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From Verbum Help:
Bible Books Supplemental Dataset The Bible Books Supplemental Dataset delivers several labels. These labels are applied to books throughout the library, and are used to populate the Bible Book Guides section in the Factbook. • Additional Information — Populates the See Also section. • Background — Situation, social & historical context of the book. • Canon — Canonicity (reception throughout church history), historicity, and authenticity of the book. • Content — Is high-level discussions of the material in the book. • Form — Is unity, composition, style, and structure of the book. • Meaning — Is theme, emphasis, interpretation, theology, and message of the book. • Objects — Is geography and key figures. • Origin — Is authorship, date, and purpose. These labels all support two properties: • Reference ~ <Bible ...> — Bible data type reference specifying the Bible book under discussion. • Subcategory ~ <BookGuideComment ...> — Is the Bible Book category and sub-category that the text belongs to. For example: • {Label Origin WHERE Reference ~ <Bible Deuteronomy>} • {Label Meaning WHERE Reference ~ <Bible Php>}[1]
Bible Books Supplemental Dataset
The Bible Books Supplemental Dataset delivers several labels. These labels are applied to books throughout the library, and are used to populate the Bible Book Guides section in the Factbook.
• Additional Information — Populates the See Also section.
• Background — Situation, social & historical context of the book.
• Canon — Canonicity (reception throughout church history), historicity, and authenticity of the book.
• Content — Is high-level discussions of the material in the book.
• Form — Is unity, composition, style, and structure of the book.
• Meaning — Is theme, emphasis, interpretation, theology, and message of the book.
• Objects — Is geography and key figures.
• Origin — Is authorship, date, and purpose.
These labels all support two properties:
• Reference ~ <Bible ...> — Bible data type reference specifying the Bible book under discussion.
• Subcategory ~ <BookGuideComment ...> — Is the Bible Book category and sub-category that the text belongs to.
For example:
• {Label Origin WHERE Reference ~ <Bible Deuteronomy>}
• {Label Meaning WHERE Reference ~ <Bible Php>}[1]
This contains far fewer results than one would expect. Unfortunately, the new Factbook changed the label and its content. However, Verbum Help does not reflect this change. The new format {Label BookGuide WHERE Comment ~ <BookGuideComment Book Guide Comment 20 210> AND Reference ~ <Mk>}. Is discovered via the Context Menu:
Yes, that is correct there are no results. There are no results if one simply searches for the label {Label BookGuide}, In short, the new implementation of the Book Guide has cost us:
While I can construct searches that find the relevant information in one series or resource, I have not found a broad search that picks up most resources on most of the relevant topics.
Note that the Factbook data is available only at the Biblical book level. Unfortunately, that is often an inaccurate/incomplete level:
These issues fall partially here in composition history criticism but also in:
Here are some Verbum resources that illustrate the use of composition history in biblical interpretation. I’ve listed several in hopes that everyone will find one that they own.
You have time to read one or more of these resources while we cover the next topic – Bible resource panel data and resources. At the end of that topic, the next Bible study method will be introduced.
[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).
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