Lighting the Lamp
Our popular podcast feed is available through iTunes. After a year of podcasting, we now have a library of over 40 titles and 10 hours of instructions. Dr. J deliberately mixes up the topics and levels for variety, so we list them in three ways:
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#37) NIV Application Commentary
[Basic] The popular NIV Application Commentary series not only explains the original meaning of each passage, it also focuses on the timeless truths and the contemporary significance which today's Christian can apply from the text. This podcast gives five examples from different books and writers, to whet your appetite for this unique commentary set. (9:05 minutes)
#30.3) Making a User Tool Pt. 3: Importing
[Intermediate] In addition to editing and links, User Tools are also a powerful way to bring other works into Accordance's search engine and interface. Whether importing from plain text or HTML, the Import command can quickly bring in large amounts of content, often complete with formatting and scripture links. This podcast will walk you through some sample processes and give you some tips for helping your import go more smoothly. (11:04 minutes)
[Basic] Through the use of Accordance's Details workspace, your search results can be easily sorted, summarized, and processed into gorgeous graphs and charts. The Analysis tab organizes the results grammatically and statistically, while each of the graphs create beautiful presentations suitable for handouts or a projector. This podcast gives a glimpse into each capability of the Details workspace, helping you integrate it more effectively into your workflow. (8:21 minutes)
[Basic] This podcast, How to Study a Person, will show users how to apply their use of Accordance to study individual people in the Bible. Of the three logical steps in studying a person—Identify, Investigate, Evaluate—Accordance excels in Investigation. By watching this podcast, you'll discover methods to investigate a person more effectively, collating information from a multitude of sources to better prepare your evaluation. (9:07 minutes)
[Basic] Its easy to forget that with all of Accordance's powerful features, there are also a variety of easy tips and tweaks to help you get the most out of your study. This podcast will walk you through a few of the most helpful ones, enabling you to start up faster, conserve screen space, or reorient the resource palette to better fit your workflow. (8:21 minutes)
#30.2) Making a User Tool Pt. 2: Adding Links
[Intermediate] As powerful as User Tools are in creating new content for use in Accordance, their capabilities improve dramatically with the use of links. Links can be to scripture directly, another Accordance module, a website, or even to another file on your computer. This podcast will walk you through the different types of links and show you how to easily generate them and interconnect your study resources. (9:25 minutes)
[Basic] The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of documents that include the oldest surviving manuscripts of the Old Testament, comprise a key portion of textual studies. Discovered in the mid twentieth century, the contents of the scrolls were not available publicly until the groundbreaking work of Dr. Martin Abegg in 1991. Accordance, through the help of Dr. Abegg and others, is proud to offer the largest electronic collection of Dead Sea Scrolls resources. This podcast will give you a glimpse into the history, content, and value of these resources. (9:49 minutes)
[Basic] If you are a student of the scriptures, sentence diagramming is an important part of textual study, whatever your level of training. Students and professors may want to grammatically diagram the original languages, while a pastor or layman may want to visually align and connect related words, while adding in comments. Regardless of your approach, Accordance provides the tools you need to create beautiful and functional diagrams. This podcast will walk you through each step of the process, giving you just a glimpse of the tools available. (8:50 minutes)
#3.5) Commands & Symbols, Part 5: INFER and Search Back
[Advanced] One of Accordance's most powerful capabilities is the INFER command and its helpful counterpart Search Back. INFER lets you search for any allusions, paraphrases, quotes, or other similar phrases between any two passages of the same language. You can find the use of apocalyptic material in the pseudepigrapha, OT quotations in the book of Hebrews, or even a way to compare the writing styles of the different prophets. This podcast will show you to use an INFER search to explore the text in a whole new way. (11:38 minutes)
