated" or shortened. Some geminites appear with both double consonants, while others "drop" the second of the doubled consonants. Accordance caught them all!

Secondly, I had a to take a different route to set the parameter of a search for a VERB. I went to the SEARCH menu, then the ENTER TAG submenu, then selected VERB.

Great work on these posts. It's these kinds of tips that demonstrate actually searches that are most helpful to me.

Brad

http://jpnee.blogspot.com/2013/02/an-interview-with-daniel-r-streett.html

Great to know that there are experts like you to help guide us in the use of these great tools!

Kevin.

Thanks for the tips.  It helps us use this awesome - but at times almost overwhleming - tool.

In Christ,

Bret

We can certainly consider such a change if enough of you request it.

Thank you again,

Kevin.

Is it possible to name a tab with a Greek word (if it's a list of search results on that word, for example)?

I wonder what your Sunday school participants "took away" on a practical level--not only for their own development of digging deeper within the whole of God's counsel, but also allowing this richer understanding to be used in their lives personally during Advent?  

It's amazing to think how God never neglects human suffering as part of the equsation for those who hope. Most of the book of Revelation creates an immense hope that both the Spirit and the Bride cry: "Come... Lord Jesus." (Rev 22.17&20)

I just got through reading the plot of the Grinch that Stole Christmas. Cute, but hardly getting at the essence of what the birth of Christ is all about. As much as I don't like the story of Herod's infanticide at Bethlehem, it was a Matthew's warning to all Christ's followers that we are to be constantly aware that political systems usually are opposed to God's will; and their "left hand [often doesn't] know what their right hand" does. (cp 1Cor 2.8) I love how our culture uses Christmas to celebrate (the birth of the Messiah) and that families meet to reunite and recollect all they mean to one another. This is a gift from God. But for us to miss (or neglect) the reality that Christ's birth was an assult on the kingdoms of this world, is to miss the entire point of Christmas. 

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Views-Rapture-Pretribulation-Posttribulation/dp/0310277205/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pdT1_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1CZSM4A6QVKPN&coliid=IKUMJIMP297G2

Thanks for this particular blog. Appreciate seeing all the New Releases so condensely shown as you have now done,

@Dustin - Dr. Rex Koivisto of Multnomah University is doing the diagramming. He also does the morph tagging for the majority of our Greek texts.

However, I do see that someone could use this inappropriately by going to these diagrams first before wrestling with the text.  But that is also true of commentaries - they make good conversation partners but are dangerous if they supplant the text itself.

For those with smaller screens, try dragging one of them below the other instead of beside it.

How does one swap between workspaces when they don't have a saved name?  Is there some command/keyboard shortcut?  At the moment I just reduce the size of the workspace to click the normally hiden workspace. 

I have taken the same approach with workspaces that you have outlined. As you have identified, I think the look and feel of Accordance 10, the more complete integration of the zones, the more intuitive approach that 10 takes when opening modules, the flexibility to adjust your personal look and feel, and the ease of use, all lead you to a place where having seperate workspaces becomes self evident. 

I started using multiple, dedicated workspaces prior to 10 (I think I started with 8 or definitely 9), but I have found them far more powerful and usable with 10.

It is such a blessing having Accordance as a tool to study the Scriptures, and as I have shared with people for over 10 years now, Accordance is a good enough application that will justify the purchase of a Mac computer (if anyone is looking for an excuse).

Accordance 10 continues to validate that statement as the premier application for Bible Study - IMHO.

Keep up the great work, and thank you to all the Accordance team.

Glad to be getting your posts again.  I didn't realize that Mountian Lion did away with RSS in Mac Mail and I wasn't getting your feed!  Using the email method now.

Thanks again for the great tips.

Once again thank you for a clear and easy to follow teaching.

Gratefully,

Kevin.

Thanks,

Moises

Kevin.

Do you have any news on whether or not you're going to release "Theology Dictionary of the Old Testament" (Full Ed.) in the future? I would really enjoy doing similar word studies using this dictionary.

Thanks, James.

I would just like to request that you PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE consider improving the Timeline, graphs, & charts to look more like iWorks' (PLEASE!!!!). Otherwise, this is the Bible program I'm going to be using for years (GOD-willling) to come!!!!

THANK YOU!

I saw the book concerning translation on Amazon only for 5,62 in Kindle format. 

As your price is three times about more, what value do you add that worth to buy your module and not buy the kindle version ?

Thanks for any answer.

Word Biblical Commentary Set

Soon meaning less than years?

Thx.

Blessings,

-tim

Great work, gang.  Wonderful.

The scroll bars only appear on the popover Instant Details, and only when needed. Its contents do not change when you move the mouse. You access this with an option-click or a click-and hold on a word.

The detached and floating Instant Details does not have scrollbars since you can resize it. You freeze the contents by pressing shift. It behaves very much like the old Instant Details used to.

Paul

If you want your search to always default to just the verse you are looking for without the context, go to your Accordance preferences, select "Search Tabs", and uncheck "Add automatic context".

Hope this helps. :)

Though, the Toolbar is cool as well as the Unified Window, Library is definitely improved (Categories, Book covers, text info.), & Images & Reading mode, which I'm starting to use often. :-)

I agree. Honey could have this background color: 48, 19 100. (HSB Slider mode). And Elegance could have Apple Chancery font. Still not the easiest to read, but better. Vintage theme with Georgia font, 20% line spacing is excellent theme.

I didn't even realize that the search button was missing. :) Thanks for clarifying what the grayness is.

Drew

I can't imagine ever using honey or elegance. Honey is hard to look at and elegance is hard to read. 

OakTree:

The integrated window is definitely a move in the RIGHT DIRECTION and I thank you for that.

However, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, I am still disappointed w/the UI interface: perfect examples of what would be exceedingly pleasing are Bare Bones' Yojimbo app &/or Chronos' SOHO Notes.

Updating the following would make Acc. and absolute pleasure to USE AND actually ENJOY: 3D looking Toolbar with 3D colored-icons, 3D Analysis charts and graphs (think iWork), 3D looking buttons (examples: Vs, Ch, Bk; Art; AA; L), Timeline app (horrible), 3D syntax trees, highlighters (in User Notes), and Diagrams (are you kidding!). You've started in the right direction but the UI interface work (for a modern Mac app) is indeed needing.

Lee.

The idea of themes is great, but it would be even greater if it was possible for users to create/edit their own themes. Accordance 10 feels like a jump forward in interface design, but it still not fully modern. A further step in this direction would be to use non-modal inspector palettes to replace modal dialogs here and elsewhere.

But the goal would be to let users set up (and even share) favorite themes, and then to be able to easily re-use them. That's really only possible with built-in themes now.

Absolutely. All your current modules will work in Accordance 10 along with any new modules you pick up in an Accordance 10 Collection.

We all look forward to the next leap forward.  I personally do not use the Atlas mainly because the navigation is so poor.  Please, oh! please add azoom scroll based on the mouse wheel of pinch movement and a pan based on a click and hold mouse scroll wheel and an appropriate hand gesture.  Not being able to easily navigate a map is utterly frustrating.  

Thanks again for all the great work.

Wouldn't it be nice if I could simply do that in the same window, without knowing exact syntax? Because current search commands are powerful, but I have to use manual to run them. The same CONTENTS command doesn't work if you don't add <AND> after it. It would be nice if any novice could use these features without knowing syntax, just graphically selecting options.

Hmmmm. It sure would be nice.

You can already do this. Simply open another window, and search using the search command "CONTENTS" of the window with your search results. For more information, check the manual for the search command "CONTENTS" or ask around in the forum.

Wouldn't it be nice if all this was available in a "point release" for Accordance? Wouldn't it be nice if that new release was available today? :)

Wouldn't it be nice if Accordance synced my viewing preferences, workspaces, and modules across multiple Macs?

Wouldn't it be nice if you could browse the Accordance store from within the app?

Wouldn't it be nice if Accordance had a full-screen mode?

Wouldn't it be nice if Accordance ditched floating palets altogether?

Wouldn't it be nice if Accordance could sync my user notes to iOS devices automatically instead of relying on local wifi sync?

Thanks for the teasers. Now mine: "sooner."

Are there any plans on offering-releasing Bottlerweck's TDOT for Accordance in the future? Would really appreciate the unabridged modal.

Jason.

I'm not sure if my last attempt at posting got through, so I'll try again.

You have reduced BDAG to $119.99 and HALOT to $139.99, which if you bought them together comes to $259.99. But your combo offer on these is priced at $299.99 (tagged with “Save with theBDAG/HALOT Bundle”) which is a little contradictory. 

Perhaps it is a little cheeky of me to ask, but could a similar effort be made on this bundle to reintroduce a real saving? As an example, a competitor software product has the same bundle at $212.

Thanks

I also found that if I modify my text query in the first tab, then hit enter, Accordance automatically switches to the second tab with the infer command which updated automatically. 

