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What's new in BibleWorks 8?

Here's a survey of the new features and databases in BibleWorks 8.

New Features and Databases!

New Analysis Tabs
Expanded information about the current verse and search

  

  

We’ve made significant additions to the Analysis Window. Now when you do a search, the Context Tab shows the most common words in the current pericope, the most common words in the current chapter, and the most common words in the current book. With a click, the Browse Tab shows the full context for the active verse. A plot of the current search results is shown in the Stats Tab. All of this is right at your fingertips!

Phrase Matching Tool/Related Verses Tool
Find verses with similar words or similar phrases

 

Over lunch in mid-2007, we asked ourselves, “How could we find all verses which are similar to each other?” Out of this discussion came the Phrase Matching Tool and Related Verses Tool. The new Phrase Matching Tool takes your current verse and finds all verses containing similar phrases. The new Related Verses Tool finds all verses using some of the same words from the current verse.

New formatting for text export
More control over copied text

We’ve enhanced and refined the formatting of exported text. Now when you copy and paste Bible text, it’s simple to format the text and reference using custom or preset output formats. This seemingly small feature will greatly improve your daily use of the program.

Cross-Reference Window
Instantly view related verses

When you pass the mouse over the text, the new Cross-Reference Window instantly shows cross-references for the verse under the mouse. You can draw from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, New Chain Reference Bible (Thompson, 1934), Nave’s, Torrey’s Topical Text Book, Stephan’s Biographical Bible (distinguishes Bible people with the same names), and cross-references from the ESV, NAS, and NIV/TNIV. This feature works for any of the Bible versions in the program! In addition, you can build your own cross-reference files and swap them with other users.

New Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic grammars and references
BibleWorks now comes with Wallace, Waltke & O'Connor, and Joüon & Muraoka!

The main BibleWorks package now includes three standard original language grammars: Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Wallace), Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Waltke & O’Connor), and A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew (Joüon & Muraoka). These electronic texts include the full text and graphics of the print editions and are closely linked to the Biblical texts in the program. Previously available only separately, these texts now come at no extra cost in BibleWorks 8!

Also added after the initial release of BibleWorks 8: The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament Module (J.H. Moulton and G. Milligan). Now there is no extra charge to add this module to your BibleWorks installation!

Also added after the initial release of BibleWorks 8: Introductory Lessons in Aramaic (Eric D. Reymond). This introductory Aramaic grammar includes exercises, answers to the exercises, and a glossary. Also included: a set of Aramaic Verbs Paradigms with sound files, produced by Jan Verbruggen.

Syntactic and Thematic Greek Transcription of the NT
Another full Greek NT diagram set

We’re pleased to add an alternate set of Greek NT sentence diagrams. In addition to the Leedy Greek NT sentence diagrams, William MacDonald’s “Textual Transcriptions” provide another helpful and insightful arrangement of the text.

Early Church Fathers
This mammoth popular work includes the complete series of the Schaff Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers.

ERMIE: External Resources Manager
One-stop location for resources on your computer and resources on the Internet

 

Over time, you’ve probably collected a number of useful books, references, and documents in various formats (PDF, HTML, word processing formats, etc.). Add to that the myriad websites with all sorts of materials and courses you find useful in your studies. With ERMIE, you can collect and organize these local and online resources into an easy to browse catalog. ERMIE catalog files can be edited and shared with other users.

Daily Light devotional displayed in English, Greek, Hebrew, or any other Bible version
Maintain your Greek and Hebrew skills with a daily AM/PM reading

 

We took Samuel Bagster's well-loved daily Scripture readings and enhanced it for Greek/Hebrew review. View the readings in your favorite Bible translations, or use the Greek/Hebrew mode to display the Old Testament passages in Hebrew and the New Testament passages in Greek. A great way to start and end the day!

English Bible Text-to-Speech
If you’re running BibleWorks on Vista (requires supplemental voice packs in XP), you can hear English Bible text read aloud!

Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, and Arabic Bibles
We are pleased finally to include Bibles in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, and Arabic!

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Greek)
We now include the Greek text and modern English translation of the Greek OT Pseudepigrapha. The Greek text is morphologically tagged and fully searchable.

More New Databases

Groves-Wheeler Westminster Hebrew Morphology version 4.10

NIV, TNIV, & NIrV Bibles with cross-references and footnotes

NKJV with Strong’s tagging

Delitzsch Hebrew NT

Stephan’s Biographical Bible (distinguishes Bible people with the same names)

Bibliographical Information (added after official release)

1905 British and Foreign Bible Society Peshitto edition

Old Syriac Sinaiticus manuscript

Old Syriac Curetonian manuscript

Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Biblical texts in English) &
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (Sectarian texts in English) [requires unlock]

The Biblical Texts contain a Browse Window version and a HTML Help version.
The Sectarian Texts contains a HTML Help version only.

