Which Bible software program should I buy? My answer to that question continues to be the most-visited post at Words on the Word. In it I offer a comparative review of BibleWorks (9), Logos (4 and 5), and Accordance (10).
Bible Reading and Bible Study with the Olive Tree Bible App from Olive Tree Bible Software on your iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows, and Kindle Fire In the simplest of forwards, the goal of this popular translation is stated as follows: “to adhere as closely as possible to the original languages of the Holy Scriptures, and to make the. Olive Tree is accessible without WIFI and very easy to use. With simple highlighting and copy and paste features, this app is my favorite Bible app. My husband and children love and use the app too! Thanks for your faithfulness to God’s Word, Olive Tree! Rachel “Wojo” Wojnarowski Author, Blogger, & Speaker.
A fourth popular Bible study software is by Olive Tree. Their “Bible Study App” works in the following platforms:
iPad
iPhone Mac on Lion Windows 8 Windows Desktop Android
I’ve installed the app on a Mac and an iPad, and have received the NA28 Greek New Testament to review. In a short series of posts, I’ll report on the Bible Study App, and how it allows users to interact with the NA28 text and critical apparatus. Here I review the Mac version, using a MacBook laptop.
My opening screen, when I open the NA28 from my Library, looks like this (click to enlarge):
The interface of the left sidebar resembles that of the Mac Finder windows. In addition the sidebar affords immediate (in-app) access to the Olive Tree store. Once you click on “Book Store,” you see a screen that slightly resembles the iTunes store:
You can hide the sidebar and hide or customize the toolbar on top.
By clicking on the “Tools & Notes” icon on the top right (from the first screen shot above), I can open a second window (Olive Tree calls this “the split window”):
I have several options at the top of the split window: Resource Guide, Notes, etc.
Olive Tree is accessible without WIFI and very easy to use. With simple highlighting and copy and paste features, this app is my favorite Bible app. My husband and children love and use the app too! Thanks for your faithfulness to God’s Word, Olive Tree! Rachel “Wojo” Wojnarowski Author, Blogger, & Speaker. Download NIV Bible App + and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Studying the Bible shouldn’t be hard. NIV Bible by Olive Tree equips you with easy-to-use Bible study tools and resources so you can stop skimming Scripture and get answers—for free. About Olive Tree Study Sync. The Study Sync process pushes your annotations (notes, highlights, reading plans, saved passages, book ribbons, categories, and tags) from your device to your Study Sync account on OliveTree.com. Syncing allows you to access your annotations within the Olive Tree app on your other devices.
With the NA28 open, I quickly found four ways to navigate to a given verse–each of the three shown below, as well as a right-click option to select a verse.
Olive Tree App Kindle
For the NA28 with apparatus, I open the text in the left window and the apparatus in the right. Clicking on a word or hovering over it will show its morphological information (i.e., parsing and gloss) either through a pop-up menu (when clicking) or through the “Quick Details” at bottom left in the shot below (when hovering): Mac app change dock.
Getting right to work within the program (with just the occasional reference to help files and a quick start guide) was easy enough. I didn’t find getting the two windows side-by-side to be as quickly intuitive as I would have liked, but I don’t know yet whether that’s a weakness in the program or just my newness to it. The interface is clean and visually appealing. I’ve already been impressed with all that’s available in the Olive Tree store. Use ios apps on mac.
More to come. In the meantime, Olive Tree has a blog post of their own on using the NA28 here.
Olive Tree App For Mac
Thanks to Olive Tree for the NA28 with Critical Apparatus, Mounce Parsings, and Concise Dictionary for the purposes of this blog review.You can find that product here. Mac runs ipad apps.
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