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The templates are given with search terms “this”, “that.” These are replaced in an actual search by:
Note: the select term menu appears limited to simple text terms meaning that the user must know the format and content of the other options.
In testing, the search arguments were run with “match all word forms” set in a basic search against Catholic Church. Vatican II Documents. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2011.
Search Templates
Input
Search Argument
Basic
Both Terms: This and That
Vatican AND Church
Either Term: This or That
Church OR Vatican
All of the Terms
Church AND Vatican AND decree
Any of the Terms
Church OR Vatican OR decree
This but Not That
Church AND NOT Vatican
This near That
Church NEAR Vatican
This before That
Church BEFORE Vatican
This after That
Church AFTER Vatican
Three in This Order
Church BEFORE Vatican BEFORE decree
Related Terms Near Each Other
(Church, faith, "communion of saints") WITHIN 5 WORDS (decree, instruction, ruling)
References and Milestones
Term Near Bible Reference
"invisible God" NEAR <1 Timothy 2:4>
Commentary on One Passage refers to Another Passage
<Malachi 3> WITHIN {Milestone <Mark 1:1–7>} (run against Haydock, George Leo. Haydock’s Catholic Bible Commentary. New York: Edward Dunigan and Brother, 1859.)
Noncanonical Texts’ Use of the Bible
{Label Intertext WHERE Corpus ~ "Works of Philo" AND source ~ <Genesis 11:27–32>} (run against all resources)
Term in Noncanonical Texts Near Bible Use
suffer AND ({Label Intertext WHERE Corpus ~ "Apostolic Fathers" AND source ~ <Isaiah>}) (run against all resources)
Available entries for Corpus:
Other examples:
Find all articles published in Semeia that were written by Daniel Patte or John Dominic Crossan.
Find occurrences in the Lexham Survey of Theology where Aristotle is mentioned before Thomas Aquinas.
Find references to the four songs of the suffering servant of Isaiah in the letters of Peter Damian.
Find references to St. Augustine of Hippo’s City of God or to St. Justin Martyr’s First Apology in your apologetics resources.
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