Collection rules for sorting commentaries (updated for Logos 9 Libraries)

The collections will only work on Logos 7.15 and above. They don't work on mobile. If you need the compatible version, you can find it here.

I've been asked to suggest some collection rules for sorting commentaries. So, here are rules which will create collections that match what I use personally.

The rules cover all the commentary series in every base package between Logos 4 and Logos 8 as well as dozens of other add-on sets (around 4,750 volumes of commentaries from nearly 400 series and more than 2,000 authors). They're used by hundreds of Logos users, and are regularly updated.

If you are using Logos 8, you can easily add these collections to your own Logos installation. (1) Go to the Docs menu. (2) Click on Public. (3) Select "Resource Collections" under the type facet. (4) Click the spyglass and search for "barnes" in the filter. (5) When you see my name, click on it. (6) Click on the row of the first collection you're interested in (but don't click on it's name), then CTRL+click on the others (or CTRL+A to select them all). (7) Click on "Add to your docs".

An alternative method, which is simpler but a little slower, and might work for those not using Logos 8, is to click on each of the links provided below, and then click on "Get Copy".

• Background Commentaries — Get your copy
• Expository Commentaries — Get your copy
• Intermediate Commentaries — Get your copy
• Technical Commentaries — Get your copy
• Historical Commentaries (Antiquity) — Get your copy
• Historical Commentaries (Medieval) — Get your copy
• Historical Commentaries (Reformation) — Get your copy
• Historical Commentaries (1750-1950) — Get your copy
• One Volume Commentaries — Get your copy
• Study Guide Commentaries — Get your copy
• Textual Commentaries — Get your copy
• Special Commentaries — Get your copy

When I update these collections in the future, Logos 8 users will see a notification in their docs menu which will allow you to easily update the collection to the new rules.

If you prefer to manually copy the rules, they're listed below. The rules only cover commentaries that are in a series, whereas the shared collections also include commentaries not in a series. If you want missing commentaries added, just tag them commentary-background, etc., and they'll then be automatically included your copy of the collections.

The power of these collections mostly lies in giving you the ability to create a custom passage guide like the one below, which I strongly recommend. That way you can consult different types of commentaries depending on the questions you're asking the text, and were you are in your study. Personally I use technical commentaries first to answer questions of grammar and basic exegesis, before moving to intermediate commentaries for ideas about what to communicate and basic application, and later to expository commentaries to help me think about illustrations and more specific application.

Background Commentaries — Get your copy

Background Commentaries don’t commentate on the overall meaning of a passage, but provide insights from the historical and cultural background wherever that’s appropriate.

type:bible-commentary ({Series "IVP Bible Background Commentary", "Lexham Geographic Commentary", "Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary","The Bible Knowledge Background Commentary"}, title:("Has God Not Chosen the Poor?", "Manners and Customs of the Bible", "Background Commentary", "The Political Paul"), {MyTag "commentary-background"})

Expository Commentaries — Get your copy

Typically, expository commentaries will discuss the meaning of the Bible text at a fairly simple level. They’ll be simple to read, with plenty of application and illustrations — a bit like a printed sermon. They’ll be hardly any footnotes, and hardly any Greek and Hebrew (which would be transliterated, if used at all).

