Does anyone know which documents were written 100 years before or after the New Testament documents were written. Those are the ones most important to me for textual searches.
Thanks.
HI Lynden,
I had received a preview copy for blogging about--unfortunately, I've had computer problems and didn't get to post anything before everything went live on the 30th. But in the process, I worked hard to create a number of collections on the basis of the dates individual authors lived and wrote. I compiled the data into a table that arranged both the Greek and Latin writers by century from Homer through the Late Roman / Early Byzantine authors.
As soon as I have that particular hard drive plugged into a machine that works, I'll see about uploading it here. Hopefully, it will appear on my blog relatively soon to...even though its late...sign.
In the meantime, it takes a whole lot of work, but you can punch author names into Wikipedia and get dates. Its a huge hassle and time consuming, but it works.
Thanks Mike. Please post here when it goes live on the blog. Would be very interested in the collections.
Lynden -
Hopefully Mike can help you with that when he posts his blog. Until then, I thought I would give you a hint: Don't look in the Civil War collection. [:P]
I just realized I have the collection rules in Logos even though everything I wrote in preparation for the release is currently inaccessible. I made rules for a couple of them (the others, I dragged and dropped), including what you're most interested in (the time of the NT):
All Greek texts (this is edited specifically for searching, so duplicate Greek texts aren't included, nor are the papyri):
(author:Lucian OR author:Plutarch OR author:Aretaeus OR author:Apollodorus OR author:Epictetus OR author:Arrian OR author:Appian OR author:Pausanias OR author:Aristides OR author:Galen OR author:Homer OR author:Hesiod OR author:Aeschylus OR author:Pindar OR author:Bacchylides OR author:Colluthus OR author:Herodotus OR author:Sophocles OR author:Andocides OR author:Aristophanes OR author:Lysias OR author:Hippocrates OR author:Xenophon OR author:Plato OR author:Lycurgus OR author:Hyperides OR author:Aristotle OR author:Demosthenes OR author:Demades OR author:Dinarchus OR author:Theophrastus OR author:Euclid OR author:Aratus OR author:Callimachus OR author:Lycophron OR author:Theocritus OR author:Polybius OR author:Diodorus OR author:dionysius OR author:Strabo OR author:Aretaeus OR title:"the apostolic fathers: Greek texts" OR author:Josephus OR author:Philo OR title:"lexham discourse" OR title:"lexham greek-english interlinear septuagint" OR author:Heiser) AND lang:Greek
Greek Texts 1-2nd c. CE
(author:Lucian OR author:Plutarch OR author:Aretaeus OR author:Apollodorus OR author:Epictetus OR author:Arrian OR author:Appian OR author:Pausanias OR author:Aristides OR author:Galen) AND lang:Greek
Greek Texts 3-5th c. CE
(author:Athenaeus OR author:Oppian OR author:Diogenes OR author:Tryphiodorus OR author:Pseudo-Plutarch OR author:Smyrnaeus OR author:Nonnus) AND lang:Greek
On all of these, if you take out the "AND lang:Greek" you'll get the English translations in your collections as well.
Thanks Alabama. Perseus is the only one that has been released to me so far. I think the hurricanes scared the rest away. [;)]
