Study Bible and Info Pane

[Paul Meiklejohn]

Its great to see that some of the Study Bibles have now been updated to join the info-pane - Thank you.

 

I'm still missing the: ESV, NLT and Ryrie Study Bibles.

 

Also, I note that Wm. Barclay's Daily Study Bible has dropped down into the study bible section.  Although it calls itself a Study Bible, I would imagine with over 17 volumes it's rightful place is in the commentaries. 

Edited November 24, 2016 by Paul Meiklejohn

[Alistair]

I have 7 out of 13 SBs showing for Gen. 1:1.

[Mark Allison]

There should be a Thanksgiving treat for you, Alistair, in your Accordance "Check for Content  Updates" menu :-)

 

We're still working on some final fixes to the ESV, NLT, and Ryrie Study Bibles. They should be ready to go on Friday. 

Edited November 24, 2016 by Mark Allison

[Alistair]

Thank you! Nine are now showing. Pumpkin pie for all!

[ukfraser]

Picking up the comment paul made about changing the category for barclay, although stern's jewish nt commentary is called a commentary, really it has so many gaps, not covering every verse, and is a single volume, i consider it fits better in the study bible category.

 

Thanks

 

Ps, on the news in the uk, we are told that the roads are jammed in the usa with people setting off for thanksgiving, so why are you still working????

 

Happy thanksgiving (though what is the origin/reason for this holiday??????)

[sfarson]

Happy thanksgiving (though what is the origin/reason for this holiday??????) 

 

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I think a key impetus for this holiday was the following proclamation made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 (during the depths of the Civil War).  Oh, how times have changed what a President would say...   

 

Washington, D.C.

October 3, 1863

 

By the President of the United States of America.

 

A Proclamation.

 

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

 

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.

 

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

 

William H. Seward,

Secretary of State

Edited November 24, 2016 by sfarson

[Alistair]

I have ESVSB, NLTSB, Jewish Annotated NT, and RyrieSB still to show up.

I suppose someone should also check on Scofield and Dake?

[Mark Allison]

Scofield and Dake should both be showing up. If they're not, trying deleting them from your library and installing them again.

[Paul Meiklejohn]

Alistair there has been another module update for most of the SB's you mention.  All 12 of mine are now showing.
Thanks Mark and the Acc. team.

[Alistair]

I couldn't figure out why the Jewish Annotated NT wasn't showing up for Genesis 1:1 Duh!

All my SBs are now proudly displayed where they should be. Thanks to Mark and everyone else.

[Tim Hall]

Thanksgiving goes back farther than Abraham Lincoln. In fact, on Thanksgiving Day (last Thursday) I read a presidential proclamation for a day of thanks issued by George Washington.

[jeremyduncan]

Is there a way to manually set something like Barclay's back into Commentaries where it used to be? This seems like a case of someone reading the title without really understanding what the module actually was.

Edited November 26, 2016 by jeremyduncan

[Alistair]

Happy thanksgiving (though what is the origin/reason for this holiday??????)

 

This is from The message of the Old Testament, by Mark Dever (Crossway, Wheaton, Ill. USA, 2006. pp.861–862)

 

WHAT’S THERE TO BE THANKFUL FOR?

The history of Thanksgiving in the United States is an interesting one. Its roots trace back to the common Christian custom of having special days set aside to praise God for his great blessings. In New England, this Christian custom meshed with the English custom of a harvest day celebration. After the European settlers arrived in Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts) in 1621 and enjoyed their first harvest following many difficulties, they gave a special feast of thanks. They also invited the local Americans, the Wampanoags. Over the next 150 years, the colonies frequently held such thanksgiving days after the harvest had come in.

In 1782, the Continental Congress decreed,

 

It being the indispensable duty of all nations, not only to offer up their suppli­ cations to Almighty God, the giver of all good, for his gracious assistance in a time of distress, but also in a solemn and public manner to give him praise for his goodness in general, and especially for great and signal interpositions of his Providence in their behalf: therefore the United States in Congress assembled . . . do hereby recommend . . . the observation of . . . a day of solemn thanksgiving to God for all his mercies; and they do further recommend to all ranks, to tes­ tify to their gratitude to God for his goodness, by a cheerful obedience to his laws, and by protecting, each in his station, and by his influence, the practice of true and undefiled religion, which is the great foundation of public prosperity and national happiness.

 

The first national observance of Thanksgiving by presidential proclama­tion—still our practice today—occurred in November 1789 at the recommen­dation of President Washington and the U.S. Congress. No regular national celebration of the day occurred in the early 1800s, though increasing numbers of states set such a day in the fall.

 

As tension in the nation over slavery grew and the country moved toward civil war, the poet and editor Sarah Hale began lobbying tirelessly for a nation­ally recognized Thanksgiving holiday. But it was not until the height of the Civil War in 1863 that President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November a national day of Thanksgiving. Presidential proclamations from the 1870s until the 1930s did the same.

 

In 1939, President Roosevelt, trying to help the economy by lengthening the Christmas shopping season, proclaimed the third Thursday in November as a national holiday for Thanksgiving. He did this again in 1940 and 1941 against a good amount of popular controversy over when the country should thank God. Congress then took up the matter and passed a joint resolution in 1941 calling for a compromise. They decreed that Thanksgiving should fall not on the third, nor necessarily the last, but the fourth Thursday of November. Ever since, every president has proclaimed Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.

 

 

There is another, more critical, account in Lies my teacher told me–Everything your American history textbook got wrong by James W. Loewen. (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, New York NY USA, 1996). See chapter 3.

Edited November 27, 2016 by Alistair

[ukfraser]

I was interested to see how this compared to a well known resource

 

;o)

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

 

Ps, sorry this has drifted off topic. But the panel seems to have been sorted so hopefully accordance staff are enjoying your turkey and this thread will end naturally.

[Mark Allison]

Is there a way to manually set something like Barclay's back into Commentaries where it used to be? This seems like a case of someone reading the title without really understanding what the module actually was.

 

We'll do that in the next update of the module.

[Alistair]

We'll do that in the next update of the module.

What about a custom section where we can put our favourite parallel resources, be they Bible text or commentary or study Bible notes or cross references?