TAGGING ISSUES: Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist

I won't ask what an article on the Blessed Virgin is doing in the Dictionary of Deities and Demons. Tongue Tied (Must be an Evangelical publication; we all know that Catholics don't consider her a deity, and certainly not a demon. Stick out tongue )

I will, however, ask why person:Mary (Magdalene) is tagged to the DDD article on Mary, the Mother of Jesus? As in several other dictionaries from the looks of it. I thought you liked to advertise that Logos is so great because it can differentiate between all the various Marys for us... Tongue Tied

And why is person:John the Baptist linking to several articles on Jona, the father of Simon Peter?

I could go on:

person:John (son of Zebedee) also finds Jona, father of Simon Peter.
person:James (son of Zebedee) finds James, the brother of Jesus.
person:Matthew finds Levi, son of Jacob.

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Sean Boisen

Initially we only had a general topic for named people in the LCV, effectively "people named Mary". This reflected the organization of virtually every Bible dictionary: they put them together in a single article, typically with sub-articles distinguishing them. That makes sense in the print world, where you first look up "Mary" and then look more closely for the one you want. It doesn't make sense in the digital world (which is why the Lexham Bible Dictionary will eventually have a distinct article for each).

We've since made the LCV topics more fine-grained, to match what we have in the biblical text (in the case of Marys, we have seven). We've been going back through the dictionaries to make the linkage more specific, but we still have some data connection issues to work out so we don't lose that specificity. Just to be clear, we haven't tagged the DDD article with anything other than "people named Mary".