Category: Accordance
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Reading on a Laptop
I have a lot to say about this topic, but I’ll save most of it for another post. Today, I just want to point out that the experience of reading on a laptop can be enjoyable and beneficial in multiple ways. It’s efficient and comfortable to kick your feet up, set the laptop in your […]
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Intro to Greek by Dana Harris in Accordance Bible Software
Accordance has just released a trio of products that can serve well as a stand alone, traditional introduction to Greek. Each resource is around 50% off at the time of writing this post: An Introduction to Biblical Greek Grammar (Zondervan, 2020) An Introduction to Biblical Greek Workbook (Zondervan, 2020) An Introduction to Biblical Greek Video […]
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Jobes and Silva’s Intro to the LXX (2nd ed.) in Accordance
The very first post on this blog was a quote from the first edition of Jobes and Silva’s Invitation to the Septuagint: There is no such thing as “Septuagint without tears” (indeed, without the affliction of trial-and-error, one seldom learns anything) It’s a fitting quote because Septuagint studies is a sprawling field, intersecting with so […]
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An Accordance Workspace with Room for Looking Up Verse References
In Accordance, you can set your preferences so that hyperlinks open in a text browser tab. If you make room for the text browser in your workspace, you can explore any hyperlinked verse references in multiple versions. Hyperlink to Text Browser In your Accordance preferences, at the very bottom of the amplify section, you can […]
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Searching a Phrase in Accordance Across all Greek Texts
I want to demonstrate a particularly useful, quick search method in Accordance. It’s particularly noteworthy because of of the combination of how easy it is to run and how significant and useful the results are. This morning, I was reading Luke 21, and a couple words stood out to me. Here’s the verse: Luke 21:22 […]
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The World’s Oldest Alphabet in Accordance
Last week, Accordance released a few new Hebrew-related modules. You can read my post here about one those new modules, Ada Yardeni’s Understanding the Alphabet of the Dead Sea Scrolls. In this post, I want to highlight Douglas Petrovich’s The World’s Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto-Consonantal Script, published by Carta with […]
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Understanding the Alphabet of the DSS in Accordance
Today, Accordance released Ada Yardeni’s Understanding the Alphabet of the Dead Sea Scrolls for only $10.99. It is a part of the Savings in Full Bloom sale. The print book is only 40 pages, but it includes over 80 awesome pictures. If you have ever seen a picture of the Dead Sea Scrolls and wished […]
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Selected Works of Origen in Accordance
Accordance has released Greek and English editions of select works of Origen. There is one important thing to know about what sets this module apart from other digital editions: The Greek text has been hand tagged by Rex Koivisto of Multnomah University. Rex is behind many of Accordance’s tagged Greek text. His work is always […]
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The Ideal Concordance
I find myself using the Word Usage live-click feature of Accordance more and more over the past couple weeks. In this simple 3-column (2 zone) workspace, I have it in the right-hand tool zone along with lexica and a verse lookup live-click tab. A single click on a word shows me all the occurrences of […]
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Finding Similar Words with an Accordance Root Search
I wrote about the power of the INFER search in Accordance for finding similar wording, but sometimes a simple root search is all you need. Check out this example. When reading Exodus 26 this morning, I came across ἀγκωνίσκους (small hinge, hook), and I knew that word looked familiar, but it’s actually a hapax. Why […]
Brian W. Davidson 