Book Reviews -- By: Anonymous

Journal: Bulletin for Biblical Research
Volume: BBR 25:2 (NA 2015)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous


Book Reviews

Accordance 11 Ultimate Collection. Altamonte Springs, FL: OakTree Software, 2014. $1,999.00.

Jesus highlighted how the smallest details of the biblical text matter when it comes to seeing and savoring him and his central place in redemptive history (Matt 5:17). Because of this, I am thrilled with Accordance 11. For more than 20 years, Accordance Bible Software has been at the forefront of biblical studies research tools for scholars and pastors, offering a user-friendly, text-focused platform matched by the fastest and most complex (and easy-to-use) original language search-engine on the market. The latest upgrade adds exceptional enhancements that will serve not just the academic but also especially the student, and it is available for use with Mac, PC, iPhone, and iPad. If you are training others for ministry of the Word, you need to let your students know about Accordance 11!

Most users will be interested in one of the six main collections: Starter ($59.90), Bible Study ($199.00), Original Languages ($299.00), Essential ($499.00), Advanced ($999.00), and Ultimate ($1,999.00). Original-language users may also consider the Hebrew master ($2,699.00) or Greek master ($2,999.00) sets, which include all of Accordance’s Hebrew or Greek texts and tools to date. Accordance has always focused on making available the most important tools for Bible study. The Ultimate Collection comprises the equivalent of more than $17,000 of print resources, including numerous biblical texts and translations, dictionaries, commentaries, an atlas, and many other reference and study helps to aid the scholar, pastor, and student alike. Among the 29 English Bibles are the KJV, NASB, NRSV, ESV, NIV, and HCSB, all with Strong’s numbers that are tied to their respective Hebrew and Greek resources. You also get the BHS Hebrew, Rahlfs LXX, and NA28 Greek texts, all morphologically tagged with apparatuses. These are accompanied by other Hebrew and Greek texts, along with tagged original texts and English translations of the OT Pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus, the Apostolic Fathers, and the Apocryphal Gospels. Included are the best lexicons such as HALOT, CDCH, BDAG, Louw and Nida, along with many other useful word study tools. Commentaries include older works such as Calvin and Keil & Delitzsch, but one also gets the New American Commentary (38 vols.), the New International Greek Testament Commentary (13 vols.), the Pillar New Testament Commentary (14 vols.), the Tyndale Old and New Testament Commentaries (49 vols.), and the Bible Speaks Today: New Testament (22 vols., NT only). Among the dictionaries are the original ISBE, the Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Eerdman’s Dictionary of the Bible, and 12 of the major IVP bl...

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