Huge encyclopaedia: The Dictionary of Christianity and the Bible
With the help of Wikipedia, I've created the Logos' largest encyclopaedia. It has nearly 18,000 articles and 25 million words, making it three times bigger than even the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. If it was in print form, it would probably fill nineteen 1,000-page volumes.
All the articles in the dictionary come directly from Wikipedia, though don't include tables and images. Crucially, the Dictionary is fully marked-up with links, headwords and a table of contents, which means it functions just like any other Logos resource. The bold links shown above go to other articles in the resource. The links in normal type are online links, normally to Wikipedia itself.
Because of its size, there are 42 .docx files totalling more than 100Mb, which you can download as a .zip file here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zid9v5a520stxzs/Dictionary%20of%20Christianity%20and%20the%20Bible.zip
Make sure you add all the .docx files to the same Personal Book. To do that, you'll first need to unzip the files to a folder of your choice. Then, when you click on 'Add Files', click on first file in that folder, then SHIFT+click on the last file. All the files will be selected:
The book will probably take 30-60 minutes to compile, depending on the speed of your computer. I suggest setting "Type" to "Encyclopedia". There's a cover image included, in the zip file as well. If you want a description, you could use this: This comprehensive dictionary offers the most relevant Wikipedia articles on Christianity, the Bible, theology and Christian history, in one convenient Logos resource. With 25 million words and nearly 18,000 articles it's the most comprehensive encylopaedia of Christian topics available.
I'm interested in your feedback, as always. For obvious reasons I won't be able to make changes to individual articles, but if you notice any systemic problems that a revised algorithm might correct, then please let me know.
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Thank you very much for sharing this, Mark. This is really exciting!
Do we have to format this resource as "dictionary", "encyclopedia", or "monograph"?
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Raymond Urne said:
Do we have to format this resource as "dictionary", "encyclopedia", or "monograph"?
"Encylopedia" is best. I've added that into the post.
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Mark Barnes said:Raymond Urne said:
Do we have to format this resource as "dictionary", "encyclopedia", or "monograph"?
"Encylopedia" is best. I've added that into the post.
Thanks!
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This is a huge "labour of love". Thanks Mark!
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Dude! Thanks,
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Hi Mark
I've downloaded it and compiled it - all good.
This is an incredible resource - many thanks for putting it together and for sharing it.
Graham
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thank you
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Thanks Mark. You're a blessing!!!
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Thanks! Great work!
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Thanks Mark.
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Thank you Mark. This is what makes Logos a great resource when you can contribute something like this.
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Thank you very much Mark for this and everything else you do to help us.[:)]
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Thank you, Mark.
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Thank you Mark as always! This is great!
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Graham Criddle said:
This is an incredible resource - many thanks for putting it together and for sharing it.
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Thank you Mark. This is awesome!
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Thank you - Mark.
Do you, or anybody else, have a suggested description that could be used as a template? It would make sense to have, or at least start with, a standard that we all will use as we compile the book.
Blessings,
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With much thanks.
EDIT: Alternative cover, I HAD not compiled it and found the actual GREAT cover you included...
-Dan
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Wow, Dan. Did you make that? It's awesome! Or was there already an ancient book by that title? This looks like a well-worn cover. I couldn't find it in a Google search, though.
Mark did include a jpg file for a cover image in the zip file, BTW.
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Mark,
Thank you very much for this file!
Logos is indexing now, it will take a lot of time....
Looking forward to browsing this new encyclopedia.
Hans
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Dan Francis said:
EDIT: Alternative cover, I HAD not compiled it and found the actual GREAT cover you included...
I like it! I've included it as an alternative in the .zip file.
I see it's from a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which makes sense of the figures below Jesus.
IMPORTANT: If you've already compiled the Dictionary, don't recompile it to add this image, or for any other reason. Although the Dictionary only takes about 30 minutes to compile the first time, a bug in Logos means it will take many days to recompile. This will be fixed in 5.2a, but in the meantime you'll have to delete the old PB and re-add it if you want to re-compile it.
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Floyd Johnson said:
Do you, or anybody else, have a suggested description that could be used as a template?
I've added a very brief description to my initial post:
This comprehensive dictionary offers the most relevant Wikipedia articles on Christianity, the Bible, theology and Christian history, in one convenient Logos resource. With 25 million words and nearly 18,000 articles it's the most comprehensive encylopaedia of Christian topics available.
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Mark Barnes said:Dan Francis said:
EDIT: Alternative cover, I HAD not compiled it and found the actual GREAT cover you included...
I like it! I've included it as an alternative in the .zip file.
I see it's from a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which makes sense of the figures below Jesus.
IMPORTANT: If you've already compiled the Dictionary, don't recompile it to add this image, or for any other reason. Although the Dictionary only takes about 30 minutes to compile the first time, a bug in Logos means it will take many days to re-compile. This will be fixed in 5.2a, but in the meantime you'll have to delete the old PB and re-add it if you want to re-compile it.
Hi Mark; The plane has already taken off. I have personally been introduced to the bug. Good to know that there is a contingency plan. [:)]
Thanks.
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Erwin Stull, Sr. said:
Hi Mark; The plane has already taken off. I have personally been introduced to the bug. Good to know that there is a contingency plan.
Thankfully you can cancel the rebuild. Last weekend I went away for 36 hours, and when I came back it was still only about 10% through!
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Mark Barnes said:
Thankfully you can cancel the rebuild. Last weekend I went away for 36 hours, and when I came back it was still only about 10% through!
Yes. We live and learn. [:)]
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Bruce Dunning said:
This is a huge "labour of love". Thanks Mark!
Thanks for the culturally-sensitive spelling, Bruce!
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Mark, thanks so much for this. I don't think I have ever been so impatient waiting for a personal book to compile. [:D]
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Magnificent, thank you so much!
I've encountered a problem immediately. I extracted to new folder, but, my computer couldn't find it do I have to wait until the computer finishes indexing this file before I build the PBB?
Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.
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