Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible (SESB) Version 3.0

Ted Hans
Ted Hans MVP Posts: 3,174
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I am calling on Greek/Hebrew
student for help. There are two version of the "Stuttgart Electronic Study
Bible (SESB) Version 3.0" on the Logos web site.

The 52 vols at $324.95 http://www.logos.com/products/details/5181 the SESB upgrade at $159.95 http://www.logos.com/products/details/5257 What is the SESB18 Vols and how it differs from the rest, I am not sure? http://www.logos.com/products/details/6485

 I do not care for the foreign bibles contained
in the 52 vols.(German Bibles, French Bibles, Dutch
Bibles, Norwegian Bibles, Danish Bibles & Russian Bibles) as I don't know
these languages and never see myself using those bibles.

Question: Apart from the foreign
Bibles, would I be missing anything else if I went just for the SESB upgrade?
Secondly, is it possible to make a purchase of the upgrade version without
previously owning a previous edition of the SESB? I mean can the SESB upgrade
be purchase as a stand alone resource?

Any help you can offer
would be welcomed. I noticed that I already have some resources contained in
the SESB like The
Apostolic Fathers (ed. Lightfoot) in Greek and English In my Library etc.
So I want to be wise with my purchase.

I have not been able to figure out the
difference if the is any, between both packages apart from the obvious - the
foreign Bible.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Ted

 

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Comments

  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    The cheaper version is for those who already have Logos and therefore don't need the original language Bibles, Bible translations or lexicons, and just need the text-critical stuff. The more expensive one is designed to be used as a standalone product for those who don't already have Logos.

    There's quite of important stuff missing from the cheaper version - the normal Logos editions of NA27 and BHS for a start - but I'm guessing you already have those and therefore the cheaper edition will do fine.

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  • Ted Hans
    Ted Hans MVP Posts: 3,174

    here's quite of important stuff missing from the cheaper version - the normal Logos editions of NA27 and BHS for a start - but I'm guessing you already have those and therefore the cheaper edition will do fine.

    Thanks Mark. Below are what i have in my Lib.

    Ted

    1. NA27
    2. NA27 W/GRAMCORD
    3. NA27 W/GRAMCORD, INT
    4. NA27 INT
    5. NA27 W/O Morph
    1. BHS / WIVU
    2. BHS /WTS 4.0 Morph
    3. BHT/WHM 4.2
    4. BHS Morph Tagged Edition

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  • LaRosa Johnson
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    yeah, since you have those in your library, you should be fine getting the cheaper one [:)]

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  • Friedrich
    Friedrich MVP Posts: 4,772

    It looks like this might be one we don't get:

    • The Greek New Testament (UBS edition) with text critical apparatus, cross reference apparatus and segmentation apparatus

    And of course the various editions of the Gospel of Thomas.  There might be others.  Am i right on the UBS though?  I know we have the textual commentary.  Do we have the cross ref app?  I'd be interested in the Gospel of Thomas, but I'd like to not think it cost me nearly 200 dollars.  [:)]  I am interested in the German Bibles, too, but beyond them, nothing that is not in the shorter version.

    I like Apples.  Especially Honeycrisp.

  • spitzerpl
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    It looks like this might be one we don't get:

    • The Greek New Testament (UBS edition) with text critical apparatus, cross reference apparatus and segmentation apparatus

    The main reason I bought SESB is for the Greek text with the critical apparatus. I'm sure over a lot of time it will be worth what I paid :-)

    EDIT: And, of course, for the increased book count...

  • Friedrich
    Friedrich MVP Posts: 4,772

    EDIT: And, of course, for the increased book count...

    you're my hero.  [{]

     

    you know, the "golden birthday" is when your age is the same number as the number of the day you were born (ie, 24 on the 24th).  Maybe we can have a "golden post"--the post number=library count.  In that case, Rosie may have to quickly double her already impressive post count.  [:O]

     

    I like Apples.  Especially Honeycrisp.

