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In this post, I will be adding download links for various works of special interest to those who know Greek and use it to study the Bible. Note that every time I add new things I will update the post date to that date so that it will appear as a new post.
I have been using the commentaries in TW more, and I want to explain a few new concepts that I am incorporating into the twmodules.com website, the TW modules, and how to use TW with commentaries.
The first thing I want to clarify is some naming conventions which I am starting to use, and slowly I will work through the entire module database set at www.twmodules.com and rename everything to conform to these conventions.
Purpose: To make the creation of Module Layout Sets easier.
By adding this abbreviations to the actual filename, I am hoping that it will make it easier for people to make module layout sets of a particular type easier. Note that I am also trying to reduce the Abbreviation so that when you use these commentaries with Commentary Linking, they will be concise.
These files are sermon modules, arranging link a dictionary under a topical arrangement of themes.
These files are sermons arranged like a commentary by author, on different verses in the Bible. There may be more than a single sermon in each verse topic.
These are just regular expositional commentaries. Note that these are naming conventions solely used by me, David Cox.
more to come later… Please check back…
In this class, I am going to show you how to link to a place in another topic within the same module. For this exercise, we will be making endnotes/footnotes. Endnotes are all the footnotes in one place at the end of the module, usually in its own topic. Footnotes are at the bottom of each module topic, where the footnote appears in the text.
Class Objective: How do you quickly see the Greek or Hebrew behind a particular verse? There are a lot of ways to look at a passage and see the original language behind it, but this toggle is a short cut for when you want to examine verse references in a book module, and flip back and forth between say an English version and the Greek or Hebrew. Study these two images…
Continue reading Tip: See Greek Text in the Verse Tooltips theWord
Class Objective: How to set the default Bible Version in TW.
TheWord has the ability to use many different Bible versions, and among these are Bibles in English and other foreign languages, specialized Bible versions with Strong’s numbers, footnotes, translator’s notes, cross-reference notes, and a host of other add-ons. Besides that, there exists some TW Bible modules that have more than one translation in them, i.e. Interlineals between Hebrew and English, Greek and English, even the Septuagint and Greek. Besides that, there are Greek and Hebrew Bibles.
With all of these options, there arises a problem. This problem is in certain situations, like when TW has a reference to a Bible in a book or commentary module, which of these Bible versions is the Bible version you want to see? Thus, TW defines a “default Bible version”.
Let me also say that this default Bible version does not have to remain always the same. You can manually change it (via the instructions in this class) so that temporarily some other Bible can be seen by default.
Personally, I have studied Greek and Hebrew, so I am not unfamiliar with these Bible original languages. Sometimes when I am reading a technical work, most especially a Greek technical commentary, I want to see the Bible references in a Greek Bible. I simply change the default Bible version, and mouseing over a verse reference, I can see the verse in Greek.
First of all, you need to click on File then Preferences in the Main TW Menu. In this dialog box, click on the tab “Bible texts“. You should see something like this image.
Here I have highlight my default Bible version (KJV). To set it to something else (like Stephanus Greek Bible “Stephanus Textus Receptus” in the image above) you click on the name of the Bible, and then click on the button at bottom (I marked it in yellow) “Set as default”. And that is it!
Note that there is one more switch that you will need to check. In the File-> Preferences Main menu option, you need to check the advanced tab, and you should see this image.
The two options at the top (highlighted in yellow) will tell TW to always popup the active Bible version or the default Bible version (set according to this class).
This class will help you to use some of the muscle in Bible search that theWord has. theWord Bible search using the NEAR function. This finds two words in close proximity one to the other, even crossing verse boundaries. Continue reading Advanced Bible Searches NEAR
