Lighting the Lamp

[Intermediate: Accordance 8] The advantage of a rich, full program like Accordance is the breadth of capabilities at your fingertips, refined to help you study in the exactly as you need. The disadvantage is that it is nearly impossible to know everything about the program! This podcast, Power Tips & Tweaks, will show you some power tips to help your workflow be that much easier. You'll learn how to use the contextual menu more effectively, include reference when amplifying, and utilize the array of copy options available.

[Resources: Accordance 8] The popular NIV Application Commentary series not only explains the original meaning of each passage, it also focuses on the timeless truths and the contemporary significance which today's Christian can apply from the text. This podcast gives five examples from different books and writers, to whet your appetite for this unique commentary set.

[Intermediate: Accordance 8] In addition to editing and links, User Tools are also a powerful way to bring other works into Accordance's search engine and interface. Whether importing from plain text or HTML, the Import command can quickly bring in large amounts of content, often complete with formatting and scripture links. This podcast will walk you through some sample processes and give you some tips for helping your import go more smoothly.

[Basic: Accordance 8] Through the use of Accordance's Details workspace, your search results can be easily sorted, summarized, and processed into gorgeous graphs and charts. The Analysis tab organizes the results grammatically and statistically, while each of the graphs create beautiful presentations suitable for handouts or a projector. This podcast gives a glimpse into each capability of the Details workspace, helping you integrate it more effectively into your workflow.

[Methods: Accordance 8] This podcast, How to Study a Person, will show users how to apply their use of Accordance to study individual people in the Bible. Of the three logical steps in studying a person—Identify, Investigate, Evaluate—Accordance excels in Investigation. By watching this podcast, you'll discover methods to investigate a person more effectively, collating information from a multitude of sources to better prepare your evaluation.

[Basic: Accordance 8] It's easy to forget that with all of Accordance's powerful features, there are also a variety of easy tips and tweaks to help you get the most out of your study. This podcast will walk you through a few of the most helpful ones, enabling you to start up faster, conserve screen space, or reorient the resource palette to better fit your workflow.

[Intermediate: Accordance 8] As powerful as User Tools are in creating new content for use in Accordance, their capabilities improve dramatically with the use of links. Links can be to scripture directly, another Accordance module, a website, or even to another file on your computer. This podcast will walk you through the different types of links and show you how to easily generate them and interconnect your study resources.

[Resources: Accordance 8] The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of documents that include the oldest surviving manuscripts of the Old Testament, comprise a key portion of textual studies. Discovered in the mid twentieth century, the contents of the scrolls were not available publicly until the groundbreaking work of Dr. Martin Abegg in 1991. Accordance, through the help of Dr. Abegg and others, is proud to offer the largest electronic collection of Dead Sea Scrolls resources. This podcast will give you a glimpse into the history, content, and value of these resources.

[Basic: Accordance 8] If you are a student of the scriptures, sentence diagramming is an important part of textual study, whatever your level of training. Students and professors may want to grammatically diagram the original languages, while a pastor or layman may want to visually align and connect related words, while adding in comments. Regardless of your approach, Accordance provides the tools you need to create beautiful and functional diagrams. This podcast will walk you through each step of the process, giving you just a glimpse of the tools available.

[Advanced: Accordance 8] One of Accordance's most powerful capabilities is the INFER command and its helpful counterpart Search Back. INFER lets you search for any allusions, paraphrases, quotes, or other similar phrases between any two passages of the same language. You can find the use of apocalyptic material in the pseudepigrapha, OT quotations in the book of Hebrews, or even a way to compare the writing styles of the different prophets. This podcast will show you to use an INFER search to explore the text in a whole new way.