Customer Reviews

Zondervan Bible Study Library: Leader's Edition 5.0 [CD] (CD-ROM)

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I purchased this reference about six months ago. It has been one of the best refereneces I have ever used. To have access to all the cross references for reading while I'm reading a particular book is wonderful. This tool has been wonderful for my Men's Bible studies. I am always able to give a complete study of a particular chapter, with references to maps, cross-references, and the commentaries. Granted I could do that before I had this software, but doing it this way saves me hours.

I only wish I had purchased the Scholars edition so that I could look up the greek and hebrew words and get a better understanding as to what the direct translation is saying.

Long story short. An excellent value for all the references that you get!

I had no problem figuring out the software interface. The commentaries and parallel translations are great. I have used the study guide to develop sermon outlines. It would take a stack of books 6 feet tall to equal the resources available. The NIV is not public domain like so many older translations so you don't find as many programs available. Kudos to Zondervan for developing such a good NIV resource.

I was trying to find a Bible software that would help me with my daily Bible study. One major requirement was that it had to be NIV, because that is the version I like to use.

At first, I was a little disappointed with the software. The instructions are greatly lacking, but with much trail and error, I finally got everything to work. I know have the various Bibles linked and all the commentaries and resource books. So now when I'm looking at a verse, all the other books adjust to the verse I'm on. Makes it very easy to review numerous resources with very little effort.

If you want a great way to research the Bible, I would highly recommend this software. Just remember, the instructions are some what lacking, but with a little effort one can adjust the settings and have the program customized just for your needs.

I looked long and hard for Bible Study software of this quality. I have had a Microsoft Reader verion of the NIV for a couple years now, but when I went to copy and paste, the copy-protection prevented be from extracting so much as a single verse.

I looked a a variety of packages with one non-negotiable requirement in mind -- it had to have the NIV. Beyond that I would appreciate other modern translations, but not be too picky.

It has a good search facility, synchronized scrolling between Bible versions as well as commentaries, a good GUI and a wealth of resources, many of which I may never get around to using.

My only quibble is navigation -- it is not always intuitive how to get back to a previous view.

I have been using this product for about two weeks now and I do enjoy the information that it contains. However, I must admit, that I am not very computer savy, so therefore this product is a little difficult to learn how to navigate. The "help" fuction does not assit me that well, but it could be due to "user error." I would reccomend it to someone that is more computer literate than I, however, to others, I would not. The good ole reliable paper Bible is the best source for me.

I like the NIV translation and I have been jotting down many study notes besides the relevant verses in a hardcopy NIV bible. I thought that the computer age must have created something better than pen and paper to jot notes and I have been looking for software programs that allow me to take notes and attach them to verses in the bible. What attracted me to this software of course the NIV translation but more importantly, their mentioning of the ability to take notes. I thought that's exactly what I was looking for. After I installed the software and looked at the "take notes" functionality, I discover that the content of notes can link to different documents but you could not link your note into the verses of the bible. Big disappointment.... Previously, I tried out Laridian's PocketBible with the note taking feature, that's great. I would have bought that if it was available for a PC....