Lighting the Lamp

[Intermediate: Accordance 8] Just like sitting in your favorite chair, under your favorite lamp, with your favorite people, Accordance can be customized so you feel as comfortable as possible while working with your resources. This podcast will help walk you through creating a Custom Workspace, with the appropriate texts and tools, arrange how you want them, to let you jumpstart any study of the Bible.

[Resources: Accordance 8] The Essential IVP Reference Collection, featuring the content of 17 books, is one of our most popular bundles. Many people find it a surprisingly rich starting point for their Accordance library; others find value in the numerous themed dictionaries, such as the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. This podcast will help you decide if the collection is right for you. You'll get an overview of the different books included in the package in addition to samples of the actual content.

[Basic: Accordance 8] You may notice that at Accordance, we tend to operate a little bit differently. This podcast helps to explain the Accordance Philosophy: What we do and why we do it. You'll see how this philosophy affects our interface, resources, sales, and support.

[Resources: Accordance 8] The Graphics DVD Bundle is an incredible tool for bringing the biblical world to life. The bundle includes three unique visual resources: The Bible Atlas, which is a fully customizable, high resolution map of the ancient world; The Bible Lands PhotoGuide, which features over 1600 high resolution pictures of most of the locations in the ancient world; The Timeline, a fully customizable timeline of many of the events, people, and writings of the time. This podcast will highlight each of the resources and walk you through a sample presentation on the storied city of Bethlehem.

[News: Accordance 8] December 2009: This podcast features a recap of new releases and program updates throughout the year, plus coverage of this year's ETS/SBL Annual Meetings. Finally, you'll get a window into one of the free Training Seminars we host regularly around the world.

[Basic: Accordance 8] Accordance 8.4 is another free upgrade to Accordance 8, providing numerous new features, refinements, and bug fixes. Among these features are two powerful and important enhancements: Automatic Bibliographic Footnoting and Smart Searching. Now, when copying as a citation out of a tool, Accordance will automatically include the tool's bibliographic information as a footnote, in a variety of styles. Smart Searching is Accordance's way of embracing the now popular keyword style searching, helping a user transition from a Google or Spotlight based method to Accordance's exact searching more easily. Both of these features are demonstrated in this podcast.

[Basic: Accordance 8] As intuitive as Accordance is to use, installation can be a little tricky. This podcast will walk you through installing from our Primary DVD, explain each of the options, and show you how to enter all the codes you have purchased. You'll also learn how to set up automatic updates and get help via the help menu.

[Greek: Accordance 8] This podcast continues the series on basic greek searching. Discussed are two simple, but powerful methods of expanding your studies. You'll learn how to specify a grammatical tag to combine with any root, lexical, or inflected search. Additionally, you'll see how to amplify a greek word by looking it up in other texts or any tool.

[Greek: Accordance 8] One of the clearest ways in which Accordance sets itself apart is in original language capabilities. This podcast begins discussion of basic greek searching. You'll learn to enter root, lexical, and inflected form searches in a variety of ways. You'll also see how Accordance quickly and easily handles these searches, helping you work with the original greek texts.

[Basic: Accordance 8] This podcast will show you how to setup and effectively use Accordance's powerful slide show mode. With an Accordance slide show you can effectively use any of your resources through a customizable and dynamic presentation, featuring live scrolling, instant details, cross highlighting, and more.

[Methods: Accordance 8] Inductive Bible Study (IBS) is one of the most important methods of Bible study, as the reader can dig into the passage without requiring the use of a commentary, teacher, or other guide. Accordance can help make this study easier, faster, and more effective. Part 2 continues the use of Accordance to explore the literary context of the passage.

[Methods: Accordance 8] Inductive Bible Study (IBS) is one of the most important methods of Bible study, as the reader can dig into the passage without requiring the use of a commentary, teacher, or other guide. Accordance can help make this study easier, faster, and more effective. Part 1 shows how to use Accordance to explore the historical context of the passage.

[Basic: Accordance 8] Even as the development teams are constantly releasing new content, such as Hermeneia and the ESV Study Bible, the Accordance program itself is also being constantly improved. The free upgrade to version 8.3 is a perfect example of how we will regularly add a variety of features, bug fixes, and enhancements, many of which are requested by our users. This podcast will discuss some of these new features and show how to use them.

[Resources: Accordance 8] This podcast introduces one of our newest releases, Hermeneia. Hermeneia is a top level exegetical commentary, featuring the writings of fifty of the world's top biblical scholars. This podcast will show you what sets Hermeneia apart from other commentaries, demonstrate how it integrates smoothly with Accordance, and provide some samples of Hermeneia's content and how that can effect the understanding of a passage.

[Basic: Accordance 8] In this podcast you will see fun ways to display the Bible text to make it more readable or to catch attention. You will also learn how to apply default settings to your open and saved windows.