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Originally Posted by Danger
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Thanks for the link! It's worth installing for the Kingdom Interlinear alone and the Byington translation is one I hadn't seen before.
I went to the JW website to make sure the app is legit (it is) and noticed that they've put the Watchtower Library
online. Now I can stop bugging Witnesses to bring me
a CD every year.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've used the Olive Tree software for years, and it's pretty good, particularly when using parallel translations. I read Koine Greek, so it's convenient to have the original Greek version and an English translation displayed in parallel.
My only real issue with Olive Tree is the fact that they don't have any of the "scholarly" study bibles or commentaries as opposed to the "Evangelical" ones. As someone who studies the bible as a work of literature rather than for religious reasons I'd love to have "secular" works like the Oxford Bible Commentary available.
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The scholarly world seems to be reluctant to embrace electronic publishing. Many books that are currently in print aren't available electronically and those that are tend to be PDF. Even the Kindle version of
The New Oxford Annotated Bible is Amazon's "Print Replica" format (which is just a PDF under the hood). As booksellers have been dropping PDF as a format, I've been grabbing copies of the few academic books that I find for fear that the books will simply be made unavailable in the future rather than converted to epub.
This book, for example, is really good if you can stomach reading a scan (at least it's couponable) and there are several others by the same author that I'd like, but are unavailable electronically.
Logos actually has many resources that aren't available elsewhere as ebook, but I'm reluctant to buy them at Logos prices, particularly since Alf doesn't have a Logos plugin. I'd like to replace my paper copy of
The Jewish Study Bible, but $36 for something that won't go into Calibre is a little steep for me.