Verbum 9 Tip 7h: Basic search: select resources part 7

MJ. Smith

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Reading lists: Catholic Bible Interpretation

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Examples of on the fly collections

Translations by R. H. Charles who specialized in pseudepigrapha:

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Books broadly about the Book of Common Prayer

Note this is a very rough cut but rough cuts are often sufficient.

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New books that downloaded yesterday

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In sermons/homilies of St. John Chrysostom

A rough cut that won’t find entries in anthologies or not categorized with the sermon type. However, it does pick up some that have not yet received the Sermon label. Note I used simple text for Chrysostom thinking that the translators often appear as author … but this led to the false positive on Rev. Richard Watson.

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Resources by Scott Hahn and some buddies

Full selection: author:("Hahn, Scott", "Shea, Mark", "Flaherty, Regis J.", "Mitch, Curtis")

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NB.Mick

Examples of on the fly collections

Translations by R. H. Charles who specialized in pseudepigrapha:

I think, from my experience with new users and my own impatience more than once, it would be helpful to clearly indicate the next step (I'd probably mark it in the screenshot):

click on the row with the open book icon that says "XX resources with filterABCDE"

yes it fools me more than once, putting the filter in and seeing it got XX number of results is not sufficient, since the program doesn't put the selection cursor there - as people might expect intuitively - , but onto the first single book in the list below (which for me never is what I really want). So this click is not to be neglected.

Only then comes the next step and will work according to expectations:

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