Suggestion: SBL Dissertation Series and Academia Biblica

"Between 1972 and 2001, the Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series (SBLDS) published exemplary dissertations on biblical texts, theological themes, critical methodologies, and related topics."

I've recently found myself wanting to access two of the dissertations in this series and realized it would be awesome if the whole series were available in Logos. SBLDS is currently continued under a new series title, Academia Biblica.

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Milford Charles Murray

http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/books_dissertation.aspx

http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/Books_AcaBiblica.aspx

"Between 1972 and 2001, the Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series (SBLDS) published exemplary dissertations on biblical texts, theological themes, critical methodologies, and related topics."

I've recently found myself wanting to access two of the dissertations in this series and realized it would be awesome if the whole series were available in Logos. SBLDS is currently continued under a new series title, Academia Biblica.

I, for one, Rosie, would surely want top purchase that series! *smile*

Thanks for the great idea. I "second" it! Peace in the Lord to you, Dear Appreciated Logos Colleague!

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/147779#Comment_147779

There's a couple of books I'd like from that series too, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay for the whole series.

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/147779#Comment_147779

Rosie count me in. I have found Dissertations a good way to study a subject in depth, and learn new methods of investigation and critical thinking.

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/147788#Comment_147788

There's a couple of books I'd like from that series too, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay for the whole series.

Mark this is where cloud computing comes in. In the old news group, many were asking for a library type loan system. Download or read a resource for a period of time, and then it expires. Maybe $30.00 a month for access to all content published in Logos. Think how handy this would be for students studying online.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/147788#Comment_147788

There's a couple of books I'd like from that series too, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay for the whole series.

This is a case where I think they should make the resources available as individual volumes. There's such a wide variety of topics, and I can imagine people wanting to purchase a book that covers a topic they are researching. But we need to have a way for searches to let us know that such a book exists that we don't own and suggest that we might want to purchase it, from within the Logos software.

When I was in seminary, I used to use TREN (Theological Research Exchange Network) all the time to find dissertations and theses (they now have conference papers too). We had access to the full text of all these works through our library. But the general public can purchase them for about $0.10 a page. Or less if you have a subscription. And you can do searches for free, and there are some free and on-sale e-docs. Great search feature - you can search by title, author, school, year, etc. Or do a full text search (offered via Google Scholar)! Very nice!

Sometimes dissertations hit specifically the question you're trying to research and they've done all the hard leg-work for you, and they provide you with further references in their footnotes. They can be a treasure trove. And since we know what school they were written for, we can get a pretty good idea of the theological leanings of the author, if we want to use that knowledge to discern how much to trust what they say.