What is your "Must Have Resource"?

I would love to hear from anyone who is willing to share. Apart from commentaries what are your one or two "must have resources" that have helped make your personal study/development or ministry (sermon or bible study preparation) more fruitful? Or what resource have you just enjoyed the most using on Logos?
Thanks,
Bryan
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Bryan, I would say a good Bible dictionary.
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A good Bible dictionary.
Mission: To serve God as He desires.
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I assume you mean other than Bibles - original language or otherwise.
I would say the BDAG lexicon is my most valuable resource after the NA27 Greek text.
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Bryan Hawkins said:
I would love to hear from anyone who is willing to share. Apart from commentaries what are your one or two "must have resources" that have helped make your personal study/development or ministry (sermon or bible study preparation) more fruitful? Or what resource have you just enjoyed the most using on Logos?
Thanks,
Bryan
Aside from bibles (BHS and NA), I would have two—BDAG and HALOT or BDB.
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Bryan Hawkins said:
[W]hat are your one or two "must have resources" that have helped make your personal study/development or ministry (sermon or bible study preparation) more fruitful?
The feature that drove me to Logos in the first place was Notes. Until now, every time I wore out a Bible, it took years to get the new one marked up.
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What has helped the most is the Visual Filters one can create in Logos.
Of course there are a number of resources I would mention, but outside of commentaries the Anchor Dictionary and BDAG come immediately to mind. Though I suppose if there was just one resource it would be the tagged Louw-Nida numbers/hyperlinked context-sensitive word meanings. A gem especially for those who cannot read Greek.
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commentaries are my must have. I can never get enough of them. I love to compare resources!
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- 1992 Good News Translation marked as 1st top Bible. While I use the "read aloud" feature for commentaries (Hermeneia; 2 Cor 1-7 ICC by Thrall; Prv Believer's Church Bible Commentary; The Genre, Composition and Hermeneutics of the Epistle of James by Luke Leuk Cheung) I follow along from it. The fact that the Good News Translation can be comprehended more quickly than any other version (and it's one of the very few versions based on modern linguistics, actually the only one that is at the same time dynamic equivalent/easy-to-read) makes a HUGE difference in focus so that I can maximally comprehend the "read aloud".
- Here is a thread relevant to that, comparing OT versions, I invite You all to participate in it: http://www.christianforums.com/t7653202/
- A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology by Finger. Cheap and up-to-date for a large area of theology.
- Primitive Christianity by
Gerd Lüdemann
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Thanks,
These are good suggestions. I was wondering what to add next to my library. I have already added a bunch of commentaries, which can get expensive quick, so wanted to look into other books/resources that would help me.
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Gotta have BDAG
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My must haves are 5: My favourite transition, the best all around commentary (for me) a wonderful devotional commentary on the New Testament, and 2 Bible Dictionary's.
The New Jerusalem Bible: Reader's Edition
New Interpreter's Bible (12 vols.)
The New Daily Study Bible: New Testament (DSB) (17 vols.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) (1979–1995) (4 vols.)
Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (6 vols.)
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Mark O'Hearn said:
What has helped the most is the Visual Filters one can create in Logos.
My favorite Logos 4 feature is visual filter highlighting; wiki has => Examples of visual filters
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One of my favourites is clicking on a word and my Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary (a terrific dictionary by the way!) pops us. I just used it again this morning to find out what a "palanquin" was... [Y] [H]
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You, probably need them all, but then again don't we all?
(1) Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS Hebrew): With Westminster 4.2 Morphology German Bible Society,
Westminster Theological Seminary
| 2004(2) Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB) by
Francis Brown,
Samuel Rolles Driver,
Charles Augustus Briggs Logos Bible Software
| 2001(3) Massorah Gedolah: Manuscrit B. 19a de Léningrad by
Gérard E. Weil Pontifical Biblical Institute
| 2001[Y][H](4) The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia by
Daniel Mynatt,
Timothy Crawford,
Page H. Kelley Eerdmans
| 1998(5) German Bible Society Bundle: Student Edition by 22 authors Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft
| 1983–2009חַפְּשׂוּ בַּתּוֹרָה הֵיטֵב וְאַל תִּסְתַּמְּכוּ עַל דְּבָרַי
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The three most useful resources in Logos for Bible Study and Sermon other than the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS Hebrew): With Westminster 4.2 Morphology and The German Bible Society Bundle and a good Hebrew Lexicon:
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Massorah Gedolah: Manuscrit B. 19a de Léningrad by
Gérard E. Weil Pontifical Biblical Institute
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The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia by
Daniel Mynatt,
Timothy Crawford,
Page H. Kelley Eerdmans
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Sermons in Accents; or, Studies in the Hebrew Text by
John Adams T&T Clark
| 1906 (Devotional Christian classic)
חַפְּשׂוּ בַּתּוֹרָה הֵיטֵב וְאַל תִּסְתַּמְּכוּ עַל דְּבָרַי
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Making Bible study more fruitful? If we are talking NT study, the best resource I use (not a commentary) is the Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament. https://www.logos.com/product/3888/lexham-discourse-greek-new-testament-bundle If your Greek is rusty or you don't use Greek, the save some money and get the ESV High Definition New Testament... It is part of the bundle, and it is surprisingly useful.
This is simply a bible study tool to help you see "markers" that the author uses to emphasize cparts of the Biblical text, for instance. It's a great way to start your reading of the Biblical text you are studying.0 -
These are some good suggestions,
Thanks
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Thank you very much BK (Mitchell) ... I hadn't noticed the Adams volume ... bought it.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Hello DMB,
If, you like that suggestion you might also like this:
Two Treatises on the Accentuation of the Old Testament by Willam Wicks 1887, now in Logos ( Link)
It is also available for free on the web in PDF format so you can check it out before you make up your mind.
חַפְּשׂוּ בַּתּוֹרָה הֵיטֵב וְאַל תִּסְתַּמְּכוּ עַל דְּבָרַי
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