Collections: Bible commentary by book?

I created a COLLECTION earlier today for commentaries on Isaiah.

I named it: 40_Isaiah Commentaries and then created a dynamic filter that was type:commentary AND title:"Isaiah"

I had a COLLECTION like this for every book of the Bible in L3. I used the number prefix to keep them in Biblical order. My question is - Do I really NEED this kind of collection (or more specifically, 66 of them?) in my desire to maximize my workflow in L4? Are there any benefits I would lose? Are there any more benefits to doing this that I don't realize right now?

Everything seems to be available to me now, but I am just trying to understand what ways are best.

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Terry Poperszky

Ron, why did you have them? I have commentaries broken up by type, but not by book. If I am search a reference in Isaiah, L4 will find it no matter where it is. Besides, if someone references Isaiah in the commentary on another book, that is something I want to see as well.

Todd Phillips

I would ask why you need it. You might use it if you want to limit a text or bible search to those commentaries. In that case it would be useful--it would filter out the hits in the other resources.

But do you do searches of only commentaries very often? I don't. I use the Passage Guide's commentary section to identify the commentaries that apply to a passage, and it can link me directly to the appropriate sections. In fact, I created a custom PG with only the commentary section in it to do just that.

Now I have created manual collections with the commentaries I find most useful plus other useful non-commentary books about a particular Bible book. That helps me remember the best resources on a particular book of the Bible the next time I want to study that book. I only wish I could view my collections in the Library, instead of having to open the Collections window.

Ron Corbett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/76579#Comment_76579

First of all, HOW do YOU have them broken up "by type" (just curious to know what YOU find most useful). And what filter string do you use to isolate these collections - say, just the One -Volume Commentaries and things like that.

Secondly, I read something posted by Rosie (last week I think) that mentioned the benefit of certain collections for the Parallel Resource Sets TAB. I thought these were NEEDED to make this feature come alive. Maybe it is not needed anymore. If so, I would be saved alot of work repeating my Isaiah Collection another 65 times. That would be fine.

Terry Poperszky

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/76592#Comment_76592

First of all, HOW do YOU have them broken up "by type" (just curious to know what YOU find most useful).

Check out this page on the wiki: http://wiki.logos.com/Collections scroll down the page and you will find a list of examples. I have used many of these, as well as a few came up with such as: Not Bible, excluding all the type:bible. There where times when I wanted to cut down on the number of hits and knew that a bible wasn't going to have what I wanted. I have also broken things up by lang:greek or lang:english because I wanted a commentary that did or didn't deal with a particular language.

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/76592#Comment_76592

I thought these were NEEDED to make this feature come alive.

This tool will do the sorting work for you. If you have a collection with all your commentaries in it, when you click this icon on a commentary resource bar it will show you only commentaries you have that cover that particular book, say Isaiah, that are in the collection. I can see no advantage to creating a book-by-book set of collections.

I have very large commentary collections. Three would normally do for me: all commentaries, select commentaries (weeding out the ones I rarely want to look at), and recommended commentaries (those getting strong recommendations in published lists which rate commentaries). This way in passage guide work I could limit what I see to a pretty small list (recommended), a moderate size list of only what I'd want to see (selected), or everything in my library (all).

There are other schemes for this: exegetical commentaries, expositional commentaries, homiletical commentaries, devotional commentaries, etc.

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/76644#Comment_76644

What I am planning to do is to create a dynamic collection of commentaries for the Passage Guide. I want to create a syntax which would exclude all commentaries I know for sure I don't want to consult. I am not sure how am I to do that but I will try. I want PG to give me only those I want plus some unexpected surprises (that's why I want the collection of all minus those I don't want and not the list of those I want).

John Fidel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/76592#Comment_76592

First of all, HOW do YOU have them broken up "by type" (just curious to know what YOU find most useful). And what filter string do you use to isolate these collections - say, just the One -Volume Commentaries and things like that.

Secondly, I read something posted by Rosie (last week I think) that mentioned the benefit of certain collections for the Parallel Resource Sets TAB. I thought these were NEEDED to make this feature come alive. Maybe it is not needed anymore. If so, I would be saved alot of work repeating my Isaiah Collection another 65 times. That would be fine.

I have my break out for both using in the passage guide and the new PRAs listed in this post:

http://community.logos.com/forums/p/7979/63631.aspx#63631

Kevin Becker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/76678#Comment_76678

What I am planning to do is to create a dynamic collection of commentaries for the Passage Guide. I want to create a syntax which would exclude all commentaries I know for sure I don't want to consult. I am not sure how am I to do that but I will try. I want PG to give me only those I want plus some unexpected surprises (that's why I want the collection of all minus those I don't want and not the list of those I want).

You could do a collection of commentariest and exclude commentaries you've rated with one or two stars. Then you could make a custom passage guide that uses this new collection.

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/76683#Comment_76683

You could do a collection of commentariest and exclude commentaries you've rated with one or two stars. Then you could make a custom passage guide that uses this new collection.

Hey, that's great idea, thanks. It is much better than to try to enlist all in the syntax string.

Ron Corbett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/76720#Comment_76720

I appreciate the helpful comments. I reviewed again the posts that were sited here, then went over my COLLECTIONS and they are in the best shape ever. Thanks all[:D]

Robert Pavich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/76720#Comment_76720

Hey, that's great idea, thanks. It is much better than to try to enlist all in the syntax string.

Also, you could do it this way:

What commentaries do you not like?

Let's say "Opening up" series and "Baker Exegetical"

You make a collection called "Commentaries I don't like" and then filter on "title:"opening up" OR "Baker Exegetical"

THEN....

You make your type:commentary collection (Scholarly, or hermenutical, or whatever or even multiple types) and to exclude what you don't like is just a matter of dragging and dropping the "don't like" collection into each set!