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.
@Kyle G. Anderson
