Friday, January 25, 2013

Bible Works, Accordance, or Logos?: Lamenting the State of Bible Software

I have been a decade-long Bible Works user, and I am very thankful for and helped by it.  What I love about BW is the immediate results you get in a search, and the fact that I generally like its layout, options, etc.  But here are a few recent critiques I have of the software, in no particular order (yes, I am considering changing programs):

  1. Peshitta texts not available, although they used to be in BW (I still have not resolved this issue, if it is a glitch).
  2. Grammatical search function (for doing complicated searches, I mean) much less intuitive than Accordance's.
  3. Not many searchable resources available in BW, far fewer for sure than with Logos.

Disclaimer, though, I have BW 7 and not the most recent version of 8. Version 8 has the added bonus of having access to more original texts, which I would find incredibly helpful for text critical work.

My lament is: Why can't we get all the good things from BW-Accordance-Logos in one software? That is, one reasonably-priced program that has:

  • the number of resources available in Logos
  • the intuitive grammatical search function in Accordance
  • and the quick results in Bible Works

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