[Hebrew] The Hebrew language provides some of the most important biblical manuscripts and documents, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Targums, and Hebrew Bible, as well as some of the most difficult challenges, such as dealing with the script, suffixes, cantillation, or others. Accordance handles every aspect of Hebrew with ease and enables you to focus the actual content. This podcast will walk you through the different ways of interacting with Hebrew in Accordance and some of the many important resources that are available. (9:58 minutes)
[Basic] User Tools are a powerful way to add your own content into Accordance. Whether they are collections of research, sermon notes, assignments, or even other works you own, a User Tool lets you make them a searchable part of Accordance. This podcast will walk you through the basics of user tool, including how to create one, adding content, formatting that content, and searching. (9:50 minutes)
#29.2) NT Text Criticism Part 2
[Greek] The comparison of early manuscripts of the Greek New Testament, and the identification of textual variants, assist scholars who attempt to reconstruct the original text and trace its development. Accordance offers several searchable apparatus modules which collate the variants. A wealth of manuscripts and eclectic versions of the New Testament also allow the user to compare the texts and the translations. This podcast focuses on the use of textual apparatus modules and the different kinds of variant readings. (17:51 minutes)
#29.1) NT Text Criticism Part 1
[Basic] Text critical issues are of particular importance in this day and age. Never before have students of the Bible had such access to the original manuscripts, nor as many excellent translations. Accordance makes it easy to identify important textual variants in the New Testament and provides the resources needed to work through them. This podcast will cover handling these issues with little to no knowledge of Greek, using the NET Translation and Notes, Metzger's Textual Commentary, and Comfort's NT Text and Translation Commentary. (14:41 minutes)
[Basic] If you own Accordance, theres a good chance you also have the Parallel modules. These underused databases come with most of our base packages and let you compare Biblical passages. Use them to compare similar accounts, find unique material, explore quotations, and more. This podcast will walk you through the various Parallel databases in Accordance and how to use them more effectively. (9:58 minutes)
#3.4) Commands & Symbols, Part 4: Linking Commands
[Advanced] Linking Commands are flexible and powerful tools that enable you to combine resources, duplicate efforts, or even find unique word patterns. Perhaps you want your Triple-Click to look up 2 dictionaries and a general tool at the same time, or you want to be able to search within the results of your Construct Window search. Through the use of linking commands a whole new field of searching opens up for you. (15:26 minutes)
[Basic] Though valued by scholars internationally for its exegetical prowess, Accordance is well designed for more devotional study by people of faith. Whether you are Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish, Accordance provides a variety of resources and capabilities designed to make devotional study easier and more affordable. This podcast will walk you through basic devotional study, along with some of those resources and how they integrate within Accordance. (9:54 minutes)
#26) Tyndale Commentary Series
[Basic] The new Tyndale Commentary Series covers the entire Bible in depth. This podcast explains the difference between devotional, exegetical, and expository commentaries. It then compares and contrasts Tyndale with the popular EBC series available in Accordance, looking closely at their explanations of three challenging verses. (9:49 minutes)
[Intermediate] For those of us who haven't been able to spend the years in training to read greek or hebrew, key number texts help bridge the gap between translation and original language. Accordance offers a variety of texts with key numbers and provides a suite of powerful capabilities to bring you ever closer to the original texts in your studies. This podcast will show you some of these capabilities and demonstrate them in action. (9:34 minutes)
[Basic] One of the first and most important tools you should add to your bible text is a good Bible Dictionary. Dictionaries provide a quick way to investigate the background of a passage, book, person, or event. In addition, since they are usually written by a team of scholars, they are generally significantly less biased than a commentary. Accordance offers a variety of dictionaries and integrates them seamlessly into your workflow. This podcast will go over some of the basics, helping you get more out of your study. (9:40 minutes)
#23) Hebrew Construct Searches
