Daniel FosterIf you’ve spent time around Logos Bible Software, you probably already know that Bibles such as the ESV, NKJV, and NASB* include cross-reference linksright there in the text. They’re indicated by the “little letters and...
Rick BrannanThis is the third post in a series of posts having to do with the Apostolic Fathers in Greek and English. (The first post is here, the second is here). Today’s video focuses on different reports and resources that the Apostolic Fathers...
Today’s guest blogger is Sean Boisen, senior information architect at Logos. Logos Bible Software iscontinually undertaking new projects to expand our tools for Bible study. Many of these involve wading through data, usually lots and lots of...
“So you work for that Logos software company…” With 130+ employees and 5 years in Bellingham, Logos has become a big enough fish in a relatively small pond that I now hear something like this pretty regularly when I meet someone...
Last Thursday’s post explained how to view all the papyri fromComfort & Barrett’s Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscriptsthat contain the verse or passage you’re studying. We set up the Compare Parallel Bible...
In the course of working on a review of Ugaritic Library andLogos 3, blogger and pastor Dr. Jim West recently asked me whether Comfort & Barrett’s Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts could be made to appear in the...
In a previous post, we looked at how English translations delimit the quotation in James 4.5. Do other resources shed any light on this question? Greek New Testaments We can examine the formatting of Greek New Testaments much like we examined the...
In arecent issue of Rick Warren’s MinistryToolBox email, Rick wrote, One of the most helpful habits you can develop as a preacher is to become a collector. I’ve been a “collector” for years, and it has made my preaching much more effective...
Sometimes you know parts but haven’t put together the whole. That happened to me today. I knew that I could link reports to the active Bible text window. I knew that I could run a Compare Parallel Bible Versions report to highlight the...
I’ve been blogging about James 4.5-6. In the series I blogged about examining the text using English translations. Then I blogged about the underlying Greek. There are still more questions with James 4.5-6, however. In this post we’ll...
Earlier I blogged on using multiple English translations to see how a passage is translated differently. In passages (such as James 4.5-6) where there are ambiguities, many times comparing English translations can help in understanding the best way...
Vincent SetterholmAs I put the finishing touches on the Ugaritic Library, I realized that this was an excellent opportunity to talk about the Logos Bible Software philosophy of data type tagging. After all, there are more than 83,000 Ugaritic data type references...
In the home group Bible study that I’m in, we’re studying the epistle of James. We’re currently in James 4. While preparing for this week’s study, I noticed some interesting things going on in James 4:5-6. There are some...
A feature of Logos 3 that still draws the most oohs and aahs when I demo the software for people is also one of the simplest: Bible Speed Search. I think that’s because of how quick it is (it finds as you type) and how easy it is to figure out...
A recent commenter here on the blog expressed frustration at having duplicate books that clutter up My Library and hog space on his hard drive. Jonathan Pratt wrote, One problem is that every series that I install comes with its own set of reference...
In a post awhile back, I mentioned something called the Active Bible Reference visual filter.
This is one of those things best seen. So I made a video to show how it works. Check it out.
Video: Flash, 4:15, 4MB, with sound.
As you may already know, the Morris Proctor Tips & Tricks Blogoffers two new tips every week for getting the most out of Logos Bible Software (learn more). User David Bergquist posed the following question on a recent post at the Tips blog: Is...
Guest bloggers Johnny Cisneros and Steve Runge pull back the curtain on a new addin coming soon from the Logos “skunk works.” Many of us know that we have the resources within Logos to do good exegesis. However, it is easy to be...
Yep, that post title is correct. Lord willing, my wife Amy is due to deliver our first child in mid-May.** (Insert applause here, Amy really is fantastic!) As many first-time parents-to-be, we’re reading a lot and researching the whole process...
One feature I use frequently is right-click reference searching within a lexicon (specifically, within BDAG). I typically keylink into BDAG and note the sense under discussion, usually by a reference citation (which in my setup is highlighted by the...
Developer David Mitchell examines screenshotsof Logos workspaces submitted by users. Logos customers make lots of great suggestions. Suggestions for books to digitize, features to add or tweak, website enhancements, you name it. Most suggestions...
A recent post on Morris Proctor’s Tips & Tricks Blog prompted the following comment from user Aaron Cantrell: …What I would like to do is choose a book of the bible, or a section of a book (for example Gen 12-22), and have the...
We’ve devoted a lot of words on this blog to persuading you to upgrade to Logos Bible Software 3. While it’s true that many of the features we talk about most often (reverse interlinear Bibles, syntactically tagged Bibles)are only...
After my recent post on Chinese Bibles, I would be remiss if I failed to let readers know how they could install the Libronix DLS interface in Chinese or another language. Libronix DLS and Localized Interfaces walks you through the process of...
Eli EvansFirst, we acquired rights to the Conchillos Ugaritic databank. Then, we acquired the rights to produce several Ugaritic textbooks, grammars, and other helps as well. We put together a product. Then we had to figure out how to support Ugaritic. [Cue...
Bob PritchettAmazingly, the final release of IE 7 (released yesterday) introduced yet more changes that break Logos Bible Software. The v3.0a update which we encouraged you to download yesterday does not work with the final release of IE 7. To fix this...
Today’s guest blogger is John Fallahee, who works in our ministry relations department and produces free tutorial videos. Your purchase of Logos Bible Software is essential for studying the Bible. You are saving countless hours in study time;...
I blogged about the new Favorites feature in Logos 3 here and here. Today I want to take a quick look at Workspaces—a feature that’s been part of Logos Bible Software since at least 2001—and think about when to use a Workspace and when to use...
Last week I answered the question “Can I save searches in Logos?” by taking a look at Favorites, one of the new features in Logos 3. If you looked carefully at the screenshot I used to illustrate Favorites you may have noticed some...
Morris Proctor says he gets the question a lot: “Does Logos let me save my searches?” The answer to that is…”it depends.” Before you start throwing things, like accusations of being a weaselly marketer, let me explain. It...