BibleWorks8 Previews

BibleWorks8 plans to be released before Christmas and at least before the new year. In the meantime, Michael Hanel has been posting a great series of reviews based on a pre-release version. He has described:

1. New automatic update feature
2. Bagster’s Daily Light inclusion and integration
3. Morphologically tagged Greek Pseudepigrapha with new translation by Craig Evans
4. New Phrase Matching Tool
5. Expanded cross-referencing resources
6. New Browse Window Tab in Analysis Window
7. Inclusion of Greek/Hebrew grammars by Wallace, Waltke-O’Connor and Joüon-Muraoka
8. MacDonald Greek Textual Transcription
9. New Context Tab
10. New Related Verses Tool
11. Addition of texts from Early Church Fathers series
12. New resource: Rodkinson translation of the Babylonian Talmud
13. ERMIE: External Resources Manager
14. Wordlist Tab in the Analysis Window
    

BW8 looks to be a very nice upgrade.