[Hebrew] For those that want to dig deeper into the original Hebrew or other Semitic resources, the Construct Window provides a powerful, but fast and intuitive way to define your searches, regardless of your level of study. This podcast will walk you through building useful morphological searches in Hebrew to help you study specific root, lexical and inflected terms, exact grammatical forms, and complex phrases. (9:58 minutes)
[Basic] If you own Accordance, there is a good chance that your purchase came with a choice of a free Bible to unlock. Even if it didn't, perhaps you want to unlock additional modules from your DVD in the future. This podcast will help walk you through this process, so you can easily access all of your content and integrate it into Accordance. (8:22 minutes)
[Greek] Now that you've spent so many years working with the Greek language, why not use a program that lets you easily put all of that knowledge to good use? Accordance's construct searches begin to realize their full potential while exploring the Greek language. This podcast will walk you through building useful morphological searches in Greek to help you study specific root, lexical and inflected terms, exact grammatical forms, and complex phrases. (9.05 Minutes)
[Basic] At its most basic level, Accordance lets you read any any of your content. However, it brings so much more to the table than just a simple text viewer. This podcast will show you how Accordance improves even the initial act of reading, through more customization choices, supplemental materials, hyperlinks, and more. (9:40 minutes)
[Intermediate] Accordance's Construct Search is an immensely powerful way to graphically define a search. By just dragging and dropping items, you can define complex word relationships and quickly find their location in the text. This podcast will walk you through the basics of the construct window and how to use it to define simple searches. Future episodes will cover the more powerful greek and hebrew grammatical searches. (8:56 minutes)
Accordance Bible Software has established itself over the years as the Scholarly Standard for Biblical Research. With a wide range of Greek and Hebrew research grade texts and the very best in academic resources, Accordance offers scholars speed, precision and flexibility. Study the Dead Sea Scrolls, find all inferences to the gospels in the Pseudepigrapha, or investigate thoughts in Hermeneia or Word Bible Commentary - all in just seconds. (7.33 minutes)
[Intermediate] Just like sitting in your favorite chair, under your favorite lamp, with your favorite people, Accordance can be customized so you feel as comfortable as possible while working with your resources. This podcast will help walk you through creating a Custom Workspace, with the appropriate texts and tools, arrange how you want them, to let you jumpstart any study of the Bible. (9:58 minutes)
#17) The Essential IVP Reference Collection
[Basic] The Essential IVP Reference Collection, featuring the content of 17 books, is one of our most popular bundles. Many people find it a surprisingly rich starting point for their Accordance library; others find value in the numerous themed dictionaries, such as the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. This podcast will help you decide if the collection is right for you. You'll get an overview of the different books included in the package in addition to samples of the actual content. (9:25 minutes)
#16) The Accordance Philosophy
[Basic] You may notice that at Accordance, we tend to operate a little bit differently. This podcast helps to explain the Accordance Philosophy: What we do and why we do it. You'll see how this philosophy affects our interface, resources, sales, and support. (13:48 minutes)
[Basic] The Graphics DVD Bundle is an incredible tool for bringing the biblical world to life. The bundle includes three unique visual resources: The Bible Atlas, which is a fully customizable, high resolution map of the ancient world; The Bible Lands PhotoGuide, which features over 1600 high resolution pictures of most of the locations in the ancient world; The Timeline, a fully customizable timeline of many of the events, people, and writings of the time. This podcast will highlight each of the resources and walk you through a sample presentation on the storied city of Bethlehem. (16:59 minutes)
#14) Accordance News December 2009
[News] December 2009: This podcast features a recap of new releases and program updates throughout the year, plus coverage of this year's ETS/SBL Annual Meetings. Finally, you'll get a window into one of the free Training Seminars we host regularly around the world. (13:57 minutes)
[Basic] Accordance 8.4 is another free upgrade to Accordance 8, providing numerous new features, refinements, and bug fixes. Among these features are two powerful and important enhancements: Automatic Bibliographic Footnoting and Smart Searching. Now, when copying as a citation out of a tool, Accordance will automatically include the tool's bibliographic information as a footnote, in a variety of styles. Smart Searching is Accordance's way of embracing the now popular keyword style searching, helping a user transition from a Google or Spotlight based method to Accordance's exact searching more easily. Both of these features are demonstrated in this podcast. (14:37 minutes)
