BAGD Question

Since it doesn't look like Logos will be able to bring back the BAGD any time soon, would there be any benefit in buying it in hardcopy and trying to make it into a personal book? It's my understanding that this would be legal as long as it is for personal use and I don't distribute it. However, I suspect that it would be too much work for the little benefit it would provide. Also, it would not have the links in it that a Logos resource does.

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DMB

I'd assume the bmap to text conversion would be a headache. After that a decent parser would be straight-forward.

Beloved Amodeo

it would not have the links in it that a Logos resource does.

This is the point. Raising all those dead links is the main purpose of having BAGD. And, I would give my first born to have this book and the requisite links in my library.

I have resigned to wait, knowing that Logos knows the interest here is strong.

Ronald Quick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1263918#Comment_1263918

I would give my first born to have this book

Is your firstborn aware of this? [:P]

Ronald Quick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1263918#Comment_1263918

Raising all those dead links is the main purpose of having BAGD

I completely agree. I wish there was something that could be done to convince the publisher to allow this to be sold again.

John

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1263918#Comment_1263918

I have it in my Library. It’s been there for a very long time. I also have it in print.

I have just recently made a commitment to learning Greek, and everyone unanimously recommends BDAG.

I do not have BDAG in Logos. But I do have it in print, Bibleworks and Accordance. I really hate having to pay for the same resource 4 times, but I was planning on doing it anyway whenever they have a big sale.

So this thread seems strange to me. Is there some reason that some might prefer the BAGD?

The only thing I might guess is that it might be more concise, easier to find things?

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1263978#Comment_1263978

So this thread seems strange to me. Is there some reason that some might prefer the BAGD?

The issue is that there are other books that link to BAGD (not BDAG) so without having BAGD those links don't go anywhere.

John

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1263981#Comment_1263981

The issue is that there are other books that link to BAGD (not BDAG) so without having BAGD those links don't go anywhere.

Interesting problem. I looked just out of curiosity to see how they handled it, and Accordance apparently remaps BAGD references to BDAG. It never had the BAGD. Nor did Bibleworks, although Bibleworks never had much in the way of advanced commentary.

Seems that Logos was way ahead of the other guys, the only package that even had BAGD in electronic form.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1263978#Comment_1263978

I do not have BDAG in Logos. But I do have it in print, Bibleworks and Accordance. I really hate having to pay for the same resource 4 times, but I was planning on doing it anyway whenever they have a big sale.

Too bad you didn't use BW to Logos discounting at the time BW went under. I switched my BW over to Accordance, since already duplicated Logos. I don't know if FL still has the switch-programs.

Morgan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1264006#Comment_1264006

To give you an idea of the problem - running a search of all my books for BDAG (3rd edition) returns 32,868 hits. BAGD (2nd edition) gives me 75,040(!) hits. So there's roughly 75,040 dead links, primarily in the Exegetical Summaries series (62,012 results).

I would love to see them re-mapped to BDAG but I think I saw a Faithlife staff comment on keeping links tied to the original sources. Take it with a grain of salt though.