Two questions on Bible Books Explorer

This is a nice tool with lots of potential!

(1) Is there any way to include other books of Bibles used in other denominations, like Orthodox, Catholic, etc.? For example, it would be great to see the Maccabees books linked in.

(2) See picture below - it's easy in a corpus to see for example, how many lemmas are used only once in Pauline letters. I don't see a way to find out what those lemmas actually are though, which would make this very useful. Am I missing something?

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MJ. Smith

(1) Is there any way to include other books of Bibles used in other denominations, like Orthodox, Catholic, etc.? For example, it would be great to see the Maccabees books linked in.

Mine shows an 87 book canon with the NRSV as my preferred translation. What did you do to truncate your canon?[;)]

Pater Noster

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1148502#Comment_1148502

Oh duh, thanks MJ! It pays to check out line 3 of the books facet (below)! Hw about the second question - can I find out what the lemmas used only once in Paul's Epistles are, any way to click to a search yet? That would be awesome.

Sean Boisen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1148531#Comment_1148531

... about the second question - can I find out what the lemmas used only once in Paul's Epistles are, any way to click to a search yet? That would be awesome.

There's not a way to do that in Bible Books Explorer, but you can with Concordance:

Open https://ref.ly/logos4/Concordance
Use a Bible with a reverse interlinear, or SBLGNT
Set the type to Lemma
Set the range to Pauline Epistles
Select Count as the display
Refine the count as "1 to 1"

That should produce something like this:

(I was surprised there are so many hapax legomena in the Paulines!)

Pater Noster

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1149538#Comment_1149538

Thanks Sean. I tried the Concordance - I can't even read the left hand side. I tried different scaling from the slider on the right side, that didn't help. Maybe this is a Dark Mode problem or something else?

So using your image, you had 1,132 legomena (actually mine above shows 1,235, you can read that). But from the Bible Books Explorer, it's much less - I count 594. Why would that be?

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1149541#Comment_1149541

So using your image, you had 1,132 legomena (actually mine above shows 1,235, you can read that). But from the Bible Books Explorer, it's much less - I count 594. Why would that be?

I believe they are showing different things.

The Concordance, with the constraint to just use the Pauline Epistles, is showing how many words occur just once in those letters

The Bible Book Explorer is showing words that appear in each of the Pauline Epistles that are only present once in the entire New Testament.

For example, adelphe (sister) appears just once in Philemon so would appear in the Concordance Tool if just constrained to that book but occurs 25 times in the New Testament, so would not show in BBE

Pater Noster

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1149568#Comment_1149568

Ah. Thanks Graham. Just so I understand, so there isn't then a way to find the unique lemmas across the range (ie Pastoral Epistles) - they are counted in the Bible Books Explorer but not available to examine in any tool I assume then.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1149594#Comment_1149594

Just so I understand, so there isn't then a way to find the unique lemmas across the range (ie Pastoral Epistles)

At the moment I'm afraid that is the case - to the best of my knowledge anyway.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1149594#Comment_1149594

Just so I understand, so there isn't then a way to find the unique lemmas across the range (ie Pastoral Epistles) - they are counted in the Bible Books Explorer but not available to examine in any tool I assume then.

"Find" and "examine" are two different things. I think the "find" portion should be possible by running the concordance accross that range for a reverse-interlinear bible (like NIV or LEB) or better a Greek NT. Alternatively you can have Logos build a WordList document for that range from a Greek NT, which will have the lemma count as well.

Regarding the "examine" I'm not sure what you intend to do with this information.