[Basic] As intuitive as Accordance is to use, installation can be a little tricky. This podcast will walk you through installing from our Primary DVD, explain each of the options, and show you how to enter all the codes you have purchased. You'll also learn how to set up automatic updates and get help via the help menu. (10:08 minutes)
[Greek] This podcast continues the series on basic greek searching. Discussed are two simple, but powerful methods of expanding your studies. You'll learn how to specify a grammatical tag to combine with any root, lexical, or inflected search. Additionally, you'll see how to amplify a greek word by looking it up in other texts or any tool. (16:24 minutes)
[Greek] One of the clearest ways in which Accordance sets itself apart is in original language capabilities. This podcast begins discussion of basic greek searching. You'll learn to enter root, lexical, and inflected form searches in a variety of ways. You'll also see how Accordance quickly and easily handles these searches, helping you work with the original greek texts. (21:00 minutes)
[Basic] This podcast will show you how to setup and effectively use Accordance's powerful slide show mode. With an Accordance slide show you can effectively use any of your resources through a customizable and dynamic presentation, featuring live scrolling, instant details, cross highlighting, and more. (14:33 minutes)
#9.2) Inductive Bible Study, Part 2: The Literary Context
[Basic] Inductive Bible Study (IBS) is one of the most important methods of Bible study, as the reader can dig into the passage without requiring the use of a commentary, teacher, or other guide. Accordance can help make this study easier, faster, and more effective. Part 2 continues the use of Accordance to explore the literary context of the passage. (15:13 minutes)
#9.1) Inductive Bible Study, Part 1: The Historical Context
[Basic] Inductive Bible Study (IBS) is one of the most important methods of Bible study, as the reader can dig into the passage without requiring the use of a commentary, teacher, or other guide. Accordance can help make this study easier, faster, and more effective. Part 1 shows how to use Accordance to explore the historical context of the passage. (21:11 minutes)
[Basic] Even as the development teams are constantly releasing new content, such as Hermeneia and the ESV Study Bible, the Accordance program itself is also being constantly improved. The free upgrade to version 8.3 is a perfect example of how we will regularly add a variety of features, bug fixes, and enhancements, many of which are requested by our users. This podcast will discuss some of these new features and show how to use them. (18:24 minutes)
[Basic] This podcast introduces one of our newest releases, Hermeneia. Hermeneia is a top level exegetical commentary, featuring the writings of fifty of the world's top biblical scholars. This podcast will show you what sets Hermeneia apart from other commentaries, demonstrate how it integrates smoothly with Accordance, and provide some samples of Hermeneia's content and how that can effect the understanding of a passage. (22:00 minutes)
[Basic] In this podcast you will see fun ways to display the Bible text to make it more readable or to catch attention. You will also learn how to apply default settings to your open and saved windows. (26:49 minutes)
#3.3) Commands & Symbols, Part 3: Stand-alone Commands
[Intermediate] Part 3 of the series on commands and symbols covers some special commands. For example, you'll learn how to do a fuzzy search, a Key number search, or a search for words that occur a certain number of times. (21:20 minutes)
[Basic] This week, Lighting the Lamp covers the Resource Palette, one of the oldest and most important aspects of Accordance. Whereas the Library Window helps you find and open new any of your modules, the Resource Palette helps you instantly search that module. Its very fast, powerful, and simple to pick up! Watch this podcast to find out how. (19:10 minutes)
[Basic] The Library Window was introduced in Accordance 8 and quickly became a vital window for many users. It helps you keep track of your entire collection, or locate a specific module quickly. In addition, it is where you can organize your modules, helping to customize *your* Accordance library. This podcast will enable you to do all of the above and show you some tips and tricks to speed up the process. (16:35 minutes)
#3.2) Commands & Symbols, Part 2: Search Symbols