I appreciate being informed today about the INFER command. Thank you!

Thank you for these posts, the are invaluable to me.

For the others, the word "dont" does not occur in their text and any search with words that do not exist would return no hits.  E.g. "zzzz" <OR> "do not fear" on any resource that hasn't got a word "zzzz" will somehow return no hits.

Not sure what the story with the other two translations is, have you reached the limit?  Accordance Help says that "Up to 50 verses of a text, or 50 paragraphs of a tool are displayed" on the Right Pane. :)

The ' in don't is blocking the other translations.

'Be not afraid' 

— no chance to find it with the search you tried.

Thanks.

PEACE
Kerry 

There are several post on this on our forums, for example:

http://www.accordancebible.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6728

http://www.accordancebible.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6202

1) You're welcome.

2) I wondered if any one would catch that reference. Go Noles, Indeed. :-)

2)  Landis green huh?  Go NOLES!  

Peace, Kerry

Peace, Kerry

Assuming it shows up the same on your screen, it looks like this:

‎מִקְדָּשׁ

As for being able to copy from the window, you couldn't copy from the first iteration of the revamped Search All window, but that has been fixed in recent updates. Try it!

As for the marker boxes in each section, you place the characters you want BEFORE each part of the citation in the first box, and the characters you want AFTER it in the second box. For example, to place quotation marks before and after the citation, you would put one quotation mark in each box of the Content section. To have the citation reference enclosed in parentheses, put an open quote in the first box and a close quote in the second.

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I have found that saying, "Let's have family devotions" is bit like saying, "Let's give the cat a bath!"  Easier said...

Congratulations on securing "official" approval from Apple!

Maybe I can re-frame my question this way: Why is it important that Accordance return to the top of the text when doing a search for all verses (i.e. double-clicking the Verses button)? Why not stay at the current marker? It seems arbitrary to me that you would assume the user wants to leave their current position. It's particularly frustrating when reading the NT in Greek/English parallel, when double-clicking takes you back to Genesis and hence a half-blank window.

The context slider is designed to make it easy to do a search, scroll through the hits until you find a verse you want to explore in context, then drag the slider to get the context. Want to go back to exploring other search hits? Remove the context and scroll the list of hits again.

If you are merely doing a search so that you can find a given passage to read, and it bothers you to begin reading with the search results still highlighted, just select the reference of the verse you want to read in context and click the Context button on the Resource palette. That will open a separate text window showing that verse in context with no search results.

Hope this helps.

A more relevant issue, perhaps, is that it is very easy to go back to viewing the whole text. It is more cumbersome to "zoom" in and out in terms of context. Double-click in the right spot and and wham! you've got your search cleared. Oh, you want to see the whole text? OK, mouse over there, click disclosure triangle here, slide this over there. OK, context set. 

Now I want to search again, so back to the context slider... OK, set context back to where I need it. Now search.  And on and on.  Wish it was easier.

That's the way I've been doing it for years, but I've always found it cumbersome. Way too many steps, but the "pay off" still merited it.

Now it's just: shift asterisk key shift command A key, and shift command R key then type in passage I'm studying. Fantastic. What a gem and time saver. 

Thanks so much! 

Hope this helps.

I've been to training seminars in the past where the focus of the training was "Here is what this button does & here is what this button does & ....".   

Instead, you all started with a real question every pastor/student of the Bible would ask & then went to Accordance to show us the ways the software could help us answer that question.  Very helpful.  I not only learned a few things about Accordance; I learned a few things about the Bible.  Thank you.  

⁴For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

 ⁵Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

 ⁶Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

 ⁷Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

Would not this wallof partition that existed in Jesus day made Isaiah 56:4-7 impossible?

Some cross references that come to mind:Lucifer for he shines as a minister (messenger) of light; also, many passages that descibe God/Jesus as light. 

If we stay even in God's shadow, we are in a light that outshines all of God's "illuminators" (Heb 1.13-14 comes to mind).

Thank you Accordance team for your "quiet perseverance" in your commitment to helping me to become a person who "more accurately handle the word of truth." Now pray for me to live it!

Peace,

Kerry

I'll gladly waiting to see what you-all have come up with for the need that I have for visual stimulation.

Cheers.

However, my only complaint is that it doesn't look like a real modern-Mac app (21st century), i.e., the UI has a very plain 2D face; whereas, other apps that I'm using are far more 3D looking animated face- very pleasant to use & look at.      Example: Accordance's graphs (including the Construct Window); interface icons (though the icons in the Resource Palette are modernly pleasant to look at, but not A.'s actual interface icons); & even Timeline uses a 2D construct to show distances of time.

P.S. Though I have to admit: Bibleworks is a great program for what it does & for what it offers, but now using a Mac, its Windows UI pales in comparison to Accordance's - I'm glad I switched; just would like to see the same interface but updated with a 3D flowing, animated face.

All this said, I urge Accordance to stay the course on their standards. It is one of the things that makes Accordance stand out of the pack!

There are LOTS of answers to this question, but a tagged text is the quickest way to demonstrate to someone the advantage of Bible software. This is the kind of functionality that I don't believe we'll ever see on the Kindle or other mainstream ebook platforms.

Everyone who owns Accordance is spoiled.  Thank you for all the resources you offer and for the increasing number of them.  I am not a scholar, an academic, or a preacher.  Accordance, however, makes it possible for me to not only get answers to my own questions, but also to have more to offer our Sunday school students.  Thanks, thanks, thanks to all of you.  (And thanks for the blog, too!)

We do try to price our products competitively, but I realize that we won't be able to meet everyone's needs. We are not trying to compete on the same level as an e-bookstore or free Bible software programs. Our developers spend a considerable amount of time adding multiple search layers and advanced tagging to our resources. As a result, Accordance modules offer much more functionality than a simple ebook, and they are priced to reflect the amount of time and resources that went into creating them.

If you are looking for lower-priced options, it doesn't get any better than free, and we do offer a free app for the iPone and iPad that includes a tagged ESV Bible and many other free resources. We also offer a free trial of our Mac program at http://accordancebible.com/trial. I hope you'll give us further consideration, and wish you all the best in your studies.

You *have* read the Scriptures, haven't you Rod?

You know... the parts where it says "The laborer is worthy of his wages" and "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." 

I honestly don't know what the Accordance folks would say to something like this... but rather than accuse them of greed, why don't you ask them if they have a way of working with you on purchasing the product?

Since you're looking at Accordance, it's probably safe to assume you're a Mac user already. And if you compare the price of Accordance to that of their familiar competition... I think it's *very* reasonably priced for a comparable package.

It just seems very unnecessary, and mean, to say what you've said. I hope you get things figured out.

i was explaining to someone yesterday how much i liked the translation (print edition) but found the bullet dots annoying when reading the text...

One can only conclude that Biblica does not want us to be able to make easy comparisons of these three versions!

Biblica, please reverse this decision of yours.

The example in your most recent comment doesn't advance your case, unfortunately. I serve in the denomination where Darrell Johnson is the senior pastor of the flagship church. I would characterize this denomination as mainline with Evangelical pockets. In my seminary preaching class this past semester, at the denominational theology school we used Craddock and Buttrick as course texts. Not Johnson nor MacArthur nor Robinson!

Moreover, Darrell Johnson joined Regent College after serving 30 years in the PCUSA, and took his MDiv at Fuller - hardly a bastion of conservatism.

Finally, have you read The Glory of Preaching? I have, and see nothing in it particular to conservative Christianity. 

Regards,

Mark@DR

Blessings,

Mark@DR

While I can't speak about the specific resources you mention, I can vouch that we are pursuing licenses that reflect the breadth of diversity in our user base.

In regards to the blog where I mentioned NICOT/NICNT as my favorite commentary, I was speaking from a first person perspective, which I typically do in blog posts. Others on our staff might claim a more critical commentary as their go-to resource, so I certainly didn't mean to speak for the entire Accordance team, and I apologize if it came off as such. I'm actually a bit of a commentary junkie, so in addition to the NICOT/NICNT, I typically check Word Biblical Commentary, Hermeneia, and The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture if I'm feeling especially adventurous :)

I appreciate your willingness, and the willingness of everyone at Accordance – including the users – to be sensitive to "Jewish users and Christian users of every theological stripe." I apologize for voicing my frustration in a way that wasn't helpful.

For what it's worth, I wasn't referring to this blog post in particular, but to other things I've noticed. (I didn't make that clear in my original comment.)

For example, in your blog post "What is the Glory of Preaching?" you note that you "e-mailed [the] VP of Licensing and asked him to license [The Glory of Preaching] for Accordance." Any chance you'll do the same for Willimon's The Witness of Preaching or Craddock's Preaching?

