A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament is tagged as Kommentar (Commentary)

NichtnurBibelleser · 2025-07-05T19:04:32+00:00

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https://www.logos.com/product/205641/a-catholic-introduction-to-the-bible-the-old-testament?queryId=479cddd2dd664ebce117d1cfbab75dc5 appears in my Verbum with German UI under "Kommentare" (= Commentaries), but its title reads "Introduction" and to my understanding the content corresponds to "Introduction".

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Martin Dunn

I am happy with the classification as a Commentary. It works its way through the Old Testament, book by book, so it essentially serves the purpose of a Commentary, notwithstanding its title.

NichtnurBibelleser

Every Introduction should be book by book and highlight the main content and topic of the latter.

A Commentary should pay attention to each verse and be more in-depth, which is not the case here.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373437#Comment_1373437

I deplore the tendency to create bible milestones for books not intended to be a commentary, such as this.
Even where a book is intended as a Commentary, some are no more than notes and some appear in a series not dedicated to commentaries e.g. Early Church Fathers.
Consequently I have tagged 169 commentaries as Notes, but not necessarily because they fail to be verse-by-verse e.g. the best single-volume commentaries avoid this fate, whilst most 19th century (and earlier) ones become Notes.

We have a similar problem with Bibles that are simply the Text used in a Commentary.

MJ. Smith

I also have difficulties with the current tagging. First, because I can not treat the translations embedded in commentaries as Bible (e.g. Anchor and Hermeneia). Second, because works that self-identify as commentary that aren't contemporary Protestant expectations are not treated as commentaries e.g. the Zohar. Third, because pamphlets intended as workbooks for small group use are treated as commentaries - not a use intended by their authors.