  • Friedrich
    Friedrich MVP Posts: 4,772

    The main reason I bought SESB is for the Greek text with the critical apparatus.

    On a serious note, the NA27 comes with the apparatus (much more detailed than the UBS) in the stripped down SESB, right?  Odd it doesn't include the UBS.

    I like Apples.  Especially Honeycrisp.

  • Kevin Becker
    Kevin Becker Member Posts: 5,604 ✭✭✭

    On a serious note, the NA27 comes with the apparatus (much more detailed than the UBS) in the stripped down SESB, right?  Odd it doesn't include the UBS.

    It has both the NA27 and UBS4 apparatuses

    From the product page


    Scholarly Bibles and Critical Apparatuses

    BHS Apparatus Criticus

    Biblia Hebraica Quinta

    Biblia Hebraica Quinta: Apparatus Criticus

    Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: SESB 2.0 Version

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata (Apparatus)

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata (SESB)

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata: Psalmi iuxta Hebraicum et Varia Lectio (Apparatus)

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata: Psalmi iuxta Hebraicum et Varia Lectio (SESB)

    Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece Editio XXVII

    Nestle-Aland: NTG Apparatus Criticus

    Septuaginta: Apparatus Criticus

    Septuaginta: Apparatus Criticus (Alternate Texts)

    Septuaginta: SESB Edition

    Septuaginta: SESB Edition (Alternate Texts)

    The Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition (with apparatus)

    Dictionaries and Lexicons

    The Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament

    A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, Revised Edition

    Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament: Hebräisch/Aramäisch-Deutsch und Hebräisch/Aramäisch-Englisch

  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    The big problem is that the resource names are totally different on the two product pages. That's really confusing! Here's how I think they might match up. I might be wrong!

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  • Ted Hans
    Ted Hans MVP Posts: 3,174

    The big problem is that the resource names are totally different on the two product pages. That's really confusing!

    Three version below, call me confused about this! It seem that the SESB 18vols is only available to North American users. Logos help.Ted


     SESB 3.0 Upgrade Version http://www.logos.com/products/details/5257


    Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: WIVU Syntactic Analysis (New Syntax Database)

    Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: Workgroep Informatica Constituency Tree Analysis

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata (Apparatus)

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata (SESB)

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata: Psalmi iuxta Hebraicum et Varia Lectio (Apparatus)

    Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) fascicles Deuteronomy

    Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) text critical apparatus

    Das Thomasevangelium: Originaltext mit Kommentar

    Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet

    Den Hellige Skrifts Kanoniske Bøger 1931/1948

    The Gospel of Thomas: Original Text with Commentary

    King James Version Apocrypha

    King James Version

    Lightfoot's Apostolic Fathers in English

    Lightfoot's Apostolic Fathers in Greek

    Luther Bibel (1912)

    Russian Modern New Testament

    Russian Synodal Bible Translation

    Septuaginta: Apparatus Criticus

    Septuaginta: Apparatus Criticus (Alternate Texts)

    Septuaginta: SESB Edition

    Septuaginta: SESB Edition (Alternate Texts)

    A Textual Guide to the Greek New Testament

    Zürcher Bibel

    Titles new to SESB 2.0 are also included in the upgrade to SESB 3.0

    Bibelen NO 78/85 (Bokmål)

    Bibelen NO 78/85 (Nynorsk)

    Das Thomas-Evangelium

    De Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling

    Det Nye Testamentet 2005 (Bokmål)

    Det Nye Testamentet 2005 (Nynorsk)

    Die Bibel. Einheitsübersetzung (neue Rechtschreibung)

    Gospel According to Thomas (Coptic), The

    Gospel According to Thomas (English), The

    Gospel According to Thomas (Greek), The

    Greek New Testament (Fourth Revised Edition), The

    Holy Bible in Today's Greek Version with Deuterocanonicals, The

    La Bible en Français Courant (Nouvelle édition révisée 1997)

    Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Second Edition, A

    Willibrordvertaling




    Full version SESB 52 Vols http://www.logos.com/products/details/5181


    Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
    Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with text critical apparatus and linguistic WIVU database
    Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: Workgroep Informatica Constituency Tree Analysis
    Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) fascicles Deuteronomy, Megilloth,
    Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations
    Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) text critical apparatus
    Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle-Aland, 27th edition)
    Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle-Aland, 27th edition) with text critical apparatus and mophological Gramcord database

    The Greek New Testament (UBS edition) with text critical apparatus, cross reference apparatus and segmentation apparatus

    Septuagint/Greek Old Testament (eds. Rahlfs/Hanhart, editio altera)
    Septuagint/Greek
    Old Testament (eds. Rahlfs/Hanhart, editio altera) with text critical
    apparatus and morphological CATSS database

    Vulgate/Latin Bible, (5th edition, eds. Weber/Gryson)
    Vulgate/Latin Bible, (5th edition, eds. Weber/Gryson) text critical apparatus
    Biblia Sacra Vulgata: Psalmi iuxta Hebraicum et Varia Lectio
    Biblia Sacra Vulgata: Psalmi iuxta Hebraicum et Varia Lectio (Apparatus)
    The Gospel According to Thomas in Coptic
    The Gospel According to Thomas in Greek
    The Gospel According to Thomas in English
    The Gospel According to Thomas in German
    The Apostolic Fathers (ed. Lightfoot) in Greek and English

    Dictionaries and Reference Works

    A Hebrew/Aramaic-English and Hebrew/Aramaic-German Dictionary of the Old Testament (ed. WIVU), by Bosman, Oosting, Postma

    A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, by Lust, Eynikel, and Hauspie

    A Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament, by B.M. Newman

    Kleines Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament Griechisch-Deutsch, by R. Kassühlke

    A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, by B. Metzger

    A Textual Guide on the Greek New Testament, by R. Omanson

    The Gospel of Thomas: Original Text with Commentary (English and German), by U.-K. Plisch

    WiBiLex-Keyword-Index, by Koenen, Bauks

    English Bibles

    New Revised Standard Version

    New International Version

    King James Version
    King James Version Apocrypha

    German Bibles

    Lutherbibel 1984/1999, with lemmatization

    Lutherbibel 1912

    Zürcher Bibel 2007, with lemmatization

    Gute Nachricht Bibel 1997/2000, with lemmatization

    Einheitsübersetzung with lemmatization

    Elberfelder Bibel with lemmatization

    Die Schrift, verdeutscht von Martin Buber und Franz Rosenzweig

    French Bibles

    La Nouvelle Bible Segond

    Traduction Oecumenique de la Bible

    La Bible en français courant. Edition revise

    Dutch Bibles

    NBG-vertaling 1951

    Staten Vertaling

    De Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling

    Willibrordvertaling

    Groot Nieuws Bijbel

    Norwegian Bibles

    Den Heilage Skrifta. Bibelen, 1978/1985 (Bokmal und Nynorsk)

    Det Nye Testamentet, 2005 (Bokmal und Nynorsk)

    Danish Bibles

    Bibelen. Den hellige Skrifts Kanoniske Bøger 1992

    Bibelen (Old Testament 1931, New Testament 1943)

    Russian Bibles

    Russian Synodal Version

    Russian Modern New Testament

    Bible in Modern Greek

    Today's Greek Version (He Hagia Graph)


    SESB for Logos Users 18 vols  http://www.logos.com/products/details/6485

    Scholarly Bibles and Critical Apparatuses



    BHS Apparatus Criticus

    Biblia Hebraica Quinta

    Biblia Hebraica Quinta: Apparatus Criticus

    Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: SESB 2.0 Version

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata (Apparatus)

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata (SESB)

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata: Psalmi iuxta Hebraicum et Varia Lectio (Apparatus)