Likewise, Darin wrote earlier this month about how NICOT/NICNT is his favorite commentary series without any comment at all about the fact that it is a fairly conservative series overall and that other, more progressive, series written in a similar vein (e.g., The Old Testament Library/The New Testament Library) aren't available in Accordance.

Thus, while folks from "every theological stripe" might be using Accordance, I haven't seen content from them here on the blog in quite some time, if ever. Just an observation of at least the recent content posted here, that's all.

With respect to this blog post, I asked for readers to share their own experiences and I did not limit the invitation to conservative evangelicals, so all "progressive/liberal Christian and Jewish users of Accordance" needed to do in order to have their voices "featured" was to post a comment. You did that, but instead of gently offering another perspective, you chose to voice your annoyance with the perspectives of others. As you yourself wrote in a recent blog post, you need to view these people not as "enemies" but as "conversation partners."

Yes, if all the assumptions you're making - that the author of Matthew wasn't being ironic, that Jesus actually said those words, and that the only meaning the scriptures can hold is contained by exegeting Greek words in a modernistic fashion - are correct, then, yes, I guess you're right.

However, Jürgen Moltmann and many, many others have interpreted that passage in the same way your pastor did. But, clearly, since you have some Greek tools in Accordance, you've got it right, and all those other scholars and theologians must be wrong.

Thank God the Pharisees didn't have iPhones. They probably would have picked apart Jesus every time he "misquoted" the scriptures to them, too.

I use Accordance every day, and I've mostly enjoyed perusing the forums and reading the blog, but the conservative (and Christian) bias is really, really annoying. There are progressive/liberal Christian and Jewish users of Accordance, too. How about featuring their voices, at least on occasion?

Therefore, Israel, love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and all your soul and all of your very self. For the fear of YHWH is the beginning of wisdom, and for man to keep his commandments is everything. Let all who love the Elohim of Israel search for him with all their heart, for they shall seek and find him.

Fortunately, I have a good relationship with the writer, and he's always very open to correction.

I had a strong hunch that this interpretation was incorrect. When the meeting was adjourned, I grabbed my MacBook and opened Accordance. I quickly determined that the word he thought was aion (a noun) was actually the adjective, aionios. At the same time, I also discovered that the word he thought was a verb, kolazo, was actually the noun, kolasis. In a matter of minutes, with the power Accordance software and fabulous Greek texts (GNT-T) and tools (NIDNTT, L&N, BDAG, etc.), I was able to show that kolasis didn't come from horticulture but was common in "sacral jurisprudence" (NIDNTT) and that aionios describes something without beginning, without ending, or neither. In other words, eis kolasin aionion (and not "an aion of kolazo") truly means "eternal punishment." Though these were pointed out, the preacher, undeterred, included his interpretation unamended and unedited in his latest published book. 

And that is no longer my church. :)

Thank you for recommending this book and for making it available in Accordance. Upon reading your blog I purchased this book. I rarely make purchases this way. I finished the first chapter this morning and my, what a blessing! I look forward to finishing it soon.

Thank you so much,

Don

With respect to the search for "Lord" also getting hits of <i>adonai</i>, once again you're right. However, since my Analysis graph by Key number rather than by English word, the presence of <i>adonai</i> didn't pad the results for <i>YHWH</i>. It would have done so in the graph of the English words "Lord" and "God," though.

Also, as your chart at the bottom of the image shows, I'd also be concerned that a search for the English word Lord would result in hits pertaining to adonai as well as YHWH. 

So would a better search be  [KEY H3068] <OR> [KEY H0430] <OR> [KEY H0136] limited to the Psalms?

Again, I realize this is family devotion time :-)

Kerry

Please check again :) Check to make sure any full sets you find include at least 40 volumes (ours includes 43) and includes both the NICNT (red covers) and NICOT (green covers). Personally, I can't find a lower price than ours, even in paper books.  Admittedly, I haven't scoured the depths of Craigslist yet, so some enterprising youth might be able to find an unbelievable deal that has eluded me.

Clicked on the Google link you provided. I looked at the second link (which was Logos). Are they selling the entire set for $700? Is Accordance set (for $1100) different in numer of volumes, or new editions? If not, is the cost difference (+35%) due to the superiority of Accordance formatting and links?

I am probably missing something, but the cost seems like quite a premium. 

Tom

Since the links don't (won't?) exist to the Church Fathers, is there an easy method to get from these modules to the church fathers? For instance, at 22 seconds in the video there is a reference to ambrose, athansius, etc. Could I highlight that and amplify to the church fathers to take me to the reference?

Michael: Thanks; glad you liked it.

How do you get that to work?

The new DVD lectures are like having a personal Greek tutor at your side. It's all extremely good value for money, in fact, if you want to learn Greek, priceless!

Your Mounce's "DVD" offering is a bit expensive, esp. when one could go to Amazon and purchase the three books and save $61.53:

Mounce's: “Greek for the Rest of Us” is listed at $25/$16.24 @ Amazon; Expository Dictionary: $30/$19.89 @ Amazon; Interlinear: $50/$31.29 @ Amazon.

$105 listed /Amazon: $67.47(savings off Accordance's offering: $150/right now: $130: $61.53...expensive "DVD"!)

Is there a possibility for a Hebrew version as well?

Thanks,

Rick

Is that an omission or licensing issue?

Or am I too much of a boofhead to figure it out?

Thanks!

Thinking I may just do this with an iPhone app though...

However, if you look at those remarks for the NICNT and NICOT, those volumes generally rank #1-3 which is excellent.  So for those two I would make the exception, but only because they are ranked where they are ranked (excellent).  I've bought volumes in sets on Accordance because of cost, and because they were bundled that way.  the pricing is also cheaper in general if you get those volumes as a grouping than seperate. 

I think the addage comes from not getting sunk by looking at a sub par reference book for a sermon and end up hosed because of it.  I bought the hardcover of much of the NICNT because a bookstore was going out of sale, i knew the owner and i got an extremely good deal. (80% off).  Otherwise, i would have waitied for accordance's version. 

I'm still up in the air over the whole paper commentary vs digital commentary.  I think both are great to have.  Sometimes I like the book reading, other times, i like the ease of a search on the computer. 

Thanks for making such awesome products!!!

Great idea and wonderfully implement, David! Already mentioned it to new prospective buyers.

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks!

As for making UI suggestions, any user can do that by posting to our user forums. Those threads always tend to generate lively discussion.

Suggestion: Why not put forth your UI ideas before us an let the majority vote save you-all time? Or, let some of us tallented-ones submit our ideas to you, and then let the majority vote ruled, to save you time and extra work?

And more importantly, DON'T FORGET UI UPDATE FOR MAC OS.

On another note, I like the graphic above. It has a kind of "I heart Accordance" feel to it. 

I suggest selecting some text and choosing Parsing from the right-click menu or Resource palette. This gives you a tab with each word on a new line, with additional information. Then use command-T (Set Parsing Display) to determine what additional information you show, including transliteration. This tab can be printed, but of course, it can only be read vertically.

You can also export a whole passage as transliteration, saving to an RTF file. See Preferences: Greek & Hebrew to set these options.

@Brian: NICOT is underway and making good progress. We don't have any specifics on a release date at this time, though.

With your IVP collection, I imagine you are using its background commentaries (IVP-OT Comm.; IVP-NT Comm.) to identify relevant cultural issues. I also recommend the ZIBBCOT/NT for that purpose—and they often include photos and illustrations that can help make the point clearer to congregations.

Your congregation is blessed!

Regarding pics: I understand that it's a lot more work, but I'll check out your suggestion of the podcasts first before I hold my peace...

Regarding the UI: I'm beginning to see what your saying about Apple's massive overhaul, but truth be told: AS MUCH AS I LOVEEEEEE THE CAPABILITY OF ACCORDANCE (and believe me you I do fully enjoy the powerhouse-capabilities) I SIMPLY DO NOTTTTT LIKE LOOKING AT IT, and esp. over the long periods of time that I'm constantly using it!!!!!

The look of A. hasn't changed much over the years, except for incremental updates.

THANKS FOR LISTEN TO ME/US, THOUGH.

As for adding more visuals to the product pages, with many hundreds of products, that's an awful lot of work for us, and bandwidth for the user to load. We do post a screenshot of each module, and anyway, modules of the same type work in the same way. There are podcasts illustrating the use of many module types.

How about adding the same (videos & pictures) to each module post, so that I can get a better look at how it works, Accordance's way?

Second, I also agree with others who've posted in the forums about the current UI...how about updating Accordance to look more like a Lion app vs. something out of 2000? Start first with the Graphical Construct Window (like of Apple's Numbers and Keynote apps with there 3D experience).

THANKS!

Another feature of Accordance has really helped me learn to recognize the forms.  I have done searches in the GNT-T for, say, all the subjunctives of a difficult verb.  That has been very helpful.  The more I use Accordance, the more I love it.

