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Reading lists: Catholic Bible Interpretation
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My apologies - I was two-thirds of the way done with adding the screen shots last night when my internet went down for several hours. This is "yesterday's" post.
Answer to question 1:
Using a Basic search, find all references to the Sermon on the Mount in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
If one doesn’t know the reference for the Sermon on the Mount, start with a basic search for “Sermon on the Mount”. You will find it is Matthew 5-7.
One needs an all text basic search of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for the reference <Mt 5-7>. The three versions of the CCC that I own give slightly different results.
Answer to question 2
Using a Basic search, find when in the liturgical year the Bread of Life Discourse is used as a Sunday reading in Catholic Daily Readings (U.S. Lectionary). Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016.
Using the same technique as before, find the reference for the Bread of Life Discourse … oops, if you look carefully it appears that even the Catholic Bible Dictionary is rather loose regarding its boundaries.
I’ll go with John 6:22-59 which is the pericope boundaries in the NABRE; John 6:32-58 excludes most of the context text and is, more strictly, the discourse.
To find the Bread of Life discourse in the lectionary is a simple {Label Lectionary Reading WHERE Title ~ Gospel AND References ~ <Jn 6:22-59>}. Given the way that calendar is coded e.g., <CatholicCalendar = Ord Time 18 Sun B>, there is no simple way to screen for Sunday. So simply scan your results to find the answer:
From Verbum Help:
Information Hover over or click any word in a linked panel to display additional information about it here. To access the Information tool: 1. Click Tools > Lookup > Information. The Information panel will open on the right. Users can also right-click a word or reference and choose Show Information from the Context menu. 2. In any open resource, hover over a word or data type reference link. An entry from a dictionary, lexicon, or encyclopedia may appear in Information, as well as the text of references and footnotes, speaker labels, and palette/style names of applied highlighting. 3. Hovering over another word in the text will display information on the new word. To move the cursor without changing the content, hold the Cmd key (Mac) or Ctrl key (Win). 4. Click a link in the Information panel to open the resource to the referenced location. 5. Click Copy to copy the content of the panel to the Windows clipboard for pasting into a note or a document. Users can also click one entry to select it and copy that entry only. To change the way information in retrieved, open the panel menu , and select the desired option under Update on: • hover: updates information automatically when the user hovers over a word for a few seconds (default) • click: updates information only when a word is clicked Sections The Information tool is divided into several sections. These sections can be expanded, collapsed, rearranged, or removed. The Add button in the top-right allows users to replace any removed sections. The available Information sections are: Definition This section provides the definition for the selected word for Surface text or original language lemmas, in addition to the Strong’s Number, and Louw-Nida. The Settings option, when mousing over the section header, allows users to choose between Brief or Entire definitions, as well as selecting the preferred Lexicon. Translation This section displays how the selected word is translated in other versions of the text. This will generally consist of prioritized Bibles and interlinear resources. Word Info The information in this section is similar to that on the right side of the Context menu, providing the manuscript word, lemmas, roots, etc. These are linked to open Bible Word Study or Morph Searches on the word (as applicable). If there are mulitple manuscript words, they can be expanded or collapsed to focus on the most relevant information. The Settings option allows users to enable/disable what information is displayed. The options are: • Manuscript • Transliteration • Lemma • Transliteration • Gloss • Root • Transliteration • Gloss • Base • Transliteration • Gloss • Morphology • Ending • Extension • Construction • Base Element • Strong’s Number • Louw-Nida • Sense Literary Typing This displays the classification for the passage surrounding the selected word, as defined in the Lexham Glossary of Literary Types. For example, a psalm would have the literary type of Poetry; Psalm in addition to other types specific to the psalm. Other References This section provides links to other data associated with the selected word, such as Biblical People the word refers to, Themes or Labels associated with the word, etc. This data will generally link to the relevant page in the Factbook. The Settings option allows users to toggle what information is displayed. The options are: • Addressees • Cultural Concepts • Dates • Discourse Features • Factbook Events • Grammatical Constructions • Labels • Referents • Speakers • Timeline Events • Topics This section also displays supplemental data from the Psalms Explorer. This data includes Psalm attribution, genre, structure, and relevant tags. Community Tags This section reveals any tags on the selected word as shared by others within the Verbum community. Preaching Themes This section displays preaching themes connected to the selected word. Each theme is a hyperlink to the Sermon Starter Guide on that theme or topic. Highlights This section provides information on highlights to the selected word. It lists the highlighting palette and style, and each is linked to an inline search, which will display a filtered view of all text in the resource with that category of highlight applied. For example, if the selected word has the Green Highlighter style applied, this section will display Highlighter Pens: Green Highlighter. Clicking Highlighter Pens will open an inline search to all of the text with any highlighter pen style. Clicking Green Highlighter will show all the passages specfically highlighted with green. Footnotes This section provides the text and hyperlinked passages from any footnotes related to the selected word. The Settings option allows users to toggle Look up references on/off. With this disabled, users will only see hyperlinks or any standard text of the footnote. With it enabled, any references will still be linked and the text of the reference will also be displayed. Print or export the Information panel content: 1. Open the Information anel menu. 2. Choose Print/Export; users can also press Cmd+P (Mac) or Ctrl+P (Windows). 3. Click Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page (HTML), or XPS Document.[1]
Information
Hover over or click any word in a linked panel to display additional information about it here.
