How can I quickly find and open a non-canonical book like Enoch without knowing beforehand where it

I was reading a print-based book that referenced the apocalyptic book of Enoch. I wanted to open Enoch and look through it a bit. I knew that Enoch is not one of the books of the biblical canon, but I have an enormous library, so I figured I must have it somewhere. I tried a search through my entire library for Enoch, but needless to say that was less than helpful. I wasn't sure if Enoch was in the Apocrypha or Pseudepigrapha or something other. I tried looking through my Library for some book that might mention Enoch in its description. No such luck. I tried searching for it in Heading text with the new 4.0c Beta feature. That didn't find it for me. The way I finally found it was very circuitous:

Basic search for Enoch in All Text in Entire Library
Topic section gave me the choice of Enoch (Person), Enoch (Place), or Books of Enoch; I clicked the last one
Hovered over the hit in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible which told me that there are three books of Enoch, 1 (or Ethiopic) Enoch, 2 (or Slavonic) Enoch, and 3 (or Hebrew) Enoch.
Figured Ethiopic and Slavonic would be more unique search words than Hebrew, so I revised my search to enoch AND (Ethiopic OR Slavonic) in All Text Entire Library
Scrolled down and skimmed a few pages worth of hits and found something that looked hopeful, a heading "Non-palestinian Pseudepigrapha" in Expositor's Bible Commentary Introduction. I clicked on this link to open it.
Aha, getting warmer! I saw a reference to 1 Enoch 1:9 within the first paragraph of this section. Fortunately it was a hyperlink.
So I clicked on it, and voilà! Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament opened to 1 Enoch 1:9.

Now, how could I have done that faster and more directly, not having had the slightest clue ahead of time that 1 Enoch was a book of OT Pseudepigrapha? (I still have yet to find where 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch are...)

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MJ. Smith

apocalyptic book of Enoch

Your real problem is that the Book of Enoch isn't set to be released until April Fool's Day (really). [H]

Seriously, I do hope that Logos eventually beefs up access to apocrypha and pseudepigrapha ... although after they can handle all the historical canons.[:)]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/111098#Comment_111098

apocalyptic book of Enoch

Your real problem is that the Book of Enoch isn't set to be released until April Fool's Day (really).

It looks to me that resource is the same as the translation of Enoch I already have in POT and the only difference is some introductory material by W. O. E. Oesterley. It this something I should be thinking of ordering in pre-pub before it's too late?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/111111#Comment_111111

It looks to me that resource is the same as the translation of Enoch I already have in POT and the only difference is some introductory material by W. O. E. Oesterley.

That is correct. I assumed from the information page that it might well be more thoroughly linked. Given that my Charles is on paper and PDF, it is definitely better linked for me.[:D]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/111115#Comment_111115

It looks to me that resource is the same as the translation of Enoch I already have in POT and the only difference is some introductory material by W. O. E. Oesterley.

That is correct. I assumed from the information page that it might well be more thoroughly linked. Given that my Charles is on paper and PDF, it is definitely better linked for me.

Not having it thoroughly linked wasn't the problem for me. As soon as I found a resource which mentioned a reference in it (rather than just mentioning the word Enoch), I was able to open it by clicking on that link. But I wanted to be able to type something like 1 Enoch 1:9 into the command box and have it open up just like that. Maybe I need to prioritize Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. Nope, that didn't work. Logos still doesn't recognize the reference in the command box. Only Bible references. Oh well...

Wait a minute! Whaddya know?! I just tried searching for <Enoch> in my Entire Library and it found all references to Enoch, so all I had to do was open the first search hit (by clicking on the highlighted portion of the hit context, rather than the heading of the search hit, which I've learned from MP is the better way to go to what I've searched for) and click on the Enoch link and I was in business. Now that's the kind of answer I was looking for. I bothered writing it all out in case someone else out there is reading this and could benefit from my journey of discovery.

I still would like to see Logos able to open it from the command box, though I'm a happy camper for now. [:)]

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/111120#Comment_111120

I still would like to see Logos able to open it from the command box

It is my understanding/extrapolation that several books such as these would be accessible from the command box if there were a tagged Bible which contained it. I believe it was with regards to the Book of Jubilees that I was given this info.