12 Days Before Christmas – Day 9

(sung to the tune of 12 Days of Christmas)

On the 4th day before Christmas, Bible Geek Gone Wild gave to me another chance to win a BibleWorks module about Greek you see…

Welcome to day nine of Bible Geek Gone Wild’s 2nd Annual 12 Days Before Christmas. Today’s contest is sponsored by the kind folks at  BibleWorks.  The purpose of BibleWorks, LLC is to provide pastors, teachers, students, and missionaries with the tools they need to “rightly divide the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15). There are other companies that exist to do this as well, but BibleWorks comes to this task with some unique differences in approach and philosophy: We exist to serve the church, not to make a profit, and all of our business decisions are made with that in mind. Our goal is to provide a complete package containing the tools most essential for the task of interpreting the Scriptures in the original Greek and Hebrew, and to do it at a price that poor pastors and students can afford. To accomplish this task we routinely make marketing and sales decisions that many would consider to be bad business but which serve our primary goals. On the other hand, because everything that we do reflects on our real employer, the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our desire to provide a professionally executed and supported software package, while at the same time compensating employees with reasonable salaries that are competitive with the rest of the software industry. We try to treat both our customers and our employees as we would like to be treated ourselves. We are thankful that the Lord has blessed our efforts thus far and look to the future with expectations of further blessing, for as long as the Lord desires. You must be an existing BibleWorks 7 or BibleWorks 8 user to win this prize. There will be one winner in today’s contest.  The winner may choose between the two BibleWorks modules listed below:

Biblical Greek, by Maximilian Zerwick, translated by Joseph Smith. Copyright © 1990 by Biblical Institute Press.

Zerwick’s Biblical Greek was written to encourage ministers to consult the original Greek, providing numerous examples and particular attention to syntax. The discussion of Greek examples often brings to light nuances of Greek syntax not found in intermediate Greek syntax textbooks.

The Text Of The Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, by Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. Copyright © 2001 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Fully revised and updated from its original publication, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts presents fresh transcriptions of the sixty-nine earliest Greek papyrus manuscripts of the New Testament—all produced before A.D. 325. Along with revised transcriptions, this volume includes:

• Introductions: Each manuscript is preceded by a concise introduction that provides such essential information as contents, date of writing, provenance, housing location, bibliography, physical features, and textual character. • Margin Notes: Significant differences between the text presented in this volume and the text presented in the editiones principes are noted in the margin. • Photographs: Nearly fifty photographs of different manuscripts provide the reader with a generous sampling of the various writing styles in this period.

No other resource brings together such an accessible and accurate collection of the text of the earliest New Testament Greek manuscripts.

Contest Details

You must be an existing BibleWorks 7 or BibleWorks 8 user to win this prize. The object of today’s contest will be to answer two questions related to BibleWorks. The answers to the questions can be found at the BibleWorks web site. The winner will be chosen from the entries with correct answers using the random number generator at random.org. Following the close of the contest, the winner will be contacted via e-mail. Good luck!

Terms and Conditions

* This contest is limited to residents of the 48 state continental United States.
* Contestants may submit one entry per contest per day.
* The winner or winners will be announced following the close of each contest.
* Prizes will be shipped within several days of the close of each contest.

This contest is now closed. The winner will be announced soon.