Verse-by-Verse Personal Book(s) on the Pentateuch by E.M. Zerr
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The price I gave you was Faithlife essentials. Faithlife Starter is only 8.99 a month. I would call customer service and ask about it. You would probably get some additional volumes added to your library, but it does not come with the 2% cash back coupon every February. If you aren't buying anything, that will not be a drawback. As long as you have Connect, you get any new feature upgrades immediately.
I don't mind the rant.
Question, you mentioned a lot about sermons. Have you kicked the tires on the Sermon editor yet? You can develop an outline, slides, handouts, etc.
Obviously, I don't preach, being a female in the Church of Christ, but I do write. Currently, just for personal reasons, but I will be branching out in the near future. Haven't decided what that will look like yet, but I will be doing some kind of writing. Probably having to do with the Bible and mental health. I plan on using those tools, Sermon editor and Sermon Manager to keep it all organized. Right now, I am just using Word and One Note, but hope to integrate all that in Logos eventually.
Give customer service a call and have them explain in depth about the different levels of subscriptions. There are four: 8.99/mo, 99/yr, 14.99/mo, 24.99/mo.
Thanks, Carla
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I may have mis-spoke. The Faithlife Connect Starter, the one that is 8.99/month may not include all the features and feature upgrades. You may have to go to 14.99/mo for that. Call customer service to make sure. Carla
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Mark:
I know you have completed Zerr, vol. 1, but is this the breakdown by volume of the rest of it. I've seen different versions. Thanks.
Vol. 1-Gen-Ruth
Vol. 2-I Sam-Job
Vol. 3-Psa-Isa
Vol. 4-Jer-Mal
Vol. 5-Matt-Romans
Vol. 6-I Cor-Rev
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Yes, Calvin That is what I've Got.
Actually, It used to be Six(6) volumes as you list in your post.
Before they started printing in Paperback Version, the publisher
Combined Vol. 5 and Vol 6 into one large Volume. So, if you can
find this out-of-Print Hardback, it will probably be Five Hardbacks
instead of the original Six. The Combined Volumes 5 & 6 has
approximately 377 pages in Volume 5 and 356 pages in Volume
Six. That's a total of over 730 pages covering the New Testament.The print is pretty small, with no scripture. Just commentary. If it was
printed in a larger Print and Page size it would probably be somewhere
between 1200 and 1500 pages just for the New Testament Portion. I'd
say altogether, more like 4,000 pages altogether.You can download the .PDF versions of all the Volumes from the Restoration
Library at http://restorationlibrary.org In the search box, type "ZERR" and
it will give you the links for all the Volumes and then allow you to download
each volume. The owner scanned all Five of the Hardbacks for me and mailed
the books backed to me. The .PDFs on the above site are the .PDFs he
created when he "scanned" my books. I entered all the text into WORDSearch
several years ago. When I switched over to LOGOS I decided to take the
WORDSearch Userbook and convert it to LOGOS format.You can download the entire WORDSearch Userbook from my old Bible website
at http://djmarko53.wixsite.com/churchbooks What I did in WORDSerch, was
to export the entire module as a single HTML File (Over 20MB in size). I then
loaded into WORD and saved as a .docx format which is about 9MB in size. Now,
when I do Zerr's Commentary on a particular book, I just copy the text from the main
.docx file, past it into a new .docx file and save it for edited and eventual use in the
LOGOS Personal Book Editor.By the time you read this Post I will probably have uploaded Zerr's Commentary on
the book of 1st Chronicles. I have already started on Zerr's Commentary for 2nd Chronicles.
Also, on my old website (see above) I believe you can still download the Commentary for
Zerr's on each of the 66 Books of the Bible.Zerr also published in the early 20th century a book with over 16,000 Study Questions on
the New Testament. It was divided into Questions for each chapter in the New Testament.
Some of the Chapters have as many as eighty (80) Questions per chapter. He also published
a book which has Questions for Every book of the Old Testament as well. I have been thinking
of taking his questions and adding them to the Commentary I have been working on for LOGOS.
Thought it would be a good way to supplement his Commentary. Also, these Questions are also
available as a download from my website listed above. They are in .PDF Format.In Christ,
Mark Johns
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I love discussion and study questions, application resources. I can't wait for you to add the questions. My biggest gripe with Logos is they do not have the resources "Complete Bible Discussion Guide for the Old Testament and the New Testament." I have to make sure and load this over in the new feedback tool. I may visit your website and download them myself after I get the Audie McKee studies done.
Carla
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Calvin,
Below you and the other LOGOS Users on this forum will find Zerr's Bible Commentary
for the book of Genesis thru 1st Chronicles. 2nd Chronicles is coming very soon.....
