Lighting the Lamp

[Basic: Accordance 8] User Tools are a powerful way to add your own content into Accordance. Whether they are collections of research, sermon notes, assignments, or even other works you own, a User Tool lets you make them a searchable part of Accordance. This podcast will walk you through the basics of user tool, including how to create one, adding content, formatting that content, and searching.

[Greek: Accordance 8] The comparison of early manuscripts of the Greek New Testament, and the identification of textual variants, assist scholars who attempt to reconstruct the original text and trace its development. Accordance offers several searchable apparatus modules which collate the variants. A wealth of manuscripts and eclectic versions of the New Testament also allow the user to compare the texts and the translations. This podcast focuses on the use of textual apparatus modules and the different kinds of variant readings.

[Basic: Accordance 8] Text critical issues are of particular importance in this day and age. Never before have students of the Bible had such access to the original manuscripts, nor as many excellent translations. Accordance makes it easy to identify important textual variants in the New Testament and provides the resources needed to work through them. This podcast will cover handling these issues with little to no knowledge of Greek, using the NET Translation and Notes, Metzger's Textual Commentary, and Comfort's NT Text and Translation Commentary.

[Basic: Accordance 8] If you own Accordance, theres a good chance you also have the Parallel modules. These underused databases come with most of our base packages and let you compare Biblical passages. Use them to compare similar accounts, find unique material, explore quotations, and more. This podcast will walk you through the various Parallel databases in Accordance and how to use them more effectively.

[Advanced: Accordance 8] Linking Commands are flexible and powerful tools that enable you to combine resources, duplicate efforts, or even find unique word patterns. Perhaps you want your Triple-Click to look up 2 dictionaries and a general tool at the same time, or you want to be able to search within the results of your Construct Window search. Through the use of linking commands a whole new field of searching opens up for you.

[Methods: Accordance 8] Though valued by scholars internationally for its exegetical prowess, Accordance is well designed for more devotional study by people of faith. Whether you are Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish, Accordance provides a variety of resources and capabilities designed to make devotional study easier and more affordable. This podcast will walk you through basic devotional study, along with some of those resources and how they integrate within Accordance.

[Resources: Accordance 8] The new Tyndale Commentary Series covers the entire Bible in depth. This podcast explains the difference between devotional, exegetical, and expository commentaries. It then compares and contrasts Tyndale with the popular EBC series available in Accordance, looking closely at their explanations of three challenging verses.

[Intermediate: Accordance 8] For those of us who haven't been able to spend the years in training to read greek or hebrew, key number texts help bridge the gap between translation and original language. Accordance offers a variety of texts with key numbers and provides a suite of powerful capabilities to bring you ever closer to the original texts in your studies. This podcast will show you some of these capabilities and demonstrate them in action.

[Resources: Accordance 8] One of the first and most important tools you should add to your Bible text is a good Bible Dictionary. Dictionaries provide a quick way to investigate the background of a passage, book, person, or event. In addition, since they are usually written by a team of scholars, they are generally significantly less biased than a commentary. Accordance offers a variety of dictionaries and integrates them seamlessly into your workflow. This podcast will go over some of the basics, helping you get more out of your study.

[Hebrew: Accordance 8] For those that want to dig deeper into the original Hebrew or other Semitic resources, the Construct Window provides a powerful, but fast and intuitive way to define your searches, regardless of your level of study. This podcast will walk you through building useful morphological searches in Hebrew to help you study specific root, lexical and inflected terms, exact grammatical forms, and complex phrases.

[Basic: Accordance 8] If you own Accordance, there is a good chance that your purchase came with a choice of a free Bible to unlock. Even if it didn't, perhaps you want to unlock additional modules from your DVD in the future. This podcast will help walk you through this process, so you can easily access all of your content and integrate it into Accordance.

[Greek: Accordance 8] Now that you've spent so many years working with the Greek language, why not use a program that lets you easily put all of that knowledge to good use? Accordance's construct searches begin to realize their full potential while exploring the Greek language. This podcast will walk you through building useful morphological searches in Greek to help you study specific root, lexical and inflected terms, exact grammatical forms, and complex phrases.

[Basic: Accordance 8] At its most basic level, Accordance lets you read any any of your content. However, it brings so much more to the table than just a simple text viewer. This podcast will show you how Accordance improves even the initial act of reading, through more customization choices, supplemental materials, hyperlinks, and more.

[Intermediate: Accordance 8] Accordance's Construct Search is an immensely powerful way to graphically define a search. By just dragging and dropping items, you can define complex word relationships and quickly find their location in the text. This podcast will walk you through the basics of the construct window and how to use it to define simple searches. Future episodes will cover the more powerful greek and hebrew grammatical searches.

[Accordance 8] Accordance Bible Software has established itself over the years as the Scholarly Standard for Biblical Research. With a wide range of Greek and Hebrew research grade texts and the very best in academic resources, Accordance offers scholars speed, precision and flexibility. Study the Dead Sea Scrolls, find all inferences to the gospels in the Pseudepigrapha, or investigate thoughts in Hermeneia or Word Bible Commentary - all in just seconds.