I've had three years of Greek at this point, which is all the college offers.  Since there is a different instructor for 3rd year Greek next year, it was recommended by last year's teacher that I sit in on the class, so that's the plan.  

Maybe I should plug the Help pages again.

Note that to see the images you may need to go to the Display Settings and resave them,

A thousand times over I want to thank you for providing pics along with the narratives in your blogs - these step-by-step explanations really brings out your thoughts w/exceeding clearness!

REQUEST:

Could you PLEASE!, PLEASE! ask the web master to add MOREEEEEEEEEE pictures, even videos, to each of the A's module web-pages (just as was done to the new "Highlighting Some New Features in Accordance 9.4")? As I'm browsing through the "Products" pg. to look for new modules I would like to see far more visual-pics to see how it both LOOKS in A. and how it WORK in A.

THANK YOU!

P.S. I'm primarily a visual learner...if you haven't already figured that out...THANKS!

This is exactly what you can do now in Search All. If you search for Galations in the Scripture field and select All Tools (or make your own group of commentaries), it will list modules with articles on Galatians first, and then those with cross references.

It is beyond the scope of the Library to look into the contents of the modules.

I'm wondering if it's possible to combine this tip with searching for highlighting using the STYLE command to accomplish the following:  If I read an article in a tool such as NIDNTT, highlighting as I go, can I then search for the highlighting style in that particular article and have the results displayed in a reference window or someplace where I can then copy the highlighted phrases (without the intervening text), and then paste my highlighted text into a user tool?  This would be a real time saver.

Many thanks,

Kerry

I love the browser, but I would love it even more if it could be used with my WBC-NT/OT when I display two text panes above and the commentary across the entire screen width below. I can only get the Browser to work (to be visible as an option even) when the reference tool is positioned side-by-side with the text, which calls for a much wider screen than I've got. (OK, so it's a good reason to buy a new 27" iMac!) 

Any plans to implement that?

Jon

What I want you to see is that Accordance offers so much flexibility (even without your requested feature), that you should almost never have to export a map to a graphics program to add your own labels.

Believe it or not, I deliberately left the near-collision between Judah and Philistia so I could show still another way to customize the appearance of the map. Look for that in today's post.

I wonder if you would be so kind as to fill that gap?

Mike

-Jon

Thank you.  I've posted about using Kindle and Accordance over at my personal blog.  Hope that is helpful.  Thanks.

http://jwritebol.net/the-kindle-and-accordance

Harry, the degree of overlapping names you experience depends on which layers you have on the map. By adjusting my Major Biblical Sites layer, I was able to eliminate the overlapping names you see in my screenshots with a single click. Another option would be to shift-click the names in an existing layer that you want to keep, and then choose Convert to Custom Layer from the Site pop-up menu. This will create a special layer containing only the sites you selected.

I'll cover these tips in more detail in future posts.

But how about updating to 3D views with Satellite images?

bless y'all

CMD-`

(This is the key to the left of the number 1 key on your standard keyboard.)

This allows you to quickly bounce between two Accordance windows, just like CMD-Tab allows you to switch between apps.

Just a thought. Hope it helps.

son of <followed by><within 1 word> (God <or> man)

It would be nice to have a mechanism for incorporating a boolean expression within a phrase that is more succinct than the "<followed by><within 1 word>" idiom.

We do hope to have the G/K numbers (not Strong's) for the NIV11, but have no further details on that at this time.

I love the way in which Adam Nicolson describes the thinking behind the translation of the New English Bible, when contrasted with the KJV. In his book "God's Secretaries," Nicolson writes:

"The flattening of language is a flattening of meaning. Language which is not taught with a sense of its own signficance, which is apologetic in its desire to be acceptable to a modern consciousness, language which in other words submits to its audience, rather than instructing, informing, moving, challenging and even entertaining them, is no longer language which can carry the freight the Bible requires."

Jacob.

Whew! ;-)

Over the years of using your Accordance Bible on my computer, I have often run across the abbreviation, “prim.” I had thought it must mean “primary,” as a way of denoting basic words that are not formed from other words. The idea of “primitive” also occurred to me, but seemed foreign to my understanding of that word (“crude” or “undeveloped”). 

Even in the “Abbreviations” section of your Dictionary, I find this under “prim.”: “primary, primitive”! This seemed to indicate that you were taking no chances as to which it was! 

This morning I was consulting Matthew Poole's “Commentary on the Holy Bible,” on Hebrews 12:15. I found this: “Looking diligently: episkopountes notes a very strict and severe inspecting themselves; its primitive, skopein, signifieth such a looking at a thing as those who, in shooting, aim at the mark;”

 To complete my investigation, I looked up the word “primitive” in my on-line “Oxford American Dictionary.” There I found:

• Linguistics denoting a word, base, or root from which another is historically derived.

• Linguistics denoting an irreducible form.

 So it seems we may believe, with good reason, that “primitive” is the word which “aims at the mark” in your Lexicon!

You do need a Twitter account to enter our Giveaway, but the discounts are available to everyone.

Scott.

-Jon

Tom

Nice tutorial, a friend of mine who is currently studying in the US told me about  the Accordance bible software. As a fellow Christian I have never heard about a bible software before but think that it could be very useful for our community. These tips help me to understand it better and to decide whether to buy it or not.

Selecting a Bible from the Library icon will still open that Bible to its first verse, but Accordance for iOS 1.2 will let you switch an existing view to a different translation by tapping the Text label in the upper left. When you select a new Bible that way, you'll keep your place at the current verse.

Will Varner     

How do I activate tabs in version 9.2.1?

Though, how about UPDATING-MODERNIZING ALL the charts, & visuals for that matter!, to bring it up 2011?

Thanks.

To find words in common, in the second tab simply use:

[HITS 1Thess] <AND> [RANGE 2Thess].

To fiond words only used in 2 Thess use:

*@-[HITS 1Thess] <AND> [RANGE 2Thess]

whihc is the Accordance way of defining "all words in the current range which are not hits in the defined tab.

I hope this helps.

I'd like to compare GNT-T words between two books, say 1 & 2 Thes. Obviously, I'm doing something wrong.

1. I've set up two tabs that have searched for word contents of each book:

a. * <and> [RANGE 1th]

b. <and> [RANGE 2th]

Can you point this new Accord user in the right direction?

(mercy <NOT> <FOLLOWED BY> <WITHIN 1 Words> seat) <NOT> (mercy <NOT> mercy seat) 

to do it in one window. Parentheses are your friend in dealing with infix boolean operators :-).

Tab one I opened up KJVS and entered:

mercy <NOT> mercy seat

In a second tab (KJVS 2) I searched for:

mercy <NOT> <FOLLOWED BY> <WITHIN 1 Words> seat

In a third tab (KJVS 3) I searched for:

[CONTENTS KJVS 2] <AND> <NOT> [CONTENTS KJVS] and found Exodus 37:9:

Ex. 37:9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.

Great Work!

You hit a home run with אלכסה ! That is just how Alexa is written/translitterated in modern Hebrew.

Here are two ways that name Elizabeth can be written in Modern Hebrew:

אליזבת

יליזבטה

And, Lisa can be written like this  

ליסה

Bethany isn't Hebrew it actually is from Aramaic and it's really two words rather than a compound word that it appears as in the GNT.

Anyway Great Work!

Speaking of downloading to an iPad - Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's priemer guide book The Holy Land — An Oxford Archaeological Guide 5th edition is available as a Kindle download.

Derek hastlekha.

Check to make sure your preferences for Greek/Hebrew in Accordance are set to export as Unicode. I'll email you as well in case I need to explain in more detail or provide a screen shot.

The problem with writing a blog read by Bible scholars is that mistakes are unlikely to go unnoticed. When I checked the PhotoGuide and saw the masculine spelling "Jean," it did raise a doubt in my mind, but not enough to make me examine it further. Since I wrote the PhotoGuide, I'm certainly at fault for the erroneous information, though I'm now curious to know whether I was passing on an error in my sources (which included popular guidebooks as well as academic works) or whether I merely misunderstood something I read. At any rate, I appreciate the correction.

Bad example aside, the PhotoGuide has been a great source of help at many of the other sites we've visited here, and having it on the iPad has provided the perfect combination of depth and portability. I'll talk about that in tomorrow's post.

Joan of Arc was not canonized until 1920, so she could not be called "St." before then. The French spelling of her name is Jeanne d'Arc, not Jean d'Acre. Jean is a masculine name (John) and referes to the John in the NT, patron saint of the Hospitallers, whose big fortress can be visited in the town.

Not complaining!

(is this the Langbot posting queued items in absentia?)

Great idea. Thanks for sharing. 

Tom

I haven't yet explored the print options from within Accordance. Something to try out when I get home tonight.

I'm curious as to why you are exporting to Pages to translate on paper. Why not just print directly from Accordance?

