How to Ask Bible Questions in Logos

Jake Lang

So I swear I saw something recently where Logos added a function where you can ask questions and get responses from your Library. This is a feature I would desperately love to have as I often find myself going to Google over Logos for questions if it's not something obviously addressed in commentaries.

For example, I'm starting a new reading plan and noticed that day 2 of creation is never explicitly called "Good." I read through a decent amount of commentaries and none of them mention this. No great way to search the question in Logos so I popped it in Google and immediately got some relevant-ish results. 

Would love to have this type of functionality in Logos with resources I trust more than some random websites and, like I said earlier, could have sworn I saw this advertised recently. Any ideas on where/how to do this in Logos?

MJ. Smith

I think you may be misunderstanding the feature. The feature finds questions and answers on a topic drawn from a limited number of resources tagged for this feature. It may be accessed via the all search ... it will appear as a card in a random position of the results (See the left side below.) By clicking the more or by manually building the search you can see the complete set of related tagged questions and answers.

The proof of concept feature of Faithlife Assistant is actually closer to what you are wanting.

Dave Hooton

So I swear I saw something recently where Logos added a function where you can ask questions and get responses from your Library.

You did and it is in Logos 10. MJ has described its limited functionality in the new All Search and via label:answer.

Justin Gatlin

Since Martha and Dave have explained why the Q&A feature is a little oversold, let me try and give some advice on how you can do the search in Logos.

A search for good NEAR "Second Day" gives me lots of results. Maybe you have some of these: 

Jordan, James B. 1999. Creation in Six Days: A Defense of the Traditional Reading of Genesis One. Moscow, ID: Canon Press.

Ross, Hugh. 2001. The Genesis Question: Scientific Advances and the Accuracy of Genesis. Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress.

Mathews, K. A. 1996. Genesis 1-11:26. Vol. 1A. The New American Commentary. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

Singer, Isidore, ed. 1901–1906. In The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 12 Volumes. New York; London: Funk & Wagnalls.

A better, if more opaque, search is good INTERSECTS bible:<<"Genesis 1:6-8" This looks for books that use the word "good" when discussing Genesis 1:6-8. The << means it will accept a reference to Genesis 1:7, but not to Genesis 1 (see wiki).