How is the best way to look up commentaries and illustrations for particular passages?
commentaries---passage guide. This thread may be of interest to you. http://community.logos.com/forums/t/15809.aspx
Illustrations --- I'm still working on that one :-)
For graphical "illustration" use the "Media Resources" of the passage guide.
Here is what I invented to do this.
First create a "collection" of books with this type of material.
Second do a "cited by" search using this collection.
Hope this helps.
Frank, your second method helped (I already have the first one). I don't know much about <> or ~ but I will take your word for it! Thanks!
I also keep track of commentaries that often might have some good illustrative material, either "practical" or historical: NIV Application Commentaries, Life Application Commentaries, Daily Bible Study Series, Warren Wiersbe, etc. They might offer helpful things, too, so I just go straight to them and scan for material.
For illustrations, I tagged each illustration resource as ILLUS and when I want to search for an illustration, such as "adoption", I do a searched on my tagged ILLUS resources....works for me....
It just dawned on me that you could turn on the "cited by" tool and put it and the passage guide in the same link set. Then expand the section in the cited by display for your collection of illustrations.
Problem is that the "more" button then opens a "cited by" type search in one of the panels. So just building the search yourself is probably easier.
To get illustrations in the PG (until Logos adds that back in) I just created a collection of illustration resources and then added that collection search to my PG. It seems to work fairly well.
To my way of thinking a generic "cited-by" block that can be inserted multiple time in the PG would be great. That way one could put any collection in it without have to do a separate search.
Frank, here is what I use to create this collection:
subject:illustrations OR anecdotes
It might pull in a few more for you. but for me, this still doesn't get all of mine, so I have to manually add some (that don't have subject info for some reason.)
I also keep track of commentaries that often might have some good illustrative material, either "practical" or historical: NIV Application Commentaries, Life Application Commentaries, Daily Bible Study Series, Warren Wiersbe, etc. They might offer helpful things, too, so I just go straight to them and scan for material
Dan, what I've been doing lately is when I discover a useful illustration in a commentary like McGee or Wiersbe, I'll highlight it add a note to it in a note file I created for this purpose. Then when I search in my illustrations collection later, any relevant hits from this note file will show up in the "My Content" section. I want to think there is better way to use Logos to catalog useful illustrations I discover, but this is the best I can come up with right now.
David,
Thanks! Adding anecdotes add one more resource.
I have so few in this category I need to find them all.
Frank
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