Accordance users are "Bible-hipsters"

[Alistair]

I though that might get your attention. The following is from John Evans' A guide to biblical commentaries and reference works, a useful guide alongside

Tremper Longman's Old Testament commentary survey (5e) and D. A. Carson's New Testament commentary survey (7e):

 

 

 

The world of biblical scholarship is undergoing revolutionary changes due to developments in computer technology. It is likely that the day will come when the serious Bible student will be able to access via the internet the contents of the world’s great theological libraries. One gets excited dreaming about what the future holds. But in all your dreaming about tomorrow, you can’t afford to miss today’s opportunities.

 

Up through the 8th edition of this guide, I made recommendations of Bible study software. Because of my last two decades of missionary service in Africa, I have lost my grasp of developments in the area of software. I won’t take the chance of misleading you or embarrassing myself by continuing to make recommendations, except to urge more advanced students to consider Hermeneutika BibleWorks 10 or Libronix Logos Bible Software 6. Mac-users have long had something just as good, arguably better, in the Accordance 11 program; I hasten to add that Accordance now runs on Windows perfectly well. (Once upon a time it did not run natively in the PC environment and one needed an emulator; on the flip side BibleWorks once did not run on a Mac without an emulator.) Many top scholars once chose to use Macs because they enjoyed Accordance (plus Mac stability) so much for work in the Greek and Hebrew: how it’s attractive, fast (seamless), intuitive, and easy-to-use. Logos-users tell me they love the ability to build a large digital library, the interconnectivity, and some of the powerful search features of the program. Logos offers tons more resources for, say, sermon-work; it seems they buy the rights to everything they can. (Accordance is more selective.) The downside of Logos could be that it seems slower, is more difficult to customize, and there is a long learning-curve with its more complex interface. BibleWorks sees a lot of use too, and I have heard that the newer versions 9 and 10 were a big step up. My friend, David Instone-Brewer (Research Fellow and Tech Officer at Tyndale House), puts a broad smile on my face when he talks about “power under the hood for specialist searches” in BibleWorks: “I’m a Bible geek so I tend to go first to BibleWorks. If I were a Bible hipster, I’d be using Accordance all the time.” Like Accordance, it is especially valuable for studying in the original languages.

 

Evans, John F. A guide to biblical commentaries and reference works (10e) (2016). pp.39–40

[Rick Bennett]

That's David's British humor coming out. He's an old school techie, and very much a PC user. He's always seen Macs in general as 'hip' and so Accordance. What Evans and others still seem to miss is that over the years we've been releasing more pastoral ("sermon-work") type resources and features than scholarly. 

[Anthony Sepulveda]

And regarding the mention of “power under the hood for specialist searches” in BibleWorks: how is this in comparison to what Accordance provides?

[Rick Bennett]

And regarding the mention of “power under the hood for specialist searches” in BibleWorks: how is this in comparison to what Accordance provides?

 

We'd have to know exactly what he's talking about, otherwise it would just be speculation as that is a pretty broad statement. All of the major apps could claim this in some regard.

[Alistair]

This seems to be a frequently updated book, perhaps OakTree should write to him to bring him up-to-date for the next edition