    Biblia Sacra Vulgata: Psalmi iuxta Hebraicum et Varia Lectio (SESB)

    Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece Editio XXVII

    Nestle-Aland: NTG Apparatus Criticus

    Septuaginta: Apparatus Criticus

    Septuaginta: Apparatus Criticus (Alternate Texts)

    Septuaginta: SESB Edition

    Septuaginta: SESB Edition (Alternate Texts)

    The Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition (with apparatus)

    Dictionaries and Lexicons

    The Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament

    A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, Revised Edition

    Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament: Hebräisch/Aramäisch-Deutsch und Hebräisch/Aramäisch-Englisch

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  • Friedrich
    Friedrich MVP Posts: 4,772

    The big problem is that the resource names are totally different on the two product pages.

     

    That's what I have been thinking while away from the forum.  Glad you brought that up.  (and Kevin, yes, you correctly pointed out the resource that is aka USB4 with apparatus)

    Two suggestions:

    • (following Mark): make sure that collections of similar nature with different options (in this case SESB's variant collections) all have the same resources named the same way (UBS4 with apparatus etc).  I was also wondering about some resources being shown "with apparatus" but another colleciton will say it has the apparatus plus 2 other "goodies."  (sorry, leaving in 2 minutes, can't look up the resource--think it was the NA27), all on the same line.  So the question is--did they just fail to mention the other two "goodies" or are those two goodies missing in the other collection's version of that book?
    • COMPARISON CHART!  Lay them out side by side, like our base packages, or any other software does when they have multiple versions.  That would clear all of this up.

     

    And who knows, maybe the resource naming problem is to be leveled at the Stuttgart people themselves.  maybe they labeled them differently.

    I like Apples.  Especially Honeycrisp.

  • David Bailey
    David Bailey Member Posts: 654 ✭✭

    When I spoke with someone in sales, I was told I have to have an existing version of the SESB in order to purchase this upgrade.  Now I am even more confused.  I have the Scholar Silver base package and am interested in getting only the apparatus for the GK text.  I certainly don't need the full version of SESB!

    David

  • Kevin Becker
    Kevin Becker Member Posts: 5,604 ✭✭✭

    When I spoke with someone in sales, I was told I have to have an existing version of the SESB in order to purchase this upgrade.  Now I am even more confused.  I have the Scholar Silver base package and am interested in getting only the apparatus for the GK text.  I certainly don't need the full version of SESB!

    David

    The Upgrade is for moving from SESB 2.0 to 3.0.

    This http://www.logos.com/products/details/6485 is what you should get if you are only interested in the Apparatuses and not all the European language Bibles.

  • David Bailey
    David Bailey Member Posts: 654 ✭✭

    This http://www.logos.com/products/details/6485 is what you should get if you are only interested in the Apparatuses and not all the European language Bibles.

    You are correct, Kevin.  Even though one of the lexicons is already included in my base package, the price remains the same for the 18 volume upgrade, due to licensing.

    David

  • Alan Macgregor
    Alan Macgregor Member Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭

    Ted Hans said:

    It seem that the SESB 18vols is only available to North American users.

    Ted

    You're absolutely correct! Users in Europe can only buy SESB from Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, as Logos don't have the European rights.

    I first bought SESB 2.0, then the upgrade to 3.0 when it became available.

    I have it primarily for the critical apparatus. It is really easy to use and saved me lots of time

     

    • squinting at the small print in book in my hand.
    • copying my findings into notes.

     

    It's excellent in the Greek NT. It's awesome in the Hebrew OT.

    I wouldn't be without it.

    It's sold in euros, so the pound-euro exchange rate just now makes it an even better bargain. [;)]

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  • TCBlack
    TCBlack Member Posts: 10,980 ✭✭✭

    you know, the "golden birthday" is when your age is the same number as the number of the day you were born (ie, 24 on the 24th).  Maybe we can have a "golden post"--the post number=library count. 

