TIP of the day: Lexham Bible Dictionary / Lexham Bible Guide
The Faithlife Study Bible refers to itself 9,814 times with an additional 1, 018 references to its Infographics. The next most frequent reference is to the Lexham Bible Dictionary which is referred to 3, 798 times.
1. The Lexham Bible Dictionary: When I run a concordance I find three kinds of symbols for resources:
- a thumbnail of the resource which indicates a linked resource in my library
- a padlock which indicates a linked resource available from Faithlife but not in my library
- brackets which indicates an unlinked reference not yet available in Logos/Verbum as well as a link to a Biblographic reference
That is the current behaviour when clicking a Bibliography reference in the software. (These references are different to direct resource links.)
Failure to resolve a Bibliography reference link to a resource (when the resource is present in your Library) is a known issue.
2. On mouse-over the unlinked reference only gives a bibliographic entry.
A click allows you to copy & paste the reference:
3. One finds references to the LBD in Factbook as well which ties the Factbook research tool into the Lexham/Faithlife resources.
4. Also tied into the Lexham research environment are the Lexham Bible Guides. These Guides highlight the areas of disagreement in interpreting the text and lead you to resources that represent each view. Think of it as reception history for a narrow slice of time. (Now if we could just get one of the reception history commentaries in Logos.) By running a Concordance on a Bible Guide you can get a sense of the important commentaries for a particular book.
5. Again you will see the LBG link back to the FSB.
Note the use of hyperlinks rather than footnotes. This means there are no footnotes to show in page mode and that you need to watch for color in the text to indicate hyperlinks.
6. The LBG also provides a suggested Structure for the text which is also visible in the Bible Outline Browser. However, the implied pericopes are not available for pericope comparisons.
7. While both the FSB and the LBG have word studies, their choice of words and the points made about the words reflect the different purposes of the two resources.
8. We see the standard link to the Logos store website for resources that are not owned.
9. From the TOC one can get a quick overview of the issues in the passage - to me the most useful trait specific to this resource as it allows a Bible teacher or preacher to anticipate the questions that may arise in a discussion of the passage. (The other very useful tool for this is the Passage Comparison Tool as that allows one to anticipate questions of discrepancies between translations ... and this resource may show why.)
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."