TIP-ish: Scrounging the Outer Margins of a Subject in Logos
Skip this tip, if you don't find yourself trying to track down an odd statement.
For me, yesterday, it was a note in one of the Bibles at Acts 16:1 ... Timothy's father as 'aramean' in the Peshitta. Searching 'aramean' relative to Timothy was not a promising pathway ... the Peshitta doesn't get much depth, and the issue is translation. Instead I thought I'd scan all my Acts commentaries in hopes of a clue. [As it turned out, the issue was on the greek side, that the Peshitta picked up.]
Tip #1: If you have a large number of commentaries, and you've tagged them by Bible book. the Multiview tool is a quick way to scan through all of them. In my layout, I keep this in a background window and turned off. Then when I want to flip thru all my commentaries, I turn it on. I select my appropriate Bible book tag, and go to work.
The alternative is the commentary sections in the guides. The issue there, is you get a popup of who-knows-what, and then one-by-one, you have to check them. Multiview can handle a large number of resources for in-depth scrolling. Yes, narrow, but the goal is just quickly scanning down for the problem.
Tip #2: Sometimes the rabbit trail tracks down a reference, but then 'who else' has it?? An example, is a footnote to Pauline parallels in the Clementine Recognitions. The actual reference was to Patrologeia in latin (which Logos has!). But where else in my library?? Easy. Right-click the reference, and then on the right-side, check the Lookup section. Quickly mouse the choices. Bingo.
Now, I'd think (as a Logosian non-professional), that the parallel button in resources would achieve the same thing. Maybe. Maybe not. I found it was hit or miss. Oddly on the miss side, there'd be other resources listed, but clicking thru was invalid (the cross-reference). The right-click menu's pretty accurate.
