Andy Naselli

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The Gospels: Photo Companion to the Bible

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Five years ago I recommended Todd Bolen’s Pictorial Library of Bible Lands.

This month Todd Bolen and his team have added to that collection with The Gospels: Photo Companion to the Bible. (There is a sale through August 21.)

Here’s a 5-minute video introduction:

For over a decade Todd Bolen lived in Israel while he taught the Israel Bible Extension for The Master’s College. Many evangelical books feature his photos of Israel. Todd is now professor of biblical studies at The Master’s College in Southern California. He wrote the notes on 2 Kings in the study Bible I coedited, and he wrote the chapter on 1–2 Chronicles in the OT survey my colleague Jason DeRouchie edited. His pictures fill DeRouchie’s OT survey—nearly 300 of them.

Update on 2/19/2019: Todd Bolen just released an impressive collection of photos on Acts.

Pictorial Library of Bible Lands

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The front matter of Robert H. Gundry’s A Survey of the New Testament (4th ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003) lists Todd Bolen’s Pictorial Library of Bible Lands in his “permissions and credits.”

I looked into it, and I recently obtained a complete set of the newest edition of Todd Bolen’s Pictorial Library of Bible Lands (18 vols.). It released in May 2012, and it’s selling now for $389. [Read more…] about Pictorial Library of Bible Lands

Bible Software for iPhone and iPod Touch: Olive Tree vs. Logos

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In my post on iPhone Resources, I mention that Logos Bible Software (more info) is one of my favorite apps. Someone asked this in the comments:

Have you had a chance to use the Olive Tree Bible app at all? Any thoughts on comparisons with the Logos app?

I replied,

I haven’t used the various Olive Tree apps because my understanding is that Logos can do everything they can and more (esp. if you use Logos 4) for free. I may be wrong on that.

Well, I was wrong on that—at least for now.

1. What is Olive Tree Bible software?

Here’s how it describes itself:

Olive Tree Bible Software provides mobile Bible versions and study tools for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm OS, Pocket PC, Smartphone and Symbian cell phones. We currently offer over 500 mobile resources including over 100 translations of the Bible as well as commentaries, dictionaries, devotionals, eBooks, and Strong’s numbering system. The Bible is offered in various languages, including German, French, Spanish, Chinese and many others. Original Hebrew and Greek texts are also available. Additionally, we provide online web and cell phone (WAP) Bible search engines.

2. What does Olive Tree Bible software offer for the iPhone and iPod Touch?

  1. Bibles. Hebrew, Greek, LXX, ESV, NIV, NASB, NET, NLT, The Message, and more.
  2. Study Bibles. ESVSB, NET notes, NIVSB, NLTSB, and more. [Read more…] about Bible Software for iPhone and iPod Touch: Olive Tree vs. Logos

Coming Soon: Logos 4.0

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Bob Pritchett, founder and president/CEO of Logos Bible Software, just posted this in the newsgroups:

Logos 4.0…

…keeps what you love about Logos Bible Software

…gets rid of what annoys you in Logos Bible Software

…puts things where you’d expect them

…is still in development

…reflects an obsession on ease-of-use

…remembers things

…helps you share the fruit of your study with students and congregations

…has simpler menus

…comes with massive, hand-edited data sets

…favors direct manipulation over large settings panels

…is the iPhone of Bible software

…gives more screen space to content

…searches with the speed and ease of Google

…searches just your quality content (not the morass Google has to wade through)

…works well with multiple monitors

…makes smart guesses about what you are looking for

…looks very cool

…is under tight wrap until “the big moment.”

HT: Phil Gons