JEDP in Logos

Dr. Ken
Dr. Ken Member Posts: 307
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Is there an easy way to color the texts in Logos so that one could know which passages by color fit the JEDP docunmentary hypothesis?

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,804 ✭✭✭

    One of the older OT's shipped last year (not at my pc) was coded for JEPD. The issue you'd have is 'which JEPD hypothesis' (it's a theory; the assignments vary), and recognition the coding is at word/phrase level, not verse.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Dr. Ken
    Dr. Ken Member Posts: 307

    Exactly. This is what I have found myself. Variegated theories with consensus being hard to establish and follow.

  • Sean
    Sean Member Posts: 1,781 ✭✭✭

    Theo said:

    Is there an easy way to color the texts in Logos so that one could know which passages by color fit the JEDP docunmentary hypothesis?

    This is something I've been studying recently, and I'd love to see something like this. Perhaps it could be done with a visual filter? Unfortunately I don't know anything about those.

    In my present studying, I use The Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Text, Francis I. Andersen; A. Dean Forbes. It's tagged according to Eissfeldt's version of the Hypothesis. I hover over the text, and it tells me the source. Coloring to differentiate the sources would be much more convenient and useful.

  • Dr. Ken
    Dr. Ken Member Posts: 307

    Can a passage list be made of all of J then E then P and can each list be color coded using a highlighter function?

  • Dr. Ken
    Dr. Ken Member Posts: 307

    Sean said:

    Theo said:

    Is there an easy way to color the texts in Logos so that one could know which passages by color fit the JEDP docunmentary hypothesis?

    This is something I've been studying recently, and I'd love to see something like this. Perhaps it could be done with a visual filter? Unfortunately I don't know anything about those.

    In my present studying, I use The Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Text, Francis I. Andersen; A. Dean Forbes. It's tagged according to Eissfeldt's version of the Hypothesis. I hover over the text, and it tells me the source. Coloring to differentiate the sources would be much more convenient and useful.

    Also, can this info be gotten from a right-click in any translation or must I be in Forbes to ascertain this?

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,804 ✭✭✭

    Sean said:

    Theo said:

    Is there an easy way to color the texts in Logos so that one could know which passages by color fit the JEDP docunmentary hypothesis?

    This is something I've been studying recently, and I'd love to see something like this. Perhaps it could be done with a visual filter? Unfortunately I don't know anything about those.

    In my present studying, I use The Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Text, Francis I. Andersen; A. Dean Forbes. It's tagged according to Eissfeldt's version of the Hypothesis. I hover over the text, and it tells me the source. Coloring to differentiate the sources would be much more convenient and useful.

    It's pretty easy, when you create a visual filter.

    - AFAT (the search resource)

    - Bible search

    - Search field: Surface

    - I narrow to the Torah

    - Search term: <EissfeldtHexateuch = ??> Where ?? is Y, E, P, D, or B

    I put in 5 args using a colored background for each.

    I use a similar one for NT MSS's (age, and Alan category)

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,804 ✭✭✭

    Theo said:

    Also, can this info be gotten from a right-click in any translation or must I be in Forbes to ascertain this?

    The resource has to have the search field for JEPD. Not just any OT. I think AFAT is the only one in hebrew.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Sean
    Sean Member Posts: 1,781 ✭✭✭

    Thanks, Denise.

    Denise said:

    It's pretty easy, when you create a visual filter.

    - AFAT (the search resource)

    - Bible search

    - Search field: Surface

    - I narrow to the Torah

    - Search term: <EissfeldtHexateuch = ??> Where ?? is Y, E, P, D, or B

    I can get this far (though I think the source is J, not Y; also what is B? Eissfeldt also has the source "Lay" and perhaps 1 or 2 other minor ones.

    I'm stuck after this step. I know nothing about setting up visual filters. Could you help, or point me to a good explanation?

  • Rick Brannan (Logos)
    Rick Brannan (Logos) Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,862

    Theo said:

    Is there an easy way to color the texts in Logos so that one could know which passages by color fit the JEDP docunmentary hypothesis?

    With Logos 8, we released a dataset on Source Criticism. It currently only documents Eissfeldt's theories but could be expanded with other theories in the future.

    If you have the dataset, you should have access to the documentation: https://ref.ly/logosres/cidbdocsourcrit?art=art2 

    Hope it helps.

    Rick Brannan
    Data Wrangler, Faithlife
    My books in print

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,821

    but could be expanded with other theories in the future.

    I know someone waiting impatiently for Mowinkel on Jeremiah (as in Andersen-Forbes) ...

    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."

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,821

    Sean said:

    I can get this far

    Then when the AFAT is open, be sure the visual filter is on (3 dots to open options).

    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."

  • Sean
    Sean Member Posts: 1,781 ✭✭✭

    Ah bless you MJ; you're such a help!

    I'd never seen the Visual Filters document type before, so I've definitely learned something new today! This will take a while to process, but it should be very helpful.

  • Sean
    Sean Member Posts: 1,781 ✭✭✭

    I made a simple Visual Filter for AFAT that just colors the basic sources Eissfeldt identifies:

    This is mostly what I want. I do have a question (although I'm pretty sure the answer is "no"): Is there any way to map this filter onto another Bible, say an English one (any version) or a different Hebrew text (say, one with an interlinear)?

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,821

    When I started with Logos the answer was yes, but now I believe all the mapping is tied to the Lexham version so the answer is no ... unless someone has found a cool trick other than switching to the dataset.

    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."