I got an email telling me that I get the full featured version of Logos by upgrading from Silver to Gold. It's not clear to me what features I'm missing. Can someone tell me what features I get in Gold that I don't have in Silver?
Here is a list of what Gold has that Silver doesn't
Bible Sense Lexicon
Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century BC
Novum Testamentum Graece: Apparatus Criticus (3 vols.)
Old Syrian Gospels: Codex Curetonianus
Old Syrian Gospels: Codex Sinaiticus
The Parallel Aligned Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Texts of Jewish Scripture
The Peshitta
The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts
The Works of Philo: Greek Text with Morphology
Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 1
Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 2
Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 3
The Amarna Letters
The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English
The Nag Hammadi Library in English, 4th rev. ed.
Black's New Testament Commentary (BNTC) (13 vols.)
Exegetical Summaries Series (24 vols.)
Exploring the Bible Commentary Collection (EB) (7 vols.)
Standard Reference Library of the Old and New Testaments (5 vols.)
The United Bible Societies' New Testament Handbook Series (20 vols.)
The United Bible Societies' Old Testament Handbook Series (29 vols.)
Unlocking the Scriptures for You (16 vols.)
Wesleyan Bible Study Commentary Series (18 vols.)
An Introduction to the New Testament Today's Handbook for Solving Bible Difficulties
An Exposition on Prayer in the Bible
Christian Origins and the Question of God Series (3 vols.)
New Testament Studies Collection (7 vols.)
The Life and Epistles of St. Paul (2 vols.)
The Life and Work of St. Paul (2 vols.)
The Life of Jesus Christ
Themelios 1?37 (1975?2012) (111 issues) *
The Creeds of Christendom (3 vols.) Bible Lessons International Collection (17 vols.) Handbook for Hebrew Exegesis
History of Interpretation
An Introduction to Aramaic
Beginning Biblical Hebrew
Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research
Analytical Lexicon of the Syriac New Testament
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT) (10 vols.)
Fortress Press Homiletics Collection (13 vols.)
Handbook of Contemporary Preaching: A Wealth of Counsel for Creative
God, Revelation, and Authority (6 vols.)
Understanding Theology (3 vols.)
Here is a list of what Gold has that Silver doesn't <snip/>
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I realize that resources are in Gold that aren't in Silver, but I'm actually curious about program features that don't exist. I would distinguish program features from data. Is that not the correct understanding?
Then it's just the Bible Sense Lexicon.If You don't want the extra book You can just add the Logos 5 Minimal Crossgrade to Silver for little less than $7.
Here is a list of what Gold has that Silver doesn't <snip/> I realize that resources are in Gold that aren't in Silver, but I'm actually curious about program features that don't exist. I would distinguish program features from data. Is that not the correct understanding?
In terms of features, you should look at the Datasets section of the comparison chart. Features are enabled when there is a dataset to support them. The only one don't get with Silver that you do get with Gold is the Bible Sense Lexicon.
From the features, it seems the Bible Sense database is coming with Gold (Look at https://www.logos.com/comparison#fullchart ) - maybe there's more that I don't see there. There is a Logos wiki page by Dave Hooton, I think, which will give upgrade advice.
Alternatively, you may add the Logos 5 Minimal Crossgrade to your Silver, which contains all the databases and features that came with L5 and are availble in Gold.
I knew what you were asking for but I gave you everything that is new. The first thing I mentioned in the list I gave was the only feature that is missing that is the Bible Sense Lexicon. Sorry if I gave you more information than you were looking for and muddied the water.
God bless [:)]
Thanks for all the help! I was curious about it because I had the impression when I bought Silver last Christmas that I had all of the "features" of Logos. I'm learning to navigate the Logos marketing speak. Thanks for the tip on the minimal crossgrade. Apparently, my dynamic price for the minimal crossgrade is $24. I'll consider doing that to get the Bible Sense Lexicon.
The one thing that I learned when I got started with Logos 4 and then 5, was that Logos really works best once you move up your library package up a few notches, you enjoy Logos the way it's meant to be. Money well spent.
Why do you think that is?
Childrens toys run on batterys or need to be wound up, your car runs on gas and Logos is a tool that depends on having the requisite resources. Its like going to the local public library - if it doesn't have the information you need, its going to be less helpful than if the local public library has the information you need. Thus the more books you feed logos, the better and sometimes more interesting your results can become. Especially if you start adding works from groups deemed heretics and cults by your tradition... Sometimes the weirdos ask interesting questions, that lead to deeper (hopefully biblicalyfounded) insights. As to your original question, most seminaries have book lists they recommend people acquire. As a Southern Baptist, Danny Akin (president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) puts out this list every year (Al Mohler of Southern BTS has one as well I think). Then sort through the packages to find which one includes the most books that you're going to be interested in. Figure out if it will be cheaper to buy the base package, or the titles individually (almost always the former) and then make your informed purchase. For me, I tend to pick up whole base packages as the things inside that I care about are generally cheaper as a part of the package than if they were to be purchased separately. I now have around 6100 titles, and have paid on average 1.06 per title. Not counting nearly a thousand free books in the perseus collection, nor the 600 or so I've gotten free from Vyrso over the last couple years.
The one thing that I learned when I got started with Logos 4 and then 5, was that Logos really works best once you move up your library package up a few notches, you enjoy Logos the way it's meant to be. Money well spent. Why do you think that is?
Gold and Silver are really just foundations. You can do quite a lot with them, but if you still need to bring a stack of bound commentaries over to your desk, you're missing the great value of Logos. It took me about a year before I went to Platinum and added some commentary sets. That plus the language resources made it all come together. You don't need to rush and build, but as you use Logos and run searches, you'll see what makes it so great.
