Abraham
i'm studying the life of Abraham any tips on how to do it with Logos?
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cc Matthews said:
i'm studying the life of Abraham any tips on how to do it with Logos?
What are your goals? That would make a big difference in how I'd attack the problem. But:
1. I would do a basic search on my entire library for Abraham. Would I then read it all? Nope. But it would help me set up the elements I wished to concentrate e.g. image of Abraham as used in the New Testament; life history of Abraham that supports those images; 10 tests of Abraham; genealogy ...
2. I would take one of the elements I have identified for study and do a Bible Study on the passage(s) that related to it - beginning with my customized My Passage Guide and (where appropriate) filling in one of the templates for Bible character studies available on the web.
3. I'd keep cycling through 2 until I'd finished all the relevant passages for that element - keeping a list of questions that arose in those studies.
4. I'd address all the questions that simply required additional information. Often these end up being topical studies.
5. I cycle back to 2 looking at another element I'd picked out as important to me.
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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cc Matthews said:
i'm studying the life of Abraham any tips on how to do it with Logos?
Yes, place your order on John G. Butler's Biography Series and you'll get a whole book on Abraham's life...[Y]...best one out there. If you don't want to wait, just try a basic search or read Abraham's life and outline key points as you read along and then re-tell his life with practical lessons in your own words.
Blessings!
Douglas
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cc Matthews said:
i'm studying the life of Abraham any tips on how to do it with Logos?
I would suggest starting with Biblical People (on the Tools menu). Type in Abraham, and then press Enter (or select his name from the dropdown menu).
Along the top you will see a brief description of who Abraham was, followed by the names of people related to him (click the ellipsis [...] to see the rest of the list expanded) -- all clickable. Then you will see all the dictionary entries for Abraham that you have in your library. (These are all clickable and will open the dictionaries to those articles.) You can click the right arrow icon to scroll right for more entries if your list doesn't all appear on one screen.
In the middle is Abraham's family tree (each person in it is clickable to navigate to their page), and along the bottom are some other views onto (partial) trees for Abraham.
To clarify: Douglas's suggestion of the John G. Butler's Biography Series is for a pre-publication. It has not been produced yet, and Logos needs enough people to order it to cover costs before they will do it.
In the meantime, there's a biblical biography resource that already exists which has a lengthy coverage of Abraham (pages 107-332 of Volume 1), and that is The Greater Men and Women of the Bible (6 vols.) by James Hastings.
But if you're not able to buy more resources and want to work with what you've got, the searching methods others have mentioned above plus Biblical People should give you a great start!
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Wow, how did I miss that The Greater Men and Women of the Bible (6 vols.) by James Hastings. I own this resource. If you don't have it, what I'm about to tell you will hurt....Other logos users and myself included got it for $9 bucks...LOL...we got it while it was in community pricing. I highly recommend it! [;)]
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With regard to a biographical study, I would suggest you read R.A. Torrey's works on how to study the Bible where he goes into doing biographical studies.
Since Logos is a tool, you should obtain a knowledge of how to do the study first, then use Logos to do so.
I say this only because your question implies you are not sure of a process of how to comprehensively do a biographical study.
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Thanks everyone! I enjoyed my study on Abraham:) Hope to share the sermon i'm preparing on him soon...I've made a very simple three point outline.
1. The Source of Abraham's Faith-Gen 15:7
2. The Solidifying of Abraham's Faith -Jam 2:14-25
3. The Strength Abraham's of Faith- Rom 4:18-25
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that outline sounds like a real preacher's outline. Good alliteration.
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