What is QUMRAN? The term Qumran was in the first instance the name of a wadi that has its source in the Judaean Hills near Jerusalem and empties into the Dead Sea just south of Jericho. This name has also been lent to the ruins of an ancient community on the marl terrace just to […]
Nature of the Pseudepigrapha The OT Pseudepigrapha belong to the same type of literature as what are traditionally referred to as the OT Apocryphal books (or Deuterocanonical books). Both groups are made up largely of popular Jewish religious literature composed mostly during the intertestamental period, and fall within a variety of literary genres. The pseudepigraphal […]
Accordance’s Tagged Mishnah Provides an Unparalleled Resource for Illuminating First Century Judaism Introducing the Mishnah The Second Temple period witnessed an eruption of scribal activity in the Jewish World evidenced both in the literary treasures it produced then, and the scholarly attention the period receives now by countless enthusiasts of early Judaism. But along with […]
The MacArthur New Testament Commentary Respected preacher and Bible teacher Dr. John F. MacArthur needs no introduction to the Christian community in North America. His popular New Testament Commentary series has been published over the years since 1984. The main objective of the MacArthur NT Commentary is to explain and apply Scripture, focusing on the […]
A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew For intermediate and advanced students of the Hebrew Bible, the chief reference grammars in English for the Hebrew language are Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar (abbrev. GKC; Oxford, 1909), Bruce K. Waltke and Michael P. O’Connor’s Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Eisenbrauns, 1990), and the newest edition of Paul Joüon and Takamitsu […]
Evaluation of the Accordance Version Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar The study of Hebrew in the modern era owes an incalculable debt to Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842): the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon (1906) is based on his Thesaurus, and scholars continue to cite the comprehensive and authoritative presentation of his Grammar (1910). All of the attributes that make the print […]
Page Navigation Announcement The Importance of the Biblical Texts Martin Abegg and Colleagues Endorsement by Emanuel Tov OakTree Software is pleased to announce the release of the Dead Sea Scrolls Biblical Manuscripts for use with Accordance Bible Software These important new Accordance modules (DSSB-C and DSSB-M) represent the entire Hebrew and Aramaic corpus of the […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into EnglishAuthors: Martin Abegg, Peter W. Flint, and Eugene UlrichPublisher: HarperCollins (1999) Reviews of the Book “Here, finally, are all the biblical manuscripts from the Judaean Desert caves translated and annotated, with explanatory introductions. It is a splendid complement to the […]
The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in 1947 heralded a new era in the understanding of the Old Testament. For much of the past half century, however, the significance of the scrolls for the Bible has been obscure to the public. Recent popular […]
Series: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature General Editors: Peter W. Flint, Martin G. Abegg Jr., and Florentino García Martínez Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans The current Accordance product contains all eight of the published volumes in a series of monographs and essays from Eerdmans on the Dead Sea Scrolls. The print value […]