Perhaps someone as already done this, but I want to start a thread thanking Logos for this FREE gift!
I want to start a thread thanking Logos for this FREE gift!
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Very grateful indeed. Thank you, Logos.
Kudos Logos, many thanks [Y]
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Thank You!
Thanks, Logos!!!
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I second this very strongly. Having these resources in my Logos library is a God send; I used them regularly on the Perseus site, but not as much as I would have liked, due to the clumsy interface. Now they're in Logos I look forward to putting them to even better use. [:)] [Y]
Yes, thanks Logos for the [G]!
Me, too,
I was afraid that there would be too much of ancient languages, but "Greek-English" versions of works is a great thing.
I hope I will read this, or my growing daughters may caught up later :-)
I second this very strongly. Having these resources in my Logos library is a God send; I used them regularly on the Perseus site, but not as much as I would have liked, due to the clumsy interface. Now they're in Logos I look forward to putting them to even better use.
I know their free, but, I am contemplating if I would use these resources. They seem very esoteric/academic in regards to typical Bible study usage. I do not want to add resources without understanding how I could benefit.
How do you use the resource(s) Jonathan?
think theres only a couple I will use but will have a look at the lot for the price :P, bless you for this kindness, now to set my download time so I dont exceed bandwith on relaease
I add my Thanks to Logos for the free gift. You are a great company!!
Oh, hey brother, I cannot concur with you enough, I have been thanking Logos the whole time for this incredible software, but now 3000 free volumes?!
Unbelievable! In my recent research interest (possibly doctoral dissertation) studies of Rhetorical analysis of the Bible, I have been telling everyone how much I desired for months now the ability to study the Greek classics since so many of the dictionaries use them to help us define words in the Bible that appear very few times, and what does Logos come out with? What do I see pasted to the front home page of Logos software? What do I see?
Perseus 1100 volume collection of THE GREEK CLASSICS???!!! What???!! You guys are scary. Down right Holy Spirit stirred.
Ohhhh but how the plot thickens. . . I click into it thinking hundreds of dollars, maybe close to a thousand, and I'm already scheming ways in my mind of how to make this thing work, put it on a payment plan for the next ump-teen months, school loans, and whatever else. . . and what do I see?. . . "Price 0.00"? !!! . . . Huh? I seriously asked myself, "What in the world does "Price 0.00" mean? That just could NOT register mentally. I did a double and triple-take on that one, let me tell you. I thought, no, I was convinced my computer needed restarting or something. Seriously, I thought I lost connection to their server . . . 1100 (well really 3000) for FREE?
Seriously?. . . FREE? No "strings"? No "fees"? No "trial periods"? No, "we'll just hold on to your credit card information until you finish your order"? Wut? Who are these people? Just when I think I got Logos figured out, just when I tell people I cannot praise you enough for the difference this has already made in my life (and continues to make) and in the lives of those around me, you guys pull a stunt like this--wow--lol, lol, lol (look at me, I'm delirious now)
I don't know how you do it Logos. I don't know how you know to time these things, but your team does some pretty divinely inspired stuff. I NEVER heard of a company staying in business with free product. That's Holy Spirit activity there, my friends.
Does the Logos team have some permanent prayer team for these issues? I'd like to get on that team! I do not know the kind of Christian I would be without it; I kid you not; that's the level you guys are in my walk. I may not have won the Logos scholarship but this is worth more than any scholarship I have been awarded.
Incredible guys. I truly wish I could work for Logos. I would move to Seattle with my wife for that if God opens the door. For now, though, I'll keep the military chaplain gig. Great job.
Big time thanks...just getting into it. Wow! Huge expense for you I'm sure; thank you for making it free for us
Does anyone know how big these resources are? Are they in megabits, or the gigabits range. It would be nice to have large collections have an estimate for how much room they need to have on your computer.
J, according to this thread, Bradley estimates 1-2 Gigs for the initial download and then another 1-2 Gigs for indexing.
...and Yes, Big Thanks to Logos!
Indeed. Thank you, Logos.
Thanks indeed!
