What is your "Must Have Resource"?

I would love to hear from anyone who is willing to share. Apart from commentaries what are your one or two "must have resources" that have helped make your personal study/development or ministry (sermon or bible study preparation) more fruitful? Or what resource have you just enjoyed the most using on Logos?

Thanks,

Bryan

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Lynden O. Williams

Bryan, I would say a good Bible dictionary.

David Taylor, Jr.

I love the reverse interlinears. Hands down, favorite thing in Logos!

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/390549#Comment_390549

A good Bible dictionary.

David Taylor, Jr.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/390551#Comment_390551

I also enjoy the Apologetics Study Bible

Mike Childs

I assume you mean other than Bibles - original language or otherwise.

I would say the BDAG lexicon is my most valuable resource after the NA27 Greek text.

George Somsel

I would love to hear from anyone who is willing to share. Apart from commentaries what are your one or two "must have resources" that have helped make your personal study/development or ministry (sermon or bible study preparation) more fruitful? Or what resource have you just enjoyed the most using on Logos?

Thanks,

Bryan

Aside from bibles (BHS and NA), I would have two—BDAG and HALOT or BDB.

Jack Hairston

[W]hat are your one or two "must have resources" that have helped make your personal study/development or ministry (sermon or bible study preparation) more fruitful?

The feature that drove me to Logos in the first place was Notes. Until now, every time I wore out a Bible, it took years to get the new one marked up.

Mark O'Hearn

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/390625#Comment_390625

What has helped the most is the Visual Filters one can create in Logos.

Of course there are a number of resources I would mention, but outside of commentaries the Anchor Dictionary and BDAG come immediately to mind. Though I suppose if there was just one resource it would be the tagged Louw-Nida numbers/hyperlinked context-sensitive word meanings. A gem especially for those who cannot read Greek.

KPK

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/390663#Comment_390663

commentaries are my must have. I can never get enough of them. I love to compare resources!

Unix

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/390665#Comment_390665

1992 Good News Translation marked as 1st top Bible. While I use the "read aloud" feature for commentaries (Hermeneia; 2 Cor 1-7 ICC by Thrall; Prv Believer's Church Bible Commentary; The Genre, Composition and Hermeneutics of the Epistle of James by Luke Leuk Cheung) I follow along from it. The fact that the Good News Translation can be comprehended more quickly than any other version (and it's one of the very few versions based on modern linguistics, actually the only one that is at the same time dynamic equivalent/easy-to-read) makes a HUGE difference in focus so that I can maximally comprehend the "read aloud".
Here is a thread relevant to that, comparing OT versions, I invite You all to participate in it: http://www.christianforums.com/t7653202/
A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology by Finger. Cheap and up-to-date for a large area of theology.
Primitive Christianity by

Gerd Lüdemann

Bryan Hawkins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/390684#Comment_390684

Thanks,

These are good suggestions. I was wondering what to add next to my library. I have already added a bunch of commentaries, which can get expensive quick, so wanted to look into other books/resources that would help me.

Robert C. Beckman Jr.

Gotta have BDAG

Dan Francis

My must haves are 5: My favourite transition, the best all around commentary (for me) a wonderful devotional commentary on the New Testament, and 2 Bible Dictionary's.

The New Jerusalem Bible: Reader's Edition

New Interpreter's Bible (12 vols.)

The New Daily Study Bible: New Testament (DSB) (17 vols.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) (1979–1995) (4 vols.)

Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (6 vols.)

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/390663#Comment_390663

What has helped the most is the Visual Filters one can create in Logos.

My favorite Logos 4 feature is visual filter highlighting; wiki has => Examples of visual filters

Keep Smiling [:)]

Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/390779#Comment_390779

One of my favourites is clicking on a word and my Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary (a terrific dictionary by the way!) pops us. I just used it again this morning to find out what a "palanquin" was... [Y] [H]

BKMitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/390805#Comment_390805

You, probably need them all, but then again don't we all?

(1) Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS Hebrew): With Westminster 4.2 Morphology German Bible Society,
Westminster Theological Seminary

| 2004

(2) Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB) by

Francis Brown,
Samuel Rolles Driver,
Charles Augustus Briggs Logos Bible Software

| 2001

(3) Massorah Gedolah: Manuscrit B. 19a de Léningrad by

Gérard E. Weil Pontifical Biblical Institute

| 2001[Y][H]

(4) The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia by

Daniel Mynatt,
Timothy Crawford,
Page H. Kelley Eerdmans

| 1998

(5) German Bible Society Bundle: Student Edition by 22 authors Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

| 1983–2009

BKMitchell

The three most useful resources in Logos for Bible Study and Sermon other than the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS Hebrew): With Westminster 4.2 Morphology and The German Bible Society Bundle and a good Hebrew Lexicon:

Massorah Gedolah: Manuscrit B. 19a de Léningrad by

Gérard E. Weil Pontifical Biblical Institute

| 2001
The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia by

Daniel Mynatt,
Timothy Crawford,
Page H. Kelley Eerdmans

| 1998
Sermons in Accents; or, Studies in the Hebrew Text by

John Adams T&T Clark

| 1906 (Devotional Christian classic)

JJ Miller

Making Bible study more fruitful? If we are talking NT study, the best resource I use (not a commentary) is the Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament. https://www.logos.com/product/3888/lexham-discourse-greek-new-testament-bundle If your Greek is rusty or you don't use Greek, the save some money and get the ESV High Definition New Testament... It is part of the bundle, and it is surprisingly useful.
This is simply a bible study tool to help you see "markers" that the author uses to emphasize cparts of the Biblical text, for instance. It's a great way to start your reading of the Biblical text you are studying.

Bryan Hawkins

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/391218#Comment_391218

These are some good suggestions,

Thanks

John Kight

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/391272#Comment_391272

Theological Journals are also a MUST!

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/391005#Comment_391005

Thank you very much BK (Mitchell) ... I hadn't noticed the Adams volume ... bought it.

BKMitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/391281#Comment_391281

Hello DMB,

If, you like that suggestion you might also like this:

Two Treatises on the Accentuation of the Old Testament by Willam Wicks 1887, now in Logos ( Link)

It is also available for free on the web in PDF format so you can check it out before you make up your mind.