Resources
Accordance offers a solid, competitive selection of resources. In terms of quantity, it comes nowhere close to the extensive library available from Logos but, especially when it comes to scholarly texts, Accordance provides a great selection with respect to quality. For a complete list of the resources available, visit the Accordance website.
One of the unique features of Accordance Bible Software is the ability to import TLG texts. While there are many other TLG viewers on the market, Accordance is the only Bible software product that integrates this feature. Silver Mountain Software's TLG viewer is not integrated with Bibloi. Users with a TLG license and the import TLG unlock code can import files from the latest TLG E CD-ROM, which contains 6,625 works from 1,823 authors! This is not a joke and, technically, it means Accordance has a larger library of available books than Logos!
TLG is the most extensive library of classical Greek texts in electronic form. With Accordance's import utility, you can add works by Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Josephus, Aristotle, Sophocles, Philo, and so many more to your library. An individual, five-year license to TLG presently costs $300. Students and professionals may have access to TLG through their institutional licenses. TLG texts import to Accordance as user tools. They are fully searchable and work with the amplify palette of Accordance like any other user tool. They are not, however, morphologically tagged.
In general, I think OakTree should increase its homiletics resources as well as its available resources for Catholic and Jewish users. At the same time, they should continue to lead the way in the electronic publication of modules for biblical scholarship, which means fully implementing the resources of the Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible and strengthening their available secondary resources, and they should consider branching out into classical studies given their TLG import feature. I also hope, now that users can import HTML text, OakTree will move away from producing readily available public domain texts and concentrate on acquiring premium texts or at least work on more inaccessible and substantial public domain texts.
I would encourage OakTree to start a pre-publication program to generate interest and fund important projects; perhaps this way projects could be more easily outsourced, allowing Accordance to come closer to Logos' prodigious publishing pace.
I have posted reviews of various Accordance Bible Software CD-ROMs to my blog and the Bible Software Review weblog. At the moment, these include:
As I review other Accordance compatible CD-ROMs, I will post links to those reviews here.
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