NICE TO HAVE A FULL SET OF COMMENTARIES

[Enoch]

I find that when I come to a verse and want serious discussion of it in the NT, I am frequently frustrated. In the OT I can count on Keil & Delitzsch to have something intelligent to say, but in the NT, I am ever on a selected verse & trying to get a commentary set to comment on it. But what often happens is that I am sent to a chance cross-reference to that verse instead of to a serious comment on it. That is because in a given commentary set, the particular Bible book is often missing from the set.

 

What I get often is this cross-reference with no way to know where I am in the commentary set. The right bottom window gives a chapter & verse, but does not give the Bible book under discussion, & I find it hard to find out where I am in that commentary set.

 

Thus I make 2 requests for updating Accordance:

 

1) put the name of the book in the window at the right bottom (abbreviated form would be fine). So if I click on Revelation 14:14 to get a comment & it goes to the commentary on Genesis! because the set has no Revelation in it, at least I know I am in comments on Genesis.

 

2) invent some system for constructing one's own ad hoc set of commentaries in an an hoc Bible commentary set. Thus say for example Set A lacks Acts, Romans, & Jude (but has the rest), I could designate Set B to come up for Acts, Romans & Jude -- thus I would know that I would get a significant comment on whatever verse I selected, without having to hunt through all the commentary sets to know what books I have commentary on.

 

3) Fix the system so that if one tries to get a comment on a verse which is in a book not in the Set, a notice would come up saying, (for example): "This Commentary set lacks a commentary on Jude." The following Commentary sets in your library have a commentary on Jude

1. . You could also say, "Accordance has the following commentaries on Jude (which are not in your library), if you click on this link, you will be able to buy them at 30 percent off."

 

Does Accordance have in one file somewhere the commentaries that exist for each set?

 

4) Have an item in the menu that brings up the books of the Bible, Genesis -Revelation with a list of the commentaries in one's library on each book. (You could also include an advertisement for lacking commentaries that Accordance may have for each book.)

 

 

5) Another way to help this problem would be to simply sell Alford's Greek Testament, which covers the whole NT.

[HansK]

Good points. I agree, esp. with your request for headers above in the box stating the book and passage

[Helen Brown]

In the Tool tab you can open the browser pane. This lists for you all the books or volumes jn the commentary, and jumps to highlight the one you are viewing at the top of the pane.

[Steve King]

Hi Enoch,

 

These ideas may help.

 

You could set up a separate zone for commentaries and put the commentary sets that make up your full set into it as separate tabs (e.g. one tab would be Word Biblical Commentaries and another tab for NICNT) then tie that zone to your text. Then the commentaries would follow along with your text. This is how I originally set my workspace up and means you have to have the commentaries 'open' all the time.

 

Another option which might suit you better is to set up a separate workspace just for NT commentaries. Put in that workspace the commentary sets you want to include as separate tabs. Add that workspace to 'My Workspaces' in the library pane. If you want to see what the commentaries say for a particular verse then you will have to put your curser on the relevant verse reference in your text, right click and in 'My Workspaces' select the workspace you want to open (e.g. NT Commentaries). That will open the workspace with all the commentaries in it at the relevant verse (if they have that book included). This is now my preferred option

 

I've attached a screen shot of the library and selecting a workspace.

 

 

Steve

[HansK]

Whow Steve, this was helpful to me. Thanks!