Hardy wrote, “As for Accordance, I have to admit that I have not spent much time using the software, as I do not own a Mac, but I have colleagues who like it very much.”

For what it’s worth, Accordance will run well on a PC with a free Macintosh emulator.
http://accordancebible.com/resources/support/emulator.php

I have both Bibleworks 6 (the newest version is 7) and Logos 3 Gold Edition. Also I should say that I am not an unbiased observer, as you know from the previous post; however, I will try to be as fair-minded as possible.

Both products are quite similar in that each will allow you to view a variety of texts and translations. Also, each will allow you to view and search the Westminster morphology codes (as well as the texts).

Personally, I use Bibleworks for searching the Greek and Hebrew morphology databases, but that is because I learned the commands for it before I got a copy of Logos (both, however, search the same databases). Other positives about BW are that it seems to require fewer resources (i.e. it will run on an older/slower computer), and it typically is less expensive. Ease of use seems to be the biggest negative for Bibleworks; a new user without experience using previous versions may find most functions difficult to use.

Logos, on the other hand, is built to do all of the above, plus it is an electronic library. This means that it contains (or you can add to it) many different resources. Whereas one can add Waltke/O’Connor and HALOT as expansions to BW, Logos offers these as well as Joüon/Muraoka, van der Merwe, and others (other modules include: Tov’s Parallel Aligned Hebrew and Greek Texts, Context of Scripture, the Ugaritic religious texts, Abegg’s Dead Sea scrolls w/ morph codes and the new Semitic inscriptions database; they also have a plethora of other titles). Another new feature in Logos is the Anderson/Forbes Syntax database, which allows you to search not just morphology, but syntax. This means that you can search for a certain word not just in a particular form (masc sing construct) but in a syntactic position (masc sing constr as the subject of a verbal clause).

Be sure to check out their website Logos.com to see all their resource offerings, and you can view some of their videos to get a feel for the software.

If you do decide on Logos and don’t want to drop $500 (or more) for the Silver or Gold package, I would suggest the Original language bundle which is competitively priced with BW7 around 300. Then you can add resources as you wish thereafter or you could always upgrade at a later point.

As for Accordance, I have to admit that I have not spent much time using the software, as I do not own a Mac, but I have colleagues who like it very much. It does have several nice offerings–notably the TAD expansion–however the price for the full package (nearly $2000) seems a bit prohibitive. Though one could buy the most basic edition and then put together a pretty good package a la carte.

Happy buying & Good Luck!

The “Hebrew Inscriptions” module has been available for a number of years for Accordance.
http://accordancebible.com/modules/details.php?ID=137

I believe that “An Index of Northwest Semitic Inscriptions” was released last year at SBL.
http://accordancebible.com/modules/details.php?ID=463
This module gives a background and bibliography for the major inscriptions.