type:bible-commentary ({Series "3:16 Bible Commentary Series", "A Messianic Commentary", "Africa Bible Commentary Series", "An Exposition of Ephesians", "An Exposition on Prayer in the Bible", "Analytical Bible Expositor", "Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars Study Series", "Barnes’ Notes on the Old and New Testaments", "Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible", "Biblical Preaching for the Contemporary Church", "Biblical Studies", "Boice’s Expositional Commentary", "Cecil Sherman Formations Commentary Series", "Clear Study Series", "Come and See: Catholic Bible Study", "Daily Study Bible Series", "David Guzik’s Commentaries on the Bible", "Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works", "Discovering Christ", "Essential Bible Companion Series", "ESV Expository Commentary", "Every Christian’s Library", "Exploring the Bible Commentary", "Expositions of Holy Scripture (MacLaren)", "Expositor’s Bible", "The Expositor’s Bible", "Feasting on the Word", "A Feasting on the Word Commentary", "Focus on the Bible Commentary", "Following God Workbooks", "For Everyone Bible Study Guides", "Gaebelein Selected Works", "Gaebelein’s Gospel of Matthew", "Gleanings (AW Pink)", "God’s Word for You", "Gromacki Expositions", "High Definition Commentary Series", "Holman New Testament Commentary", "Horae Homileticae", "J. C. Ryle Collection", "Jon Courson’s Application Commentary", "Kingdom Series", "Knowing the Bible", "Life Application Bible Commentary", "MacArthur New Testament Commentary", "Manna in the House: or, Daily Expositions of the Gospels", "Old Testament for Everyone", "Opening Up Commentary", "Poor Man’s New Testament Commentary", "Poor Man’s Old Testament Commentary", "Preaching the Word", "R. C. Sproul Exposition Collection", "Reading the Bible with John Stott", "Reformed Expository Commentary", "Romans: Donald Grey Barnhouse", "Roy Gingrich’s Commentaries in Outline Form", "Roy Gingrich’s Commentaries in Outline Form: Bible Themes", "Series Ministeria", "Spurgeon Commentary Series", "St. Andrew’s Expositional Commentary", "Standard Bible Studies", "Studies in the Book of Acts", "Summarized Bible", "Swindoll’s New Testament Insights", "Teach the Bible", "Teacher’s Bible Commentary Series", "Teed Commentary", "The Books of Kings", "The Books of Samuel", "The Church Pulpit Commentary", "The Gospel according to the Old Testament", "The Lectionary Commentary", "The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament", "The Life and Times of Gideon", "The Navarre Bible", "The New Daily Study Bible", "The Open Your Bible Commentary", "The Orthodox Bible Study Companion", "The Sermon Outline Bible", "Theology of Work Bible Commentary", "Thru the Bible Commentary", "Transformative Word", "Treasury of David", "Truth for Today", "Walk! Messianic Jewish Devotional Commentary", "Walking with Jesus", "Welwyn Commentary Series", "Wiersbe’s “Be” Series", "Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines", "Wisdom Commentary Series", "Works of H.A. Ironside", "Works of John Bunyan"} OR {Author "Alsup, Wendy Horger","Blanchard, John","Chambers, Oswald","Comfort, Ray","Franzmann, Werner Herman","Paisley, Ian R. K.","Pink, Arthur Walkington"} OR ({Author "Barber, Cyril J."} AND {Series None}) OR {MyTag "commentary-expository"})

Intermediate Commentaries — Get your copy

Typically, intermediate commentaries will discuss the meaning of the Bible text, in a serious but not overly-academic way. If they discuss Greek and Hebrew words, those words will be transliterated, and there will be little grammatical analysis. They may acknowledge different interpretations of a passage, but probably only in footnotes. There may be some application for the contemporary church, but that won’t be a main emphasis.

type:bible-commentary ({Series "A Bible Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition", "An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews (Owen)", "A Mentor Expository Commentary","Ariel’s Bible Commentary", "Asia Bible Commentary Series", "Augsburg Commentary on the New Testament", "Baker Commentary on the Old Testament", "Baker New Testament Commentary", "Believers Church Bible Commentary", "Berit Olam Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry", "Bible Lessons International", "Black’s New Testament Commentary", "Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible", "Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture", "Charles Hodge Commentary", "College Press NIV Commentary", "Cornerstone Biblical Commentary", "Encountering Biblical Studies", "EP Study Commentary", "Everyman’s Bible Commentary", "Exploring the Old and New Testament Collection", "Expositor’s Bible Commentary", "Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Abridged Edition", "Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Rev. Ed.", "Fortress Commentary on the Bible", "Founders Study Guide Commentary", "H. C. Leupold Commentary Collection", "Hearing the Message of Scripture Commentary", "The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible", "Illuminations Commentary Series", "International Theological Commentary", "The International Theological Commentary on the Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments", "Interpretation Commentary", "IVP New Testament Commentary", "Lenski’s Commentary on the New Testament", "Lexham Research Commentaries", "Logion Press Commentary Series", "Matthew: A Commentary", "Myrtlefield Expositions", "New American Commentary", "New Covenant Commentary Series", "New Testament Commentary", "NIV Application Commentary", "Old Testament Survey Series", "An Open Your Bible Project", "Osborne New Testament Commentaries", "Orthodox Christian Reflections", "Pamphlet Bible Series", "Preacher’s Commentary", "Pulpit Commentary", "Reading the Old Testament Series", "Reading the New Testament", "Reading the New Testament, 2nd Series", "Sacra Pagina Series", "Seventh-day Adventist Commentary", "Social-Science Commentary", "Standard Reference Library Through-the-Bible Commentary", "Study Notes on the Holy Scriptures", "The Bible in Its World", "The Bible Speaks Today", "The Bible Speaks Today (US)", "The New Collegeville Bible Commentary", "The New Testament for English Readers", "The Passion Series", "The Randall House Bible Commentary", "Rhetorica Semitica", "Rushdoony Commentaries on the Pentateuch", "Rushdoony New Testament Commentaries", "Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary", "Teach the Text Commentary Series", "The New Testament Library", "The Old Testament Library", "The Story of God Bible Commentary", "The Two Horizons New Testament Commentary", "The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary ", "The Two Horizons Commentary Series", "Tyndale Commentaries", "The Tyndale Commentary Series", "Understanding the Bible Commentary Series", "United Bible Societies’ Handbooks", "Wesleyan Bible Commentary", "Westminster Bible Companion"}, {MyTag "commentary-intermediate"})