I'm starting to apply this in Accordance with the GNT-T and NET translations side-by side, with Comfort, Metzger and NET-Notes in panes beneath. 

It's also nice to export a few verse to Pages, and print out a page to work through translating by hand. 

Will the third edition of Mounce be available as an easy install download? The current edition seems to be only available as part of a package. 

Thanks for the update on the 3rd Edition. I look forward to getting it soon.

http://www.accordancebible.com/Two-Davids

In the end, I think the ideal Bible study method is the one which works best with the way each of us thinks and processes information. I talk a little about the influence of personality in this post from last year.

I completely agree—and this is a really important point. Commentaries can be a crutch, a lazy interpreter's easy way out. However, when used as you decribe, they challenge, refine and extend one's own interpretation. That's their highest and best use.

I have a woman in the Sunday School class I teach who reads exclusively from the Message. Now, if she had come to me to recommend a translation, I would never have suggested the Message alone. Nevertheless, I would also never say anything to her now about it because this is the Bible from where she hears God's voice most clear.

Very often in our class, if I've had the time in my preparation to take a look at our passage in the Message ahead of time, I'll ask her to read a particular verse out of the Message because very often there is a clever turn of phrase or "just right" wording that really drives a point in Scripture home. 

Eugene Peterson is one of my favorite Christian writers because he can so easily combine theology and church life together. Granted, these two should never be separated anyway, but it seems that they usually are. Since Peterson translated the Message directly from the original languages, to me, it's put on a level different from that of earlier paraphrases such as the original Living Bible. Sometimes, when I question a rendering in the Message, I will dig into the original language text and come away understanding exactly where Peterson was coming from. The man knows his stuff.

Reading unfamilar translations can do that too, I just find that the Message makes me do that a lot. ;-)

While the JPS only contains a translation of the OT, I felt that it provided a much different interpretation of the text. It's interesting in many ways precisely because it does not follow the NT tradition, and takes a much different ideological stance. 

I've also become a fan of comparing any translation against the NET, especially when I have the extensive NET notes pane showing, as it often illuminates the translation decisions. 

I was referring to your comments about the feminist scholar's exegesis of Genesis 1–3. While you begin by praising her as a "gifted exegete," you go on to say that she "distort[s]" the text "from the standpoint of her own ideology," thus implying that she, too, had a "blind spot" that you wanted to point out. My comment was simply meant as a reminder that not everyone would consider her exegesis a "distort[ion]."

You state your hermeneutic rather clearly when you suggest that "her willingness to read into the text a viewpoint which strikes [you] as clearly foreign to it" is a negative thing. Again, I have no problem with that; you are welcome to your views on these issues, and I appreciate the viewpoint that you – and others – bring to the text.

All of that said, I should have been more generous to you saying, "My point in telling you all this is not to critique this scholar's exegetical methods." My apologies for focusing my attention on the things that bothered me in your post rather than your obvious willingness to be as neutral as possible.

As always, I look forward to your upcoming posts.

With respect to the movement toward theological conservatism you perceive, I would argue that it's a mistaken impression. Yes, many of the modules we've recently released have been staunchly conservative, but that has more to do with the materials we have ready to release than any agenda on our parts. Before all the recent Zondervan material, we released JBL, Hermeneia, Semeia, etc. When each of those resources was released, we might very well have had conservative users perceiving a progressive shift.

As for my post "clearly suggesting that a hermeneutic based on authorial intent is somehow the 'right' way to interpret the scriptures," I think you're reading into my post suggestions which are not there. I said nothing about determining the author's intent in this post; I merely suggested that we need to do our best to become aware of our own interpretive preconceptions so that they do not blind us to important aspects of the text. Whatever our hermeneutic, if we ignore or gloss over aspects of the text, our understanding of that text is sure to be flawed.

Adam, due to my blind spots, please help me to understand how you are using and understanding the word "conservative"? Also, I'm a little bit in the dark by what you mean by "a progressive Accordance user". Are you comparing yourself to a conservative Accordance user? If so, would you be so kind to explain how you see they are different?

I guess for me, at the heart of it all is: why does anyone study the Bible? We all have assumptions--at least I believe that we can all agree on that. We all have "blind spots" and again, I think that we can at least agree on that. So what's in it for us--no matter what our theological persuasion is--as we come to the ancient text of the most meticulously examined book in the world? My assumption is that we all want light!  

To be perfectly honest, as a progressive Accordance user, it bothers me a little to see how conservative the material "surrounding" Accordance is becoming. Most of the modules are extremely conservative in their approach (including the new releases); Dr. J's podcasts, while helpful for learning the interface, tend to be theologically conservative; and, now, the blog is clearly suggesting that a hermeneutic based on authorial intent is somehow the "right" way to interpret the scriptures.

While I'm fully recognizant of the fact that most biblical scholars (and, thus, Accordance users) are conservative, not everyone is. It might be nice to see some more critical and minority approaches to the text in future blog posts as well as how Accordance can be of use to those interpreters as well.

I often think of epistemology when I think of our biases and blind spots.  Questioning our assumptions is well worth the effort.  Einstein questioned the linearity of time and thus developed the theory of relativity.  What other understanding are we not questioning?  That is a very good question and I look forward to your presentation of Accordance tools or techniques to use.

Thanks for the stimulating post.  

Amen, David!  You just can not observe the text too closely!  Many times what we are ‘familiar’ with is only what we have been taught the text says, rather than having studied it meticulously for ourselves.  Blind spots are healable, but they require diligent study on our behalf.

Speaking of ‘who’s where?’ and ‘who’s with who?” in the Creation story, back in 2001 I taught the pilot course for a Bible Study course I had written called “HIStory:  A Timeline of Biblical Events”.  The night we studied the Creation, I asked a few simple questions to prove we need to study even the most familiar parts of the Bible attentively (maybe even more so), one of the questions being, “Where was the woman when God gave His command to not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?”

Out of 150 students, not even one knew the answer!  When I told them God had not even fashioned a woman yet, and gave the instruction to Adam alone, they were all incredulous.  While it was not a major doctrinal crisis point, it was a perfect illustration that we who call ourselves Christians far too many times do not study His Word carefully for ourselves, observing every single word, sentence, verse, chapter and book in their contexts.

The application of that illustration became very real as we worked our way through the entire Bible--we didn’t want to miss anything God said because to believe something we had been ‘taught’ rather than believe what the Bible actually said on some other issue might just be the difference between Truth and error, or Life and death.

Thanks for your blogs.  God is using you through them.

i know you don't usually give time frames for this but any idea when there'll be an update to correct this? (c:

always loved accordance and find the app handy -- and trying to use the app as a justification to purchase an ipad, alas, not there ye...

Interesting. The JPS translation of Gen 3:6 merely contains "She also gave some to her husband, and he ate", completely leaving out any mention of his presence with her. An interesting omission.

You can also subscribe to the feed using Apple Mail which does not truncate the posts and you can forward them to friends just like an email. But, it doesn't sync across multiple devices.

Will you be fixing your posts so they don't come through truncated?

Otherwise, if you don't hook me in the first sentence, I'm not clicking through to the site - and I bet I'm not alone.

Blessings,

Jim

HTH…

I'm actually reading more blogs now with Reeder, and there's also an easy 'mark all as read' feature that keeps things under control for those blogs that post several articles per day.

Thank you for this great idea. I use it all the time.

God bless you!

Richard Labelle

Thanks for the post, but what many of us really WANT is an update to the UI, i.e., modernized, elegant, & simply more desirable to use!

We enjoy the brains, how about the beauty (e.g. "Graphical search window", "Diagram window", "Timeline", "Graph" in the "Details button", the "Graphical construct window", etc. [just to name a few] are woeful outdated and in need of a major 3D update-think Numbers, Keynote, etc.)???

Thanks for all the hard work you-all have put into Accordance so far!

Ahh, hello, old friend!

Thanks, Dave and Chuck.

Very nice (that you were reading Rev 1 with the family *and* using Accordance).

Quick question -- what font are you using in your map? I like it much better than what mine is set on.

Thanks.

I just moved to the Twin Cities area from Hawaii, and I get that ("Why?") all the time.  See you Saturday!

Robert Evans

At least I'll get to stop by and visit you at the Accordance exhibit. It'll be good to put a face with a name. See you there!

"Moral of this true story: Well, I don't know, perhaps it is simply what this: All the exegetical and original language skills in the world will not take the place of a willing heart broken before God and the honest desire to know Him."

Many years ago, as a learning tool for my students, I expanded on the axiom "Context is King!".  It goes like this:  "If Context is KIng, then Observation is Queen--and Interpretation and Application will be their royal offspring."  "Wisdom is vindicated by all her children."  Luke 7:35

I am new to Accordance (18 years with another platform) and I am thrilled and thankful for Accordance's centricity of the Bible.  I sincerely thank you.  Sharon Jensen

Yesterday I waxed philosophical about how it is more important to read English well than to know Greek and Hebrew.