To access the Information tool:
1. Click Tools > Lookup > Information. The Information panel will open on the right. Users can also right-click a word or reference and choose Show Information from the Context menu.
2. In any open resource, hover over a word or data type reference link. An entry from a dictionary, lexicon, or encyclopedia may appear in Information, as well as the text of references and footnotes, speaker labels, and palette/style names of applied highlighting.
3. Hovering over another word in the text will display information on the new word. To move the cursor without changing the content, hold the Cmd key (Mac) or Ctrl key (Win).
4. Click a link in the Information panel to open the resource to the referenced location.
5. Click Copy to copy the content of the panel to the Windows clipboard for pasting into a note or a document. Users can also click one entry to select it and copy that entry only.
To change the way information in retrieved, open the panel menu , and select the desired option under Update on:
• hover: updates information automatically when the user hovers over a word for a few seconds (default)
• click: updates information only when a word is clicked
Sections
The Information tool is divided into several sections. These sections can be expanded, collapsed, rearranged, or removed. The Add button in the top-right allows users to replace any removed sections.
The available Information sections are:
Definition
This section provides the definition for the selected word for Surface text or original language lemmas, in addition to the Strong’s Number, and Louw-Nida.
The Settings option, when mousing over the section header, allows users to choose between Brief or Entire definitions, as well as selecting the preferred Lexicon.
Translation
This section displays how the selected word is translated in other versions of the text. This will generally consist of prioritized Bibles and interlinear resources.
Word Info
The information in this section is similar to that on the right side of the Context menu, providing the manuscript word, lemmas, roots, etc. These are linked to open Bible Word Study or Morph Searches on the word (as applicable). If there are mulitple manuscript words, they can be expanded or collapsed to focus on the most relevant information.
The Settings option allows users to enable/disable what information is displayed. The options are:
• Manuscript
• Transliteration
• Lemma
• Gloss
• Root
• Base
• Morphology
• Ending
• Extension
• Construction
• Base Element
• Strong’s Number
• Louw-Nida
• Sense
Literary Typing
This displays the classification for the passage surrounding the selected word, as defined in the Lexham Glossary of Literary Types. For example, a psalm would have the literary type of Poetry; Psalm in addition to other types specific to the psalm.
Other References
This section provides links to other data associated with the selected word, such as Biblical People the word refers to, Themes or Labels associated with the word, etc. This data will generally link to the relevant page in the Factbook.
The Settings option allows users to toggle what information is displayed. The options are:
• Addressees
• Cultural Concepts
• Dates
• Discourse Features
• Factbook Events
• Grammatical Constructions
• Labels
• Referents
• Speakers
• Timeline Events
• Topics
This section also displays supplemental data from the Psalms Explorer. This data includes Psalm attribution, genre, structure, and relevant tags.
Community Tags
This section reveals any tags on the selected word as shared by others within the Verbum community.
Preaching Themes
This section displays preaching themes connected to the selected word. Each theme is a hyperlink to the Sermon Starter Guide on that theme or topic.
