Best strategy for legacy library purchases AND Lexham Research Commentaries.
Maybe I am the only one who struggles with this….
This question is probably more for Orthodox and Catholic users. I tend to buy Verbum and Orthodox packages, especially Eastern Rite Verbum and also some Verbum research packages.
What I run into though is it seems the more expansive the package is, the more books that I get that aren't really from a Verbum or Orthodox viewpoint. Its like there is a sweet spot where the libraries move from being Ortho-Catholic centric to being just books in order to offer a larger library. I don't mean that to be harsh its just what my perception is. Do others have the same perception? If so what is the ideal library to buy?
I usually find it to be Gold or Platinum.
Now why do I see that as a problem? Its mostly my poor searching probably but when I started with Orthodox 6 Gold or whatever it was, most searches didn't have lots of hits which is to be expected with a small library, but they were Orthodox. Over the years, buy more and more and larger and larger, but now it seems like I gets lots of results but they may not be from within the Orthodox/Catholic tradition.
My latest quandary is I looked at Verbum 7 Portfolio which has Lexham Research Commentaries. I doubt the LRC is Catholic/Orthodox in nature.
I watched the videos and it looks like it pulls in material from my library and compiles it kind of like an "active" commentary in that if I add more resources then it would have additional material to source. If so that would hopefully mean it would be biases towards my collection of sources?
Is that right? If that is right, can I filter the library the LRC uses to only resources that are from specific libraries I have purchased?
Thanks
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LRC is not a 'active' commentary as you describe it. Adding more commentaries to your library will not cause the LRC to have more material and make more bias towards Catholic, Orthodox or any other denomination. It's content is fixed. Adding more commentaries to your library many mean you can follow the links in LRC commentary and open the source material it references, bu if you add an orthodox commentary to your lbraray and that commentary is not refereed to in LRC, it will not suddenly appear in LRC. There is dynamic pricng when it comes to Logos pricing of collections but there are no dynamic resources that expand their content when you and oher resoures to your library.
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My Orthodox sweet spot is platinum. After that, value recedes to Fathers volumes. But 2025 broke the mold (nothing I needed).
I don't own a single LRC.
We used to be able to filter the site by missing commentary volumes. I think it's touch and go, now.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I'm currently using the Lexham Research Commentary for a deeper dive into Galatians. So far, it appears to summarize, chapter-by-chapter, the content in each of several major commentary series, including Hermeneia, NIGTC, Black's NTC, NICNT, NAC, Word, AYB, ZECNT, etc. If I want to learn more from a particular commentary, I just click on the link and open it (or buy it if I don't already own it). The LRC doesn't expand or contract its size based on the size of your library, but rather provides a fixed amount of commentary just like most other commentary series.
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LRC is not a 'active' commentary as you describe it. Adding more commentaries to your library will not cause the LRC to have more material and make more bias towards Catholic, Orthodox or any other denomination. It's content is fixed. Adding more commentaries to your library many mean you can follow the links in LRC commentary and open the source material it references, bu if you add an orthodox commentary to your lbraray and that commentary is not refereed to in LRC, it will not suddenly appear in LRC. There is dynamic pricng when it comes to Logos pricing of collections but there are no dynamic resources that expand their content when you and oher resoures to your library.
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