If you only could have 10 resources, which ones would you choose?

Tony Thomas
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edited November 20 in English Forum

What would be your Desert Island resources list?

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  • Bill Shewmaker
    Bill Shewmaker Member Posts: 746 ✭✭✭


    What would be your Desert Island resources list?


    If I were to be stranded on a desert island, I would want my Thompson Chain Reference Bibles (NASB, NIV, KJV, NKJV) and my Halley's Handbook. Then I would like to have my laptop with ALL of my Logos library. (Of course that laptop would have to have a self-renewing battery so that it would always be charged).

  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698

    What would be your Desert Island resources list?

    I like this question. If it's paper resources, I can think of a few right away:

    • NIV Bible
    • ESV Bible
    • Zondervan Strongest concordance
    • Bible dictionary (not sure which one yet)
    • Morning and Evening

    I was trying to think which commentary I would want, never found one individual publication that could be used for all purposes. But then again I would be on a deserted island, so I could just make up my own interpretations, and no one would ever disagree with me. [;)]

     

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Michael Sullivan
    Michael Sullivan Member Posts: 142 ✭✭

    1) BHS

    2) NA27

    3) BDAG

    4) BDB

    5) Luther Bibel 1545

    6) NASB

    7) Concordia Triglotta

    8) The Lutheran Hymnal

    9) Bread

    10) Wine

     

  • DominicM
    DominicM Member Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭

    Essentials:
    1) NA27 Int       
    2) Lexham LXX Int
    3) ESV
    4) A Journal & Pencils to record my thoughts/inspiration and learning

     

    Life Sustaining:
    5) Bread/Foodsource
    6) Water


    Optional:
    7) A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, Revised Edition
    8) THE LEXHAM ANALYTICAL LEXICON TO THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT.

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  • HJ. van der Wal
    HJ. van der Wal Member Posts: 1,761 ✭✭✭

    1) BHS

    2) Textus Receptus

    3) HALOT

    4) BDAG

    5) Statenvertaling

    6) Szent Biblia (Hungarian Károli Bible)

    7) Leiden Peshitta (under development)

    8) Ursinus' commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism

    9) Calvin's Institution de la Religion Chrétienne

    10) Stuttgarter Erklärungsbibel or an other commentary

     

    Some of these resources are still on my wish list. When it comes to paper resources I would take the following three books with me:

    1) The Holy Scriptures in the Original Languages (Trinitarian Bible Society)

    2) Statenvertaling met kanttekeningen (Gereformeerde Bijbelstichting)

    3) Biblia magyarázó jegyzetekkel (Hungarian translation of the Stuttgarter Erklärungsbibel)

    and perhaps a book on building construction (as a dutchman I'd have to build two churches).

  • Dan Sheppard
    Dan Sheppard Member Posts: 377 ✭✭

     

    1) ESV

    2) the Lutheran Study Bible

    3) Concordia Commentaries (I count the set as 1 item)

    4) Book of Concord (Kolb)

    5) Luther's Works (again, I count as 1 set)

    6) Christian Dogmatics, Pieper

    7) ISBE

    8) somebody's maps

    9) somebody's book of illustrations

    10) Luther's Bibel

     

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

     

    1. BHS with Masorah
    2. NA27 with apparatus
    3. LXX
    4. Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament
    5. Louw-Nida
    6. LSJ
    7. HALOT
    8. NIV - Anglicised
    9. Ante-Nicene Fathers
    10. Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database (still on PrePub not yet published)

     

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  • George Somsel
    George Somsel Member Posts: 10,153 ✭✭✭


    What would be your Desert Island resources list?


    1. BHS 4.2
    2. NA 27
    3. Göttingen LXX or Rahlfs LXX with Logos morph
    4. BDAG
    5. HALOT
    6. LSJ
    7. Moulton & Milligan
    8. Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
    9. Holmes -- Apostolic Fathers
    10. Josephus (Greek)

    george
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  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1. A Bible (TNIV or NIV or NRSV or ESV or LEB or whatever)

    2. How to Build a Wooden Boat (not in Logos yet)

    3. Swimming in the Sea (of Talmud)

  • Friedrich
    Friedrich MVP Posts: 4,772

    Assuming 10 resources are limited to actual books, and not sets, and not (sniff! sniff! boo hoo!) any software applications (unlike Bill above, I would not have access to a perpetual battery):

    1. NIV/NASB interlinear
    2. Englishman's Greek Concordance
    3. Christian Prayer--The Liturgy of the Hours
    4. (4-6) NT Wright's trilogy
    5. (7) John Cassian Conferences
    6. (8) CS Lewis' Problem of Pain
    7. (9) Dictionary of Biblical Imagery
    8. (10) Pritchett's Fire Someone Today  [A]

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  • DAL
    DAL Member Posts: 10,671 ✭✭✭

    Zia Hendrik-Jan,

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  • Otto S. Carroll
    Otto S. Carroll Member Posts: 693 ✭✭

    I have a list of 10 resources from my Logos Library that I would be willing to buy in paperback if Logos software didn't exist - I guess these would also be by desert island library:

    1. NAS (rev interlinear0
    2. GNT
    3. NICOT / NICNT
    4. The Sign
    5. ISBE
    6. UBS Handbooks
    7. MacArthur's NT Commentaries
    8. WBC
    9. Manners & Customs
    10. NASB Topical index

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  • DAL
    DAL Member Posts: 10,671 ✭✭✭

    Otto,

    You're such a show off...LOL...why include NICOT/NICNT? Did you just get those recently...;-)

    Anyway, I forgot to include my 10 resources in my last post:

    1.  Laptop with solar batteries - so it will run through out the day without having to worry about charging them (hopefully it exists).

