Accordance 11 and Bibleworks 10 (original) (raw)
Accordance 13 and Logos 9: Which Software for Biblical Exegesis? (International Version)
An extensive comparative review of Accordance 13 and Logos 9 Bible software. It shows the possibilities offered by these software programs in the field of biblical studies. It underlines the strengths and weaknesses of each software at each stage of exegesis. An abridged version is available online: https://timotheeminard.com/accordance-13-and-logos-9-which-software-for-biblical-exegesis/
Accordance 13 and Logos 8: Which Software for Biblical Exegesis? (International version)
An extensive comparative review of Accordance 13 and Logos 8 Bible software. It shows the possibilities offered by these software programs in the field of biblical studies. It underlines the strengths and weaknesses of each software at each stage of exegesis. An abridged version is available online: http://timotheeminard.com/accordance-13-and-logos-8-which-software-for-biblical-exegesis/
Review of Biblical Literature, 2021
I have long been aware of the existence of the Biblical language teaching and learning materials that Miles Van Pelt has written or co-written for Zondervan. From the introductory Biblical Hebrew textbook to vocabulary cards, charts, a graded reader (co-written with Gary D. Pratico), and a comparative textbook of English and Hebrew grammar to a similar push into Biblical Aramaic, the Zondervan Language Basics series that Van Pelt has helped to create is impressive in both scope and presentation quality. Through the multiple editions, the works have achieved a pleasing aesthetic: the balance of the English and Hebrew fonts is attractive and easy on the eyes; the materials, binding, and sizes of the various volumes just seems right to the hand. I suspect that the authors are tempted, with some justification, to look at their fruits and say, "it is good." I applaud the clear commitment to teaching biblical languages, mastery of which remains the first step in serious biblical interpretation.
Bible Software on the Workbench of the Biblical Scholar: Assessment and Perspective
2018
This article pursues two objectives. First, it tries to explain why Bible software is still not accepted as an indispensable tool for textual analysis. Second, it suggests that modern Hebrew databases can truly impact the analytic methodology of biblical scholars and help to verify and falsify interpretative suggestions. To achieve these two objectives, I will first describe the role Bible software plays in today’s scholarship. By contrasting the aids that Bible software offers with the analytic needs of biblical scholars, it is possible to show clearly what current electronic tools need if they are to play an essential methodological role in the analytic work of the scholar. The second part of the article will then illustrate, in some detail, what the Hebrew database of the Eep Talstra Centre of Bible and Computer (ETCBC) could offer today to the Old Testament scholar and how a future implementation into Bible software could deliver an electronic tool that becomes indispensable for...
Anyone with a photocopy machine, scissors, and rubber cement can copy, cut, arrange, and paste quotations from sources and references in the form of a research paper. It takes an exegete to examine, evaluate, assimilate, and interact with the data in a coherent interpretative narrative employing only the most pertinent citations. The interpretative narrative should then be synthesized and applied theologically and pragmatically. When the seminarian's exegetical digests and papers reflect this approach, he has attained the goal of his education: he has become an exegete and an expositor of the Word of God.
Supplementation and the Study of the Hebrew Bible (Introduction)
Supplementation and the Study of the Hebrew Bible, 2018
This volume includes ten original essays that demonstrate clearly how common, varied, and significant the phenomenon of supplementation is in the Hebrew Bible. Essays examine instances of supplementation that function to aid pronunciation, fill in abbreviations, or clarify ambiguous syntax. They also consider more complex additions to and reworkings of particular lyrical, legal, prophetic, or narrative texts. Scholars also examine supplementation by the addition of an introduction, a conclusion, or an introductory and concluding framework to a particular lyrical, legal, prophetic, or narrative text. The volume represents a contribution to the further development of a panbiblical compositional perspective, with examples from Psalms, the pentateuchal narratives, the Deuteronomistic History, the Prophets, and legal texts.
Interfacing the Hebrew Bible: past, present and future applications for the BHSA
2019
The open and constantly evolving BHSA database text of the Hebrew Bible (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Amstelodamensis) from the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer has amazing potential for past, present and future projects in Biblical Hebrew linguistics, language learning and interpretation. The BHSA was used 2004-2009 in the Role Lexical Module http://lex.qwirx.com/lex/clause.jsp in order to provide an interface for bidirectional mapping between morpho-syntax and semantics for linguists working within the Role and Reference Grammar model. Since then the BHSA har been used for educational purposes in the corpusdriven learning environment Bible Online Learner offering a persuasive interface for enquiry and practice in and with the BHSA text. Based on these applications for linguistic research and persuasive language learning, we now have a better idea of how the next generation of interfaces for the Hebrew Bible should be designed. We may even envision the direction to take ...
