Links not pointing to the correct Biblical Text..

Ralph Mauch

This is one of my strongest arguments for not having everything in a electronic format, and why someone might get the wrong intention of an authors arguments, if not thinking they are talking gibberish when this sort of thing happens in a resource. I'm looking at one of the new books just released yesterday, which got me to look at what I thought was my most prized resource (Beale, G. K., & Carson, D. A. (2007). Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI; Nottingham, UK: Baker Academic; Apollos.), to look up Hebrews by Guthrie in that book. Not even two paragraphs into the introduction on pg 919 I found a link that points to Gen 11:12, when it should point to Hebrews 11:12, so I right click on that and reported it as a typo.

Then just a little bit further on Page 920 I ran across another typo which was a bit harder to recognize as being that; "The explicit allusion to ‘a kingdom that cannot be shaken’ in Heb. 12:28 indicates that these passages were not far from the writer’s mind when he penned v. 5." The link in the quote points to Hebrews 12:5, but I think it should be 2:5, because it is talking about the greek "tēn oikoumenēn" and wouldn't make sense if looking at 12:5, or is it just me? Some of these are hard to determine if they are typos, thus my post here on the forums

To me, this is irriating, but for those who don't have a sense of the greek or versed in the Bible, it's nothing short of error in understanding what they are reading.

Logos, love your product, but this kind of thing bugs me, especially when I purchased the electronic version over the print version.

Rich DeRuiter

I have come across these too. The second example is a type of error that I've come across several times. I think Logos uses an automated tagger for these references, but these can ignore the context, or the original text may simply be unclear. The Logos editors do a good job of trying to catch these, but don't always get them all. Some editors are probably more meticulous than others. But for even the best, a few things like these are bound to slip through.

I always report these as typos.

Sometimes the problem actually is in the original text and I've confirmed (with a hard copy) that a reference like 28:12 should have been 12:28, or Zechariah for Zephaniah, or some other transpositional error. Other times, I can't figure out how the reference was inserted at all (the "not even close" scenario). I'm not sure what Logos does with an error in the original text, since they are committed to being faithful to the original.

Regardless of the format (electronic or hard copy), a good, thoughtful reader (like you seem to be) will catch the discrepancies and figure out where they went wrong.The nice thing about the electronic copy is that if/when it is corrected we can update the resource for free (even if the electronic copy is more prone to such errors in the first place).

Just my thoughts.