Comments on: Bible Versions and BibleWorks 8

By: Aramaic Student

Aramaic Student — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:55:48 +0000

Awesome! Congratulations on getting your copy of BibleWorks 8! BW is just an incredible piece of software, with everything you could ever want to know about the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek language texts. The BibleWorks Forums have some really enthusiastic and helpful fans, so you will only be more amazed by the power of BW as time goes on!

By: Jorwed

Jorwed — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:29:14 +0000

Brandon, I hope you’ll find time to look at the parsing of morphologically tagged non-biblical sources in BW. I have BW 7 and several modules (e.g. Apostolic Fathers) contain many, many mistakes!

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:35:22 +0000

Hmmm, I have NRSV, New JPS translation, WTT Hebrew, BW Greek (BGT?), Targum Onqelos, Vulgate up. The non-biblical stuff (Josephus, Fathers, etc.) I display only when I need to look them over specifically.

By: Joel (Polycarp)

Joel (Polycarp) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:51:08 +0000

Michael, I believe that I did plug you site on a previous post on my blog. I have downloaded the e-cantena, and it is excellent. Like Brandon, I have your blog in my RSS reader, and look forward to more using more of those resources.

By: Doug Chaplin

Doug Chaplin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:04:15 +0000

I don’t use BW so much since switching to Mac, but still have BW7 (not 8) on a virtual machine – indeed, it’s the main reason I keep a Windows VM on the desktop Mac. I have several different display sets + search versions set up. Main, which is something like yours. English, which is all the available English translations + WTT and BGT and separate lists for APF/ APE etc, and I toggle between them. It makes setting up the display version list easier to manage, because as long as APF is above APE it doesn’t matter where they are in relation to anything else.

I assume version 8 has the same functionality

By: Brandon Wason

Brandon Wason — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:18:32 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Michael. I have viewed your blog (it’s in my RSS reader) and have seen a number of your posts on the BW forum. I’m definitely looking forward to downloading those classical sources and interacting on the forums myself.

By: Michael Hanel

Michael Hanel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:52:05 +0000

Not that you aren't popular, but if you want more interaction, you can try floating your questions at the BibleWorks forums site. Particularly, you might want to explore using the tabs to display versions (see this thread for instance on how to use them). Also, to avoid potential problems that can happen when you add new versions, when you have a display list you like, you can save it, so as to make it easy to load later. This is also helpful if you have different uses for the program. And if I haven't plugged it yet, check out the unofficial BibleWorks blog. There's free downloads, including a goodly amount of Classics stuff.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:39:59 +0000

I have the KJV, NKJV, the BGT, and the NLT. I cannot get my pop-up versions to change, however.