Logos 5: Create Your Own Series

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris, who has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos seminars, provides many training materials.

 With the recent release of Logos 5.1, we can now create a series of books that behaves as a whole, not as separate parts.

For example, the Hebrew and Greek texts are, in a sense, only “half Bibles” because they contain only the Old or New Testaments. If we opened a Hebrew Bible and typed John 3:16, we wouldn’t jump there because there’s no John 3:16 in the Hebrew OT.

The new 5.1 Series feature lets you join the Greek and Hebrew texts, forming a whole Bible.

Try this:

• Open your library.
• Click Browse (A).
  
• Click the Resource Information icon on the library’s toolbar, which opens a pane on the right (B).
• Type lhb in the library’s Find box, which lists the Lexham Hebrew Bible (C).
  
• Click Set series in the information pane on the right (D).
• Type a name, like Hebrew and Greek Bible.
• Press Enter to save the name.

• Type sblgnt in the Find box (E).
• Select (without clicking the title or image) the Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (F).
  
• Click Set series in the information pane (G).
  
• Type the same name you previously typed, like Hebrew and Greek Bible.
• Press Enter to save the name.
• Click the Greek New Testament: SBL Edition to open this resource.

• Type Joshua 1:8 in its reference box (H).
• Press Enter.

• Notice that the Lexham Hebrew Bible opens to the OT verse and closes the Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (I).
  
• Type Romans 8:28 in the reference box (J).
• Press Enter.

• Notice that the Greek New Testament: SBL Edition opens to the NT verse and closes the Lexham Hebrew Bible (K).

You just created a whole Bible from two halves!

Try this with individual commentary volumes to form your own master commentary set. But remember: a book can be in only one series.