Brenton LXX with Apocrypha

PONS German-Hebrew lexicon [requires unlock]

Psalms Targum (English)

Targum Jerusalem on the Pentateuch (English) (Etheridge)

Targum Onkelos on the Pentateuch (English) (Etheridge)

Targum Pseudo Jonathan on the Pentateuch (Etheridge)

Rodkinson Babylonian Talmud and Mishnah (English)
Westcott-Hort text (proofed and corrected)

Maps module load time reduced

Maps module site data revised

MacDonald Idiomatic Translation Bible

Nova Vulgata

Vulgata Clementina 1598 with Glossa Ordinaria notes

Zuercher Bibel (2nd ed., 2008)

Czech: Bible, 21st Century Translation (B21) (added after official release)

Spanish La Biblia de Nuestro Pueblo (added after official release)

Spanish La Biblia del Peregrino (added after official release)

Spanish Reina Valera Gómez Bible

Spanish Nueva Biblia de los Hispanos Bible

Swedish Folkbibeln, Bibel 82, and Bibel 2000

Lithuanian Bible

Macedonian Bible

Bulgarian 1871 Constantinople Bible

Orthodox Russian Synodal Translation

Contemporary Russian version, New Testament

Chinese New Version Bible

Japanese Shinkaiyaku Bible

Japanese Kogoyaku Bible (added after official release)

Korean Revised Version (added after official release)

1689 London Baptist Confession (added after official release)

Belgic Confession (added after official release)

Heidelberg Catechism (added after official release)

Canons of Dort and Arminian Articles (added after official release)

Westminster Confession (CHM version) (added after official release)

Afrikaans 1983 Translation

New study guides

New electronic help

More New Features

Clipboard formatting options enhanced

Customizable cross-references

Semantic domain searching from Command Line

Search on user-created verse lists

Command Line dropdown showing all lemmas/words as you type

Command Line controls enhanced

SBL Greek Unicode font (added after official release)

Spell-checking in Editor

“Search for lemma+homonym” added to context menu of Browse window

Search Window hits enhanced with checkboxes

Search Window search order presets

Popup copy window enhancements

Browse Window version/book/chapter/verse selectors enhanced

Analysis Window content limited by word frequency (great for students!)

Filter which fields are shown in Analysis Window and Tooltips (great for students!)

KWIC usability enhancements

Custom and uniform book sort orders

Tools menu re-organized

Options window enhanced

Internet Updater enhanced with automatic updates

Color highlight window enhanced

Version Database Compiler now supports any Code Page supported by Windows (Thai, Latvian/Lithuanian, Turkish, etc.)

Improved navigation of Leedy GNT diagrams

Diagram printing for a range of verses

Detailed Statistics Window enhancements

New Modules (require unlocks)

PONS Kompaktwörterbuch Althebräisch: Althebräisch – Deutsch
Frank Matheus
A basic Hebrew-German lexicon to assist German-speaking users.

Dead Sea Scrolls English Translation Bundle: Biblical and Sectarian Texts
Comes with two works: The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (Michael O. Wise, Martin G. Abegg, Jr., & Edward M. Cook, trans.), a comprehensive translation into English of the Dead Sea Scrolls sectarian texts (plus introductions and explanatory notes), and The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English (Martin Abegg, Jr., Peter Flint, & Eugene Ulrich), containing an English translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls Biblical texts (plus introductions, explanatory notes, and text-critical notes).

Databases Removed from BibleWorks 8

Many of the databases contained in BibleWorks are licensed from the copyright holders of those databases. On rare occasions we are unable to reach a mutually-satisfactory agreement with the licensor and items must be removed from BibleWorks or turned into extra-cost modules. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.

The following list of databases contains items included in the base package of BibleWorks 7 which are no longer available from BibleWorks and which will not be included in the BibleWorks 8 package.

• Word Pictures, A. T. Robertson
• Basic Hebrew for Bible Study, Mark Futato
• German Lutherbibel 1984

The following list of databases contains items included in the BibleWorks 7 base package which are no longer available in the BibleWorks 8 base package, but which may be purchased separately.

• A Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament, Barclay M. Newman,
  Jr.
• A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Bruce M. Metzger.
• Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, Lust-Eynikel-Hauspie.

If you are a registered user and are upgrading from BibleWorks 7 to BibleWorks 8, you will be sent free of charge a set of activation codes for the Metzger and Lust-Eynikel-Hauspie databases, and registered users upgrading from BibleWorks 7 or previous versions will be sent free of charge a set of activation codes for the Lutherbibel and Newman databases.