Verbum Search through Tip of the Day #39

MJ. Smith

Tip 39: Library Results: Resource toolbar: Visual filters

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There are at least forty-three types of resources in the library. That’s enough that giving a simple list of definitions to memorize would be useless. On the other hand, it is necessary to be familiar with your library and what information it can provide in order to build searches and choose tools that meet your needs. This is an appropriate point to start emphasizing the data behind the Factbook sections and the resources to be scanned in Search statements.

Begin by opening the Lexham Hebrew Bible to identify the related resources available in the panel, most commonly through the resource toolbar.

Elements on the resource toolbar:

1. Toggle the (left) sidebar on and off. In this case the sidebar is a Table of Contents.
2. Reference box identifying current position in resource and allowing jumping to another position by reference.
3. Toggle for Internal Search bar
4. Toggles for visual filters. Certain resources / datasets are more frequently used as Visual Filters rather than independently:
   1. Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible
   2. Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament
   3. Lexham Propositional Outlines of the Old Testament
   4. Lexham Propositional Outlines of the New Testament
   5. Toggles Interlinears and Reverse Interlinears – format and contents
   6. Toggles Multiple Resources view which allows additional resources with the same characteristics to be displayed in the same panel. This is the Faithlife implementation of the host-guest relationship (aka master-slave relationship).
   7. Selects parallel resources set for navigating via next/prior to rotate through the collection.
   8. Selects equivalent resources set for easy navigation. Equivalent resources are a subset of parallel resources in which the same surface text is used but tagging or presentation differs.
   9. Back/forward/panel history for navigation within the panel.
   10. Panel Menu

Discourse Features (Hebrew)

From Verbum Help:

Discourse features

Requires a license to Steve Runge’s Discourse resources (Hebrew and Greek respectively) and corresponding datasets. Shows discourse features of the Old and New Testaments. Individual discourse categories or individual phenomena can be enabled or disabled here, and is available in any Bible with word numbers that is compatible with the Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament and Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible resources.^[1]

Documentation:

• Husser, Lydia. 2016. Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.
• Husser, Lydia. 2016. Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.

Step 1: Open the Visual Filter Menu

Step 2: Select Discourse Features (Hebrew) [and the Resource filter header]. Note that you can choose to show or not show over 30 individual features.

Step 3: Note that the blue inserts into the Hebrew text are the visual filter. Compare to the resource: Runge, Steven E., and Joshua R. Westbury, eds. 2012–2014. The Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Discourse Analysis Bibliography

Husser, Lydia. Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016.

Runge, Steven E., and Joshua R. Westbury, eds. The Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012–2014.

Husser, Lydia. Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016.

Runge, Steven E. The Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2008–2014.

Exported from Logos Bible Software, 5:47 PM October 10, 2020.

One can initiate a search from the right-click Context Menu.

1. Select a Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible feature entry in the left panel of the Context Menu
2. Choose a corpus to search e.g. Bible
3. OR look up the definition of the Discourse feature in the Glossary.

Results of the Search:

Note that the search argument is in the familiar data type format with a new data type LDHB (Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible). The “Bible” option in the Context Menu search brought up my highest priority Bible … your Bible may differ.

Results from the Lookup:

 

Propositional Outlines

From Verbum Help:

Propositional outlines

An option for Bibles, this filter reformats the filtered Bible text in the style of a “flow diagram” and then labels each part in the margin. (Requires a license to the propositional outlines resources.^[2]

Documentation:

• Thompson, Jeremy. 2015. Lexham Propositional Outlines of the New Testament: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.
• Thompson, Jeremy. 2015. Lexham Propositional Outlines of the Old Testament: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.

Propositional Outlines has a simpler implementation than Discourse Analysis. The display is an all-or-nothing choice and there is no separate resource duplicating the results.

Step 1: Open the Visual Filter Menu

Step 2: Select Propositional Outlines [and the Resource filter header].

Step 3: Note that the blue inserts into the Hebrew text are the visual filter.

Propositional Outlines Bibliography

Keaton, Mark. The Lexham Propositional Outlines Glossary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014.

Thompson, Jeremy. Lexham Propositional Outlines of the New Testament: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2015.

Thompson, Jeremy. Lexham Propositional Outlines of the Old Testament: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2015.

Exported from Logos Bible Software, 7:10 PM October 10, 2020.

One can initiate a search from the right-click Context Menu.

1. Select a Propositional Outline feature entry in the left panel of the Context Menu
2. Choose a corpus to search e.g. Bible
3. OR look up the definition of the Propositional Outline feature in the Glossary.

Results of the Search:

Note that the search argument contains the familiar data type format with a new data type PropositionalOutline. It is embedded in a {Section} tag indicating that it applies to a “chunk” of text not to a specific location. The “Bible” option in the Context Menu search brought up my highest priority Bible … your Bible may differ.

 

 

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^[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).

^[2] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).