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Software

Biblical Greek Software Options

There are many powerful bible software programs available. Some are websites that have searchable bible texts and original language tools. Some are downloadable programs. Some are professional software products for sale. Sometimes a person may simply want to perform a single word search. Some of the online sites may be the best alternative for this need. Sometimes you many want to work on an indepth bible study or thoroughly research a passage. In these cases a high powered multifaceted Bible programmed may be the best choice. Generally, you will get what you pay for. An expensive product will offer much more than a free web site.

1. Bible Software Giants (Full Service Bible Software)

2. Freeware (Free Software with lesser)

3. New Testament Greek Study Web Sites

1. Bible Software Giants

There are only a few software brands that have risen to the top of their field and offer a vast array of powerful Bible study tools. Each has carved out a special niche in the market place so the question to ask yourself when you decide to purchase software is what you will be using for and how much your budget will allow. Bear in mind you normally get what you pay for in this market. There are real reasons why each product is priced where it is. These major software products offer too much for a quick comparison. The best thing to do is to visit each site to see which would be the best match for your needs.

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Logos Original Languages Library -Logos Bible Software is the most extensive Bible software on the market. The Libronix engine that powers Logos Bible Software is also used by many publishers to produce electronic versions of their own texts. What this means is that any Libronix title you purchase from any publisher integrates seamlessly with your existing Logos Bible Software/Libronix digital library. With nearly 10,000 titles in this format from hundreds of different publishers you can build the biggest and best digital library you can imagine. The sheer volume of titles all sharing the same format also allows you to perform massive searches over your entire electronic library, and increases the chance that you can have your favorite commentaries scroll with your Bible reading.

There are many different Logos packages for sale to suit any kind of study. Of course, if you are interested in original language study you will need the Orig inal Languages Library package or better. If you want to get the biggest bang for your buck and can pull it off, you definitely want to go for the Gold, since it has everything in the Original Languages Library and tons more. If funds are tight, make sure you take advantage of the payment plan option. Unfortunately, Bauer, Danker, Arndt and Gingrich (BDAG) lexicon is not included, but may be purchased separately. Recently, Logos has devoted serious effort and developments in biblical language tools. Now it can perform any elaborate search that any of the major software companies offer, and even many more that are exclusive to Logos.

As a point of interest, Logos Bible Software offers an inexpensive audio addin for the Greek language by Prof. John Schwandt. This addin has recordings for all of the lexicals forms in the Greek New Testament and you hear the words in either the Erasmian and ethnic pronunciation systems. The explanatory link has a number of examples so you can hear how the New Testament Greek sounds. This audio feature is avaible for you to hear the lexical form of any Greek word that apears in any Logos window.

Logos is also now available for mac-users.

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Bibleworks Software -Bibleworks Software developed as a tool especially designed for biblical langauage research and study. It has continued to be a leader in this area of biblical research. It is primarily an electronic biblical language and bible study tool. It has a great reputation for the complex grammatical and sytatical searches that it can perform. It also has wonderful vocabulary and paradigm learning tools.

As a point of interest, Bibleworks includes vocabulary and paradigm recordings by Prof. John Schwandt. They offer these recordings in their base package as part of their vocaublary and paradigm learning tool. So now in version 6 they have audio flashcards.

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Gramcord -The Gramcord Institute was the first to produce a widely accepted grammatically tagged original language Bible text. It is best known for this parsing and grammatical search tool.

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Accordance Scholar's Collection -Accordance Bible Software is designed for MAC users. The program can also be run on a PC using an emulator. This program has been such a leader in Bible software that until the recent advancements in the PC software options many scholars would purchase a MAC just so they could use this program. Accordance offers a number of tools and modules beyond basic langauge tools and uses a colorful and intuitive user interface (as one would expect in a MAC environment). The Scholar's Collection is specifically targeted toward original language tools.

2. Freeware (Free Bible software with lesser functionality)

E-Sword Free Greek New Testaments and other languages - Scroll down the page and you will find downloads for the Majority New Testament Greek text and a fully accented Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) text.

The Sword Project - is currently developing cross-platform bible software. You can download free modules from their site.

J-Sword - is free cross-platform bible software written in Java.

Mac Sword - is free bible software written in for Macintosh (MAC) operating systems.

Gnome Sword - is free bible software written for Linux operating systems.

E4 Bible Software - The E4 group has a number of resources on a free CD including the Textus Receptus and their own Greek lexicon that is derived from Thayers. Although these resources are not the best and most current, the price is right. Unfortunately, they don't have any contact info on their site or much (if any customer support).

3. New Testament Greek Study Web Sites

Greek New Testament - No Greek fonts needed to read the Greek NT (NA26)on this site. Select the text by chapter. This site also has a nice search tool.

Biblon 2000 - This is a very nice site that allows you to click on words to see textual veriants.

The Unbound Bible - You may choose from many languages and texts including the Greek NA 26, Textus Recptus (1550), and the majority text (Westcot-Hort). It uses the symbol font or Unicode to display the Greek text. Also check out their Greek Greek Parser and Lexicon.

Perseus New Testament - [Oxford Mirror] [Berlin Mirror] This site displays the Westcot-Hort Greek NT and will parse the Greek words as you click on them. There are many different display options in order to see the Greek text. Click on "Configure display" in the upper left corner to adjust the language and font.

GreekBible.com - (NA26)- You have your choice of displaying GNT passages in Symbol font, images, Athena font, Unicode (Palatino Linotype), or all caps. Includes one-click parsing and definitions.

The Bible Tool - This is a very nice online tool. You can customize the background and diplay morphology (parsing) and commintary information. To display the Greek texts, 1) click on "Bible Texts" (left sidebar). 2) scroll down to select your Greek text (e.g., Byzantine Majority Text, Septuagint, Textus Receptus, Tishendorf's, Unaccented Modern Greek, Westcott-Hort w/NA27 variants). 3) Enter your passage in the "by verse or passage" box.

The Greek New Testament - The Westcot-Hort GNT with NA26/27 variants. It uses the symbol font present on most computers.

Westcot-Hort Greek New Testament - The Christian Classics Ethereal Library with the Westcot-Hort GNT, (Unicode font)

Olive Tree Greek New Testament - The site has many different online Greek texts, but you must have one of the many Greek fonts downloaded on your machine. Links for downloads are available.

Crosswalk.com - Type in the desired passage in the search box and see both the Greek and English translation of the text. Click on any Greek word and automatically see definitions and concordance information. (You must download their Greek font.)

Interlinear Septuagint Greek and English - This great site provides free PDF's of interlinear texts of each book of the New Testament and Septuagint.

PDF bibles - This is site has many Greek New Testaments in PDF form. There are morphological tags with some of them.

NT Greek Reading Notes - This site has the entire Greek New Testment in Word form using the Galaxy font. You can download the font from the site. It also looks like it has some PDF files, which don't require the font, but I was only directed to login to a Yahoo account.

GNT (Nestle-Aland) UTF8 - A Unicode Greek New Testament without accents.

HTML Bible - This site has the New Testament in parallel Greek and English versions for each verse. For other online Bibles see the home page HTMLBible.com.

zhubert.com - This is a great site that has the Greek bible that parses words as your mouse hovers over them.

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