Could an experienced user help me with a search for scripture citations?

Kevin Maples

I'm sure there is a way to do an advanced search and accomplish the results I need and I am hoping that one of you more experienced users can explain it to me. 

I am doing research on the NT quotations of the OT in the writings of the Early Church Fathers. Is there a way to do a search for a set of scripture references and limit the search to Schaff's Early Church Fathers series? 

Is there a way that I could build a search to include a set of verses and then apply that search to different books as needed?

What I am trying to accomplish is to have search results that I could scan through that include every reference to a NT quotation of the OT. Maybe there is a better way. Anybody?

Rosie Perera

Wow, that would be a useful thing to have.

You can limit the search to Schaff's ECF series by selecting it in the "Search in" dropdown (start typing the first few letters of it until you see its name matching and you can then select it).

You can search for a specific set of scripture references in the ECF using the syntax:

<Matt 4:15,16> OR <Mark 2:26> OR <Lk 20:37> OR <Rom 11:2> ...

(Be sure you put the OR's in all upper case, or they will be interpreted as words to search for.)

But you'd have to manually input the list of verses that you know to be NT quotations of the OT, and you might need to do the search in several batches if the line gets too long.

I assume if you're doing research on NT quotations of the OT you have access to a fairly comprehensive list of NT references that are deemed to be quotations of the OT, but if not, Kevin Becker has been at work on a project to highlight all OT quotations in the NT using visual filters, and he might have a list, or suggestions on how you could easily come up with one. I can't remember off the top of my head if there's a naked list of such references anywhere in a Logos resource.