The current acid test of Biblical Software, is the ability of the software to complete all five criteria laid out in the 2009 SBL Biblical Software Shootout. By using custom created resources, that are not legally re-distributable, and some auxiliary tools, e-Sword can complete all of those functions.
As I understand it the criteria for the 2009 SBL Biblical Software Shootout is as follows:
I personally would like to see a training video on how to accomplish those tasks using e-Sword. Truth be known, I do not understand half of what all that means. Therefore, I personally would find it to be quite educational. That accomplishing some (many?, all?) of the criteria would be depenant on "custom created resources, that are not legally re-distributable" should not be troubling since they would only be demononstrated and not distrubuted.Give the parsing of a word and its meaning from a standard source.
Show all the occurrences of a word in the NT and LXX and show the Hebrew word which corresponds with the Greek in the LXX (if there is a correspondence).
Find all the occurrences of οἰ δὲ in Matthew’s gospel followed by a finite verb within the clause.
I want to study a part of speech, e. g., demonstrative pronouns or interjections. How do I get all of the lemmas for that part of speech, get all the occurrences of those lemmas, and the results organized in such a way that I could write an article/monograph on that part of speech from the data?
I want to study the inflections of the Hebrew middle weak verb, and I want to see what the range of possible variations are for each of the conjugations (perfect, imperative, etc.) person, number, gender, stem. This means I need to find all the middle weak verbs, find all their occurrences, and organize them in such a way that the variation of their inflections are immediately apparent. The goal of the data organization would be to allow me to write an article about the variations of the Hebrew middle weak verb.
Are you up for the challenge, Jonathon? or anyone else for that matter? Come on! Show us the stuff of which e-Sword is made.
Edited by Josh Bond, 02 November 2011 - 12:53 PM.
Topic split to avoid cluttering the e-Sword 10 topic