Chronological Bible, one year reading plan
Following Morris' post on how to Simulate a Chronological Bible, I thought it might be useful to have a proper Chronological Bible in Logos.
So here's a Personal Book that uses dynamic text give you your very own chronological Bible in your favourite Bible version. If you compile it has a Bible Harmony you'll even have a dropdown menu that will allow you to change the version whenever you like.
There are two versions, one with dates so you can use it for daily readings, and one without
Chronological Bible with daily readings (the data for the reading plan comes from Back to the Bible)
Chronological Bible with no dates
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Very cool Mark.
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Thanks!
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That is excellent Mark. Thanks.
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Thank you so much! I literally just considered making this last night, and then I saw this on the forum. What a blessing! I wouldn't have thought to build as a harmony to allow for changing translations. Smart guy!
Grace and Peace be yours in abundance!
James
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Mark, once again I greatly appreciate this resource, however I have one small hang up. I intended on using this as an audio bible, and when I command logos to read aloud, it only reads the Chapter headings you have created ie. "gen 1-3" etc. It does not read the Bible text at all. Is there something I can do to the docx.as a work-around for this? I obviously do not expect you to update the file just for me, but I'm not sure how to correct it on my own. Any help is a blessing.
Thank you for all your service on the forums!
James
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James Taylor said:
Is there something I can do to the docx.as a work-around for this?
This is a limitation of the Read Aloud feature, which doesn't read dynamic text. You could suggest that Logos change it, but there's no guarantee that they would.
There's no easy way of fixing this on your own, other than using the Copy Bible Verses Tool to copy and paste the bible text into the Word document.
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Thanks Mark, I will try just making a PDF and then PDF reader should read it aloud, I hadn't thought of any other software reading it except logos.
James
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This is great! Tx Mark.
I have created the plan in the desktop app, but for some reason it is not pulling through as an option on my iPad. Any idea why?
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Hi Paul
Paul Grobler said:I have created the plan in the desktop app, but for some reason it is not pulling through as an option on my iPad. Any idea why?
Mark's plan uses a Personal Book and these are not currently available on mobile devices.
Graham
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Thanks Mark Barnes! [Y]
What is the source for the Chronological placement of the NT writings in correlation to the Book of Acts?
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Thank you!!
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Wow, THANK YOU, Mark!
Grace & Peace,
Bill
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Anthony H said:
Thanks Mark Barnes!
What is the source for the Chronological placement of the NT writings in correlation to the Book of Acts?
Looks to me like Mark already answered, this way:
Mark Barnes said:(the data for the reading plan comes from Back to the Bible)
Grace & Peace,
Bill
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Anyone have guidance on how to use the dates in the dated version? (I compiled both...)
Thanks!
Grace & Peace,
Bill
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BillS said:
Anyone have guidance on how to use the dates in the dated version? (I compiled both...)
Thanks!
Figured it out: compiled "both" books from same file. Recompiled the dated one with the dated file & it now works like Mark's picture....
Many thanks again, Mark!
Grace & Peace,
Bill
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Thank you for sharing this, Mark.
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BillS said:Anthony H said:
Thanks Mark Barnes!
What is the source for the Chronological placement of the NT writings in correlation to the Book of Acts?
Looks to me like Mark already answered, this way:
Mark Barnes said:(the data for the reading plan comes from Back to the Bible)
I did see that, but I guess I thought the word "data" was only relevant to the scheduling of the reading plan itself not necessarily to chronological integration/placement ...but that does make sense.
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Just and FYI, I took a moment and contacted Back to the Bible.
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My Query:
--------------I'm curious what source you used to integrate the chronological placement of the NT letters with the book of Acts?
Reply from backtothebible.org:
-------------------------------------------Thank you for contacting us about the Chronological Bible Reading Guide. Since our reading guides were developed many years ago, we're unable to provide specific details on how the final reading plans were compiled.
Again, we apologize we're unable to give you a more exact answer. But just know that among chronological reading guides there will be much variation. Have a blessed day!
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Mark J. Geist
Back to the Bible
Ministry Relations Associate~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Anthony H said:BillS said:Anthony H said:Thanks Mark Barnes!
What is the source for the Chronological placement of the NT writings in correlation to the Book of Acts?
Looks to me like Mark already answered, this way:
Mark Barnes said:(the data for the reading plan comes from Back to the Bible)
I did see that, but I guess I thought the word "data" was only relevant to the scheduling of the reading plan itself not necessarily to chronological integration/placement ...but that does make sense.
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Can I use this plan for 2015 and how do I incorporate it into Logos Software?
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I'm using this resource for my 2015 Bible reading - thank you Mark [:)]
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Retha Groenewald said:
Can I use this plan for 2015 and how do I incorporate it into Logos Software?
Yes, you can; you have to use the Personal Book builder. These short videos are helpful in showing how it's done. And the Wiki has info as well.
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How do you compile the book as a bible harmony?
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Steve Holston said:
How do you compile the book as a bible harmony?
When entering the details of the personal book, Bible Harmony is an option on the Type dropdown. Just change it from Monograph to Bible Harmony.
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HI Mark, is there any way I can add this plan to logos mobile free ? Thanks
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Lazaro Alejo said:
HI Mark, is there any way I can add this plan to logos mobile free ? Thanks
Unfortunately this only works on desktop Logos, not mobile.
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Old thread I know, but just wanted to say "Thanks Mark!."
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Old Thread But This is just what I needed Thanks
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Hello,
I've built another Chronological Bible as Personal Book.
This one is based on the NLT One Year Chronological Bible Reading Plan.Enjoy !
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Thank your for your contribution. I installed it and it appears to work well. I have Logos Pro Early Edition, 36.1 and it does not have a "harmony" option, but your bible selection option works with monograph.
Can this be synchronized with a commentary? I would love to have my commentary synched to it.
Shabbat Shalom
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Buck McDaniel said:
Thank your for your contribution. I installed it and it appears to work well. I have Logos Pro Early Edition, 36.1 and it does not have a "harmony" option, but your bible selection option works with monograph.
Can this be synchronized with a commentary? I would love to have my commentary synched to it.
Shabbat Shalom
Hello ! Yes, it is possible to sync the Chronological Bible Personal Book with a commentary. Due to the limitations of the dynamic Bible text used, it is not possible to sync at verse level, but only at passage level. In my experience, the approach I've taken is to leave the Chronological Bible unlinked, but open in parallel my preferred Bibles and commentaries all synched together. I've also set my default commentary as target of Bible references links (you can set link "A" on all Bible texts and commentaries except for the Chronological Bible itself, and set "Send hyperlinks here" to your main commentary).
When reading through the Chronological Bible, I click on the passage header like Ezekiel 47:1-48:35, and this will sync my Bibles and commentaries to the beginning of this passage. I can then scroll independently between the Chronological Bible and commentaries, but they are never far away from each other.
As the Chronological Bible dynamic text in Logos does not allow reverse interlinear and other related analysis of the Bible text, I switch to my preferred translation to perform additional analysis of the Bible text.
With this setup, saved as a named Logos layout that I can easily recall, I'm happily progressing through my chronological reading of the Bible, and can deepen the study of a passage as I see fit.
I hope this helps ! Be encouraged !
Shabbat Shalom !
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