[Intermediate] This is part 2 of the series on commands and symbols. You'll become familiar with every one of Accordance's symbols, from asterisk (*) to question mark (?) to at sign (@), and how they can help you focus your study of the bible. (24:50 minutes)
#3.1) Commands & Symbols, Part 1: Connecting Commands
[Intermediate] This podcast is the first in a series of episodes covering all of the Commands and Symbols Accordance has to offer. Connecting Commands are commands that 'connect' two words or phrases together. You'll learn what each command does, how to easily insert them, and why they can be useful for more advanced Bible study. (10:38 minutes)
[Basic] This episode of Lighting the Lamp will discuss how you can effectively use the ESV Study Bible and all of its resources. It will show what resources are included with the package and why they are helpful, how these resources directly integrate with the ESV, and how to easily combine everything into a single, effective, workflow. Though specific for the ESV Study Bible, these techniques can also be applied to any of our other Study Bibles. (21:04 minutes)
#1.2) Searching the Bible, Part 2: Searching by Word
[Basic] This is Part 2 of our two-part series on Searching the Bible. This podcast will cover the basics of one of Accordance's most powerful features - searching by word. You'll learn how to use word searches to help you find a particular verse you are trying to remember, study how a word is used throughout the Bible, or to learn more about a specific passage. You'll also be introduced to the basics of wildcard searching and utilizing other available resources within Accordance. (21:05 minutes)
#1.1) Searching the Bible, Part 1: Searching by Verse
[Basic] This is Part 1 of our two-part series on Searching the Bible. This is an excellent introduction to the Accordance interface and will show you all of the capabilities of verse searching and reference lookup. Part 2 will cover basic word and phrase searches. (11:13 minutes)
This demo walks you through the general features and capabilities of Accordance Bible Software. Featuring an overview of the workspace, searching by word, searching by verse, and all additional resources, it provides an excellent introduction to Accordance. (14:51 minutes)
Recommended Sequence for the New User
Welcome & Introduction
Walks you through the general features and capabilities of Accordance Bible Software and provides an excellent introduction to Accordance.
Showcases the features and modules of special interest to students and scholars of the original languages.
#16) The Accordance Philosophy
Helps to explain the Accordance Philosophy: What we do and why we do it.
Walks you through installing from our Primary DVD, entering your codes, and getting started.
Explains unlocking and installing additional Bibles and other modules.
Interface Basics
Shows you how to find and organize your modules.
Demonstrates opening any of your resources or immediately searching them for your current text selection (amplifying).
Highlights a variety of easy tips and tweaks to help you get the most out of your study.
Walks you through creating and arranging a custom workspace, with your choice of texts and tools, to jumpstart any study of the Bible.
Discusses some of the new features introduced in 8.3 and shows how to use them.
Demonstrates two powerful and important enhancements: Automatic Bibliographic Footnoting and Smart Searching.
Shows you fun ways to display the Bible text, and how to apply default settings to your open and saved windows.
Gives you a glimpse into the capabilities of the Details workspace with different ways to view and analyse your search results.
Helps you improve even the simple act of reading, through more customization choices, supplemental materials, hyperlinks, and more.
Walks you through the basics of user tool, including how to create one, adding content, formatting that content, and searching.
#30.2) Making a User Tool Pt. 2: Adding Links
Explains the different types of links and show you how to easily generate them and interconnect your study resources.
#30.3) Making a User Tool Pt. 3: Importing
Walks you through the process of prparing and importing an external text or HTML file into a user tool.
Demonstrates the various Parallel databases in Accordance and how to use them more effectively.
Shows how to use the tools Accordance offers to create beautiful and functional diagrams of sentence structure.
Reveals how you can effectively combine any of your resources into a customizable and dynamic presentation, featuring live scrolling, instant details, cross highlighting, and more.
Searching
#1.1) Searching the Bible, Part 1: Searching by Verse
Provides an excellent introduction to the Accordance interface with all of the capabilities of verse searching and reference lookup.
#1.2) Searching the Bible, Part 2: Searching by Word
Covers the basics of one of Accordance's most powerful features - searching by word.
