Part 1 of this review can be found here: Exegesis

Part 2 of this review can be found here: Learning Languages

I am not a scholar of the original languages of Scripture yet, but that’s my goal. Ten years from now, Lord willing, I’ll be ten years older regardless if I’m a scholar or not. But, with daily labor, I can be ten years older and a textual scholar. That’s where BibleWorks 9 helps.

I am currently a PhD student in Systematic Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. They’re either trying to make a theology scholar out of me or they’re trying to kill me. I’ll assume the best that they’re trying to make a theology scholar out of me. 🙂 But, if I am to truly be a scholar of theology, I need to be able to interact with the source of theology (Scripture) at the highest level. Any so-called theologian that does not handle Scripture with integrity, honesty, and great care is an idolater. An example of a good scholar and theologian is D. A. Carson. He is both a textual scholar and a theology scholar.

With BibleWorks 9, not only can you interact with the original languages of Scripture, you can also delve into textual criticism. You can compare and contrast many different manuscripts and lexicons of the original languages of Scripture. Here are some of the resources included with BibleWorks 9:

Hebrew/Aramaic/Syriac

• A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, 2006 edition (Paul Joüon, S.J. and Takamitsu Muraoka)
• An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Waltke & O’Connor)
• 1905 British and Foreign Bible Society Peshitto edition
• The Aramaic New Testament (Peshitta), with the Etheridge (1849), Lewis (1896), Murdock (1851), Norton (1881), and Magiera (2005) English translations
• Leningrad Codex Hebrew Bible, with full accenting & full vowel pointing
• Leningrad Codex Hebrew Bible, transliterated
• Delitzsch Hebrew NT
• Groves-Wheeler Westminster Hebrew Old Testament Morphology database, version 4.14
• Hebrew Accent Extensions to Groves-Wheeler Westminster Hebrew Old Testament Morphology database
• Old Syriac Sinaiticus manuscript
• Old Syriac Curetonian manuscript
• Peshitta, with Syriac and Hebrew letters
• Salkinson-Ginsburg Hebrew New Testament
• The Targumim, parsed, lemmatized and tied to entries in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon. Also included:
  • FragTargums with morphology, TgSheniSuppEsther with morphology, TgTosefProphets with morphology
  • Psalms Targum (English)
  • Rodkinson Babylonian Talmud and Mishnah
    (English)
  • Targum Cairo Geniza with morphology
  • Targum Jerusalem on the Pentateuch (English) (Etheridge)
  • Targum Neofiti with morphology
  • Targum NeofMarginalia with morphology
  • Targum Onkelos on the Pentateuch (English) (Etheridge)
  • Targum Pseudo Jonathan on the Pentateuch (Etheridge)
  • Targum PseudoJonathan with morphology
  • Targumim (Mostly Onkelos and Jonathan) with morphology (updated 2005)

 Greek

• Aletti/Gieniusz/Bushell Morphologically Analyzed Greek New Testament
• Aletti/Gieniusz/Bushell/CATSS Morphologically Analyzed Septuagint
• Alford Greek New Testament (1849, as revised in 1871) †
• Apostolic Fathers English translation
• Apostolic Fathers (Greek with Morphological tags by Gieniusz/Bushell)
• Apostolic Fathers Latin
• BibleWorks Manuscript Project: transcriptions, notes, and complete NT digital image sets (7.5 GB!) of Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, Bezae, Washingtonianus, Boernerianus and GA1141. Images are tagged with verse locations. Morphological tagging is not complete for all manuscripts but updates will be provided free of charge to BibleWorks 9 users as they become available.
• Brenton’s Septuagint English Translation, including Deuterocanonical section
• Center for New Testament Textual Studies [CNTTS] NT Critical Apparatus
• Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, parsed and lemmatized, with the 1828 Whiston English translation and Latin sections, and Loeb Classical Edition versification
• Friberg’s 1999 Morphologically Analyzed Greek New Testament
• Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Wallace)
• Greek Text of the Greek Orthodox Church, updated
• Nestle-Aland 28th Edition Greek New Testament with morphology †
• OT Pseudepigrapha in Greek, morphologically tagged, with English translation
• Rahlfs’ Septuagint, with Apocrypha & variants
• Revised 1904 Patriarchal Orthodox Greek Text using the Byzantine Gothic Text of 350 AD Greek Text of the Greek Orthodox Church (updated)
• Revised 1904 Patriarchal Orthodox Greek Text, English translation(added after release)
• Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine text with Robinson 2010 morphology
• Robinson-Pierpont Greek New Testament with Friberg morphology
• Scriveners Greek New Testament (new proofing) with diacritics, variant readings, and 2010 Robinson morphology
• Stephanus Greek New Testament (Textus Receptus), with morphological analysis
• Tischendorf Greek New Testament, with Critical Apparatus
• Tregelles Greek NT, corrected
• Tregelles Greek NT, uncorrected
• Trinitarian Bible Society Greek New Testament (new proofing) with 2010 Robinson morphology;
• Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament (Moulton & Milligan)
• Von Soden Greek New Testament
• Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament (new proofing) with diacritics, variant readings, and 2010 Robinson morphology
• Works of Philo (Greek Text & Morphology with English translation)
• Greek Orthodox Church NT
• Metaglottisis Greek New Testament, 2004
• Modern Greek Bible

Lexical-Grammatical References

• A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: Based on the Lexical Work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner (Holladay)
• Beginner’s Grammar of the Greek New Testament (Davis)
• Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon, 1905, unabridged
• Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English/Hebrew-French/Hebrew-Russian Lexicons (Strong’s), abridged
• CATSS/Tov Hebrew-Greek Parallel Aligned Text, updated.
• Friberg’s Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, Complete 2000 edition
• Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar
• A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, Revised (Joüon-Muraoka) (nounlock needed)
• Grammar of Septuagint Greek (Conybeare & Stock)
• A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research, 3rd edition (Robertson)
• Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic paradigm charts with sounds (revised)
• Greek Enchiridion: A Concise Handbook of Grammar and Exegesis (MacDonald)
• Greek Grammar beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Wallace) (no unlock needed) [enhanced after initial release]
• Greek New Testament Diagrams (Leedy), complete
• A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, Volumes 1 & 2 (Lust, Eynikel, Hauspie, Chamberlain) (locked, free unlock available for BW7 upgraders)
• Syntactic and Thematic Greek Transcription of the NT (MacDonald)
• An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Waltke & O’Connor) (nounlock needed)
• Introductory Lessons in Aramaic (Eric D. Reymond)
• Liddell-Scott Greek Lexicon, abridged
• Louw-Nida Greek New Testament Lexicon based on Semantic Domains, Second Edition
• Moods and Tenses of New Testament Greek (Burton)
• The Shorter Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, Revised Edition (Gingrich/Danker)
• The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (Harris, Archer & Waltke)
• Thayer Greek Lexicon, abridged
• Thayer Greek Lexicon, unabridged
• The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament Module (J.H. Moulton and G. Milligan) (no unlock needed)
• Wigram’s Tense, Voice, Mood codes for some English, German, Dutch, French and Russian Bibles

Each of these resources can be searched. You can search in Greek, Hebrew, English, etc. for words, partial words, phrases, related verses, key word in context, etc. The results are lightning quick as well. Thus, if you desire to be a scholar of the original languages, BibleWorks 9 is an essential tool. You can purchase BibleWorks 9 here.

Here is another review of BibleWorks 9 explaining why it’s essential for textual scholarship