Jewish Resources in Portfolio

Eric Gurvis said:

Suggestion for Logos:  You have wonderful resources available in the Portfolio collection which would be of great interest to folks like myself (a rabbi working within the Jewish community) like all of the JPS resources.  At present the only options seem to be to purchase these individually, or as part of the Portfolio version of Logos.  Both options are very costly.

As a rabbi I would love to see a discounted package (like you others) which offers the Jewish resources you market as a separate purchasable package.

Thanks for considering this!

Rabbi Eric Gurvis -- a longtime Logos customer!

Peace to you, Rabbi Gurvis!  *smile*

        I have Portfolio and the items you are eager for.  Some excellent, very excellent(!) material.  I consider myself blessed to have access to these works.  I would encourage Logos to try to find a discount package for you and others desiring some of these lovely books!

           Methinks it would also be to Logos "profit" as well............

Hi, everyone.

I am a student working toward my Bachelor of Biblical Studies (from a Hebraic Perspective). I would love to see as many Hebraic resources as possible in all genres.

I have the base edition of the Scholar's edition because it is the least expensive required for my studies. I am SO thankful for LOGOS! Hebrew and Greek languages at the click of a button rather than after hours of searching through many books is a wonderful gift to me though I don't really have a full appreciation for it since I am relatively new to the school and have had to do very little word studies up to this point. Thank you!

I hope to add many books to my library and so I thank you for considering as many Hebraic resources as possible.

Shalom...

~jo

Peace to you, Rosie and Martha, et al.

           14,000,000 of Lutheran nomenclature in United States

70-72,000,000 throughout the world

minority?  depends on whether you're comparing apples or oranges or pears, I guess!   *smile*

Milford Charles Murray said:

Peace to you, Rosie and Martha, et al.

           14,000,000 of Lutheran nomenclature in United States

70-72,000,000 throughout the world

minority?  depends on whether you're comparing apples or oranges or pears, I guess!   *smile*

Hi Milford. I don't think it's a question of how many of them there are in the US or the world (after all, there are over 1 billion Catholics), but rather how many Logos users would categorize themselves as Lutheran. Martha does have a point about the others. I do think Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, and Anglican traditions are probably minimally represented among customers, simply because Logos has historically not carried many resources of specific interest to them. But they do have a lot of Lutheran-specific resources.

Eric Gurvis said:

At present the only options seem to be to purchase these individually, or as part of the Portfolio version of Logos.  Both options are very costly.

You do know about the Early Judaism Bundle and the Hebrew Bible Bundle, don't you? That's how I intend to buy [most of] the Jewish resources some day. And I presume you've seen the Talmud and the Jewish Encyclopaedia among the pre-pubs?

Maybe Logos knows exactly the statistics of their various customer groups but it would be good to do some survey of that kind and publish the results in the blog. It can show us how it is with the minority groups and how it corresponds to the number of resources specific to those groups.

Dan DeVilder said:

MJ. Smith said:

raised Campbellite

lol, I still can't get over that!  And yours was a pretty hardcore group of "Campbellites", too, wasn't it?

Dan,

Isn't it prerequisite to be a hardcore "Campbellite" to even wear the name of Campbellite...jk [:D]. If we really do look at our heritages, we find that most of us have "multiple personalities" and are usually strengthened by that diversity. For those who represent/resemble the Restoration Movement, we sometimes try to hide that diversity instead of embrace it.

MJ. Smith said:

fgh said:

I must be the ultimate minority, then: formally Lutheran, theologically Catholic, and with Jewish and Orthodox interests -- and then Swedish on top of that!

You clearly are successful as a minority ... and I must admit you outdo me: raised Campbellite, Catholic with Jewish, Orthodox, Church of the East and Buddhist interests. My grandmother was a Finnish Lutheran (as in services in Finnish) but I can't really count that.

But now I see why I often agree with your taste in resources.

I could have added that I went to Anglican Sunday Mass for half a year while in England [:)] but I'm not doing that again, so i didn't. Most High Church Swedes seem to love the CoE, but I'm obviously the exception. Thankfully I could go to Catholic weekday Masses.

On another note: this forum is obviously very good for learning new words. 3 days ago I learnt the word 'Christadelphian', the day after another word I can't remember right now, yesterday it was 'Campbellite', and today it's 'Restoration Movement'. Haven't had time to look up the latter two yet, though. 'Arminian' is another one I should check out. How on earth do Americans keep track of all different denominations?? That graph of yours Dan mentions, can I find that somewhere?

Dan DeVilder said:

BACK on topic, well, sort of: anybody want to share how they use their "jewish" library in Portfolio (or whatever?)  I posed that question because i would like to get WAY more use out of it, but don't have it worked into the flow of what I do on a  weekly basis.  IOW, where does research in those sources come in handy (especially from a Christian pastor or Christian Bible student perspective), and how does that research take shape for you?  Or do I need to start another thread on this more specific subject?

At the moment I am using it mainly for devotional reading / personal bible study, rather than any in depth research project.  I am working through reading the Torah, Haftarah, and Brit Chadashah readings for the next twelve months, using the Tanakh and Five Books of Moses as my base texts, the Walk Devotional Commentaries for my daily reading guide,  and then using JPS Torah commentaries to get more deeply into the text , and then using the other resources available to research topics of interest from a Jewish perspective that arise from my readings and studies. So at the moment its a simple use of what is available, but as  I have no Jewish background, for me it's a starting point into these resources and opportunity to get some basic exposure and understanding so in the future I can make  more use of these resources, as well as spending some times in one of my favourite portions of the bible.

Ouch, OUCH, OUCH!!                My head is exploding.

Please everyone, this original post is too important to be lost in our one-upmanship.

I think Rabbi Gurvis,  Jo Scruggs, and others with special focus on Hebraic studies should give their suggested resource lists to Logos for possible collections.

We have already seen good responsiveness from Logos in the breaking up of large collections into smaller pieces to meet the needs of users. We could appeal to Logos to build "special " collections they may have not yet imagined. (I think they have done a great job so far, but let's keep it going.)

Maybe we can do a demographics thread elsewhere. I love talking Stone/Campbell movement as it is my in my heritage, just not here.

Todd Phillips said:

How about it Logos?  What a way to increase the visibility of Logos.

(See Matthew...I can go off topic AND bring it back around.  )

I love you Bro.

Hey Dan-the-Man!  (Pritchett)       What a great job you have. Get paid for making people happy![:)]

Todd Phillips said:

(See Matthew...I can go off topic AND bring it back around.  )

Off Topic but helpful resources you pointed out, so thanks.