Technical Commentaries — Get your copy

Typically, technical commentaries will be detailed, fairly academic, and emphasise aspects of language and grammar (often using untransliterated Greek and Hebrew). They’ll frequently discuss several possible interpretations of a passage, weighing the different views. They’ll concentrate almost exclusively on what the text would have meant to the original readers, and won’t be concerned about contemporary application.

type:bible-commentary ({Series "A Commentary on the Book of Genesis", "Acts: An Exegetical Commentary", "An Exegetical Commentary: Revelation by Robert L. Thomas", "Anchor Yale Bible", "Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library", "Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Commentaries (Charles)", "Apollos Old Testament Commentary", "Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament", "Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament", "Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible", "Concordia Commentary", "Continental Commentary", "Eerdmans Critical Commentary", "Evangelical Exegetical Commentary", "Exegetical Helps", "Exegetical Summaries", "Forms of the Old Testament Literature", "Hermeneia", "Illuminations", "International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament", "JPS Tanakh Commentary", "Kregel Exegetical Library", "Letters and Homilies", "Lexical Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles", "Mentor Commentaries", "Minor Prophets Exegetical Commentary", "New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament", "New International Greek Testament Commentary", "Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament", "Pillar New Testament Commentary", "Semantic and Structural Analysis", "Socio-Rhetorical Commentary Series", "Study Guide Commentary Series", "The Book of Isaiah (Young)", "The Hebrew Bible and Its Versions", "Translator’s Notes", "Word Biblical Commentary", "Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament", "Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament"} OR {MyTag "commentary-technical"} OR ({Series "International Critical Commentary"} AND pubdate:>1950))

Historical Commentaries

These are commentaries written before (roughly) WW2. Exegetical methods have changed significantly since then, but these older commentaries give valuable insights into how the Bible has been interpreted in Church History. There are four bands, that coincide roughly with the post-Enlightenment period (late modern), the period of the Reformation, the Middle Ages and the Early Church. The way the Bible was interpreted changed quite significantly at each of those points, so the split is fairly useful (at least to me).

Historical Commentaries (Antiquity) — Get your copy

Commentaries written prior to the medieval period (i.e. up to the fifth century). 

type:bible-commentary ({Series "A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church", "Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture",  "Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (Rev.)",  "Ancient Christian Texts", "Ancient Christian Writers", "Early Church Fathers (Catholic Edition)", "Early Church Fathers (Protestant Edition)", "The Church’s Bible", "The Fathers of the Church"}, {Author "Andrew of Caesarea","Asterius Urbanus","Augustine of Hippo","Cassiodorus","Cyril of Alexandria","Didymus the Blind","Dionysius of Rome","Gregory the Great","Jerome","John Chrysostom","Lactantius","Oecumenius","Origen","Theodore of Mopsuestia","Theodoret of Cyrus","Venantius Fortunatus","Victorinus of Pettau"}, title:("The Classic Midrash"), {MyTag "commentary-antiquity"})

Historical Commentaries (Medieval) — Get your copy

Commentaries written in the medieval period (i.e. from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries).

