Resources
Accordance offers a solid, competitive selection of resources. In 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 and even some important exclusives, such as unique scholarly primary texts, The Textbook of Aramaic Documents, and the Carta Collection (which includes The Sacred Bridge). For a complete list of the resources available, visit the Accordance website.
Accordance is the only Mac Bible software product that can handle TLG texts (Silver Mountain Software's Bibloi 8.0 imports TLG files). Unfortunately, TLG no longer produces CD-ROMs, having moved to a web-based delivery model. It would be great if OakTree looked into offsetting the loss of this rich database of texts. Tagged texts of the great philosophical and historiographical texts of classical Greece and Rome would be a huge boon for biblicists and open another market. It would also further differentiate Accordance from Logos and even more obviously establish Accordance as the scholar's choice. When I initially wrote this review last year, I suggested OakTree pursue a partnership with Perseus to help facilitate this and significantly lessen the costs of development. Logos has since announced just such a project.
In recent years, OakTree has strengthened the number of available resources for Catholic and Jewish users and still continue to lead the way in the electronic publication of modules for biblical scholarship. I would like to see them develop more modules of extra-biblical texts from the Near East and Mediterranean worlds in the original languages. They should also consider branching out into classical studies given their TLG import feature and archaeological research and studies. I would also like to see their Bible Atlas incorporate the data in Parpola and Porter's The Helsinki Atlas of the Near East in the Neo-Assyrian Period. Now that users can import HTML text, I hope 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 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 discs and modules, I will post links to those reviews here.
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