What's In Your Accordance?
01/13/2007 02:40 Filed in: Technology
Nine years ago when I was cautiously considering the switch from Windows to the Mac, one of my biggest concerns was Bible software. At the time I was primarily using BibleWorks 3.5 on my Windows machines. In BibleWorks I had access to the Greek NT, Hebrew Bible, LXX, NASB with Greek and Hebrew dictionaries, and a couple of good lexicons among a few other modules. My main concern in switching to the Mac was finding equitable replacements for all the modules I was currently using. My hopes and fears were soon relieved when I discovered Accordance for the Mac. Not only could I do everything in Accordance that I was already doing in BibleWorks, I could do much more. In many ways my discovery of Accordance helped me make the final decision to take the plunge into the Mac world. And nine years later, if I were to list out top reasons for staying with the Mac, Accordance would be high on the list.
My initial purchase of Accordance and my first modules was made through the Gramcord Institute of which at one time Accordance was associated. The texts and modules listed below were not purchased all at once but have been acquired gradually over the last nine years. Oak Tree Software, the makers of Accordance have a very generous upgrade policy with many of the updates to the modules offered for free or at very reasonable prices. When Microsoft Office for the Mac is updated every three years or so, I have to think about where I'm going to find the money for an upgrade and plan ahead. I've never had such concerns with Accordance upgrades.
Below is a list of biblical texts I own, followed by other modules I've added. I'm actually not listing everything I have because a number of public domain works were included in some of my purchases. One day I'll make the time to weed out some of these modules that I never use, but the reality is that they don't really take up that much space.
Accordance Biblical Texts I Own:
American Standard Version
Bible in Basic English
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with Westminster Morphology
Bishop's Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible
Darby Translation
English Standard Version
Geneva Bible
Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle-Aland, 27th Edition) with Morphological tagging
Greek New Testament: Textus Receptus with Strong's Numbers
God's Word Translation
Holman Christian Standard Bible
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
La Biblia de las Américas
Rahlfs Greek Septuagint
The Message
New American Standard Bible
New American Standard Bible (1995 Update) with Strong's Numbers
New English Translation (Including all notes)
New International Version with Goodrick/Kohlenberger Numbers
New Living Translation (first edition) [this module is no longer available]
New Living Translation (second edition)
New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha
Revised English Bible
Today's English Version
Today's New International Version
World English Bible
The Holy Bible by Noah Webster
Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech
Young's Literal Translation
Accordance Extra-Biblical Texts I Own
Kaufmann Mishna (grammatically tagged)
The Mishna: A New Translation by Jacob Neusner
Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts (Hebrew)
Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts: A New English Translation
An Index of Qumran Manuscripts
Works of Flavius Josephus (Greek) with Morphological Tagging
Works of Flavius Josephus (English) translated by William Whiston
Works of Philo (Greek) with Morphological Tagging
Works of Philo (English) translated by C. D. Yonge
Accordance Greek Reference Works I Own
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. (BDAG)
Strong's Greek Dictionary of the New Testament
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains (Louw & Nida)
NASB Greek Dictionary
NIV Greek Dictionary
UBS Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the NT (Barclay Newman)
New Testament Greek, 2nd ed. (Gerald Stevens)
Accordance Hebrew Reference Works I Own
Koehler & Baumgartner Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament
Strong's Hebrew Dictionary of the Old Testament
NASB Hebrew Dictionary
NIV Hebrew Dictionary
Other Accordance Reference Works I Own
Accordance Bible Atlas
Accordance Timeline
Anchor Bible Dictionary
New International Encyclopedia of Bible Words by Lawrence Richards [this may no longer be available; I could not find it at the Accordance website]
IVP Dictionary of Biblical Imagery
IVP New Dictionary of Biblical Theology
IVP Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
IVP Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments
IVP New Bible Dictionary
IVP Dictionary of New Testament Background
IVP Dictionary of Paul and His Letters
IVP Pocket Dictionary Series (Theological Terms, Biblical Studies, Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion, New Testament Greek)
IVP New Dictionary of Theology
NIV Compact Dictionary of the Bible
NIV Compact Nave's Topical Bible
NIV Place Names
Accordance Bible Lands PhotoGuide
Accordance Dictionary of Place Names
Assorted Quotations (Compiled by David Lang of Accordance)
Accordance Gallery of Bible Art
Dictionary of Bible Difficulties (Gleason Archer)
IVP Hard Sayings of the Bible
IVP New Bible Commentary
IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament
IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament
Zondervan NIV Commentary
Zondervan NIV Exhaustive Concordance
NIV Study Bible
Outlines of Bible Books (David Lang and Greg Ward)
IVP New Bible Atlas
Manners and Customs in the Bible (Victor H. Matthews)
Theological Journal Library Vols. 1-5
Theological Journal Library Vol. 6
And as mentioned above, this list does not include some of the dozens of public domain works that are also installed, a number of which are quite interesting. But when I look at this list, the most amazing aspect of it all to me is that I can carry ALL of it on my MacBook wherever I go. And even more amazing, my Accordance folder only takes up about 3GB of space, even with the all the works listed above. Simply incredible!