These files listed below are the lasted updated ones I have. However, I did not take the
time to correct all the Spelling and Grammar mistakes. Here they are:5102.Zerr-Genesis.with BI.docx
3750.Zerr-Leviticus.with BI.docx
5670.Zerr-Numbers.with BI.docx
1754.Zerr-Deuteronomy.with BI.docx
4034.Zerr-Joshua.with bible index.docx
5545.Zerr-Ruth with bible index.docx
4617.Zerr-1st Samuel.with BI.docx
2742.Zerr-2nd Samuel.with BI.docx
3465.Zerr-1st Kings.with BI.docx
1411.Zerr-2nd Kings.with BI.docx
0876.Zerr-1st Chronicles.with BI.docx Just finished 1st Chronicles on 10/26/20 at 2:30pm EST.
I would also like to thank NB.Mick for helping me get started inserting and adding all the "Milestones" thru 1st & 2nd Samuel. Now that I have learned how to do Milestones, it's not so hard. I also give credit to Carla (cshover) for providing me with some of her Personal Books to help me see how "Milestones" are employed in the creation of Personal books for LOGOS.
later,,,
Mark
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Calvin,
Forgot to say that when all the .docx are loaded in order into the Personal
Book Editor to create the Zerr Bible Commentary there are no errors or mistakes
when they are compile into a single Bible Commentary.Again, below is the image file for Zerr's Commentary so you can include it
in the mix when you compile the book.....
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Well,
Here is the Book of Second Chronicles from the Zerr Bible Commentary.
6403.Zerr-2nd Chronicles.with BI.docx
Now starting on the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah.
--Mark--
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Thanks a lot for your work, Mark!
Have joy in the Lord!
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You're welcome.
Probably will have Ezra and Nehemiah in a couple days.
Wife home this week from work and will keep me away from the keyboard!Anyway, NB.Mick, hope you like it. Cannot wait to get to the Psalms.....
-Mark-
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Below you will find the Book of Ezra from the E.M Zerr Bible Commentary.
All the necessary Milestones are included in this file.
This now makes available the books of Genesis thru Ezra. Like the other ..docx files from
this commentary, together they compile with no errors and/or mistakes.Here it is: 3872.Zerr-Ezra.with BI.docx
--Mark--
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Please find below the Commentaries for the Book of Nehemiah and Esther from the Zerr Bible Commentary.
This will complete the Zerr Bible Commentary for Genesis thru Esther.
Once I complete the Book of Job, I will start on volume 3 of Zerr's Bible Commentary.
Volume Three Includes: Psalms thru Isaiah
8713.Zerr-Nehemiah.with BI.docx
Please note that so far, the Books of Genesis thru Esther compile with no Mistakes and Errors.
All Necessary Milestones for maximum use with LOGOS are included in all the books for Genesis thru Esther0 -
Zerr Bible Commentary for Genesis thru Esther
Notice: So far I have tried to keep the Spelling, Punctuation, and/or Grammar Errors to a minimum.
You will probably find some in any or all of the Books for Genesis thru Esther.
Sorry about that, but I don't have time to go back and look for them.
If you correct all of these errors in any or all of the Books, please post the update and share with this forum.
Thanks for your help. I am now working on the Book of Job this weekend. After that, i will start on the Book of Psalms.
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I'm so thankful for your work on this. I hope you will be able to continue.
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Mark DeVore ---- Thank you for doing this. I also hope you are able to continue on through the New Testament.
If I could help.... I'd be glad to. Zerr's commentary is an excellent addition to anyone's resources.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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I ran a test today and checked out personal book building. It seems that Logos automatically turns book-chapter-verse into such Bible references. Which brings up a question.... why do we need the "[[@...]]" for referencing book-chapter-verse? Seems like we just need to make sure we are using the right heading for what we want to do with the text.
For example.... we reference James 1:1 as "[[@James 1:1]]" or "[[@Jam 1:1]]" and set it to Heading 3.
When, it looks like, all we need is (set the book) - James (set to Heading 1), set the chapter - James 1 (set to Heading 2) and set the verse - James 1:1 (set it to Heading 3). I did this in my test and it worked fine.
Is there some reason I'm missing that we need all the "[[@...]]" stuff?? Looks to me like extra typing..... But it's easy for me to miss thing that are important.... [8-|]
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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Take a look at the documentation for Personal Books (PB). The sections in milestones and commentaries explain it a little better. You are right, that when you create a PB, Logos parses and recognizes the verse references and makes them into links. These can be exploited using the Cited By tool. However, to make a verse-by-verse commentary track with a Bible automatically when you set both the Bible and the commentary to link set x, then it needs milestones.
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xnman said:
It seems that Logos automatically turns book-chapter-verse into such Bible references. Which brings up a question.... why do we need the "[[@...]]" for referencing book-chapter-verse?
