L/V 10 Tip of the Day #26 Visual filter for DSS in DCH

MJ. Smith

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This tip is based on the forum post: Visual Filter for Dead Sea Scrolls - Logos Forums

Yes, the title is an example of using three letter acronyms that are not familiar to all Logos/Verbum users:

• DSS = Dead Sea Scrolls
• DCH = Dictionary of Classical Hebrew

The goal is to highlight in some way the references to the Dead Sea Scrolls in the lexicon. Unfortunately, the abbreviations section of the DCH does not give a list of all the Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts:

[quote]

ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNS

TEXTS

Gn Ex Lv Nm Dt Jos Jg 1 S 2 S 1 K 2 K Is Jr Ezk Ho Jl Am Ob Jon Mc Na Hb Zp Hg Zc Ml Ps Jb Pr Ru Ca Ec Lm Est Dn Ezr Ne 1 C 2 C
Si Si(M) (Sirach from Masada)
1QpHb 1QS 1QM 1QH 11QT (etc.)
GnzPs (Cairo Geniza psalms)
Other abbreviations will be found in the section entitled, The Sources

David J. A. Clines, ed., The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press; Sheffield Phoenix Press, 1993–2011), 89.

I go to The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition to understand how to select all references to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

This makes me think that 1Q* i.e. one-que-wild card, 2Q*, 3Q* through 11Q* should pick up all the Dead Sea Scroll references with a few false positives from British postal zones.  From this one makes a Visual Filter and applies it to the DCH:

To build the Visual Filter:

• In the Documents Menu on the Task Bar, click on New
• Select Visual Filter
• Select the Books tab
• Click on the pencil image to edit the Visual Filter name
• Set to search all Text in The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Volumes I-VIII
• Set the search criteria to 1Q* OR 2Q* OR 3Q* OR 4Q* OR 5Q* OR 6Q* OR 7Q* OR 8Q* OR 9Q* OR 10Q* OR 11Q* 
• Select a highlighting style

To apply the Visual Filter to The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew:

• Open the resource
• In the resource panel, select Visual Filters in the Resource Task Bar
• Under Visual Filter, select the visual filter you just built

The principles used here can be used to build other special purpose visual filters.