#3.1) Commands & Symbols, Part 1: Connecting Commands
Demonstrates the Connecting Commands that 'connect' two words or phrases together in a single search.
#3.2) Commands & Symbols, Part 2: Search Symbols
Makes you familiar with each of Accordance symbol, from asterisk (*) to question mark (?) to at sign (@), and how it helps you focus your study of the Bible.
#3.3) Commands & Symbols, Part 3: Stand-alone Commands
Includes some special commands that enable you to do a fuzzy search, a Key number search, or a search for words that occur a certain number of times.
#3.4) Commands & Symbols, Part 4: Linking Commands
Demonstrates the Linking Commands that link windows and enable you to combine resources, duplicate efforts, or even find unique word patterns.
#3.5) Commands & Symbols, Part 5: INFER and Search Back
Teaches the INFER command and its helpful counterpart Search Back. INFER lets you search for any allusions, paraphrases, quotes, or other similar phrases between any two passages of the same language.
Walks you through the basics of the construct window and how to use it to define simple searches by just dragging and dropping items.
Methods of Bible Study
#9.1) Inductive Bible Study, Part 1: The Historical Context
Shows how to use Accordance to explore the historical context of the passage using the Inductive Bible Study (IBS) method.
#9.2) Inductive Bible Study, Part 2: The Literary Context
Continues the use of the Inductive Bible Study method to explore the literary context of the passage.
Walks you through basic devotional study, along with a variety of resources for Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish users.
Demonstrates how texts with key numbers bring you ever closer to the original texts.
Helps you indentify a person in the Bible and investigate his life and background.
#29.1) NT Text Criticism Part 1
Covers exploring text critical issues with little to no knowledge of Greek, using the NET Translation and Notes, Metzger's Textual Commentary, and Comfort's NT Text and Translation Commentary.
Original Languages
Hebrew
Features the important biblical manuscripts and documents, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Targums, and Hebrew Bible, and demonstrates simple searches.
#23) Hebrew Construct Searches
Uses the Construct Window to build useful morphological searches in Hebrew and study specific root, lexical and inflected terms, exact grammatical forms, and complex phrases.
Greek
Introduces basic greek searching with root, lexical, and inflected form searches in a variety of ways.
Demonstrates how to specify a grammatical tag to combine with any root, lexical, or inflected search, and how to amplify a greek word by looking it up in other texts or any tool.
Walks you through building useful morphological searches in Greek to help you study specific root, lexical and inflected terms, exact grammatical forms, and complex phrases.
#29.2) NT Text Criticism Part 2
Focuses on the use of textual apparatus modules for the Greek New Testament and the different kinds of variant readings, and shows the wealth of manuscripts and eclectic versions of the New Testament available in Accordance.
Highlights the unique visual resources in the Graphics DVD Bundle: The Bible Atlas, a fully customizable, interactive, high resolution map of the ancient world; the Bible Lands PhotoGuide; and The Timeline.
Discusses how you can effectively use the ESV Study Bible and all of its resources, applies to any of our other Study Bibles.
Features the Bible Dictionaries, explains their value, their differences, and how to get the most out of them.
#17) The Essential IVP Reference Collection
Showcases the Essential IVP Reference Collection which features 17 books and is one of our most popular bundles.
#26) Tyndale Commentary Series
Explains the difference between devotional, exegetical, and expository commentaries, and compares and contrasts the new Tyndale Commentary series with the popular EBC series available in Accordance.
Introduces one of our newest releases, Hermeneia, a top level exegetical commentary, featuring the writings of fifty of the world's top biblical scholars.
Offers a glimpse into the history, content, and value of the largest electronic collection of Dead Sea Scrolls resources.
#37) NIV Application Commentary
Gives examples of the applications and truths derived from five passages from this commentary set.
News
#14) Accordance News December 2009
Recaps the new releases and program updates throughout the year, and covers this year's ETS/SBL Annual Meetings.
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