Accordance Bible Software Blog Comments

Sean

Sean — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:42:00 -0500

David's video tutorial also provides an excellent overview of the MT/LXX module. Check it out:

http://www.accordancefiles2.com/training/data/Advanced.html

and select "Using MT/LXX"

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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:38:13 -0500

Here is another link to some earlier posts by David on the same subject:

http://www.accordancebible.com/archive/blog/archive/2008_04_01_archive.html

Read, "Determining What Gets Displayed in MT/LXX" and "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics"

These series of posts along with the others should help with understanding how to use the MT/LXX module.

Again, HTH

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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:09:15 -0500

David covered this in a series of posts last year. You can find the articles here:

http://www.accordancebible.com/archive/blog/archive/2008_09_01_archive.htm

Begin reading the article, "Creative Merging" and scroll up to read to follow-up posts.

HTH...

Irwyn Ince

Irwyn Ince — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:38:48 -0500

David,

Rob Robinson beat me to it, but I have the same request.

Thanks,

Irwyn

Rob Robinson

Rob Robinson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:37:01 -0500

David, I would appreciate it if you would write a blog explaining how to use the MERGE command with MT-LXX, as mentioned in the 12 page paper.

R. Mansfield

R. Mansfield — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:11:15 -0500

Ahsuwah, read the comments on the forum beginning here:

http://www.accordancebible.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2580&view=findpost&p=15156

Robb B

Robb B — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:10:02 -0500

Ahshuwah,

While I'm not David, I thought I would point out Rick's post on this forum thread about syntactical databases: http://www.accordancebible.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2580&pid=15163&st=20&#entry15163.

While I think there is some benefit in having a syntactical database, I don't find it at all surprising that Accordance's competition would tout this feature as "some of the most important and useful" features for scholars. To me, that's just pure marketing, plain and simple. There might be a small niche group of scholars for whom that statement is true, but for the vast majority (I'd venture over 99%) of Bible software users (including the scholars), syntactical searches certainly would not rank as one of the most important and useful features of Bible software. Just my two cents.

Ahshuwah Hawthorne

Ahshuwah Hawthorne — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:26:43 -0500

Hi David,

I am a long-time Accordance user. I have read your summary of the shoot-out out as well as the summary of one of your competitors. I would be interested to know what your thoughts are about the arguments of Dr. Heiser on his Naked Bible blog in regards to the importance of syntactical searches and how these are some of the most important and useful for scholars. You mention that you have critical apparatus but you don't mention the fact that you don't have any syntactical databases. Is the lack of syntax databases a weakness in Accordance?

Thanks,

Ahshuwah

Danny Zacharias

Danny Zacharias — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:03:18 -0500

I don't think names need to be excluded :-)