What are your go-to resources in Logos?
Hi all,
As some of you know, we recently reached the 1 million-post mark in the forums, and we're now past 250,000 users. Last time we celebrated a milestone (500,000 posts), we had 100,000 fewer users.
Which means it's a good time to poll the community anew: What are your favorite, go-to, most-used resources in Logos? (A similar post appeared about 6 years ago.)
I'll start: I love the sermon illustration collections, and how accessible they are in the Sermon Starter Guide. I especially appreciate these resources:
- 5,000 Quotations, Prayers, and Illustrations for Preachers (11 vols.)
- Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations
What about you?
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- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Thesaurus--can't write well without them
- Dictionary of Bible Themes--Like Mark, I'm a huge fan of this one for most any task.
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge--Used in tandem with the above to find cross references (I don't have the new edition)
- Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church--huge reference work that covers practically everything
- AYBD, LBD (yes!), and the IVP Bible Dictionaries of the OT & NT are my favorite Bible dictionaries, though I also use many others frequently.
- Louis Berkhof's Systematic Theology--accessible and one of the most comprehensive for its size, it's really great when I need to look up something theological fast.
- NIV
- ESV
- Greek NT Interlinear (4th ed, DB, 1993)
- BDAG
- Lexham Heb-Eng Interlinear
- DBL (Swanson)
- Commentaries on Matthew by France (NICOT), Keener (S/R), Wilkins (NIVAC)
- EDNT
- Lexham Gk-Eng Interlinear LXCX
- Evangelical Theol (Michael Bird)
- EErdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (J J Collins)
- Mission of God's People (Chris Wright)
- NRSV
- NABRE
- NJB (although I'd much prefer the JB which I have to use in paper)
- NEB
- Lectionary/Ordo
- Missal
- Catechism of the Catholic Church
- Ott Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma
- Jurgen The Faith of the Early Fathers
- Denzinger: Sources of Catholic Dogma
- Rosa: Fulfilled in Christ (Logos only - I don't have it in paper)
- Sacra Pagina / Olem Berit
- The Church Fathers and church documents referenced by the above resources (this is where Logos radically changed how I study).
- NIV 2011
- NA28
- Beale & Carson Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old
- BDAG/HALOT
- NICOT/NICNT
- IVP black dictionaries
- ISBE (full version)
- Zondervan & IVP background commentaries
- Anchor Bible Dictionary
- NRSV
- NLT (Old Testament Reading Plan this year)
- BHS
Judging by the new "Most Used" column in the Library which I only stumbled upon yesterday:
TNIV - for my own reading/study
NRSV - for preparing worship services for church, looking at reverse interlinear
ESV - another one I use for searching, looking at reverse interlinear
Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (AYBD)
The Message - for alternate translation
KJV - for familiar/memorized/famous verses
Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (AYBD) --Still my go to dictionary.
New Interpreter's Bible (NIB) --My start out / go to commentary.
New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) --Preferred Bible for reading.
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) --Preferred Bible for study particularly thanks to original language tie in.
Book of Common Prayer (1979) Daily Office Lectionary (BCP:DL) --Texts for personal devotions.
Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) --My Sunday readings.
Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible (ECB) -- My favourite one volume commentary.
Hear the Ancient Wisdom by Charles Richard Ringma -- A devotional I am going through this year that I am particularly enjoying and heartily recommend.
Feasting on the Word (12 vols.) (FOW) -- This rather unique series looks at sections used in the lectionary and provides four separate commentary essay on each selection (one each on from a theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical approach). In a same vein is Feasting on the Gospels giving you a complete look at the entire gospel with the same four fold approach.
While there are numerous resources I could mention I will leave it at these 9.
-dan
My ESV Bible, of course.
My new favourite commentary set is the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary.
For Greek/Hebrew its BDAG/HALOT.
Bible Dictionary has to be Anchor Yale.
And I'm a huge fan of the Dictionary of Bible Themes.
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BKC
BDAG
HALOT
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Though one:
1. LBLA/NASB/NKJV
2. NICOT/NICNT
3. IVP Black Dictionaries
4. Sermon Outline Books And Archives (any available in Logos).
5. Counter point series
ESV
Journals
Spurgeon Sermons
BDAG
HALOT
IVP Dictionaries
Standard Evangelical Commentaries
Rising fast is the Concordance tool. I found out I can do any book in my library.
