Buyer's Guide: Logos 6 Gold editions

Since the launch of Logos 4, I've tried to write Buyer's Guides to Logos Base packages. Here are my belated opinions on Logos 6 Silver packages. The Gold editions are best suited to pastors and post-grads looking to do detailed exegesis or explore historical theology.(There are also guides for Starter, Bronze, Silver and Platinum editions.)

Gold contains everything in Silver, and a lot more. There are recent commentary sets — Black's New Testament [$249.95], the superb Pillar New Testament [$524.95], New International Greek Testament [$599.95] the UBS Handbook [$619.95], plus a few Lexham Bible Guides. For OT background you get Charles' Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [$119.95] and Ancient Near Eastern Texts [$79.95]. You also get the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament [$199.95] and 37 volumes of Themelios [$209.95] and the final datasets: word senses and NT manuscripts.

Anglican Gold contains none of these highlights, except for the datasets and TDNT, and Black's which was added back in Anglican Silver. Useful additions include the Theological Lexicon of the New Testament from Bronze [$89.95], Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae from Silver [$489.95], the Book of Common Prayer Collection [$199.95], several volumes of medieval and more recent theology, the SPCK Library of Ministry [$209.95], plus collected works from Charles Wesley [$99.95], Charles Gore [$219.95], J. C. Ryle [$249.95], Joseph Barber Lightfoot [$199.95], George Stanely Faber [$129.95], John Lightfoot [$189.95] and Evelyn Underhill [$129.95].

Baptist Gold has more of Gold's best resources, including NAC (from Baptist Silver), APOT and TDNT. It also includes 13 volumes of the Lexham Bible Guides (covering all of Paul's letters) [$534.95]. Other additions since Baptist Silver include dozens of commentary volumes of which the only useful modern set is the IVP New Testament Commentary Series [$289.95]. Several primary sources for OT and NT background are included, and TLOT is added from Bronze. The rest is a mixture of ministry, theology and biblical studies from the last several centuries.

Lutheran Gold includes Lenski's commentaries, the UBS Handbooks and Charles' Apocrypha and Psuedepigrapha. To that are added the Lutheran Commentary [$174.95], the Continental Commentary [$599.95] and the Expositor's Greek Testament [$199.95]. Also included is the 29-volume Select Studies in Martin Luther's Life and Influence [$462.95] and Aquinas' Summa Theologica [$249.95].

Pentecostal & Charismatic Gold has only two of Gold’s highlights, Charles’ Apocrypha, and TDNT. Over P&C Silver, it adds a large number of useful resources for background and original language work, plus Warren Wiersbe’s Old Testament “Be” Series [$159.95], the Works of John Wesley [$249.95], and a number of small collections from modern authors such as Neil T. Anderson[$119.95], H. Norman Wright [$84.95], Chuck D. Pierce [$99.95], Dutch Sheets [$69.95] and Jack W. Hayford [$35.95].