BIBLICAL EVENT DATA PROBLEM

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,757
edited November 2024 in English Forum

At what point is it appropriate to throw a fit, demand a refund, or publicly embarrass Faithlife? Biblical Events and Biblical Event Navigator still only recognize the truncated Bible canon of the last 500 years of 20% or less of Christians. And no, it's not a Protestant/Catholic things -- two of the largest Protestant streams are on the side of the first millennium and a half.


It has been acknowledged as a bug: Biblical Event Navigator lacks OT apocrypha events

We have been waiting since 25 October 2014 What's New in Logos 6

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Sean Boisen
    Sean Boisen Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,452

    MJ. Smith said:

    At what point is it appropriate to throw a fit, demand a refund, or publicly embarrass Faithlife? Biblical Events and Biblical Event Navigator still only recognize the truncated Bible canon of the last 500 years of 20% or less of Christians. And no, it's not a Protestant/Catholic things -- two of the largest Protestant streams are on the side of the first millennium and a half.


    It has been acknowledged as a bug: Biblical Event Navigator lacks OT apocrypha events

    We have been waiting since 25 October 2014 What's New in Logos 6

    We have Biblical Events from deuterocanonical books: see for example Antiochus Epiphanes begins reign.

    Incorporating these into the Biblical Event Navigator is still on our development task list, but hasn't yet been done. That's an independent task from shipping the core data, which i believe we did 1-2 years ago.

    Since our staff effort is limited, we're constantly choosing between literally thousands of possible tasks to determine priorities. I understand your frustration, and as a general policy we're committed to supporting all of the deuterocanonical books when it comes to biblical data. We also still have several datasets that don't yet support the Hebrew Bible! To state the obvious, that's not because we don't value  the Hebrew Bible: it just reflects choosing priorities for our limited resources.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,757
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1017732#Comment_1017732

    Sean Boisen said:

    We have Biblical Events from deuterocanonical books: see for example Antiochus Epiphanes begins reign.

    Sorry, I looked in the books of Judith and Tobit and found none and jumped to the conclusion there were none rather than partial.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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