Judging by the new "Most Used" column in the Library which I only stumbled upon yesterday:
Reverse Interlinear Bibles for visual filter highlighting => more inductive symbols
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) (dreaming of reverse interlinear)
Original Language Discourse & Grammars
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Looking at my "Default Work" layout that I open for most general tasks, these are ones I use most (beside Bibles):
And I'm a huge fan of the Dictionary of Bible Themes.
Top 5 in the most used:
- NIV 2011
- CSB
- NIV84 (our church's 'pew bible')
- The Lexham Greek-English Interlinear New Testament: SBL Edition
- Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains (AKA the Louw-Nida)
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What are your favorite, go-to, most-used resources in Logos?
This is what My Library shows as my "most used" resources:
It's probably obvious I've been studying and blogging Matthew recently.
Hate to admit it, but the same books that got the most wear on a physical shelf get the most wear in Logos:
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Bibles: ESV, CSB, LHB
Lexicons: HALOT/BDAG, TDOT/TDNT
Commentaries: NICOT/NICNT, ESS, UBS Handbooks
Bibles: ESV, ESV Study Bible, NA28
Lexicons: HALOT/BDAG
Commentaries (in order): UBS Handbooks, TNTC/OT, NAC, NICOT/NICNT, BECNT, PILLAR, WORD
Bible Dictionaries: ISBE, Anchor
Lexham discourse Bible (+ propositional dataset) https://www.logos.com/product/81254/lexham-discourse-bible
Vocabulary of the Greek Testament https://www.logos.com/product/5773/vocabulary-of-the-greek-testament
Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary https://www.logos.com/product/1660/anchor-yale-bible-dictionary
UBS handbook commentary https://www.logos.com/product/39480/ubs-handbook-series-old-and-new-testament-collection
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Their is a lot of books referenced here but I would like to mention I enjoy my clippings. I heard that logos wants to do away with them, please don't.
Bibles: ESV, NIV, NASB
Commentaries: BKC, ECB, NIVAC, Tyndale Commentaries
Dictionaries: AYBD, TBD
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According to the "Most Used" sort, these are my top 10. I question the validity of this sort because I don't recall ever accessing the Zondervan NIV Study Bible. The rest of the top 10 are likely to be accurate.
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I question the validity of this sort because I don't recall ever accessing the Zondervan NIV Study Bible.
If it's that high in your most used, there's a probability that it is / was part of a layout you use (probably with another resource in front of the tab), so you opened it many times without looking at it.
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Base on the library most used, my top 10:
NASB
NKJV
Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
NIV
ESV
CSB
Holman Bible handbook
KJV
Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Analyzed text
New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I have not accessed the Holman Bible Handbook recently, so it must be in a layout I use or had used. The rest are accurate.
Using the "Most Used" category my top 10 are all Bible too including the ESV, NA28 and the Lexham Hebrew Bible.
But I'm not sure that is the best way to measure things as I think the "Most Used" tool tries to measure which books are open in your library when you are using it.
Can anyone confirm just how the "Most Used" category tool works in Logos?
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Hi Matthew:
More than particular resources (many good ones mentioned already by other posters), I love about L8 the ability to search for concepts, and get a myriad of different angles due to the large selection of very varied resources available.
Very easily one can see all the different sub angles within a particular concept, and then one can look closely at the relevant ones at the time. It is a very effective way of getting acquainted with the underlying key thrusts, and issues on any given topic.
At times, I find that particular denominations have a vast developed body of knowledge about particular topics. So I do try to have a well rounded library, as each particular tradition / group would have different go to resources that would be considered key.
As far as Bibles: BTX, ESV, LEB, and for comparison MEV. I am beginning to explore the use of Bible in other languages, to mine that particular language library.
Just as different groups focus on different angles, sometimes different languages do the same. They develop certain topics more than other regions, and is probably due to their contextual situation.
So comparing elements from different views, gives me a better rounded grasp of the implications of different topics. I can then check my own assumptions, presuppositions, previous understandings, and adjust them accordingly thanks to the enlarged conceptual framework.
The amount of resources available in L8 is unsurpassed, and to me is one of the strengths of the system.
Based on Most Used and excluding those that were one-time readthroughs a while ago (Calvin's Institutes, etc) my list is as follows:
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