It finally made it to the pre-pub stage!
https://www.logos.com/product/49541/theological-dictionary-of-the-old-testament
Excuse me while I grab my bib...my mouth is watering something fierce! [:P]
I agree. This is very good news, however, the cost seems to be way up there. Did I miss a CP bid somewhere along the line?
CP is almost exclusively reserved for public domain titles where the publisher/author doesn't need a particular slice, and doesn't worry about cannibalising print sales.
Whilst I was hoping for cheaper, $400 represents good value for money IMO.
CP is almost exclusively reserved for public domain titles where the publisher/author doesn't need a particular slice, and doesn't worry about cannibalising print sales. Whilst I was hoping for cheaper, $400 represents good value for money IMO.
What is your reasoning, Mark? I am trying to understand the pricing. Both TDOT and TDNT are 9,000 pages, yet TDNT OUT OF pre pub is $200, and TDOT IN pre pub Is $400. Is TDNT on some sort of special lower than pre pub sale right now?
That accounts for the No-CP, and I didn't miss out. [:)]
I've done a little research and found as you did, that $400 is pretty good considering that the print is averaging about $50 (USD) per volume. Out of my price range for now. It goes on the wish list.
Here's a screen shot showing the top resources in my library for this resource. I have 10,659 hits in 5,277 articles in 905 resources:
If for our $400 FL would tell us they'd go back and tag the top 200 resources with hits to TDOT it might entice me (of course I'd like even more, but that might be expecting too much). I'd like to hear their plans.
Here's the BIG PROBLEM. Would Logos re-tag all these resources for $400? Otherwise they may need to lower the price. We need QUALITY, not just a dictionary.
Someone from Logos need to address this issue.
Thanks for this Mark. As for tagging, based upon past performance, I have faith that these will [quickly or eventually] be worked in so as to allow us to fully realize the benefits of the purchase price.
BTW - TDNT is only 10 volumes while the TDOT is 15.
Ron, I have not seen Logos be quick to retag anything. You can find a thread of mine were new resources don't even have all of the tagging they should. Half the value of owning a work like this will be the tags that refer to it.
Lexicons in particular should be tagged!
Also, this would be a great time to throw in the CAD.
As has been noted already, $400 is a really great deal. You'd have a hard time getting the set in print for much less than $750. That's not even considering all the added value you'll get by having this in Logos.
The suggestion to update inbound links is a good one. We'll look into it.
Is there any news on the final two volumes of the series
Shalom
Yea! Please look into it, but don't stop there! 😜
I'll probably place a pre-order, but cancel if this doesn't get incorporated...
Great news!! I know Logos has been working hard to get this. I expected to pay double the price. Hope it moves fast!
It ought to be relatively easy to build a script for doing at least some of this. There's a lot of uniformity in the way TDOT is referenced.
I have 10,659 hits in 5,277 articles in 905 resources:
Those statistics are somewhat inflated by the fact that hovering over TDOT will often cause the text "Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament" to appear. In other words, with that search, many occurrences of TDOT count twice (once for TDOT, and once for "Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament"). It may be as much as 50% over-inflated.
It may be as much as 50% over-inflated.
I never thought of that before but what you say makes sense.
Which cuts down the amount of work FL would have to do to update those references as links.
TDOT by itself comes up with 6,565 hits in 4,894 articles in 737 resources which might be a closer estimation of the full number of references for my library. That is still a lot of resources and a lot of articles with links I'd like to see become active.
I got 10,218 results is 6,971 articles in 1,256 resources.
I can't wait for this to come out, and stop using my dead tree versions.
Is there any news on the final two volumes of the series Shalom
I'm assuming you are referring to Vol 16 and 17?? Hopefully they will be included in the set when published.. Taken from the google preview inside.
http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/2339/theological-dictionary-of-the-old-testament-volume-xv.aspx
thanks for that - basically no one knows!