Dave, I wonder if perhaps we ought to say instead:

"It is more important to read well than to be enamored with technical details of Greek and Hebrew."

You've made some very good point (in both posts), but the goal is to learn to read well, whether that be reading English or Greek or Hebrew or Spanish, or whatever language a text may be. This ought not to be contrasted with "knowing Greek and Hebrew." The same reading skills which you champion for English--and rightly so (Adler's advice is still valuable)--is just as true for reading Greek and Hebrew. The dangers of Greek and Hebrew (or at least one of them) is what I call grammatical maximalism (AKA, "the golden nuggets approach")--making too much out of isolated grammatical details and not paying enough attention to context. The grammar is, of course, important; without grammar there is no context, but the grammatical details are only individual pieces that, in themselves, do not communicate much meaning. Meaning comes from statements in context.

You are also quite right to emphasize the text-centric focus of Accordance. Instead of being told what is important (a "Big Brother" mentality, IMHO), Accordance keeps the text central and enables the user to easily access the supplementary material as needed to understand the text.

I completely agree with a hierarchical approach to Bible study. 

My Bible study workflow has evolved in a rather interesting manner. I used to have a completely print-based workflow, but major portions (all but the commentaries) have gone electronic. It started with Laridian's MyBible on Palm devices and moved to Olive Tree's BibleReader on my iPhone and then iPad. Next came Accordance on my Mac. I now typically read the Bible on my Kindle. It's refreshing, as the Kindle's focus on presenting the text alone makes it easy for me to avoid distractions. 

Here's my current Bible study workflow:

1. I read the passage in my four favorite translations on my Kindle: ESV, NLT, NET, and NIV 2011. Why Kindle? It's easier to focus there than on an iOS device or print study bible. A text-only print bible would be similar, just heavier.

2. I access the ESV and NLT Study Bible notes in BibleReader on my iPad as needed. I also can do Greek and Hebrew research in BibleReader. BR is very good for highly mobile, sophisticated Bible study.

3. I use Accordance on my Mac to do in-depth textual, Greek, and Hebrew research. The ability to compare everything side by side is priceless, as are the Greek and Hebrew resources.

4. My go-to commentaries are the Bible Knowledge Commentary (print and Accordance), the Revised Expositor's Bible Commentary (print), and the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (print).

5. For more in-depth commentaries, I usually buy them as needed. For basic Bible studies, I usually start with the NIV Application Commentary. The NICNT and NICOT are often my favorite next step.

Why isn't Accordance on the iPad included in my workflow above, especially since I already have it installed? In my humble opinion, it's not quite yet polished enough for effortless use.  I am confident it'll get there; version 1.0 shows great promise.

Why don't I buy my all commentaries electronically? I don't like to read long-form text on LCD displays (i.e. my Mac or iPad), and I prefer the random-access nature of books to the Kindle. I also don't like paying for them twice. Study Bibles work great in iOS; I have a few in BibleReader. I hope to pick up a few for Accordance in a future sale.

PS: Just picked up the JPS Torah commentaries for Accordance (nice sale!) and I must say what a delight it is to read on the iPad. I have the Genesis volume in print, and it's one of my favorite commentaries. It made a very nice transition from print to eBook.

I like to think that accordance is providing a path or bridge for those who do not have theological training in the church to step by step delve deeper into theological discussion.

I also appreciate the available "Legacy" commentaries because they allow us to better understand and access the two thousand years of theology we stand upon today.

-Jon

I would add the NIBC commentary series to your first tier of non-technical, shorter commentaries. I find it very readable and usually helpful for quick information.

• click and hold on the verse number
• determine if this is a new note, or you're editing a note
• select your note file
• wince as the note screen comes up and takes up the whole page, obscuring the text you're wanting to comment on (those split screens are useless to us?)
• then type your note

In Mantis, you:
• Click the note icon next to the verse
• Write your note (IN LINE WITH THE TEXT)

In Olive Tree, you:
• Click the verse number
• Click "add note"
• Leave your note in a floating box near the text

This is only one example of the many, many UI and workflow failures in this app.

Got a bible verse in your notes? Can't click it to take you to the verse. 

Want to make the text look less hideous and add a little padding to the reading? (something all readers should offer--or at least not default to slamming it up against the edge of the device) Can't do it.

Don't even get me started on the crashes.

Then there was the "Easy Install," which had to be the most ironically named button on my iPad. Even if it didn't crash every time I tried to sync with my purchased items, the fact that you have to sit there and stare at a screen for hours (because it can't download in the background) is failure enough. Not even a progress bar? Not an 'estimated time remaining?' Nothing to let us know that the application is still working. Just a big "cancel" button staring at you until the app crashes. 

The UI is entirely unpolished. You guys are 2 years behind everyone else, you couldn't find someone to help you in this department? Olive Tree looks much more refined, is easier to read, more intuitive, and has more options. I just don't want to repurchase my hundreds of dollars of materials again, so I feel trapped.

Really disappointed in the effort. I could go on, but I only have 90 characters remaining. :(

With respect to getting the images out of Accordance, I saw no loss in quality using either copy/paste or Save as Jpeg.

As for the value of the Accordance edition, I think you'll find that Accordance makes it extremely easy to browse and search the entire collection. The text of each PowerPoint slide description is included with each image, so you can easily find images by a variety of search criteria, or just browse the photos and read about what you're looking at.

Hope this helps.

1) The standard edition of these images is delivered on 2 DVDS - this release is 1.4 GBs. This makes it sound as if much picture quality was lost in this process, even if taking into account any included powerpoints on the dvds.

2) When you save one of these pictures from acc. will it then save the original JPEG file or would it be a "remade" and re-compressed picture with additional artifacts?

Considering that the acc. edition is 50$  more than the raw images, this would be a really steep price just for the convenience of having them in accordance,if it also comes with these problems.

being able to copy the Hebrew and paste it into TWOT for example is very useful. A drop-down list of possible Hyperlinks would obviously be better... but all in all a good start.. Many thanks for the hard work...

Will there be an Errata supplement?  There are some things in the pseudo-facsimiles that are not quite right.

I would say that Software wise, accordance is a better program, but resource wise, I still like the other one (although the program drives me insane, and I despise using it.) 

Norman Danner
I can't really chose the "best" at the moment. Accordance is the number one for mac, but from the standpoints of german bibles to chose from (i know that will change) and design of the app (i hope that will change ) BibleReader 5 is the better product for iOS at the moment, at least for a non-heavy-user as I am. From what i read i guess Accordance already has a better search etc, but for the normal guy looking for a bible, BibleReader has a bit more to offer in usability.

Colin Randall
I would agree with Norman as regards iOS versions. Accordance is probably better for Bible study and research and has a great range of commentaries and other material. BibleReader works better as a Bible 'on your lap' when visiting people's homes or in small group discussions because the interface is very intuitive. Having said that we are all aware that this is just version 1 of the Accordance App and I am sure future versions will change all this.

Justin Neal
I am very happy I found Accordance. I bought Ilumina which is neat because it has video and neat and shinny bits and pieces, but I was disappointed in it. I am sure that program will be great for my kids when they get older, I already pla...yed the Christmas story for them. But when I tried Accordance on a whim last Christmas it was instantly the right program for me. I love it and it is the only program that I need.

The iOS is neat and I am very happy with v.1. I wish the Greek/Hebrew tag text would show a lexicon definition when I look up a word instead of going to a complete other reference tool, I always seem to loose my place in the text when I leave. And I still don't have all my modules downloaded because it quits on me. But when sync comes out all will be fixed. Anyway the iOS is great for what it is for now and knowing Accordance it will only get better. Until then its a great reader in my pocket for when I need it.

Also Youverson linked to FB which was a neat trick and it was easy to copy and paste into a document. I have not tried very hard to copy and past into a document yet but at first glance it didn't work for me. It would be very handy if the iOS had the same copy/paste options that the OSX version has.

Highlighting

Copy/Paste

Commentaries that are pastoral rather than detailed into the Greek & Hebrew - They have scholarship but are not bogged down in the details 

Illustrations/Quotations Books - Stories etc

Sometimes Pictures for Powerpoint Use

A few Bible Versions NIV, TNIV, NIV+, Message, NLTse

1. In the text window, the color difference between "Words" and "Verses" is rather subtle to my tired old eyes.

2. The HALOT isn't available for use in a parallel pane. thus one must close out of the text, and open the HALOT. While that's a bit awkward, it's still OK. What's not OK is that when you go back to the text, what gets displayed is Gen 1:1, rather than the place where you left off. Thus, the app is not-yet-ready-for-prime-time when it comes to word study.

Keep up the great work.

Also, what about the possibility of incorporating airplay to project our notes, text, etc., onto the bigger screen using Apple TV?

