Discovering Jesus; Why Four Gospels to Portray One Person?
Jason W. Pegg
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Many of the scripture references in the book "Discovering Jesus: Why Four Gospels to Portray One Person?" point to the wrong passage. For instance, Chart 1.2 has a column of references for Matthew. Of the ones that are linked, they all go to Mark. The verse reference is correct, but the book is wrong. This happens often (Chart 1.6's Mark references all point to Luke; the reference to Acts in the fourth paragraph after Chart 1.7 points to Luke; five references to John just above Chart 1.8 all point to Acts; the next seven references to John after Chart 1.8 all point to Acts; the first ten working references to Matthew in Chapter Two under Fulfillment of Scripture all point to John; the next reference to Luke points to Matthew; and so on throughout).
As you can imagine, this can make it hard to read. Consider the following from the third paragraph of Chapter Two: "Of the four Gospels, Matthew’s offers the most sustained treatment of the theme of fulfillment. Matthew draws attention to this by means of his famous 'fulfillment formula' quotations (1:22–23; 2:15, 17–18, 23; 4:14–16; 8:17; 12:17–19; 13:35; 21:4–5; 27:9–10; compare 13:14–15 and 26:56)." Every one of the ten links points to John instead of Matthew. (Two of the references aren't linked at all.) So trying to go back and read each reference takes extra effort.
The computer programmer in me (it's my day job) sees what the issue COULD be: if you fed the text into a program that automatically created scripture links for you, and if it were programmed to use the last known book reference when none is provided, then you would end up with the references I've seen so far. In my example above, it's clear to human readers that all the scriptures refer to Matthew. However, the first scripture doesn't say "Matthew 1:22-23", it just says "1:22-23". The most recent reference that included the book name was at the end of Chapter One just before the Conclusion, and it was John 18:6. I believe that's why all the Matthew references at the start of Chapter Two link to John instead of Matthew. Every example I've found follows this pattern: if the verse doesn't have the name of the book immediately in front of it, then the last known book is used. Because of the way this book is written, it means the links are often wildly off.
I realize this is an eBook, and I realize that the author didn't create easy-to-use Bible references in his text. So I also realize there may be little that can be done for it. But I wanted to bring it up here as a candidate for correction.
I apologize for the length of my post. :-)
Thank you for listening!
P.S. The title of the book in Logos seems to be off as well. The title according to the book's own information should be "Discovering Jesus: Why..." instead of "Discovering Jesus? Why..." In other words, the first '?' in the Logos title should actually be a ':'.
Many of the scripture references in the book "Discovering Jesus: Why Four Gospels to Portray One Person?" point to the wrong passage. For instance, Chart 1.2 has a column of references for Matthew. Of the ones that are linked, they all go to Mark. The verse reference is correct, but the book is wrong. This happens often (Chart 1.6's Mark references all point to Luke; the reference to Acts in the fourth paragraph after Chart 1.7 points to Luke; five references to John just above Chart 1.8 all point to Acts; the next seven references to John after Chart 1.8 all point to Acts; the first ten working references to Matthew in Chapter Two under Fulfillment of Scripture all point to John; the next reference to Luke points to Matthew; and so on throughout).
As you can imagine, this can make it hard to read. Consider the following from the third paragraph of Chapter Two: "Of the four Gospels, Matthew’s offers the most sustained treatment of the theme of fulfillment. Matthew draws attention to this by means of his famous 'fulfillment formula' quotations (1:22–23; 2:15, 17–18, 23; 4:14–16; 8:17; 12:17–19; 13:35; 21:4–5; 27:9–10; compare 13:14–15 and 26:56)." Every one of the ten links points to John instead of Matthew. (Two of the references aren't linked at all.) So trying to go back and read each reference takes extra effort.
The computer programmer in me (it's my day job) sees what the issue COULD be: if you fed the text into a program that automatically created scripture links for you, and if it were programmed to use the last known book reference when none is provided, then you would end up with the references I've seen so far. In my example above, it's clear to human readers that all the scriptures refer to Matthew. However, the first scripture doesn't say "Matthew 1:22-23", it just says "1:22-23". The most recent reference that included the book name was at the end of Chapter One just before the Conclusion, and it was John 18:6. I believe that's why all the Matthew references at the start of Chapter Two link to John instead of Matthew. Every example I've found follows this pattern: if the verse doesn't have the name of the book immediately in front of it, then the last known book is used. Because of the way this book is written, it means the links are often wildly off.
I realize this is an eBook, and I realize that the author didn't create easy-to-use Bible references in his text. So I also realize there may be little that can be done for it. But I wanted to bring it up here as a candidate for correction.
I apologize for the length of my post. :-)
Thank you for listening!
P.S. The title of the book in Logos seems to be off as well. The title according to the book's own information should be "Discovering Jesus: Why..." instead of "Discovering Jesus? Why..." In other words, the first '?' in the Logos title should actually be a ':'.
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