Your Favorite/Most Useful Logos 4 Purchase
Other than your initial package or upgrade to a new one, what are your best purchases?
Mine (I have the regular Scholar's Edition, not Silver/Gold/Platinum:
1) IVP Collection 3.0 - hands down, the best money I've spent beyond my original package.
2) The Expositor's Bible Commentary
Interested to hear yours...
Jerry
Macbook Air (2024), Apple M2, 16gb Ram, Mac Sequoia, 1TB storage
Comments
- NICOT/NICNT
- Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Too many vying for third to name just one. I do use BDAG daily and HALOT when in the OT. This past week I've spent a lot of time reading journal articles (I have vols 1-12).
1. The Ultimate Archeology Collection.
2. NICOT/NICNT
3. A. W. Tozer Collection.
1. Lexham Discourse Bundle
2. Commentary on the New Testament
Use of the Old Testament
3. 
I'm just predicting the future with my third pick.
1. Theological Journals
2. SESB (I admit, its overpriced for what I use in it, mainly the Apparatus. But i REALLY like the Apparatus :-))
3. IVP Reference (Need to learn how to use this one more)
I think that's the order I would put them in.
2. Commentary on the New Testament
Use of the Old Testament
I forgot about this one. I LOVE this resource. I would say this is probably my favorite and most profitable commentary. If its not in your library, it should be.
what are your best purchases?
Well, this is not quite what you asked, because this was in one of my package upgrades, but I really use my COED a lot.
So many big words I don't use myself, and not always sure what they mean. I tend to leave the Info or COED panel open on the right 1/4 to 1/3 of my screen, and keep looking stuff up.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary http://www.logos.com/products/details/2224
[ HINT: Change Info Panel settings to CLICK rather than HOVER. It stops Info updating on every mouse move, but the update is still only a single click away. Maybe useful for performance reasons too. ]
1. TJL
2. SESB
3. BDAG/HALOT
"Other than your initial package or upgrade to a new one, what are your best purchases?"
1. NICOT/NICNT
2. Wesley's Works
3. Spurgeon's Sermons
4. Word Biblical Commentary
5. James Montgomery Boice Expositional Commentaries
6. New International Greek New Testament Commentaries
7. Tyndale Commentaries
"In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church," John Wesley
1. Moody Counseling Collection
2. R. Larry Moyer Evangelism Collection
3. Pure Life Collection
1. IVP Essential Reference Collection (hands down / without doubt)
2. BDAG
3. WBC
This has been a really fun read. The one that seems to come up the most that I do not have is the NICOT/NICNT set.
Can't afford it yet, but maybe someday. Sounds like a good investment. My church only allocates $500/year for me at this point.
Great to read all of these!
Jerry
Macbook Air (2024), Apple M2, 16gb Ram, Mac Sequoia, 1TB storage
without a doubt:
1. IVP Essentials
2. Calvin 500
I started off in the middle of 2009 with the Scholars Gold ed. and upgraded to Platinum on release of L4.
My best purchases,
1. Theological Journal Library (1-10 and 11)
2. NICOT/NICNT
Not sure what the third would be... I have a lot of purchases competing for third-place...
Andy
My top three (even though I use them in reverse order):
1) Northwestern Publishing House's People's Bible Series. By far the most simple, easy to understand, and faithful layman's commentary I have used. Even though the thoughts are simple, I use this last when studying for a sermon to try to get me thinking simply again before I start writing. Very faithful to the Biblical text.
2) Lenski's NT Commentary: Older but very well done. He can be too strong on some points that scripture does not give a precise answer to, but he more often then not backs up what he says with Scripture so you can at least understand why he says what he says. One negative is that he is wordy.
3) Concordia Commentary Series: Relatively new and only a few volumes are out. Very scholarly. Wordy (for example the commentary of Philemon has more pages than the letter has words). OT volumes are certainly worth having. Written from a perspective that fully accepts verbal inspiration of Holy Scriptures. Does well evaluating conflicting views. Excellent series so far. This commentary is so deep (at least for me), you need to take a step back and read something simple to collect your thoughts. This is why I like reading the People's Bible after I read this one - and both only after I have my own exegesis and collected my own thoughts on a text first.
(I have a combination package of OL and basic Scholars, but I must admit that I use Bibleworks for my exegesis because I am more familiar with the program than I am with Logos. I use Logos mainly for commentary work - hence my selections of most used, but I also appreciate the Bible dictionaries, maps, histories, etc... that came with L4 too.)
I have regular Scholar's edition and these are my top recent purchases:
1. IVP Collection
2. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
3. Calvin 500 Collection
I use these resources all the time, and they are all helpful.
If you are in a Reformed denomination, the Calvin 500 collection is a resource to seriously consider.
Same here and for third place I would put Anchor Bible Dictionary.
If you ask me the same question next month, you might get a different answer. But at the moment
I'm suggesting those because of their comprehensiveness and their quality. I have other resources like Anchor Bible Dictionary, TDNT and BDAG that I consult almost daily, but there has to be 25,000 pages in NICOT/NICNT. That's tough to beat when they're nearly all top drawer. The TLJ is also a great resource, I use often, but it's not quite in the same quality band as those mentioned (I only use about 1/3 of the journals I suppose).
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Those I use most, apart from Bibles (NA27; BHS; LXX; NIV - Anglicised) are:
- Lexham Discourse Series
- New International Greek Testament Commentaries
- Holman New Testament Commentaries
Those are the ones I use all the time, which is the criterion I am applying to determine my favourites.iMac Retina 5K, 27": 3.6GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9; 16GB RAM;MacOS 10.15.5; 1TB SSD; Logos 8
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