Concord class outline

How to use Concord effectively

Concord is the Bible study software from the Christian Science church.

• http://www.tfccs.com/concord/

You can use it just like you would use the printed concordances, only better.

A new version should be coming out in late 2008

Differences between concord and concordances

• multiword searches
• fuzzy searches

Know your tools

• language (thee, kine)
• grammar
• ideas

You can use Concord in two ways:

• looking for something you already know is there

"where is it?"

searching

• looking for something you don't already know

"is there such a thing as this?"

exploring

How wide is your net?

• exact match or fuzzy match
  • what kind of fuzzy match?
    • Stemming: the difference between "love" "love*" and "lov*"
    • natural language
    • quotes: the difference between "what is man" and what is man

What else can it do?

• list of marginal heads
• list of Bible quotations used by MBE
• play snippets of hymns
• a simple word processor
• cut and paste passages to other programs