Any way to search the words of Christ for sentences containing questionmarks?
thanks
Any way to search the words of Christ for sentences containing questionmarks? thanks
Hmm, good question. You can't search for punctuation in Logos. So you might be able to get a good approximation by searching for all the question words: who, what, where, when, why, how, which. But that won't catch questions that are formed by reversing subject/verb: "Simon son of John, do you love me?"
I don't know Greek, but maybe there is some clue in Greek that points to a question which you could search for which someone else could help you with.
Barring that, it looks like a good project to read through all the red letter text looking for questions and marking them up with a particular highlighting style that you create for the purpose: Questions of Jesus. Someday, when/if we're able to export our highlighting to share with others, you'd be very popular!
You could use one of these books as a guide to help you should you decide to take this project on:
The Questions of Jesus, by John Dear ("offers a 2-3 page reflection [each] on 125 of Jesus' questions")
The Questions of Jesus: Meditations on the Red Letter Questions by Don Harris ("There are 151 questions, formulated in the mind of the Son of God, recorded in the Scriptures. This book explores them all.")
These are not available in Logos, unfortunately.
Derek,
I assume you know that the "words of Christ" is one of the search fields available, however I do not think the program will search punctuation. I thought initially that you might be able to search the common question words (who, what, where, when, why, how) but that does not work very well as it returns a lot of passage that are not questions (e.g. "Blessed are those who mourn, etc.)
If have have a resource in you library called "All the Questions of the Bible, you could do a passage list for the 4 Gospel's, Acts, and Revelation. This would at least narrow the field of questions and then delete those that are not questions Christ posed.
If someone else has another idea, I would be interested in hearing it.
EDIT: Rosie was posting at the same time I was, sorry for any duplication in our answers.
for sentences containing questionmarks?
You can use the following to find questions:
I don't have time to see if you can add the words limit here or if one has to do two search and merge the results (overlaping)
for sentences containing questionmarks? You can use the following to find questions: I don't have time to see if you can add the words limit here or if one has to do two search and merge the results (overlaping)
It looks like you can add the Word of Christ limit here:
But when I did that I got zero results.
However you could create a passage list from those results (choose "Save as Passage List" from the panel menu). Then I think you can create another passage list with just the Words of Christ by doing a Bible Search for * (the wildcard character) with the Words of Christ checkbox set under Search Fields (drop down that menu by clicking on "All Text"). (I'm in the midst of trying it now, but wildcard searches take a very long time, so it isn't finished yet.) Once you have the two Passage Lists, you can merge them via Intersection (open either PL, select Merge, select the other PL from the list, and choose Intersection from the right side of the menu).
You may have found a bug.
I suspect that's because only the surface text is tagged with WoC, not the underlying Greek text.
This has been added to the wiki as : http://topics.logos.com/All_the_Questions_Jesus_Christ_Asked
Please add to it as you have time and information.[:)]
It would be great if we could get some of these books mentioned here in LOGOS!
