Search Question

Clint Cozier

I would like to find anything in my library relating to titles ascribed to both Jesus and Caesar. I've tried some obvious combinations (Title NEAR (Jesus OR Christ)) INTERSECTS (Title NEAR (Caesar OR Emperor)) and looked for helpful tagging on the one that came immediatly to mind (John 4:42, Savior of the World). I'm just hitting junk. Suggestions?

Mark Barnes

I would like to find anything in my library relating to titles ascribed to both Jesus and Caesar. I've tried some obvious combinations (Title NEAR (Jesus OR Christ)) INTERSECTS (Title NEAR (Caesar OR Emperor)) and looked for helpful tagging on the one that came immediatly to mind (John 4:42, Savior of the World). I'm just hitting junk. Suggestions?

You can't use INTERSECTS when searching your library. That finds words whose location overlaps, and therefore only works in interlinear data, where multiple datapoints exist in the same location (Greek word, English word, sense data, etc.)

For a library search, you need to use AND (for a broad match) or NEAR (for a narrower match), so (Title NEAR (Jesus OR Christ)) NEAR (Title NEAR (Caesar OR Emperor)).

However, you can't use NEARs at different 'levels' of parentheses, so you'd need to remove one level of parentheses: (Jesus OR Christ) NEAR Title NEAR (Caesar OR Emperor). That now gives you valid syntax, but I'm sure there'll be ways of refining it. I'll post a followup with some more suggestions soon.