What is meant by research edition? Question re: tagging standards on Old Testament Pseude
Consider the research edition of Bauckham, Richard, James R. Davila, and Alexander Panayotov, eds. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Vol. One. Grand Rapids, MI;Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013.
The works included in this volume generally lack references/milestones. Apparently for research purposes, I am supposed to have memorized the list of works in this volume, the names under which they appear, . . . Somehow, given that a search for a passage is impossible and the text cannot be pulled into the text comparison tool, I'm a little uncertain as to what research this supports.
When a work is fragmentary as is pulled from the early church fathers, the references are only linked some of the time … another research dead end.
So maybe "research edition" means it is tagged for Factbook … so I turn on the Factbook filter:
It appears that Basil of Caesarea is the only Factbook tag - none of the Bible Knowledgebase persons and places are tagged.
The only "research" feature I see is the ability to cite articles as well as the book.
In what sense is this a research edition, beyond the words on the product description page? Given that Logos claims to assist us in studying the context of scripture and given that apocrypha/pseudepigrapha is a significant part of that context, I fail to see how the error-prone and untagged resources for apocrypha/pseudepigrapha are designed to do anything other than discourage me.
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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Yes … I noticed that, primarily for the indexing. It says Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, but I couldn't find any matches, especially for Enoch. But they did activate references to Esdras comparisons etc in the text. Hard to know exactly what they did. At the time, I just moved on.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I've been beating this drum for years with regard to linking. "Research edition" is meaningless other than "possibly better than a reader edition." How careful or lazy Logos was with putting out a book you can only know after you buy it.
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On the topic, I was confused by the recent release of a "Research Edition" of Michael Boler's Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek, when a "Reader's Edition" was already available (and previously included in some Verbum base packages)
It is unclear to me what tagging I would gain in the newly released Research edition that would justify buying the same book twice…
(Reader edition; $31.99)
(Research edition; $31.99)
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I wonder if this is some type of error; it's strange that they have both for sale at the very same price. Also, if you own the Reader edition and there's an upgrade to a Research edition, should you have to buy a second copy just to get the upgrade? 🤔
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This looks like a product error; I'll raise it for the Content team to look into.
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Much appreciated, Bradley.
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FYI, I personally would have preferred that you created a separate thread as my thread looks like it was addressed while it is only yours which has been addressed.
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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Apologies, M.J. - didn't mean to hijack the post.
I'll be sure to create separate threads on follow-up queries like this in the future.
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No problem, if I don't get an appropriate response, I'll tweak it with reference to specific people.
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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