SUGGESTION: An off-the-wall suggestion that would certainly be a big help to me at the moment.

MJ. Smith

I've been doing some work on inter-/intra-textuality in scripture. However these terms don't have the same meaning at all times. For example:

• intratextual means same book of the bible; intertextual means other books of the Bible
• intratextual means same author's corpus; intertextual means other author's Bible corpus
• intratextual means same Bible group e.g. wisdom literature; intertextual means all non-wisdom literature ....

You get the idea. When it comes to the author, if I mean "traditional author" I can make the distinction in my head but if I mean "academic proposed consensus author", I'll admit I can't divide Isaiah into Isaiah, duetero-, trito- off the top of my head. Or when it comes to age in which a text was written or if the language is Old Hebrew, Pre-exile Hebrew, Post-exile Hebrew or Aramaic I haven't a clue.

It would be very useful to be able to take a set of references and have Logos sort them by age written, or genre of their book, or author (traditional or academic) or language "phase" .... It provides useful information regarding what one has to establish in order to use one passage to interpret another. One could even make it a really cool multi-faceted bubble diagram.

Reuben Helmuth

So if I'm understanding you, it would basically be a "Biblical Literature Explorer" that would potentially be modeled after the "Psalms Explorer," is that right?

George Somsel

MJ. Smith said:

t would be very useful to be able to take a set of references and have Logos sort them by age written, or genre of their book, or author (traditional or academic) or language "phase" .... It provides useful information regarding what one has to establish in order to use one passage to interpret another. One could even make it a really cool multi-faceted bubble diagram.

While it sounds attractive to have Logos sort by age, that can be a rather subjective undertaking.  Someone who holds to traditional views of, say, Isaiah would have one view of the age of the texts (Isaiah at the time of Ahaz, Hezekiah) while someone who holds a critical view that Isaiah is composed of 3 (or even 4) separate works dating as late as the Exile preceding the return would have a completely different view.  It could even lead to considerable disagreement among users.  This is why I stay away from all discussions of a "chronological bible."

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/794569#Comment_794569

George Somsel said:

While it sounds attractive to have Logos sort by age, that can be a rather subjective undertaking.

I agree it is rather subjective. I was hoping that there was sufficient linguistic evidence to at least sort into 3 periods of Biblical Hebrew. Or enough other evidence to order "clumps" of text. I would prefer no dates be attached to the ordering but like authors perhaps there could be traditional/academic options. What I want to be able to do, for example, is trace images through time in a manner similar to Andersen's Sin: A History.