2017
Paper presented at ‘Technology, Software, Standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition’ DiXiT Convention, The Hague, September 14-18, 2015.
New Digital Tools for a New Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible
Open Theology, 2019
This article describes the digital edition of the Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition (HBCE), which is being produced as part of a project called Critical Editions for Digital Analysis and Research (CEDAR) at the University of Chicago. We first discuss the goals of the HBCE and its requirements for a digital edition. We then turn to the CEDAR project and the advances it offers, both theoretical and technological. Finally, we present an illustration of how a reader might use the digital HBCE to interact with the biblical text in innovative ways.
Interactive Tools and Tasks for the Hebrew Bible
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2016
This contribution to a special issue on "Computer-aided processing of intertextuality" in ancient texts will illustrate how using digital tools to interact with the Hebrew Bible offers new promising perspectives for visualizing the texts and for performing tasks in education and research. This contribution explores how the corpus of the Hebrew Bible created and maintained by the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer can support new methods for modern knowledge workers within the field of digital humanities and theology be applied to ancient texts, and how this can be envisioned as a new field of digital intertextuality. The article first describes how the corpus was used to develop the Bible Online Learner as a persuasive technology to enhance language learning with, in, and around a database that acts as the engine driving interactive tasks for learners. Intertextuality in this case is a matter of active exploration and ongoing practice. Furthermore, interactive corpus-technology has an important bearing on the task of textual criticism as a specialized area of research that depends increasingly on the availability of digital resources. Commercial solutions developed by software companies like Logos and Accordance offer a market-based intertextuality defined by the production of advanced digital resources for scholars and students as useful alternatives to often inaccessible and expensive printed versions. It is reasonable to expect that in the future interactive corpus technology will allow scholars to do innovative academic tasks in textual criticism and interpretation. We have already seen the emergence of promising tools for text categorization, analysis of translation shifts, and interpretation. Broadly speaking, interactive tools and tasks within the three areas of language learning, textual criticism, and Biblical studies illustrate a new kind of intertextuality emerging within digital humanities.
OT 501 Survey of Biblical Hebrew
2008
This course introduces students to Biblical Hebrew for purposes of exegetical work in pastoral ministry. Particular emphasis is given to the fundamentals of Biblical Hebrew and basic exegetical tools, including types of parsing aids especially suited for pastoral use.
Review of Jo Ann Hackett, A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew, language pedagogy, textbook, verb paradigm, classroom instruction teachniques, weak verb, inflection, syntax, grammar, perfect, imperfect, terminology, converted imperfect, prefix form, suffix form, consecutive preterite, pedagogy of the verb, ve-qatal, volitive forms, transliteration.
Making the Biblical Text: Textual Studies in the Hebrew and the Greek Bible
2015
Originating in a symposium organized by the Institut Dominique Barthelemy and held on 4-5 November 2011 at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, this book presents eight essays on the textual and literary history of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Bible. It is commonplace today to speak of multiple text types in the earliest text history of the Hebrew Bible. But how can this multiplicity be most adequately explained? Does it result from different places, or from different Jewish communities reading texts in parallel text forms (Jews in Jerusalem, Samaritans, Alexandrian Jews, etc.)? Does one have to reckon with different qualities and/or evaluations of certain text forms? In other words, among the different text types known to us, were there some which enjoyed special esteem and recognition in antiquity – and if yes, by whom?
Interactive Tools and Tasks for the Hebrew Bible : From Language Learning to Textual Criticism
Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, 2017
This contribution to a special issue on “Computer-aided processing of intertextuality” in ancient texts will illustrate how using digital tools to interact with the Hebrew Bible offers new promising perspectives for visualizing the texts and for performing tasks in education and research. This contribution explores how the corpus of the Hebrew Bible created and maintained by the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer can support new methods for modern knowledge workers within the field of digital humanities and theology be applied to ancient texts, and how this can be envisioned as a new field of digital intertextuality. The article first describes how the corpus was used to develop the Bible Online Learner as a persuasive technology to enhance language learning with, in, and around a database that acts as the engine driving interactive tasks for learners. Intertextuality in this case is a matter of active exploration and ongoing practice. Furthermore, interactive corpus-technolo...