Provide table/label/footnotes on major differences between chapter/verse in different editions

A recurrent question in the forums is why the chapter/verse changed when the user expects it to stay fixed. When it is only a verse or two different, they rarely notice but when text goes wandering as it does in Jeremiah or when Ezra/Nehemiah slip on how much they overlap or when looking for the colophon of Job which is in one of my LXXX I swear …does it become confusing to many users. Even the Psalms confuse some.

Therefore, I would like to see Logos provide the documentation of the common of:

mapping differences that change the chapter number
the verses removed from modern translations
the various overlapping books of Ezra/Esdras (4th Ezra e.g.)
Esther vs. Greek Esther vs additions to Esther
Daniel vs. (Greek) Daniel with additions
Long/short ending of Mark
Colophon of Job
Short vs long Acts

Anything else that you have seen people confused by …

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NB.Mick

I'm not sure (apart from writing a textual criticism resource - wait, there's https://www.logos.com/product/45461/lexham-textual-notes-on-the-bible but it doesn't go into that detail) whether Logos could provide a much better documentation than what existed - thanks to Mark Barnes! - in the wiki for many years at https://community.logos.com/kb/articles/549-bible-verse-maps - the new forum software broke that page somewhat, so it's a bit better now here: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://us.v-cdn.net/6038263/uploads/JKPR7XLDQ7B1/bible-verse-maps-html.txt

This will allow people to see which bible verse maps (and thus which bibles - such as LES) contain Job 42:17a-17e - yes I had to look up what your example actually refers to.

NichtnurBibelleser

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1391219#Comment_1391219

Wow! Thanks, @NB.Mick and @Mark Barnes ! This is a lot of work!
For now, the information is a bit ´buried´. Maybe Logos/Verbum finds a way to make it more accessible to all users.

NichtnurBibelleser

Anything else that you have seen people confused by …

Tobit gr./aram./hebr.

Judges gr.

Enoch https://ref.ly/logosres/otgrksweteappalt?ref=BibleLXX2A.Enoch

NichtnurBibelleser

Logos/Verbum carries the classic "Introduction to the OT" https://www.logos.com/product/217872/einleitung-in-das-alte-testament?queryId=430482939014cfe14c982c3aeb918f78

The (german) publisher provides some additional materials under

https://shop.kohlhammer.de/documents/product/download/product/18474/type/additional_documents/

Among these, a .pdf and .excl table of the books contained in various canons. Maybe this is useful.

MJ. Smith

I wanted something more entry-level user friendly than the verse maps - something that omitted simple differences in versification and something that was less version specific. Something more like Masoretic vs LXX at the text block level. The details of verse mapping are useful if you already understand the reason for and the extent of variation. But the forums have taught me that there is a significant number of Logos users who have never seen the psalms with LXX numbering.