PB: Dr. Constable's Expository (Bible Study) Notes

Grant Eksteen said:

Please advise, has anyone actually bought to the product? 

https://www.logos.com/product/4466/tom-constables-expository-bible-study-notes

I have this version

I’m interested

Mark Davis said:

I do not have that version, as it is extremely outdated.  However, I do have Dr. Constable's 2020 notes in a Logos Personal Book, having used Logos' PBB (Personal Book Builder) to import them into my library.  If you're interested in doing this too, just let me know.

I'm interested

I am interested as well, Mark! Please email me as dvdgdmn at outlook dot com

Hi Mark

I too would be very interested in the above notes. Thanks so much.

Gerald

Mark Davis said:

Michael said:

Mark Davis said:

I do not have that version, as it is extremely outdated.  However, I do have Dr. Constable's 2020 notes in a Logos Personal Book, having used Logos' PBB (Personal Book Builder) to import them into my library.  If you're interested in doing this too, just let me know.

I'm interested

I don't think I have received an email from you Michael (see my post 1 above)...

Mark, I sent an email to you today.  Hopefully you received it.

Mark said:

Mark Davis said:

I do not have that version, as it is extremely outdated.  However, I do have Dr. Constable's 2020 notes in a Logos Personal Book, having used Logos' PBB (Personal Book Builder) to import them into my library.  If you're interested in doing this too, just let me know.

Mark

When you compiled these notes into a pb, did you compile 66 different pbs?

Bump

Thanks, Bill.  That helps.

Gerald Rodgers said:

Hi Mark

Would be glad to get a copy of this work. Can you please suggest the best way to do it. Can I send you an email address? Thanks for your help.

Gerald (N Ireland)

While we can't share the files directly this thread already has all the details necessary. So, look for these posts (I've supplied links to them):

At this link to the 1st page: PB: Dr. Constable's Expository (Bible Study) Notes - Faithlife Forums (logos.com)

Look for OP's post (Mark Davis | Forum Activity | Posted: Thu, Nov 3 2016 12:31 PM) for location of Constable’s Notes, where you can select pdf format for download of individual Bible books (66 downloads):

And at this link to the 2nd page: PB: Dr. Constable's Expository (Bible Study) Notes - Faithlife Forums (logos.com)

Look for reply (Robert M. Warren | Forum Activity | Replied: Wed, Oct 11 2017 5:05 PM) with macro to convert pdf to word doc, which will compile in personal book builder.

@ Gerald,

yes, please email me.  My email address is listed in this thread, just look back a few posts...

David Goodman said:

do you still have to designate each one with [[@Bible:Jos]]   for example  so Logos knows it is a commentary on Joshua?

Hi David:

I tagged (with bible milestones) the 2017 edition that Mark Davis was diligent to format (excellently) and generous to provide. I haven't had a chance to tag any of the subsequent editions he has provided, though. If you (or anyone else) is interested in that edition, my email is on my Faithlife profile. If you compile the tagged editions in the PB tool as Type: Bible Notes, you'll get the functionality you're seeking. (Type: Study Bible would also work; I'm not sure I understand the nuances.) When I compiled them, I put Gen-Rev in the same PB.

Mark Davis said:

Hi all,

just a quick update here.  The 2021 version of the notes is available from Sonic Light now, so I have downloaded and converted them to (unnumbered) Word .docx files.  In addition, this time I also researched PBB tagging a little, and I have added a tag to the beginning of each .docx file making Logos realize to which book of the Bible each of the .docx files refers.

What this gives you is 66 .docx files that you can put into Logos with the PBB and that you should put into a single named "Series" (that you name, and must be exactly the same name for each book) in Logos, categorizing them as you like (I use "Bible Commentary").  Once compiled and placed as PBs in Logos, they now work like almost any other commentary in Logos - showing up in searches, parallel resources, and even automatically changing which book is opened based on your current active verse in Logos if you've turned on "Link set."  I didn't realize how simple this was to do, or I'd have done it before.

There are two caveats to my latest files.  The first is the same as always, which is that the table of contents (TOC) is integrated into the file, so Logos is not aware of it.  However, if you open the Logos TOC, the only link in it is to the first page of the book, which is where the integrated TOC is anyway.

The second caveat is that this time around, something changed in the latest version of Libre Office and when I converted the books, any image was made super tiny.  This isn't a huge deal because there are not that many images in the files in the first place (e.g. 1 Kings has 9 images, whereas 1 Chronicles has only 1), and you can either edit the .docx files yourself, making the image(s) in it whatever size you like, and the re-Build the PBB in Logos.  Or, you can simply right-click the tiny image while in Logos and copy it, and then paste it into anything else and it pastes in the normal size (weird, I know).

IMO, this makes the set much more usable in Logos.  If you're interested in getting them, shoot me an email (email is in this post).

I am interested.

Hi Mark

Interested too as before. Thanks for all you work on this item.

My email address is grodgers-hotmail.co.uk. Please add the

@ in place of -  to prevent spam etc. Thanks so much.

Gerald

OK, sorry again about all of this.  I have finished updating and uploading all of the books (again) and I have tested a few of them, and so far, they have worked fine (with normal sized images and everything else I described).  I did notice that even though the images are of good size now, there are some you'll still want to copy and paste (or save or send to PowerPoint) into something else to see everything that's in them (I wish Logos would let you resize an image in an existing document or at least let you double click on it and see it full screen).

I'll be looking through my email now and this forum and getting the info. on where to get them for those who've asked.  Enjoy reading and studying the word with one more excellent commentary set to add to your Logos repertoire!

i'm interested.

g pajkos at hot mail dot com.

   Hey everyone,

I just read another thread about Dr. Constable's Notes here on the Logos Community Forums, and apparently his notes product has been updated to the 2022 version on Logos' site, even though it still says it's the 2003 version.  I just bit the bullet and purchased them and indeed they are the 2022 version. As an FYI, planobiblechapel.org has posted his 2023 version in HTML and PDF formats and I'm not sure which version studylight.org has on their site as an HTML version.  Here are the relevant links:

https://community.logos.com/forums/t/209367.aspx?PageIndex=1 - link to the thread on Logos' Community Forums

https://www.logos.com/product/4466/tom-constables-expository-bible-study-notes - link to the notes on Logos' site