    You mean like this: 

    image

    image

     

     

    I may have to quit posting now.  [:o] Or buy more books! [y]

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

  • Bohuslav Wojnar
    Bohuslav Wojnar Member Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭

    I may have to quit posting now.  Surprise Or buy more books! Yes

    Do the second option. We like you here... [:)][Y]

    Bohuslav

  • Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭

    I may have to quit posting now.  Surprise Or buy more books! Yes

    You can always "unhide" some that you've hidden, as a stop-gap measure.

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  • Dan Sheppard
    Dan Sheppard Member Posts: 377 ✭✭

     

    Trying to understand this-

     

    I currently have the Scholar package.  It shows the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with the WIVU .  So do I qualify for the $159, the $179 or must I go for the "full meal deal?"

  • Friedrich
    Friedrich MVP Posts: 4,772

    Or buy more books! Yes

    that's your only option.

     

     

     . . . as long as you run it by your wife . . .

    I like Apples.  Especially Honeycrisp.

  • TCBlack
    TCBlack Member Posts: 10,980 ✭✭✭

    I currently have the Scholar package.  It shows the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with the WIVU .  So do I qualify for the $159, the $179 or must I go for the "full meal deal?"

    You can go for the $179 one: http://www.logos.com/products/details/6485 The $159 is an upgrade for those that have SESB 1 or 2 already.  

    Of course if you want to go for the full set, by all means spend the $324.  [:D]

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

  • Simon’s Brother
    Simon’s Brother Member Posts: 6,828 ✭✭✭

    SESB is a third party product.  Ownership of a Logos Base Package has no bearing on upgrade qualification to qualify for this upgrade you must have owned either SESB v1 or SESB v2 see. (http://www.logos.com/products/details/5257) for further details.

    If you don't fall into this category you can purchase the SESB 'lite' package http://www.logos.com/products/details/6485 if you are a North American customer. This is because Logos are only licensed to distribute this product in this region.  For Europeans customers you would need to go through German Bible Society. I could not see the lite package listed on their site but I would suggest you contact them for more details http://www.sesb-online.de/en/contact-information/.  If you are not in Europe or North America I would suggest contacting Logos Customer service to see what your options are in purchasing this package.

     The third option is the  'heavy' package for which Logos has no licensing restrictions http://www.logos.com/products/details/5181 as to whom they may distribute it.

  • Matt Edelen
    Matt Edelen Member Posts: 12 ✭✭

    Thanks for the confirmation, guys.  I too am interested only in the apparatuses (apparati? :op).  Also I want the appendices of Nestle-Aland. I'm just wincing at the painful pricetag.  C'mon, Logos!  I bought a $1700 package and my Nestle-Aland doesn't include the apparatus and appendices?  This is very disappointing.  Until the price drops, I might have to keep doing the laborious Nestle-Aland appendix searches myself in the hard copy ($17 used on Amazon).  $180 is just ridiculous.  I love Logos, but this is ridiculous.

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,494 ✭✭✭✭

    For anyone reading this thread, this is an older thead.

    But Matt ... I normally don't defend Logos but first, SESB is pretty picky about just about everything involving SESB. Secondly, the SESB packages are quite good. For me the resources I really needed worked out to about $30 per resource ... quite affordable.

    Now if you want ONE resource out of a sizable collection ... and you want it from SESB. I wouldn't put odds on that.

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  • Fredlamkh
    Fredlamkh Member Posts: 1 ✭✭

    Any other details not clear between the full version and the version for logos users, are about the BHQ :

    The full version specified that includes the followings:

    Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) fascicles Deuteronomy, Megilloth, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations

    which I believe would include not only the BHQ Text but the "Notes on the Masorah Parva" and the "Commentary on the Critical Apparatus" for those individual specified books (these are included for the printed volume on BHQ fascicles Proverb, that I brought");

    But for the "logos users" it was vague by just specifies "Biblia Hebraica Quinta", not sure which book(s) are included and whether the MP and commentary on CA are included?