Congratulations on the Biblicum package. I suspect that this will be a popular package for academics from a variety of faith traditions. I appreciate the fact that it illustrates the (comparative) independence of academic Bible study from faith tradition. I recognize that I should be patient and wait to see what FL implements from the academic wish list but I won't be patient and I will press you for what I believe would make this package even stronger.
- The multi-lingual aspect of this package reminds me that some people are not studying in their native language. The mouse-over provides access to their highest priority Bible for study. A quick method for accessing their highest priority Bible in their native language would be very useful.
- Many commentaries and monographs indicate a specific translation as being used - often with a short letter abbreviation. A quick method for viewing that translation, perhaps as crudely as entering the abbreviation, would be very helpful.
- It is easy enough to build a multiview window that shows the primary manuscript streams - Samaritan, Hebrew, Targums, DSS, Septuagint, Peshitta, Vulgate. But a prebuilt version that is quickly accessible would be very useful while one works on becoming a Verbum guru.
- The Bible study monographs are easily underutilized at the moment because there is no easy way to break them out and check them. I would suggest that breaking them out into their own type and providing an index to primary passages discussed (even a simple search on headings would be better than what we have) would greatly improve their usefulness.
- Expand the vocabulary card system to access prebuilt card sets with the vocabulary to utilize the various tags and datasets. Even if some refused to use them, they would still stand as a reminder that as a user, you need to know what you are looking at. [Yes. I'm already doing this using Anki.]
Yes, I could make a much longer list ... and this list doesn't include all of my "absolutely top priority" items. This list intentionally covers the issues that would make Biblicum more useful out of the box, things that should not require extensive development time.
