BUG (sort of) in Lexham Context Commentary

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,149
edited November 2024 in English Forum

[quote]Note: if you type in an individual verse reference in the locator bar, you will be sent to one of the middle levels of the organization (paragraph or passage), not the verse/unit level.

Douglas Mangum, ed., Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020).

What this means in real life: You link your Bible to the commentary. Your Bible eventually gets down to the verse being at the bottom of the pane. You scroll your Bible to see the next verse, or the end of the current verse. You commentary jumps back to a middle level - your place in the text completely lost.

Nice idea, but someone didn't think this through.

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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  • Kenneth Neighoff
    Kenneth Neighoff Member Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭

    The same thing happens when you link a Bible to the Faithlife Study or any other Study Bible. 

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,149
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1087397#Comment_1087397

    Interesting - I guess the study Bibles I use aren't typical.

    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."

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,210
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1087397#Comment_1087397

    Kenneth Neighoff said:

    The same thing happens when you link a Bible to the Faithlife Study or any other Study Bible. 

    This depends on the verse (or chapter) separation in the commentary/study bible. The verse used for syncing is the one at the top of the resource panel, not the one you may be reading at the bottom. Sync becomes more complicated when milestones overlap or are out of sequence i.e. the specific commentary/study bible may be tagged unsympathetically. So I can't say I have the issue with FSB or "any other Study Bible".

    Dave
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  • John Fidel
    John Fidel MVP Posts: 3,470
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1087410#Comment_1087410

    My work around for this it to access commentaries through the Passage Guide. It opens, usually, at the verse or pericope you are studying, but is not linked, so it will not impact the text you are referencing the commentary from. Same with multi-view, the main text influences the multi-view text, but not the other way around. Two ways to view content from another resource (commentary in this case) without the main text being influenced.

    Both of these methods of accessing the related commentaries are very well designed in my opinion.

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