Considering all the work that has to go into every resource to make it compatible with the rest of Logos, this is amazing.
MJD, I second you questions. I ordered them and then cancelled because I thought "Why am I ordering these, I'll never use them?"
Nevertheless, it is a generous offering by Logos.
MJD, I second you questions. I ordered them and then cancelled because I thought "Why am I ordering these, I'll never use them?" Nevertheless, it is a generous offering by Logos.
You are using my picture!
In reply to your Lexham Bible post, I wrote ...
Peace to you, Shawn, and to my Logos Forums Brothers and Sisters! *smile*
and! Always Joy in the Lord!
I am confused and perhaps a bit perplexed and thinking about being upset .... BECAUSE!
My picture is on your post! What gives, eh?
Thank you for so many resources. Your generosity and hard work will certainly help in our study of the Word. God bless you!
Chuck
Asante sana, Logos!
Agreed! This really adds value: it will make it easier to convince some of my colleagues to consider jumping into Logos.
I too want to add my thanks to Logos for this terrific gift. I wonder if users are aware of the potential of the the Classics collection and the Duke Papyrus database to supercharge the effectiveness of BDAG as a research tool. Logos has already powerfully value-added to their implementation of BDAG with hotlinks to to Greek and English versions of Josephus, Philo, ECF, LXX and pseudepigrapha, but if it BDAG gets tagged for these new resources, Wow! - what a powerhouse for study of the Greek of the New Testament. That's another reason to get hold of BDAG if you have the skills in Greek to benefit from it.
Go Logos!
I agree with the ones who've posted thus far!
Thank you very much, Logos!!
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Thanks Logos from me too - love the Classics Collection.
I would also like to add my thanks. As someone who has tried to use the Perseus site for Word Study but been frustrated by its usability, this will turbocharge my efforts, especially when BDAG is tagged for the Perseus resources. It will also help a great deal with textual work in the NT. Many thanks.
Adding my thanks too. I ordered everything - with two small children, and living in civil-war-history-rich Fredericksburg, VA, there's no doubt that this will come in handy at some point in the next 20 years of their education! I've also posted this on my facebook page to give a heads up to my many homeschooling friends across the country. To my surprise, the first "like" I got was a non-Christian friend. . . here's hoping it will end up being an outreach tool!
Psalm 24:1
One more hearty "Thank you very much, Logos!" This one is from one with a Greek minor who never imagined in his wildest dreams that he could afford a set of classics linked to BDAG. And lemmatized, at that, to help a septuagenarian's fading memory.[:D]
I would like to add, a hearty "thank you" for this collection as well. I am looking forward to many good evenings of reading and study.
DUDES: this is SUPERFANTASTIC!!!! Thank you!!!!!
I also want to add one HUGE vote of thanks to Logos for Perseus
Thank you Logos!!
Adding my appreciation and thanks to those already listed. I thank you! My library thanks you! My wife thanks you (because I don't have to explain any charges and because adding 3,126 physical books to my library would be a gargantuan non-starter)!! This is outstanding!
I mainly use them in diachronic and synchronic word studies of words used in the New Testament, to see how their usage has developed over time (if at all), and to assess their semantic range. These resources are also particularly useful for searching for phrases, which you can't look up conveniently in a lexicon. They're also a very useful resource for studying socio-religious and legal issues in classical history; I've found the marriage contracts in the papyri of particular interest for what they tell us about the socio-legal status of women, for example.
As another example, I discovered a papyrus describing a religious association in the 1st century BC which provides useful information on the socio-cultural background of the first century churches.
This is the introduction to the rules of the association.
‘For good fortune! For health and common salvation and the finest reputation the ordinances given to Dionysius in his sleep were written up giving access into his house to men and women, free people and slaves.’
Dittenberger, ‘Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum’, volume 3, pp. 113-114 (3rd ed., 1920).
There's a parallel here with Galatians 3:27 and Colossians 3:11; see Macdonald, ‘Slavery, Sexuality and House Churches: A Reassessment of Colossians 3.18–4.1 in Light of New Research on the Roman Family’, New Testament Studies (53), p. 99 (2007), for discussion.
