L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #342 Study Bibles, Cultural concepts ...

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Trustworthy Study Bible covering the whole Bible - Logos Forums and Trying to understand how Cultural Concept tagging is applied - Logos Forums

One question that comes up over and over is why study Bibles have no Bible text - besides the obvious of not making us pay for the same Bible text over-and-over:

I couldn’t find it only something with study notes, but no scripture, it says in the notes. 

This is standard for study Bibles in Logos - the idea is we select a study Bible (notes) and then link with a Bible translation of our choice.

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Two key points:

• We annotated passages of Scripture based on their overall content, not individual words: in addition to your search example, you can find those references on the corresponding Factbook page (illustrated below for "justice"). Note in some cases it's a range of several verses. 

• We annotated passages of Scripture that exemplified a concept: therefore, the annotation is not comprehensive, and many biblical passages mentioning or even discussing justice might not be included. And a passage that mentions "justice" may have a different cultural concept annotation, as with your Job example. From the documentation:

"Every verse does not need an annotation.

• Generally speaking, a cultural concept was tagged in a text if it was described in some detail.

• In some cases, a cultural practice might not be described but will still be tagged if the larger context of the passage provides insight into that practice.

• If a concept was merely mentioned and is not critical to the understanding or theme of a passage, it was likely not annotated."

This also means that key passages on the topic of "justice" (e.g., Mic 6:8) aren't included: they don't tell us about the cultural concept.