money converter

Wasn't that in Libronix 3?  I don't think it made it into Logos 4, unless I'm missing something... shouldn't this be added to the Missing Features list?

Peter

Carnell Butler said:

I have seen a tool on here that convert money to us dollars for biblical amounts. do anyone know what that is that does that.

There was a Weights & Measures feature in Logos 3 that would convert biblical monetary values to today's currency values, but that has not been brought forward to L4.

I seem to recall some discussion on another thread about how it would be difficult to implement adequately with world currencies being so volatile now. Would they have to tie it in to a server with the daily exchange rates? Also, in most cases, we don't know exactly what the biblical currencies were worth, only an approximation. It makes more sense to say something like "a day's wages" than to convert it into today's currency. There are some resources in Logos that will help with those kinds of estimations. Look for articles on money or coinage in the biblical dictionaries you have in your library. There is a table of Measures and Monetary Units at the very end of the ESV. Here's a chart on Monetary Units from the Woman's Study Bible (Thomas Nelson):

You'd still have to do the math yourself.