To conclude this series, I will highlight some further desiderata and a few features not yet mentioned as well as offer some thoughts about the program’s value for various users.
Two resources I would like to see available on BibleWorks are a colour-coded synopsis of the Gospels and a source-critically colour-coded Pentateuch. One complaint I have about the Gospels synopsis, besides the lack of colour, is that columns of parallel texts from the Gospels, so far as I can tell, cannot be moved simultaneously up and down. This makes it difficult to view extended texts in parallel.
BibleWorks is now designed to incorporate external links and user-created databases. External links can be incorporated in two ways: Ermie (External Resource Manager) is a folder supplied with abundant links to online content, which is, of course, expandable with your own supplementary links; second, links to lemma specific pages on such online programs or lexica as CAL, TLG or Perseus can be accessed simply by right-clicking a word in the Browse Window.
Furthermore, BibleWorks allows users to contribute databases to the program (see a list here). I’ve added Calvin’s Institutes and Commentary on the Bible, Keil and Delitzsch’s OT Commentary, as well as an index to the Great Isaiah Scroll online. The process was easy to complete.
BibleWorks ought to be affordable to many religious clergy and lay teachers of the Bible who with knowledge of the biblical languages would be greatly assisted in lesson and homily preparation. For scholars and students of biblical literature, some form of Bible software is virtually a must have. BibleWorks is the only such program I have used and it has met my needs more than adequately, with comparatively minimal cost, little user-headache, and much delight in time saved and complex tasks made easy.
Two resources I would like to see available on BibleWorks are a colour-coded synopsis of the Gospels and a source-critically colour-coded Pentateuch. One complaint I have about the Gospels synopsis, besides the lack of colour, is that columns of parallel texts from the Gospels, so far as I can tell, cannot be moved simultaneously up and down. This makes it difficult to view extended texts in parallel.
BibleWorks is now designed to incorporate external links and user-created databases. External links can be incorporated in two ways: Ermie (External Resource Manager) is a folder supplied with abundant links to online content, which is, of course, expandable with your own supplementary links; second, links to lemma specific pages on such online programs or lexica as CAL, TLG or Perseus can be accessed simply by right-clicking a word in the Browse Window.
Furthermore, BibleWorks allows users to contribute databases to the program (see a list here). I’ve added Calvin’s Institutes and Commentary on the Bible, Keil and Delitzsch’s OT Commentary, as well as an index to the Great Isaiah Scroll online. The process was easy to complete.
BibleWorks ought to be affordable to many religious clergy and lay teachers of the Bible who with knowledge of the biblical languages would be greatly assisted in lesson and homily preparation. For scholars and students of biblical literature, some form of Bible software is virtually a must have. BibleWorks is the only such program I have used and it has met my needs more than adequately, with comparatively minimal cost, little user-headache, and much delight in time saved and complex tasks made easy.
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