Van Harn Lectionary Commentary - navigation not easy
The resource is harder to use than it needs to be.
The main problem is that it is three volumes, so setting the resource to sync with a Bible doesn't work very often. For example, I have the Revised Common Lectionary open and Van Harn and Bible linked. It is the FIrst Sunday in Lent Year B.
When I click on Gen 9.8-17 it finds the right reference.
If you try to go to 1 Pet 3.18-22 either clicking on the reference in Van Harn (it is blue and clickable) or in RCL it goes to 1 Peter 3.13-22 Easter 6A.
If Eerdmans is the one holding this up (it could be remade into a single resource), then couldn't there be a separate RCL made that is Van Harn specific, so that it always opens to the right article, and that way Logos hasn't changed the Van Harn text at all, just builds a way of accessing that text from a separate window.
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If this could be used and problem solved, making the WBC easier to use would be nice with its imo cumbersome sections, or in the case of many commentaries that have the Bible text before the commentary of any passage. There should be a way to hide that. In cases like the WBC, each author has done his or her own translation, so you'd want to keep that.
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Ideally, all RCL based commentaries would be indexed by liturgical date. This would probably require a conversion table similiar to the verse mapping used between Bible translations. I have pushed for this in the past but recognize that liturgical date support is not high on the Faithlife company's priority list. As long as a Bible reference index is used, we will get incorrect results.
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."
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