Bible Software
(Greek/Hebrew/English)

Introduction

Review of what is below:

• Lumina FREE:  (Net Bible) -- Free Online!  Worth looking at before you buy any software.
• ESword --FREE download.  Very good.  Greek, Hebrew texts;  many translations.  Can download "paid" modules. (e.g., NRSV, etc)
  
  
• Accordance---The best!  Highpowered;  Excellent text search (Greek/Hebrew/English).  Originally for the Mac, now also for PC.
  
• Logos -- A Library tool w/biblical text.  Allows you to build a huge electronic library.  Excellent text search (Greek/Hebrew/English).  Very expensive.  Very salesy.
• Bible Works -- No longer sold.  Was one of the best!
• Nota Bene--
  

The following packages are very similar to each other in scope and design.  They have many "bells and whistles" and allow you to use Hebrew, Greek, and English texts side by side.

Click on the links to go to the sites:

Free

FREE ONLINE:  Lumina (Net Bible)

Lumina: The New NET Bible Study Environment. 

This is a fast resource and should be used before buying any product below this line:
https://lumina.bible.org/

Here are a few guidelines to Lumina:

a. Top Line: Find Text, Translation, Text sizing & options;  Audio
b. Parallel English-Greek text (Look at Mt 13:52)
c. Quickly find a Greek word
d. Notes at the bottom give you info on the Greek words.  (The notes on that page are basic.)
e. Word Search / Word Study  /  Does not have Thayer’s
f.  Copy and Paste Greek text capability

ESword: FREE ONLINE

ESword:  Free Bible Study Software for your computer. 

This is a very nice free package.  Download and set up very easy.  User friendly.  Can add free and paid modules.  I recommend that new Greek students  try this program before buying any of the products below. 

http://www.e-sword.net/index.html

Premium

Accordance

Accordance Bible Software

CWP Top Choice! 

Originally for the MAC, now also for the PC.  Current version:  Accordance 11.  Buy from various collections.  Can be very expensive.
easy-to-use, lightning-fast interface.   

Logos

Logos Bible Software   
This is primarily an electronic library tool with Greek and Hebrew text features.  It is very powerful.  It comes in several packages and can be expanded.  It can be quite expensive. 

 Bible Works

No Longer Available!!  (Since Spring 2019)

BibleWorks 10 was billed as "the premier original languages Bible software program for Biblical exegesis and research." It comes with Greek, Hebrew, and Septuagint Bibles for your computer, as well as translations in English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and more! For over sixteen years, BibleWorks has satisfied Bible software users around the world.

Word Processing

Nota Bene

Unless you are serious about writing in academic biblical studies, you don't need this! 

Nota Bene  [Biblical studies software for scholars who are serious about writing]  Here is the best software available for serious writers in biblical studies (as well as other fields).  The very best program to use for typing Greek and Hebrew, formatting papers, footnotes, bibliography and the like.  Read the following review by a satisfied user:  This is Mark D. Szuchman, a professor at Florida International University,

The academic suite of applications in Nota Bene is unrivalled in its dedication to serving the needs of the teaching and research communities. Other word-processing programs can do more in the way of graphic representation of "word art," but no program can match Nota Bene for its combined features of writing, organizing, presenting and editing of text for class or for submitting works to journals and book publishers. Other database programs can perform numerical calculations, but none do more to deliver terms and concepts to the writer in meaningful relationships. Other bibliographic management programs are available but none are as tightly integrated into documents or the word-processing engine. And no program provides the confidence, consistency and ease of academic style automation offered by Nota Bene from title to last footnote.  [The link for this review is no longer available. ]

In 2015, the version stands at 10 and it is loaded with features, like graphics importing and more.     

Look at the following components in this highly integrated collection of programs.  Keep in mind that these are separate programs but are tightly woven together to make an awesome suite for writers:

The current (2019) website states this:

Nota Bene: a word processor for scholars ... a bibliographic manager for those who are tired of typing/formatting their own citations and bibliographies ... a personal search engine for those who want to find anything they've ever written in seconds ... a database manager for those who have things to keep track of ... a Greek, Cyrilllic, Arabic, Hebrew, and IPA word processor for those who want more than just fonts ... an Internet search tool for those who need to find and capture bibliographic data ... a set of tools for scholars who want to focus on their writing and research ... a work of art for scholars who appreciate the finer things in life ... a community of scholars.  http://www.notabene.com/

Earlier versions of NB did not easily import previously written MS Word files if a lot of Greek and Hebrew words are in them.  They had to be re-keyed, or at least jostled a bit.  Apparently, this problem was  fixed way back in January 2002.  Word documents can be converted into NB rather easily w/out the languages.  The website will update you to the newest products.

This program is expensive.  Unless you are serious about writing, you don't need it!  This company went through some problems about 15 years ago and had trouble supporting its customers (I was one of them, so I dropped the program for Microsoft Word and am currently unable to use any of the files I created via this program.)  Those problems are said to be long gone.

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