L/V 10 Tip of the Day #45 Comprehensive Bible cross-references

MJ. Smith
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edited November 21 in English Forum

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10 Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Logos 7 Cross References - Logos Forums among many others.

When I want to use cross-references, I usually have a very broad definition of "cross-reference". Therefore, I built a custom guide called "extended references" which is based on a Bible reference and includes three sections:

  • Cross References - the traditional cross-references from cross-reference resources in the top section and from your Bibles in the lower section
  • Important Passages - references gleaned from the commentaries within Logos/Verbum classfied into types. See Brannan, Rick. Important Passages: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018.
  • Parallel Passages - reference drawn from resources of type:Harmony to pick up retellings of the same story (or point)

So today, I am reading Isaiah 9 and decide I want to see the cross-references for Isaiah 9:6.

  • Select all or part of the verse Isaiah 9:6
  • Right-click to open Context Menu
  • Select reference on the left. Note it will always select full verses even if you only highlighted a partial verse
  • On the right, scroll down to the Guides section; you may need to expand it - it will show the last five used
  • Select "extended references"
  • The custom guide will open and populate with the current reference

The populated Guide showing the Cross-reference section:

The Important Passages section:

The Parallel Passages section:

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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