German/French Resources + Language helps

With the amount of scholarship that has been written in German and French, I would think that Logos could really expand their market by offering some of these resources in their original languages. Hermeneia resources that are translations from German come considerably after their German originals. The English, German, and French resources should coexist side-by-side, so that searches could bring up English, German, and French resources together. This would also open up many new sets of journals that could be included into Logos.

Because of this, and since most reputable research doctoral programs require at least two research languages, usually with German and French at the forefront, Logos could also introduce resources on how to read German and French. I have seen many on Amazon.com that basically just teach one to read German, without teaching one how to speak the language, even though I would certainly not be against resources that teach how to speak the languages.

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NB.Mick

With the amount of scholarship that has been written in German and French, I would think that Logos could really expand their market by offering some of these resources in their original languages.

As a native speaker of German: [Y]

Hermeneia resources that are translations from German come considerably after their German originals. The English, German, and French resources should coexist side-by-side

It may be that Logos is gauging interest into such with their translation project http://www.logos.com/product/18527/faith-in-the-new-testament-by-adolf-schlatter-english-and-german (or they simply want to offer their predominantly English-speaking cutomer base one of the best German bible scholars and theologians). Hope you're in...

Milford Charles Murray

I've been in since last April! *smile* Peace!

fgh

With the amount of scholarship that has been written in German and French, I would think that Logos could really expand their market by offering some of these resources in their original languages.

I just found this on the Notifications page:

Looks like there may be some French resources on the way.[:)]

Joseph Turner

This is great news! Now I need to start learning to read French. [:$]

Unix

Oh? Hermeneia is really good, didn't know that many of the volumes not being in the original language would make a difference:

Hermeneia resources that are translations from German come considerably after their German originals.

Great suggestion! [Y] for a German→Swedish translation dictionary!! There's NO Swedish resources in Logos, this would compensate for it a lot. I won't be buying a print one in the meanwhile:

Logos could also introduce resources on how to read German and French.

fgh

There's NO Swedish resources in Logos

There are: http://www.libronix.se/butik.

George Somsel

There's NO Swedish resources in Logos

There are: http://www.libronix.se/butik.

You could backtranslate Jewish Interpretation of the Bible Ancient and Contemporary. It was originally Swedish. [;)]

Joseph Turner

I would like to bring this up again, as I am looking at purchasing the following:

French for Reading by Karl C. Sandberg and Eddison C. Tatham (Jun 11, 1997)

This volume is highly recommended, and is the textbook for many such courses in learning to read French for secondary sources in fields including biblical studies.

Sandberg also has a volume on German that is out of print.