[Faith-talk] Looking up Scripture and words

[Jeanette]

this is wonderful info, thanks so much Tom
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From: "Tom Vos" <vost at iowatelecom.net>
To: <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Looking up Scripture and words


> Ashley,
> Optasia materials are of two basic kinds.
> The Optasia formatted Bibles are in html format, and run in Internet
> Explorer, to allow links to books, chapters and verses.
> Note that the Optasia Bible Library allows you to easily link to 15
> different Bible versions very easily.
> Our books, including the study Bibles are in rtf format.
> They open easily in any word processor.
> For the NIV Study Bible I divided the concordance up into a file for each 
> of
> the letters of the alphabet.
> So if you wanted to find verses that contained the word, "light"
> You would open the "L" file, and do a word search for "light"
> Then you could arrow down the list of references under it.
>
> A dictionary might give you a summary paragraph about how light is used in
> the Bible, with only a few references.
> The concordance will give you most, and sometimes all the references to
> where a certain word is used in the Bible.
> A dictionary is helpful for looking up information on a person, place or 
> for
> information perhaps on a feast of Israel.
> We have several Bible dictionaries.
> The NIV Bible Dictionary is a good, basic one.
> The Anchor Bible Dictionary is larger and more exhaustive.
> We have Bakers Dictionary of Religious Terms, which includes names and 
> terms
> from church history as well as from the Bible.
> For commentaries, we try to divide them up so that the commentary on
> Genesis, for example, will have many files.  Sometimes each chapter is a
> separate file, but sometimes the author combines two or three chapters 
> into
> one section, because a single theme or story spreads over more than one
> chapter.
> You will find our resources to be very accessible for those using screen
> readers.
> All our resources are free to those who are blind.
> Blessings,
> Tom Vos, director
> www.optasiaministry.org
> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:28:02 -0500
> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
> To: "Faith-talk, for the discussion of faith and religion"
> <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Looking up Scripture and words
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> Hi all,
> Thanks  to Tom for pointing out the two study bibles from his ministry.
> How do you read Optasia materials?
> I know a concordance is to help you look up material. How is that used? Is
> it alphabetized?
> How does that differ from a dictionary? Speaking of that, any bible term
> dictionaries you use?
>
> If you get a commentary, how is that organized? Does the writer comment by
> book, chapter, or what?
>
> I would  read Charles Stanley's commentary if there is one, and its
> accessible.
>
> Ashley
>
>
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