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"Quickly see 6000 years of Bible and World History together!"
The Top Three Bible Study Tools
We Use
Here's what we use and how we use them.
Free: http://bible.crosswalk.com
We search on words, phrases and people. We always click on use study tools
For people we read all of the concordances on the side. We especially like Smiths' for detail, ? for the scripture list and ? for the name meaning. We have many other books, sites and experts we turn to, but we always start here.
For phrases we read the study notes for the verses
For words- here's where it shines.
First you get the transliterated Hebrew or Greek. Next all the different translations of that word. Next all Hebrew/Greek words that are translated as that. And finally a list of verses with that word so you can determine what the original word was.
What I still want to know - more about the words.
Reasonable Cost : Next I use an interactiveHebrew/Greek Bible side by side with the English. Here I can click on an English word and it shows me the original Hebrew or Greek. Then I click on that and get the full definition, alternate definitions and the root word.
Examples:
Light/Darkness ( a twisting away- ie from light!)
Women are commanded not to speak. Commanded is not in the original Greek. Why is it in the English? I wondered if the translation required two words to take the place of one, or if the original word
I really need to understand the intent, the phrasing choices of the writers. I need, in other words, to learn Biblical Hebrew and Greek. Actually I took Latin in high school and college so my real concern is Hebrew. After unsuccessfully searching for a Hebrew Rabbi who would let me attend youth classes, I found this
Link
Harder, longer but worth it. The history, the subtleties, the implications of the Biblical Hebrew.
That's how we study and answer questions.
I start with http://bible.crosswalk.com, then move on to my "bible discovery" software and finally deepen the understanding by studying the Biblical hebrew.
This is only a small part of the research we do when answering Bible history questions.
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