type:bible-commentary ({Series "A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica", "A Commentary on the Psalms from Primitive and Mediæval Writers", "Catena Aurea", "Morals on the Book of Job", "The Bible in Medieval Tradition", "The Commentators’ Bible","The Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation"}, {Author "Thomas Aquinas", "Bede"}, {MyTag "commentary-medieval"})

Historical Commentaries (Reformation) — Get your copy

Commentaries written in the period of the Reformation period (i.e. from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century). Commentaries from both Protestant and Catholic writers are included.

type:bible-commentary ({Series "Calvin’s Commentaries", "Luther’s Works", "Reformation Commentary on Scripture", "The Complete Works of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori", "The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide", "The Works of Rev. John Lightfoot"} OR {Author "Adams, Thomas","Ames, William","Benefield, Sebastian","Burroughs, Jeremiah","Calvin, John","Colet, John","Cotton, John","Daubuz, Charles","Downame, John","Durham, James","Dyke, Daniel","Gill, John","Guyon, Jeanne","Henry, Matthew","Holland, Hezekiah","Knollys, Hanserd","Leighton, Robert","Manton, Thomas","Luther, Martin","Owen, John","Newton, George","Patrick, Simon","Perkins, William","Poole, Matthew","Simon, Patrick","Symson, A.","Thomas, Griffin","Turnbull, Richard","Waple, Edward"} OR {MyTag "commentary-reformation"})

Historical Commentaries (1750-1950) — Get your copy

Commentaries written during the late modern period (post-enlightenment).

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Bertrand","Williams, Henry W.","Williams, John","Williams, Thomas","Wilson, Daniel","Wintle, Thomas","Withington, Leonard","Wood, William Spicer","Workman, George Coulson","Wright, Charles Henry Hamilton","Wright, Maria","Yorke, H. Lefroy","Young, Loyal"} OR {MyTag "commentary-historical-modern"} OR ({Series "International Critical Commentary"} AND pubdate:<=1950))

One Volume Commentaries — Get your copy

Commentaries that cover the whole Bible, or at least one Testament, in a single volume. 

type:commentary AND ({SubjectGroup "Bible--Commentaries", "Bible O.T.--Commentaries", "Bible N.T.--Commentaries", "Bible--Handbooks, manuals, etc", "Bible--Introductions"} AND {Series None} ANDNOT (title:(vols, volumes, "The Expositor’s Dictionary of Poetical Quotations", "The New Manners and Customs of the Bible","The Lexham Textual Notes on the Bible")) OR {Series "Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Abridged Edition","Fortress Commentary on the Bible","Summarized Bible","Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines"} OR title:("The Bible Exposition Commentary") OR {MyTag "commentary-one-volume"})

Study Guide Commentaries — Get your copy

Typically, study guide commentaries will provide short introductions to each passage, and ask several questions of the reader.

type:bible-commentary AND (title:("Bible Study Guide"), {Series "A LifeGuide Bible Study", "Bryan Williams Bible Study Collection", "John Stott Bible Studies","Life Lessons", "Not Your Average Bible Study"}, {MyTag "commentary-study-guide"})

Textual Commentaries — Get your copy

Textual commentaries focus on issues of textual criticism.

type:(bible-commentary, bible-notes) AND ({Series "Biblia Hebraica Quinta"}, title:("New Testament Text and Translation Commentary", "The Lexham Textual Notes on the Bible", "A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament", "A Textual Guide to the Greek New Testament","The NET Bible First Edition Notes"), {MyTag "commentary-textual"})

Special Commentaries — Get your copy

'Special' commentaries are those that don't fit into any other category. Typically, they won't look at the text as a whole, but focus on a very narrow aspect of the text.

type:bible-commentary ({Series "A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica, Matthew–1 Corinthians", "Biblical and Judaic Studies from the University of California, San Diego", "Biblical Theology of the New Testament", "The Christian Counselor’s Commentary", "Intertextual Bible Commentary", "JPS Study Bible Series", "Lexham Context Commentary", "Lexham Discourse Commentaries", "Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael", "Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai", "The Mellen Biblical Commentary", "New Studies in Biblical Theology", "Pastorum Series", "Philo & Holy Scripture", "SkyLight Illuminations Series", "Studies in Biblical Theology", "T&T Clark Study Guides to the New Testament", "What the Bible is All About: Bible Study Series"} OR {MyTag "commentary-special"} OR title:("Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament"))