Highlights
This section provides information on highlights to the selected word. It lists the highlighting palette and style, and each is linked to an inline search, which will display a filtered view of all text in the resource with that category of highlight applied.
For example, if the selected word has the Green Highlighter style applied, this section will display Highlighter Pens: Green Highlighter. Clicking Highlighter Pens will open an inline search to all of the text with any highlighter pen style. Clicking Green Highlighter will show all the passages specfically highlighted with green.
Footnotes
This section provides the text and hyperlinked passages from any footnotes related to the selected word.
The Settings option allows users to toggle Look up references on/off. With this disabled, users will only see hyperlinks or any standard text of the footnote. With it enabled, any references will still be linked and the text of the reference will also be displayed.
Print or export the Information panel content:
1. Open the Information anel menu.
2. Choose Print/Export; users can also press Cmd+P (Mac) or Ctrl+P (Windows).
3. Click Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page (HTML), or XPS Document.[1]
The Word Info section allows customization:
Using the word “prophet” of Mk 1:2 yields
Linkage:
Element
Hover
Click
Manuscript – transliteration
None
none
Lemma – transliteration, pronunciation, gloss
Information card
Bible Word Study Pronunciation
Root – transliteration, gloss
Preview of Search
Morphology search for root
Base – transliteration, gloss
Morphology search for base
Morphology
Morphology search for the morphology set
Ending
Morphology search for ending
Extension
Morphology search for extension
Construction
Morphology search for construction
Base element
Morphology search for base element
Strong’s Number
Preview of top resource indexed by Strong’s number
Opens top resource indexed by Strong’s number to specified article
Louw-Nida
Preview of top resource indexed by Louw-Nida number
Opens top resource indexed by Louw-Nida number to specified article
Sense
Bible Sense Lexicon
For each dictionary/language selected the user can choose from definitions that are:
One can also choose a dictionary other than the top preferred dictionary for that language/key. Set the preferred dictionary if not the normal default.
Continuing with the same example:
Links provide access to dictionaries.
Hover on title
Click on title
Surface text
Pop-up of full-title
Open the resource (preferred resource for language/key) to the appropriate article.
Aramaic lemma
Greek lemma
Hebrew lemma
Latin lemma
Syriac lemma
Strong’s number
This section has no settings. All Bible translations containing the passage and appropriate coding are used.
There is a link to the Text Comparison tool in addition to the links provided to the > 25 Bibles included in the results:
For each Bible
Preview of the verse containing the word in the specific version.
Open to the verse containing the word in the specific version.
Literary typing has no user set parameters.
Linkage is to definitions and Bible passages.
Literary type
Mouse over gives preview definition from The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types.
Click opens The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types to the appropriate entry.
Bible reference
Mouse-over gives a preview of the referenced passage in your preferred Bible.
Click opens your preferred Bible to the referenced passage.
The contents of the section is set by the user:
The data actually shown depends upon the user settings, the coding of the resource, and the tagging of the specific word on which the Information tool is reporting. Therefore, the screen shot and table are simply representative, not exhaustive.
Representative links:
Figure of Speech
Discourse Grammar: Greek Net Testament
Full title (on title)
Opens The Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament: Glossary to appropriate entry.
Syllable
Prepositional phrase: lemmas
Bible Word Study
Longacre genre
Preview of definition
Opens Longacre Genre Analysis of the Bible Dataset Documentation to the appropriate entry.
Intertext
Preview of Source text
Opens the appropriate resource to the reference given for Source.
Accent
Cultural concept
Factbook entry for cultural concept
Semantic feature
Opens The Lexham Propositional Outlines Glossary to the appropriate tenry
Refers to
Factbook entry for referent.
Biblical event
Factbook entry for the event
Footnotes has a single setting – one that requests that references be looked up in addition to the footnotes.
This section duplicates portions of the Power Look up.
There are no links specific to this section. If, however, the footnote or reference have active links, they will serve as links.
This section has no settings.
The links are:
Preaching theme
Tool tip describing action
Opens the Sermon Start Guide to the Preaching theme.
This section has no settings. I have created an entry as I had none.
Community tag
Opens an inline search for the highlight.
An information card
Opens Factbook to the entry.
[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).
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