Tasks: Once you are familiar with BW, it is usually much faster to conduct many tasks.In Logos, they basically have the UBS Concise which is just a gloss, though you can buy Friberg for $16 more. Danker Concise Greek-English Lexicon and Friberg Analytical Lexicon - If you can't afford BDAG or the EDNT, these two lexicons are the best available for students (in addition to Louw-Nida which both BW and Logos include).
Logos does not offer it but has their own Lexham translation instead (but the English is fully tagged w/ interlinear)
The large number of free databases and add-on modules.Inclusion of Greek/English of Philo, pseudepigraphical, apocryphal, Jewish.The huge number of non-English language versions.The wide variety of English and Greek versions.Included resources: BibleWorks has so many texts included in their standard package that would cost so much extra in Logos whether you buy separately or upgrade your library.This is a pro/con either way depending on what you want to do.Approach: BW focuses on the biblical text and works outward to related resources Logos focuses on a library and drills down into the texts and connects them.Logos' Biblical Languages Package is $475 at the institution rate and requires the institution to put up all the money in advance. Value: BW is $389 and $295 with the group purchase.I use both regularly.Īlso note that I am approaching this as a sem prof who is trying to find what works best for my students. Michael has already identified some key points, but let me add/reiterate. (I posted in the other thread, but it's better to post it here) So, I'd really like to hear from those of you who also own and work with Logos 7? Please don't misunderstand, this is not to dis BW in any way, but when I look at the extremely powerful Visual filters and in-depth word analysis tools of Logos, which also happen to be graphically very pleasing, then I truly ask myself, what does BW still have to offer besides perhaps some interactive photographs from original manuscripts? Perhaps I don't know BW well enough to appreciate having it alongside Logos, but then the marketing people at BW are not doing a good job convincing people like me. So here is the question I have for the forum: Is there anything that can be done in BW with Greek and Hebrew texts, that can not be done equally well or even better in Logos?. But I am completely unable to defend that decision if someone were to ask me what BW gives me in addition to Logos.
I have now arrived at a point where I truly ask myself, why would I want to keep upgrading BW? I recently upgraded to BW10 but now I wonder, why on earth did I do that? I could kick myself for wasting the money because I really just upgraded out of habit. However, I also use Logos a lot, which has come a long way since its early years. And I hope somebody might be able to give me a good answer. I have a controversial question, but nevertheless a very honest one. So, here it is again under its own thread: I had posted this under What would you like to see in Bibleworks 11?, but then someone suggested that this should probably have its own thread.