    2.  LBLA/NASB w/interlinear and Study Notes (it's a bilingual edition)

    3.  IVP Reference Collection (Hey, it's ONE collection).

    4.  UBS Handbooks

    5.  Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

    6.  The College Press NIV Series (OT & NT)

    7.  June Hunt's Counseling Keys (I'll need some counseling if stranded in an island).

    8.  The Outline Bible

    9.  The Complete Word Study Dictionary: Old Testament

    10.  And BDAG

    Alright, that's all!

  • Otto S. Carroll
    Otto S. Carroll Member Posts: 693 ✭✭

    Otto,

    You're such a show off...LOL...why include NICOT/NICNT? Did you just get those recently...;-)

    LOL!!!!  Yes I did! I guess to include them sort of justifies the expense of getting them at this time!!!

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  • Mike Childs
    Mike Childs Member Posts: 3,122 ✭✭✭

    1.  NIV

    2.  NA27 INT

    3.  BDAG

    4.  New Bible Dictionary

    5.  New Bible Commentary

    6.  Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

    7.  The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis

    8.  Wesley's Journal vol. 1

    9.  Wesley's Journal vol. 2

    10.  Wesley's Journal vol. 3


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  • Abi Gail
    Abi Gail Member Posts: 172

     I guess I would be tagged a fundamentalist if I said the 10 Commandments. [:)]

    ~

  • Friedrich
    Friedrich MVP Posts: 4,772

    I don't see a tag below your post, so your good . . .

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  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Abi Gail said:


     I guess I would be tagged a fundamentalist if I said the 10 Commandments. Smile


    Most of them would be much easier to keep if we were alone on a desert island. Nobody to steal from or kill or commit adultery with (or against), nobody's stuff to covet, nobody to bear false witness against.

  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698

    Abi Gail said:


     I guess I would be tagged a fundamentalist if I said the 10 Commandments. Smile


    Most of them would be much easier to keep if we were alone on a desert island. Nobody to steal from or kill or commit adultery with (or against), nobody's stuff to covet, nobody to bear false witness against.

    I'll bet those were some of Martin Luther's thoughts when he joined the monastery...

    [;)]

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • Steve Adams
    Steve Adams Member Posts: 88 ✭✭

    Ha!!!

    guess you forgot to search via Logos Jesus' take on these...you think it you done did it. :)

  • George Somsel
    George Somsel Member Posts: 10,153 ✭✭✭


    Abi Gail said:

     I guess I would be tagged a fundamentalist if I said the 10 Commandments. Smile

     

    Most of them would be much easier to keep if we were alone on a desert island. Nobody to steal from or kill or commit adultery with (or against), nobody's stuff to covet, nobody to bear false witness against.


    Would they really?  Is the wrong in doing or in the desire?  Would being isolated preclude desire?

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    gfsomsel

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  • Francis
    Francis Member Posts: 3,816 ✭✭✭
    1. NASB
    2. NKJV
    3. LOUW-NIDA or BAGD
    4. TWOT
    5. Nave's topical Bible
    6. New Treasury of Scriptures Knowledge
    7. ISBE
    8. IVP Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
    9. IVP Dictionary of Paul and his letters
    10. IVP Dictionary of the Pentateuch
  • Paul Golder
    Paul Golder Member Posts: 1,698


    Abi Gail said:

     I guess I would be tagged a fundamentalist if I said the 10 Commandments. Smile


     

    Most of them would be much easier to keep if we were alone on a desert island. Nobody to steal from or kill or commit adultery with (or against), nobody's stuff to covet, nobody to bear false witness against.


    Would they really?  Is the wrong in doing or in the desire?  Would being isolated preclude desire?

     


    And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”


    Mark 7:20–23

    "As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,415

    Abi Gail said:

     I guess I would be tagged a fundamentalist if I said the 10 Commandments. Smile

    I doubt it but most of us just include them in our Bible so we get 9 more slots to fill. I don't think that's gluttony [H]

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  • Friedrich
    Friedrich MVP Posts: 4,772

    MJ. Smith said:

    Abi Gail said:

     I guess I would be tagged a fundamentalist if I said the 10 Commandments. Smile

    I doubt it but most of us just include them in our Bible so we get 9 more slots to fill. I don't think that's gluttony Cool

    lol, Martha, that was great! [:D]

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