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On mouse over, Open In Biblical Event Navigator identifies its function.
On right-click, a context menu comparable to those from the event list is available.
On click, the Biblical Event Navigator is opened. There is no documentation for this interactive. From Verbum Help:
Biblical Event Navigator A collapsible tree view of biblical events (based on the Factbook narrative event hierarchy) that allows users to view the Bible’s large narrative arcsbroken down into the smaller stories that comprise themand explore significant details of each event. Users can navigate in two ways: • Type the name of an event in the Find events box and click the relevant event in the sidebar on the left (or click the title of a bulleted event in the main panel). For example: type Life of Jesus, click an event in the sidebar, and click bulleted events until the desired event appears (if relevant). • Expand the relevant sections of the tree to drill down to the desired event. For example: Life of Jesus > Passion week > Jesus’ resurrection > Jesus’ tomb is found empty > Women find the tomb empty Events will display significant features with hyperlinks to Factbook entries for some or all of the following: • Participants links to the important individuals who took part in that event. • Setting links to the event’s location. • Important things links to significant impersonal things in the event. • Topics and Themes links to important ideas addressed by the event. • Defining Passages are the pericopes that tell of the event. • Mentioned In are other pericopes that mention or allude to the event.[1]
A collapsible tree view of biblical events (based on the Factbook narrative event hierarchy) that allows users to view the Bible’s large narrative arcsbroken down into the smaller stories that comprise themand explore significant details of each event.
Users can navigate in two ways:
• Type the name of an event in the Find events box and click the relevant event in the sidebar on the left (or click the title of a bulleted event in the main panel). For example: type Life of Jesus, click an event in the sidebar, and click bulleted events until the desired event appears (if relevant).
• Expand the relevant sections of the tree to drill down to the desired event. For example: Life of Jesus > Passion week > Jesus’ resurrection > Jesus’ tomb is found empty > Women find the tomb empty
Events will display significant features with hyperlinks to Factbook entries for some or all of the following:
• Participants links to the important individuals who took part in that event.
• Setting links to the event’s location.
• Important things links to significant impersonal things in the event.
• Topics and Themes links to important ideas addressed by the event.
• Defining Passages are the pericopes that tell of the event.
• Mentioned In are other pericopes that mention or allude to the event.[1]
Behavior of the elements is standard. For the Biblical names, Biblical places, Biblical things, and Biblical events:
For the Biblical passage references
The relationship between the Biblical Events as listed in Factbook and as displayed in the Biblical Event Navigator:
Note that Factbook shows the events including events up the hierarchical chain but it shows them as a simple list not as a hierarchy. Factbook gives Bible references for all events while the Biblical Event Manager shows references only on the lowest level, i.e. events that are not further subdivided.
Step 1: Open the NRSV to Abram is called (Gen 11:31-12:7) by clicking the reference in Factbook.
Step 2: Select the entire reference. Note that it neither starts nor ends on pericope boundaries of the NRSV.
Step 3: Right click to open the Context Menu. Note that the first two levels and the terminal level appear in the context menu. The levels “God fulfills promises made to Abraham” and “Abraham is called” are omitted. As “Abraham is called” matches the boundaries of the selection, this has been reported as an error at BUG:Context Menu events omits exact match.
Step 4: Select God calls Abram (1), i.e. an event datatype, on the left side of the context menu. Note the options that are now available:
Available options include:
Faithlife has provided no documentation on the Biblical Events dataset. Therefore, we have no knowledge of the criteria used to create the hierarchy offered us. Initially, the Biblical Events omitted the deuterocanonical books. Therefore, the user may wish to use other structures of Biblical Events for which more information is available. Some possibilities:
For some guidance on studying narrative see:
For the context of Biblical events, locating the event in a visual view of the lectionary (or, for the Gospels, with the festal icons of the iconostasis), place the event in context both historically and liturgically. Loosely, the following statements are true:
There is no way within Verbum, to replicate the contents of the Events section of Factbook on a Biblical Person. You are dependent upon Faithlife tagging and selection routines.
[1] Logos Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).
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