Some Prepub Suggestions

Some books I would like to see developed for Logos:

Evans, Craig A. Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: a Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005.
Sparks, Kenton L. Ancient Texts for the Study fo the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005.
Ferguson, Everett. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

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I would especially like to see the first two in Logos format (I also would like to see Ferguson's book but it is less of a priority for me)

They are the best one stop shop for an introduction (brief) to the background literature of both the OT and the NT

Alain

Jack Caviness

Ferguson, Everett. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

I had Ferguson (2nd Edition) as a text in Seminary. I would very much like to see this in L4.

Evans, Craig A. Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: a Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005.
Sparks, Kenton L. Ancient Texts for the Study fo the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005.

I am not as familiar with these two, but background material is always useful.

Russ Quinn

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/67178#Comment_67178

Evans, Craig A. Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: a Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005.
Sparks, Kenton L. Ancient Texts for the Study fo the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005.

I am not as familiar with these two, but background material is always useful.

They are great reference books that give helpful introductions, summaries and related bibliography for all of the background literature.

Evans's volume includes chapters on OT Apocrypha, OT Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo and Josephus, the Targums, Rabbinic Literature including Talmudic, Midrashic and Medieval commentators, NT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Early Church Fathers, Gnostic Writings and other writings from Greco-Roman and Samaritan culture.
You can preview it here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Wf6BzO6TkyUC&lpg=PA1&ots=L6uIyDqPpo&dq=evans%20ancient%20texts&pg=PT104#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Sparks's volume covers all of the known literature relevant to the Hebrew Bible like Egyptian, Ugratic, Mesopotamian, Akkadian, and Hittite poems, inscriptions, wisdom literature, hymns, rituals and incantations, etc.
You can preview it here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=xoKZI64B0gkC&lpg=PP1&dq=sparks%20ancient%20texts&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

They are great guides to background literature and would make a perfect companion to all of the source texts that are available in Logos.

Mark Barnes

Just to add my support for Evans and Ferguson.

Doug Lumpkin

Ferguson for sure... This is the type of book I want to search by keyword and keyboard, not by index.