A big thanks to the team there at Accordance for making a great Bible study software program even better using iOS!

In the meantime maybe it's time to 'upgrade' that IVP Atlas for one of the new Carta releases. ;-)

i've been holding out in buying an ipad waiting for this app, yet i think i was disappointed in that graphics are not integrated into the text (think IVP Atlas, and others) and i'm wondering if this is different on the ipad...

Very Pleased and have mentioned it on Facebook and several e-mails, showed it to others and will continue to do so at every opportunity.

The speed of the app in all categories is just incredible on both the Ipad and my old Iphone 3g.

Thanks again.

Grace and Peace.

I have done alpha and beta testing for other business-centric apps and know what goes into development. For a 1.0 app, this one is well-developed. I can only imagine what's in store for the next release. While my heavy work is on my MacBook Pro, I have waited for this and am not disappointed.

Accordance continues to deliver the Word!

I also really appreciate the fact that it was free. To me that is excellent customer service. Too many companies seem to "nickel and dime" their customers to death by charging for iOS versions of software you've already invested in.

Thanks!

For some reason when I open the BHS on my iPhone in Accordance, it only has Genesis. And I don't have the LXX at all.

I uninstalled and reinstalled, and it's the same.

Any help?

Jim

-Jon

Babies sometimes arrive post-dates.

Merrily downloading modules to my library!

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/12/28/app-store-updates-now-propagating-as-holiday-shutdown-ends/

I certainly think you were very gracious when asked about comparisons with Logos.

Not once did I hear you say anything negative about them, but rather, that each company had it's own approach to dealing with Biblical studies.

You did give your opinion ( because you were asked) about Accordance being faster and not having the issues that come with "porting" software. 

I thought you did well.

There were several points made that would be great "starting points" for further discussion, which I know will not happen in this format.

However, one point which I think is very important ( and True ) is that there are many more reformed resources than any others as far as e-texts.

Perhaps that subject would be good for discussion or a blog post.

I would love to delve into this area and find out how this could be changed.

The amount of knowledge, great writings, that we still do not have available digitally is incredible.

Perhaps you can help us to understand why, and, what we can do to help change that situation so that more of the wonderful works of the last 2000 years are available.

Also loved your excellent comments on the history of Bible study, most would not have the integrity to mention the fears the Church had of making the Bible available to all, much less that they were correct, but in spite of that, the good outweighed the negative.

Again, thanks, and nice work.

Rusty+  

Thanks for the reply. You are correct that I was not sitting in your seat for the interview. I guess our perception of the matter is different. I speak from a more limited view of things that you do... We will just agree to disagree on the value of mentioning competitive products in the media.

Thanks for the reply. You are correct that I was not sitting in your seat when the questions were asked. Perhaps my perception of things is just different than yours. You have a great product.. you should be passionate about it. We will agree to disagree on the value and merits of mentioning competitive products in interviews or other media.

With respect to the charge that we only talk about one competitor, we are usually only asked about one competitor. Had I been asked to compare Accordance to QuickVerse Mac or BibleWorks for Windows I would have done that as well—again, as charitably and honestly as I could.

As for your statement that Logos never really mentions Accordance, I would simply suggest that you're mistaken.

I enjoyed most of the interview. I am always surprised how much you folks like to talk about your competition (actually only one competitor), when your competitor never really mention you... why is that? You are the dominate product in the Mac market... just curious why the continual jabs (even if they are true) at your competitor. Your product stands on its own.

I allow you to string me along... with as many details as possible.

Now that Mac users have lots of storage space (hard drive or RAM), surely the time is coming when a competent human reader will be recorded for the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. The era of using the Mac OS system voice (I use Fred) has passed.

Of course, both Hebrew and Greek present challenges with pronunciation systems. I suspect that you'll have to provide a couple of options for each, using your seminary profs as consultants.

For Greek, I guess that the Mounce version of Erasmian pronunciation would be an inescapable choice.

Really.

It's not.

But Jesus has already come! 

In the spirit of Advent, we aren't decorating the house for Christmas until the iOS app gets released. And, the choir party is on Boxing Day, 12/26.

No pressure, of course.

But seriously, I'll be addressing what you can and can't expect in this first release in future posts. I'm afraid a few people's utopian expectations may get dashed, but I think most of you will be very pleased. :-)

No complaints here I only ask that you please keep up the good work. 

I am starting to get a bit worried that I have spent my resources on the wrong software. This is despite the fact that I am very happy with the way Accordance performs and works. The matter of the fact is that the modules, books and texts that are becoming available rarely come close to being neither interesting nor relevant to any serious theological work. Like the ones this post relates to for example.

Whereas the Logos Bible Software (now available in a very well performing version for Mac, not to mention the already available version for iPad) offers theologically relevant titles, like Barth's Church Dogmatics for example, together with an impressive array of original-language related literature Accordance seems to be stuck with the publishers' leftovers. Again, see the blogpost´s books for a good example.

Unless there is "shape up" coming in the near future, when it comes to the theological quality and relevance of the titles released, I am afraid that at least one Accordance-user will start to regret tha fact that the Accordance-platform was chosen in the first place.

Congratulations! I hope our guild realizes how much your efforts and excellent work contributes to the advance of Biblical studies. Thank you so much!

I'd still love to see some sort of lightbox effect on the thumbnails, so a full pic version can be viewed without opening a whole new window.

Danny

Edersheim, who I consulted later, in the Temple and its sacrifices comments that if the practice had been in force during the time of the Septuagint we might have expected some clues in the LXX text.  If he is right then it might not have been during the second Temple era but that of Herod's temple.

Edersheim writes..."We may here at once state, that the later Jewish practice of pushing the goat over a rocky precipice was undoubtedly on innovation, in no wise sanctioned by the law of Moses, and not even introduced at the time the Septuagint translation was made, as its rendering of Leviticus 16:26 shows. "

the first goat is the picture of the punishment of sin, the second is the picture of the remission of sin.  In fact, this 'letting go' of sins is the foundation stone of the Bible concept of 'remission'.  Sins are remitted, sinners are forgiven.  Many translations obscure this distinction.

Christ, of course,'became sin' (2Cor 5). We have a sobering picture here of the Saviour as the 'goat' whose life is forfeit and the 'goat' carries away the sins.  Both goats fused together give the fuller shadow of the coming reality.

The later addition of 'pushing the goat off the cliff' confuses the separate idea of punishment and function.  The first goat speaks of the punishment, the second of the result of that punishment.  Human addition to divine instruction seldom makes the story clearer.

But when will there be an iPod/iPad app?  

Too much (unfounded) certainty about things that in all honesty and with all careful research are ambiguous is similarly dangerous. I'll have to have a look at the resources. Thanks for highlighting them.

Any updates on where this process is?

Hope you can get it fixed soon, 

Tom 

Just in case you didn't catch it in Steve Jobs' presentation, Lion (OX X 10.7) will boast full-screen applications. So it's only a matter of David Lang & crew finding the time to allow Accordance to take advantage of those hooks!

I've been waiting to get ZEB on A.. for some time now and can't wait (patiently that is) any longer!

Also, I hope the full LSJ, 9th edition (to replace the abridged version) wil be released soon as well.

Gratefully,

michael.

For my part, my veiled references to other products are not meant to be a "silly game." The point of this post was not meant to criticize anybody else, but to focus on our central motivation for doing what we do. So I said all I needed to in order to set the context for the discussion, and then focused on Accordance. If your kids do that, they must be wise and diplomatic beyond their years! ;-)

Now to your point... tongue in cheeck if I could convince some of my profs that all I need for my studies is on Accordance then I could save a lot of money on books!

The truth of the matter is if you guys don't have a book, Logos Bible Software does. My only other option is to buy paper books and that would be counter productive in this age of electronic research.

That brings us to the strength of each product. I slightly prefer exegetical studies with Accordance and I slightly prefer research with Logos. I can use both to do the other task effective and BOTH do effective Bible study.  I am thankful for your emphasis and I am thankful for theirs, because without both available to me there would be big gaps in my Bible software computing needs.

Good job on version 9. I'm looking forward to any new tricks you have with version 10.

I understand. Thanks for the insight though.

michael.

JBL is indeed a treasure trove of information, regardless of one's theological persuasions. 

And since I have the volumes for 2007-2010 in PDF form in DEVONthink, I won't bother you about updates to the Accordance module for at least a little while.  

-Jon

Brian, there are lots of seminary Greek profs who demonstrate Accordance to their students and encourage its use, but I'll have to check on whether anyone actually requires it.

I have a Bible Search Text in one zone tied to a Commentary in another zone.  When I click a scripture reference link in the commentary zone, it opens the link in the Bible zone, however in a new tab.  I'd love for it to simply update the Bible tab that's already open, maybe by automatically entering the reference in the search field.  Is this possible?

