Orientation: Getting Started with Your Platform

9. The AOCM Scripture Study Tool — What It Is and Why We Use It

Throughout this programme you will meet the Hebrew and Greek behind your English Bible — not because you are expected to learn either language, but because part of handling Scripture responsibly is knowing that every translation involves choices, and being able to look behind a translation when it matters.

Our tool for this is STEPBible (stepbible.org), a free Bible-study platform built by Tyndale House, Cambridge, containing the full text of Scripture in multiple translations, interlinear Hebrew and Greek, lexicons, and cross-references. It requires no account and no payment.

We have also built a companion tool of our own, the AOCM Scripture Study widget, which brings the specific words and passages relevant to a given unit directly into the page in front of you, so you rarely need to leave the unit to begin your word study.

You will meet the AOCM Scripture Study widget many times across the programme, always presented the same way. The next chapter walks through exactly what you are looking at, using a live, working example — the very same tool you will use in real formation work.