Logos automatically creates a link for the reference. The milestone marker sets off a section of text as about a reference e.g., in a commentary it is a block of text that expounds on the text. Furthermore, it is the milestones that are indexed to allow the text to be linked with another text with the same type of index.
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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Thanks Matt and MJ..... I knew there was a reason.... and what you guys say makes sense now.
Thanks again.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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I do not want to interfere with Mark's work... He's done a masterful job. I am thankful for his efforts....
I got hold of some of the E.M. Zerr Bible Commentaries.... I have listed below for the Book of Revelation. Check it over and see if it fits with what Mark is doing.... I am willing to make changes if needed....just let me know.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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It seems that Mark is no longer working on this project. I hope he is well. Thank you for taking up the mantle.
I loaded the Revelation Personal Book into my system and it seems to be working fine. The only difference I discerned is the font size. The other volumes seem to have a larger font in the commentary text (Times New Roman 14) which I can manually scale down in Logos. The file you made seems to render a smaller font size (Times New Roman 12). I kind of prefer the way you are doing it, but, since I am setting these all up with the same series title, things get wonky when I switch Bible books from the older OT volumes to the new Revelation volume.
I selected all of the text in your file and clicked the A Increase Font Size button and it seemed to switch it from 12 to 14. I'd recommend you do that in order to match the previous work Mark did and so the series can be consistent.
Even if this is the only volume you complete, I am very grateful for that work you did and for your kindness in sharing it here.
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Matt DeVore said:
It seems that Mark is no longer working on this project. I hope he is well. Thank you for taking up the mantle.
I loaded the Revelation Personal Book into my system and it seems to be working fine. The only difference I discerned is the font size. The other volumes seem to have a larger font in the commentary text (Times New Roman 14) which I can manually scale down in Logos. The file you made seems to render a smaller font size (Times New Roman 12). I kind of prefer the way you are doing it, but, since I am setting these all up with the same series title, things get wonky when I switch Bible books from the older OT volumes to the new Revelation volume.
I selected all of the text in your file and clicked the A Increase Font Size button and it seemed to switch it from 12 to 14. I'd recommend you do that in order to match the previous work Mark did and so the series can be consistent.
Even if this is the only volume you complete, I am very grateful for that work you did and for your kindness in sharing it here.
I appreciate your feed back... I will change my font to match what Mark has done. One other thing I did ... which I like... is to have Verse no. in the TOC. I think it helps to go to a particular verse quicker.
I wish there was a "macro" for Word to do a lot of the editing automatically. I may try that later...I just run out of time too fast... [8-|]
Thanks again.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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I stumbled on a very weird problem and I think I have isolated the cause. When I go to Rev 22:1 and then scroll to verse 2, I suddenly find myself back in chapter 21!. I looked at the Word document and it seems you have the milestone for 22:1 at the comments for 21:1. That confuses Logos pretty well.
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Matt DeVore said:
I stumbled on a very weird problem and I think I have isolated the cause. When I go to Rev 22:1 and then scroll to verse 2, I suddenly find myself back in chapter 21!. I looked at the Word document and it seems you have the milestone for 22:1 at the comments for 21:1. That confuses Logos pretty well.
On my end I could not duplicate the scrolling problem in Logos on my end. But I searched the file and found what you are talking about.
Thank you. I think I have found the problem and corrected it. It seems there were actually two issues in the file which I corrected. Also... I did change the font to 14 pt. The new file is listed below.
66_Zerr-Revelation with BI.docx
I will work on Jude next. And as I have time... I will work from Revelation backwards to Matthew.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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Below are the last 2 books of the New Testament from the 1947 EM Zerr commentary.
I will be working on more books as I have time. For now.... I will work from Revelation towards Matthew as Mark may be (hopefully) working on the Old Testament towards Matthew.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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Per EM Zerr Commentary....Here are the books I have converted to be ready to compile in Personal Books.
63_Zerr-2 John.docx
64_Zerr-3 John.docxLet me know about any mistakes you find.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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2 Peter and 1 John have the smaller font that doesn't match the earlier work like when you first began. 2 and 3 John look consistent with the earlier files.
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Matt DeVore said:
2 Peter and 1 John have the smaller font that doesn't match the earlier work like when you first began. 2 and 3 John look consistent with the earlier files.
I re-visit them and try to correct it. Thanks.
I am trying to write a program (vbs macro) to do all this editing stuff... it has sooooo many variables. Wish I knew Grep or PHP... or could remember my old "C" stuff... lol
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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Thanks for your work on this.
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Here are 1 & 2 Peter. I corrected the font size to 14. I'll try to catch this in the future. Be patient with me, it's going to take some time to get the rest of the books of the Bible... but I'll tarry on.
Personally, I think Zerr Commentary would be a good addition to any library.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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