QUESTIONS / COMMENTS / ISSUES after trying out the example in the blog on the Names and Titles of Go

Logos 5: See the Names and Titles of God in Bible Facts

First section

1) What decides whether a Bible text appears in the first section or not? I see a long list of OT texts, but almost none from the NT. I would like to believe God is a little bit more present in the NT than is shown here. Smile

Furthermore, one of the few NT references I do see (Mk 16:9), doesn't even mention God specifically, but 'only' Jesus, who I believe has His own 'page'.

2) What is the order between the passages supposed to be?

Lemma section

3) I was surprised to see Eloah as the second most common lemma for God, so I started checking the references. So far every one of them has led me to YHWH. What am I missing?

4) The transliterations and translations seem inconsistent, and therefore hard to use for those who don't know Hebrew:

Several combinations of YHWH and something else becomes just yhwh.
Adon is translated, but Adon YHWH is just transliterated.

Referred to as section

5) Is there an easy way to figure out what lies behind each word? For example if God includes both Elohim, El and Eloah, as well as Theos?

6) Maybe it's me who don't understand, but a lot of this work seems... unfinished:

God our Father and
the horn of my
I the Lord your
are God of Israel
God is our
God of our
who gave me
that bore you
his own
those who struck them
the tribe of his
...

7) Again there are references that don't show what they're supposed to show. E g Ezek 16:7 is supposed to refer to God as ornaments. The word is in 16:11, and doesn't even refer to God.

General

8) The usefulness would improve if things were clickable and selectable. If, for example, one could run a BWS from a lemma, or make a passage list from a group of references.

A couple of more code than content related bugs have been reported at DISPLAY ISSUES in Bible Facts.

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MJ. Smith

1) What decides whether a Bible text appears in the first section or not? I see a long list of OT texts, but almost none from the NT. I would like to believe God is a little bit more present in the NT than is shown here.

Logos taggers decide. To be in the first section requires a corresponding event entry. As you note, the NT entries are primarily under Jesus or Holy Spirit. Note God and God (the Father) seem to be treated as synonyms.

2) What is the order between the passages supposed to be?

My memory may be wrong but I think Logos said it is based on their calculation of relevance. I have no insight into the algorithm.

3) I was surprised to see Eloah as the second most common lemma for God, so I started checking the references. So far every one of them has led me to YHWH. What am I missing?

I'm not seeing any problems - a Hebrew word search against the NRSV brings up the same list. Can you supply a screen shot?

5) Is there an easy way to figure out what lies behind each word? For example if God includes both Elohim, El and Eloah, as well as Theos?

Not that I know of. I would take the Lemma and the Referred to As sections, export the reference into Excel and work from it ...

6) Maybe it's me who don't understand, but a lot of this work seems... unfinished:

If you look at your RI and/or clause analysis the breaks usually make sense. On their own, it is not obvious.

7) Again there are references that don't show what they're supposed to show. E g Ezek 16:7 is supposed to refer to God as ornaments. The word is in 16:11, and doesn't even refer to God.

There are typos in the data. At the moment there is no automated error reporting although it is coming. Until then report as a BUG or to data@logos.com

The usefulness would improve if things were clickable and selectable. If, for example, one could run a BWS from a lemma, or make a passage list from a group of references.

There is a copy function on the section title bar which allows to building a passage list from the clipboard. It is surprising that the lemmas are coded for a BWS on right click ... I suspect it is on the way, if not, it should be.

Are you trying to make me earn the star-shaped hole in the rusty metal below my avatar?[;)]