Thanks!  SJ

I'm wondering though, what you think would be the best solution for a situation where the majority of my time I've got a dual-monitor setup (when I'm at work plugged into my external monitor too), but sometimes I'm just at my MacBook. Is there a way to set up one style of "window" for when I have the two monitors, and another setup for when I'm stuck with just my MacBook screen?

Speaking about Mounce's "Basics of Biblical Greek": can you please tell to me if you will be offering the 3rd edition (to replace the current 2nd) in the near feature?

Thank you!!

Ron, it's certainly an interesting idea.

I love the new zones feature. It has provided a definite enhancement to productivity for me. I can envision a button on each zone that would expand the zone to full screen (especially useful for zones like timeline and atlas) and then collapse the zone to its preset grouping (kind of like the green button for normal window behavior, only for zones). What do you think?

Best regards,

Ron

Can a commentary in a zone though track with your scripture passages? I tried that and could and get that to work. Maybe I was misunderstanding what you were saying.

Thanks! Rino

Thanks for making Accordance both such a flexible and intuitive, not to mention creative solution for Bible study. I have been a user since version 5 in classic mode.

Interesting idea...but for laptops (mine is 15"s) this is just too cluttered and not very practical, but rather on my 27" iMac works nicely.

When?

Thanks for keeping us updated with what is actually going on behind the scenes - things which I haven't taken into account!

It sounds to me that you guys are now doing to Accordance what Apple did to Snow Leopard - enhancing the core foundation to build upon future feature-sets. I truly do respect this approach and am now patiently going to wait to see the improved UI in future updates - I myself find the program immensely useful, but would still like to have BEAUTY ALONG W/THE BRAIN!!!!

Gratefully yours!

Great post and excellent line of argumentation on the use of software programs. To be honest, I am skeptical of those who aver that a plethora of resources is essential for biblical study, and I think this bespeaks to a somewhat rudimentary view of exegesis by those who pontificate such a premise. In other words, we often overlook the significance of spending time in the primary text of Scripture, and more importantly we overlook the importance of secondary literature of the ancient world, so as to broaden our horizon.

I own several good commentaries, but truth be told, I spend much more time reading the ancient documents, both the Scripture and Sectarian. 

Accordance is certainly a mammoth of an application and I can't imagine what all it would entail to make massive changes to the UI.  I'm know you all get bombarded with UI requests all the time and I just want to say that I trust you and your team.  I'm excited for the future!

~Rick

Thanks!

Thanks.

Could't have said it better...

http://www.accordancebible.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4912&st=0 

That being said, how do you think the mobile device category will impact this? On the desktop/laptop, exegesis and in-depth study of biblical texts is going to be the primary things people do with Bible software. But what about on devices like the iPad? It's more of an e-Reader, so does the library become more important in this space?

As an iPad owner, I would not envision myself doing the same kinds of study or tasks on the iPad that I do in Accordance on my iMac. But, I don't have Accordance on my iPad yet, so maybe that will change. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Mary, for your active participation.

(a) The UI looks identical to 8 - both being: old and dated, dull, an not very attractive at all...seems time to hire an actual graphical designer.

(b) Zones looks like a cluttered mess, esp. for laptops (interesting idea, but I don't think it's well executed).

(c) Mostly though, OakTree, I was looking forward to having REAL "cosmetic improvements" this time around, in order to bring it up to speed as a MODERN looking Mac app. Hopeful, eventually, soon you'll actually "update" the look by adding cool Core Image & Core Animation effects-features to Accordance.

P.S. Is Accordance 64-bit?

Thanks,

Ben

So glad I have a book budget and it still has some room on it. Any further info you're willing to give out about either the iOS app or Accordance 9--I'm all ears!

Keep up the great work, folks!

In any case, these will mostly not be lectures but informal discussions.

Really looking forward to incorporating Accordance on to my iPhone and iPod Touch. Keep up the excellent work and keep up posted!

Thanks, and keep up the good work on the best Bible software out there.

Alan

So very grateful.

Grace and Peace,

Rusty+

PS:  Attending the conference is a no brainer even without this enticing tidbit: "We plan on unveiling a new version of our Mac software, along with a brand new Accordance app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. We're excited to show off the new stuff we've been working on, and we're confident the conference attendees will be excited to see it."

It looks awesome. And since I am not a programmer I have a question; how difficult is porting this application over to android? I live in an AT&T dead zone and in SoCal, the dropped calls are legendary. I love my Sprint EVO and actually have grown to love the Android OS. Now would I have an iPhone if the offered it? That could be a toss up. So, is it possible? If it is, do you think that you will do it? Would you think about it???

Thanks my friend,

Rino

Thanks so much for the update!!! To be honest, the entire reason I decided to get an iPad when I first heard of them was to one day put accordance on it. And that ways way before there was whisper of an iOS-Based Accordance.

Here's the thing: my iPad is my full-blown ministry assistant. All my notes, ebooks, calendar, Dropbox, audio, video, everything on there is for ministry, yet it has been incomplete without Accordance. This is great, great news. The iPad was made for Accordance! 

CAN'T. WAIT. CAN'T. WAIT.

Please keep us posted!! There are many of us who would absolutely LOVE to be BETA testers, as well...

I would love to have the ability to enter say verse markers in an EndNote field and have them pulled into my User Notes/Tools and vice versa. Maybe having two fields, one for the verse and one to index the citation? 

Holding all of that on an iPad/iPhone would also be a tremendous resource. And then syncing the links that I make on the iPad/iPhone back to the Mac would be a tremendous tool. I just think that I would keep more of those wonderfully rough splashes of thought that evaporate before I get my Mac out of its case (after the sermon and at home) and get it set up to type. 

The only question is when would you sleep?

Is there a way to see words from a particular pericope listed in order of the frequency with which they occur in the whole NT? For instance, could one get a list of the words in Col 1:1-14 from the most rare (in the NT, not in the pericope) to the most frequently occurring? I can't quite figure out how to automate this in Accordance.

In the meantime, I've been duplicating several of the reference works that I already own for Accordance by purchasing from Olive Tree.  I really like the Bible Reader setup and am happy with many of the modules (especially the ESV Study Bible and the new Strong's edition of the ESV and the HSCB Strong's.) The easy way to access references and notes with a touch instead of a separate box is great and makes the iPad a more enjoyable device for reading a study bible compared to my Mac Pro.  I hope that the Accordance app will allow this same kind of use.

However,  some items like the NLT Study Bible and Unger's Bible Dictionary in Olive Tree suffer from big problems when accessing verse references.  Many go to the wrong references.  I've become spoiled by the meticulous near perfection of the work done by Accordance- It seems that you really do get what you pay for when paying the higher prices for the Accordance software.

I'll be really happy to eventually standardize on the Accordance versions on my iPad.  

Thank you for your assurance regarding the modules!

As much as I ENJOY BibleReader (it really is a powerful app to use!), I simply cannot continue to afford to spend $ for two separate devices-platforms! I would rather give my $ to OakTree - because I've already invested extensively into Accordance - to acquire more needed modules, instead of purchasing, AGAIN, GNT/MT/LXX/BDB/BDAG/HALOT,etc. for my iPhone.

Henceforth, I'll remain quite loyal ($) toward OakTree (sorry OliveTree but to costly in the long-term).

THANKS AGAIN!!!!

Thanks for the update... I suppose we've been waiting for the iOS software (and you guys have been working really hard) so everyone is eager to see what comes of it all. 

I really can't tell you how pumped I am and agree with Ron about the last sentence in your post being really exciting. Thanks for communicating! Also, an iPad is a must! ;-)

Thanks for the update on Accordance for mobile devices. I love the convenience of using the iPad in a Bible class, but it comes up short on Bible software and Keynote presentations. I had to jailbreak it to get display out to the projector. I have tried about six different Bible programs, but none are killer apps. I have mostly gone back to using Accordance and Keynote on my laptop for Bible class and sermon presentations. I am hopeful that Accordance on the iPad will be flexible enough that I can go back to the iPad in the classroom. I get the feeling I will not be disappointed.

Glad you followed up the last blog with some more details.  All of your loyal Accordance users have been waiting so long for Accordance on the iOS platform and glad to hear it should be great from the start.  Just hope it is coming soon.  By the way, I agree we need to get you an ipad.

Jason, I am certainly aware that there are many other iOS Bible apps which enable you to look up passages quickly. In fact, I mentioned them when I contrasted our method of navigation with those of "most other programs I've seen."

While this blog post merely relates my experience of using our app in the most basic of ways, I did drop a hint of at least one unique search capability (I'm surprised no one seems to have picked up on it) and implied that there are already many more. I can assure you that you will have most of what you are looking for in the initial release of the app, but as I said, we've got to make sure we get the basics right as well. A top-heavy app with powerful features but clumsy navigation is most certainly not what Accordance users are looking for.