A number of bibliobloggers have been “assimilated to the Blogosphere” (to put it in Jim Davila‘s words) in recent weeks. I am particularly happy to see that Joe Weaks has just started The Macintosh Biblioblog, defined as “All things Macintosh for biblical scholarship. Providing news, help, and discussion for bible scholars using Macintosh technologies as a tool for doing their work.” Great! I have immediately added Joe’s blog to my Bloglines blogroll.

Yet another SESB review can be found at the Bryn Mawr Classical Review website.

Note that this review, written by Catherine Conybeare and a group of five “senior undergraduates or first-year MA students,” has some oversights that could have been easily avoided with more thorough tests, but you might want to check it out nonetheless.

Interlinear Scripture Analyzer (ISA) is currently at version 1.1.0, which includes an Old Testament Hebrew-English Interlinear. There is a new website where you can find out about this free interlinear and concordance search software. I have wanted to review ISA for some time now, but it’s still on my looooong to-do list. One interesting thing about it is that it is the only program I know of that displays the text of the Greek NT in uncial characters. I should also point out that there are downloadable PDF files available for the different books of the Bible, in case you want to take a look.

Accordance has released a new training DVD introducing most of the program’s features (see topics here).

A more comprehensive edition is planned for later in the year. Video tutorials are becoming fairly popular among Bible software companies, particularly those with more advanced applications (e.g., BibleWorks or Logos). It is said that users don’t generally read manuals, which contain far more information and detail than what is shown on training CDs/DVDs. Let’s hope they at least watch videos…

Only 73 people participated in the first Poll of the Week, a very small percentage of those who visit this weblog regularly. I was hoping to offer the results based on at least a sampling of 100 users, but I suppose the data would not be that different anyway. So here are the results:

As you can see, 66% said they were most interested in Bible software for PC, 26% indicated they would much rather read reviews about Macintosh-based Bible software, whereas Linux (4%) and PDA/Tablet PC (4%) were the platform of choice for the remaining 8% of our visitors.

The new Poll of the Week is up on the sidebar. Please take a few seconds to cast your vote. Thanks!