Interesting Link in Factbook

I was looking at the Factbook entry for Pompey and the only key passage it brought up was Psalms of Solomon 2, which makes sense. I have two questions. (I'm in the latest desktop app for Windows.)

First, Is the reference correct? "Ps Solomon 2:title–37" reminds me of the old joke of the guy that read the whole Bible "from Genesis to Maps."

Second, right below that, I have a link to "Open 1 passages in NRSVue" which, naturally, takes me somewhere else; in my case, to Rahlf's LXX. Is this a bug?

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Graham Criddle

First, Is the reference correct? "Ps Solomon 2:title–37" reminds me of the old joke of the guy that read the whole Bible "from Genesis to Maps."

I think this is because the link starts at the title - A psalm of Solomon concerning Jerusalem. - as opposed to the first verse.

Second, right below that, I have a link to "Open 1 passages in NRSVue" which, naturally, takes me somewhere else; in my case, to Rahlf's LXX. Is this a bug?

I don't think it's a bug (personally I think it's rather clever!)

I believe it shows NRSVue as that is your highest prioritised Bible (I'm making an assumption there) but because that does not contain this particular passage it opens your highest prioritised Bible that does.

Lew Worthington

Hey Graham,

Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I'm making my point well.

For the first point, I think you're right. I just think it's odd to include "title" as part of the reference. And that's OK. I just think it's odd.

For the second point, I'm not surprised that it takes me to the LXX. Rather, I'm surprised it offers to take me to my preferred Bible to try to find it. Or maybe it's odd that it considers the Psalms of Solomon as a key passage. I'm fine with that, but if, hypothetically, it brings up some reference to Josephus' writings, would it still try to give me a link in my NRSVue? I thought usually Logos handles reference domains pretty well. (I'm making up the term, but you may know what I mean.)