![]() ![]() I use the split screen feature every time I use the app. One of the best features is the split screen, which allows you to have two texts open at once. Whether toggling between translations or doing searches, it’s a clean user-friendly interface. Interface: The app is really easy to use. It’s really unbelievable what kind of search capability you hold in the palm of your hand with Olive Tree.Ħ. Or if I needed to, I could look up every instance of logos that is genitive, masculine, plural. For instance, I can look up every use of the word logos in the New Testament. You can look up not only certain words, but certain forms of words. Searching: With the morphologically tagged texts, there comes the possibility of morphologically complex searches. Also, the parsing window allows you to link through to that word’s entry in any lexicon in your library.ĥ. This is a wonderful feature for when you get stuck puzzling over a form. Every word of both the Greek and Hebrew texts is hyperlinked to its own parsing and definition. Tagged Morphology: Olive Tree offers morphologically tagged texts of NA28, BHS, and Rahlf’s LXX. Because of this, the browsing is much quicker than other apps that make you download content one page at a time.Ĥ. I have all my texts available on my device whether or not I am online. Other Bible apps store the resources on their servers, and then you retrieve the data via the internet every time you open a new book. Speed: One of the best features of the Olive Tree reader is that it stores all of your texts on your mobile device. See below a screenshot of Genesis 15 and the HALOT entry for “Yahweh.”ģ. If I could only have one other resource besides the biblical texts themselves, it would be this one- the BDAG/HALOT bundle. Almost instantly, the appropriate entry from BDAG or HALOT appears, and you are on your way. It’s a matter simply of touching the word you want defined and then touching the lexicon that you want to look it up in. Nevertheless, to have these two resources at your fingertips is an invaluable tool for Bible Study. Like the print versions of these two books, this version is a little pricey ( $299 for the bundle). Lexicons: Olive Tree also offers the two standard lexicons for the Greek and Hebrew Bibles: BDAG and HALOT. You can download the free Olive Tree BibleReader now on and iTunes, and you can try it out with the assortment of texts that are available for free (e.g., KJV, NET Bible, HCSB, Calvin’s Institutes, Augustine’s Confessions, and many more).Ģ. You can buy it in the Olive Tree store for $39.96, and it comes bundled with the ESV. One of the items on my wish list is Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. Other resources are listed on the website, and they include study bibles, study tools, academic resources, eBooks, and more. On my iPad, I have the 28th edition of Nestle-Aland, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Rahlf’s LXX, the NASB and the ESV Study Bible (along with a handful of other freebies). This is an invaluable resource and a must-have for those working with the original languages. The text is morphologically tagged so that simply touching a word will bring up a definition of the word and its parsing. See below a screenshot of Ephesians 1:1 and the well-known problem of EN EPHESO. For the first time, readers will now be able to do text criticism right from their mobile app! The text critical symbols are hypelinked to the appropriate section of the apparatus which opens up simply by touching the symbols. This text is not only the new scholarly standard, it also comes loaded with the entire critical apparatus. Last Spring, Olive Tree became the first company to offer the 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland text. For me, the two that I need most are the standard scholarly editions of the original language texts: the Nestle-Aland text (Greek) and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Hebrew). What I need is access to the Greek New Testament, the Hebrew Old Testament, and one or two good English translations. It would be impractical to access them even if I did. I don’t need ten different English translations on a mobile app. ![]() Texts: The baseline requirement for a Bible app is that it have all the texts that I need. So here are my seven reasons for commending to you the Olive Tree BibleReader.ġ. For what I use it for, it simply has better features than any of its competitors. ![]() It’s clean interface and easy usability makes it my favorite Bible app for mobile devices-even more so for the iPad. Since then, I’ve been using the Olive Tree reader on a daily basis. About a month ago, I purchased my first iPad. ![]() For regular Bible reading, I have preferred either a physical book or at least a larger screen. But the small size of the iPhone screen meant that I really only used it in a pinch. I have been using Olive Tree’s BibleReader app on my iPhone since 2009. ![]()
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