Category: Logos Bible Software
The Perseus Collections for Logos.
As I am sure you have heard by now Logos Bible Software will be releasing the entire Perseus Collections for free. Like some other bloggers I got my hands on it before it was released to the public. That happens on the 28th of this month. If you have not yet pre-ordered do so now.
Why should you order this package? Thank you for asking!
First of all, it is free! Yes, free.
Second, it is a collection of some of the all time great classics. This includes writings by the likes of Aristotle, Cicero, Hippocrates, Livy, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Tacitus, Xenophon, and many others. If a text is in Latin you’ll get the Latin. If a text is in Greek you’ll get the Greek. Also, you’ll receive the English translations. This is over eleven hundred volumes.
Third, it integrates with what you have already. If you do a study on an important word in the Book of James it will show you not only how that work was used in the rest of Scripture but it will browse these other volumes so you can see how it functioned in ancient literature. If you are examining a word in BDAG and it cites one of Cicero’s works you can access that work by clicking the reference. This will expand your research.
Again, this is first come, first serve, so you need to pre-order soon if you have not already done so.
Let me show you some screen shots (click to enlarge):
This is Aristotles’ Economics in Greek:
Let’s say I want to read more on a word I come across in this work. I can use my lexical resources:
Let’s say I want to compare the Greek with the available English translation. I can open two windows side-by-side to do so:
Now let me show you how the Perseus Collections can expand your research. Let’s say I want to do a word study. I want to look up the word διήγησιν in Luke 1.1. I will use the word study function and go to the left hand side where each word is parsed. If I keep my mouse on the lemma it will give me the option to do a word study.
When I have the word study section open I can scroll down and I will have the option to see how the word is used in the rest of the NT or the LXX, but now I have the added category “Classics”.
I can click on “Classics” and suddenly the world of Plutarch, Plato, Lucian, and others is at my disposal.
Logos has done us all a great big favor by making this available and then they went above and beyond by making sure it was free and integrated. I’m sure you’ll enjoy having these resources.
Bibleworks 9: NT diagrams.
This video shows you how to use the NT diagrams function in BW 9. I like diagrams. They assist me in thinking through how the words relate in a given sentence. When I was learning Greek a frequent homework assignment was that we would diagram sentences ourselves. This is still something I think should be done by yourself, but it is helpful to be able to check the diagram of another.
Also, a reader may wonder how this compares with the diagram options in Logos 4. I purchased the upgrade of Logos 4 so my iMac would have a solid Bible program. I think that the BW Diagramming Module works well with the Logos 4 Lexham Syntactic Greek NT. Logos has a few more diagram style books, but this is the one most like BW 9′s version. This is a screen shot:
As you can see it divides up section by naming “prepositional phrase” or “segment clause”. BW 9, as the above video shows, has lines with an interpretive graph along the left hand side. This allows it to accomplish essentially the same purpose. I guess it just depends on which one you find easier on the eyes or easier to understand.
Book of Common Prayer…
I noticed tonight that Logos Bible Software are offering the Episcopal Church’s Book of Common Prayer Daily Lectionary for FREE! For those who use the Logos forums, they might be aware that there has been a push for Logos to provide such a book for quite some time. I just never thought it would be made available for free! According to the blurb,
“The Book of Common Prayer (1979) Daily Office Lectionary contains the two-year cycle of daily readings from the Episcopal Church’s Book of Common Prayer of 1979. This lectionary gives the psalms and lessons from the Old and New Testaments for Sundays, weekdays, and major feasts of the calendar of the Episcopal Church. Organized by calendar date, the Logos edition of the Book of Common Prayer (1979) Daily Office Lectionary allows you to easily find the readings of the day and read them in your preferred translation.”
