The Expositor's Bible Commentary 5.0 for Windows : The Complete Award-Winning 12-Volume Commentary [CD-ROM]

Book Description

Powered by Pradis, packaged with the NIV and the NIV Exhaustive Concordance, the entire set of the Expositors Bible Commentary is now available on CD-ROM in a powerful, intuitive, and easily accessible format. Powered by Pradis, the Expositors Bible Commentary represents the best in evangelical scholarship committed to the divine inspiration, complete trustworthiness, and full authority of the Bible presented in a flexible format, bound to meet your study needs.

Editorial Reviews

From the Manufacturer

A triumph in evangelical scholarship, the Expositor’s Bible Commentary is the product of 78 of the world’s finest biblical scholars and 18 years of meticulous effort. Packaged with both the New International Version and the Zondervan NIV Exhaustive Concordance, now this Gold Medallion study tool comes to you on CD-ROM in the Pradis platform. Yours at instant command are all the verse-by-verse insights, all the in-depth notes--including footnotes containing the Greek and Hebrew--and all the outstanding features of the celebrated 12-volume print edition.

Easy-to-use Pradis interface is:

• Transparent: footnotes automatically display with the appropriate commentary text.
• Powerful: search by lexical forms of Greek and Hebrew behind the NIV using the Exhaustive Concordance.
• User-driven: in the footnotes, choose how you want to view the Greek and Hebrew text (true, full, or simple transliteration).
• Intuitive: Never lose a window! Tabbed and tiled window panes keep all your resources in view.
• Flexible: Many features are easy to use because they’re designed like programs you frequently use. For example, navigate through the commentary by using a context tree or the "go to" dialog box.

More new features include:

• Search assistant
• Note-taking and bookmarking for book, chapter, verse, topic, or subtopic
• Customization options for text, background colors, font, and point size
• Expand the scope and speed of your Bible studies even more

The new Expositor’s Bible Commentary is powered by Pradis, the most powerful software available for Bible study. It’s fully compatible with any edition of Zondervan’s Bible Study Library. Choose the edition that’s right for you. Visit www.zondervan.com/BibleStudyLibrary for more information.

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: Zondervan; CD-Rom edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031024837X
• ISBN-13: 978-0310248378
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,891,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Software > Education & Reference > Religious Software

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Improved interface for a helpful set of commentaries, January 28, 2004

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Gontroppo "Music and Theology Lover" (Bathurst, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Expositor's Bible Commentary 5.0 for Windows : The Complete Award-Winning 12-Volume Commentary (CD-ROM)

This new version of the Expositors Bible Commentary makes it so much more useful. Previously, you could not access the footnotes and it was difficult to use. I had to write to the publishers to get a list of the authors as this was not easily viewable within the program!

The commentary was edited by Frank E. Gaebelein and J D Douglas, with assistance in the Old Testament from Bruce Waltke and Walter Kaiser, and in the New Testament by James Montgomery Boice and Merrill C Tenney.

The 78 authors of the individual volumes come from 7 different countries and various denominations including Anglican, Baptist,Independent, Methodist and Presbyterian churches.

Not all of the commentaries are equally good, but there are some terrific ones, including Carson on Matthew, Longnecker on Acts and VanGemeren on Psalms.

Well worth the bargain price [compared with the book price. And you save all that shelf space!]

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner from Zondervan, June 16, 2004

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Harold McFarland (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Expositor's Bible Commentary 5.0 for Windows : The Complete Award-Winning 12-Volume Commentary (CD-ROM)

One of the most widely recognized commentary sets, the complete twelve-volume Expositor's Bible Commentary is contained on this single CD. One of the reasons for its popularity is the quality of the writing and ease of understanding the text. With the contributions of seventy-eight authors from several countries and Christian denominations it provides a panoramic view of Biblical exposition. Something somewhat unusual in the area of Biblical reference works, the articles are not a compilation of the accumulated wisdom of all the contributors working together but each contributor has their own area for commentary and provides an exposition of the text that reflects their view.

The software uses the Pradis engine, which is common for all the Zondervan reference products. The Pradis interface is an excellent product with an intuitive user interface and a very good online help system.

"The Expositor's Bible Commentary 5.0" CD version is highly recommended for anyone who wants to be able to do serious expository research. With the ability to search electronically, cross-reference, make notes, and copy and paste into other software, it is a top Bible study product.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Commentary Series; Horrible Software, January 18, 2007

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Jacob Hantla "hantla.com" (Chandler, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Expositor's Bible Commentary 5.0 for Windows : The Complete Award-Winning 12-Volume Commentary (CD-ROM)

This is one of my favorite commentary series, and for the price that it is available digitally, how could I pass it up. I have been blessed many times already in the few months since I have owned this commentary series, particularly by DA Carson's Matthew commentary. Hands-down, without-a-doubt, I highly recommend the conservative, generally reformed Expositors Bible Commentary series.

However, the interface is, for lack of a better word, horrible. I have been using Bible software since the late 1990's. I have managed to port the majority of my reference library to digital from traditional ink-and-paper books since Libronix (logos.com) has begun to release massive amounts of resources at reasonable prices. Unfortunately, I have grown accustomed to Libronix's well designed, aesthetically pleasing, and easily navigable interface. Pradis, the software that runs the EBC fails on all three of those accounts. Using Pradis after working on BibleWorks or Libronix is reminiscent of using Windows 3.0 after growing accustomed to using Windows XP (or Vista).

Also, unlike other Bible software publishers, Zondervan's proprietary Pradis does not offer free upgrades. So when EBC 5.0 is outdated and no longer runs well on new machines, you will have to shell out more money for new software, whereas Libronix offers free upgrades.

I will not be buying any more Pradis software. I hope that Zondervan will, like almost all otehr Christian book publishers, release their books on other platforms. Let the publishers do what they do best, publish books. And let software developers do what they do best, develop software. Don't make us fight with bad software to get to the treasure that is within the books.

5 Stars for the commentary series.
1 Star for the software.