SUGGESTION: missing non-Biblical things

MJ. Smith

In the Logos Control Vocabulary I find a number of non-Biblical entries e.g. Nag Hammadi, John Calvin, various documents, etc. but I don't find a number of relevant things e.g. baptismal font, crozier, ... please add them to the vocabulary.

Sean Boisen

MJ. Smith said:

In the Logos Control Vocabulary I find a number of non-Biblical entries e.g. Nag Hammadi, John Calvin, various documents, etc. but I don't find a number of relevant things e.g. baptismal font, crozier, ... please add them to the vocabulary.

Thanks for the suggestion: these kinds of subjects are generally within our scope. We currently have an entry for font (though we need to add the alternate term "baptismal font").

I had to look up crozier: beyond the definition (existing dictionaries handle that well) and the ability to search for the terms, what other information would be helpful for us to organize about this? We don't have a lot of resources with article-level content about objects like these.

MJ. Smith

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Sean Boisen said:

I had to look up crozier: beyond the definition (existing dictionaries handle that well) and the ability to search for the terms, what other information would be helpful for us to organize about this? We don't have a lot of resources with article-level content about objects like these.

Doing a Heading text/Large text search for "crozier" in my library brought up 7 results.  It may be that I am simply trying the wrong words. For example <Topic ambo> is recognized but produces zero results while a Heading Text/Large Text search produces 30 results.

What I think Faithlife could do that would make the relevant resources more accessible (think bottom section of the Liturgy section of the Passage Guide and the supporting resources) would be identifying synonyms across time and traditions. The Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Catholic, Orthodox and early church ritual books have similar elements but call them different names. This makes it hard to find and compare elements, especially if you want to refer back to its Jewish roots / Biblical foundations.

The other, related element, is that Logos indexing has not yet directly addressed imagery - I'm thinking of resources such as:

• Ryken, Leland, Jim Wilhoit, Tremper Longman, Colin Duriez, Douglas Penney, and Daniel G. Reid. Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.

• Beck, John A., ed. Zondervan Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011.

• Ramshaw, Gail. Treasures Old and New: Images in the Lectionary.  Fortress Press 2002
• Harrington, Daniel J. Why Do We Hope? Images in the Psalms. Liturgical Press 2006
• Harrington, Daniel J. What Are We Hoping For? Images in the New Testament. Liturgical Press 2006

In addition to the synonyms across time and traditions, tying the item to its Biblical image is important. In addition to the various names for a crozier, its link to the image of shepherd is critical. A crozier is a symbol of a bishop in that a bishop is a shepherd of his people which reflects the image of Jesus as shepherd which is a specific instance of the image of shepherd in the Bible ...

Put another way, Logos has made huge strides in making ancient literature, early church fathers and Judaica accessible to the average user through new Passage Guide sections and interactives. I think you could do the same for the bulk of the worship materials.