Unexpected results in Bible Browser Tool
I was suprised to see these results in the Bible Browser Tool - where I am filtering on God speaking to Abraham and Abraham is not involved in the interaction in Gen 20
If I change the display mode to Verse then no results for Gen 20 are shown.
Is this a bug in the tool or am I misunderstanding how it works?
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In your example, Bible Browser is showing all the pericopes that contain both God speaking (marked in yellow) and Abraham being spoken to (marked in blue, visible in vs 9 and after). There is no requirement that those cover the exact same text.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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In your example, Bible Browser is showing all the pericopes that contain both God speaking (marked in yellow) and Abraham being spoken to (marked in blue, visible in vs 9 and after). There is no requirement that those cover the exact same text.
Thanks Andrew - I had clearly misunderstood how the filters combined.
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In your example, Bible Browser is showing all the pericopes that contain both God speaking (marked in yellow) and Abraham being spoken to (marked in blue, visible in vs 9 and after). There is no requirement that those cover the exact same text.
Andrew, I find it to be unexpected. Why change the interpretation between Verse and Pericope? i.e.
Verse: {Speaker <Person God>} AND {Addressee <Person Abraham>} ----> God speaks to Abraham
Pericope: {Speaker <Person God>} AND {Addressee <Person Abraham>} -----> God speaks + anyone who speaks to Abraham
Add a further Addressee (Moses) and we have:-
Verse: {Speaker <Person God>} ({Addressee <Person Abraham>} AND {Addressee <Person Moses>})
Pericope: I don't understand this because it includes a Quarreling Israelite speaking at Acts 7:27, 35
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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Andrew, I find it to be unexpected. Why change the interpretation between Verse and Pericope? i.e.
Thanks Dave
What I took from Andrew's explanation is that the Verse / Pericope setting is not just a display option but it affects the scope of the search as well.
So in both cases, the search terms are effectively combined with an AND operator - but the scope of the AND is either the verse or the pericope.
Edit: However, I see this doesn't explain the quarrelling Israelite case you mention!
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In the Bible Browser there is no INTERSECT (or any other relationship) - each facet you enter is treated totally independently. The only logical relation is an implicit AND - because each additional facet only looks at the current results.
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Pericope: I don't understand this because it includes a Quarreling Israelite speaking at Acts 7:27, 35
The pericope of Acts 7:1-53 is included because it includes text where God is the speaker (such as 7:3), it also includes text where Abraham is being spoken to (such as 7:3), and it also includes text where Moses is being spoken to (such as 7:27).
There is nothing that requires the selected speaker and addressee to intersect the same range of text.
MJ described it well just above.
The way it works is by doing three independent checks:
- Does the pericope include text where God is speaking?
- Does the pericope include text where Abraham is being spoken to?
- Does the pericope include text where Moses is being spoken to?
If the answer to each of those independent questions is "yes", then the pericope is displayed.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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There is nothing that requires the selected speaker and addressee to intersect the same range of text.
MJ described it well just above.
Yes. I understand it now.
I had to look closely at Acts 7:27, 35 to see that the addressee was Moses.
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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