On the web: Zotero 4.0.4 is now available with some minor improvements over the previous stable version. Joseph Kelly highlights some good advice about how not to write a thesis or dissertation. Logos Bible Software has added the Aramaic Bible series to their pre-publication program.
Logos Bible Software is currently preparing the first English translation of Geerhardus Vos’s Reformed Dogmatics. By way of background regarding Vos: [T]he “father of Reformed biblical theology,” was born 151 years ago this month. Vos, a professor of biblical theology at Princeton, lectured alongside many famous theologians, including J. Gresham Machen, B. B. Warfield, and Abraham Kuyper. So great was Vos’ academic insight that Kuyper offered him the chair of Old Testament studies at the Free University of Amsterdam when Vos was just 24. ...
On the web: Rod Decker shares an update on his forthcoming Greek grammar. Logos Bible Software is wishing everyone a happy International Septuagint Day today with a substantial sale on their release of the Göttingen Septuagint (HT: Brian Davidson, Abram K-J). Jim Davila excerpts a Cambridge News story about funding that Cambridge and Oxford are seeking to keep together the Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection at Westminster College.
Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th ed. The 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, including the critical apparatus, is now available on Logos Bible Software’s prepublication program. For Peter Williams’ review of the edition earlier this week, see here.
On the Web: Phil Gons digests Tony Reinke’s suggestions for reading more. Logos Bible Software has added the 12-volume Clarendon edition of Aristotle’s works (1908–1952) to their community pricing offerings.
Codex Bezae with text Luke 23:47–24:1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Logos Bible Software is now taking $0.00 pre-orders for their upcoming edition of Codex Bezae. Among the manuscript’s noteworthy characteristics, It is the oldest-known manuscript containing the story of the adulterous woman found in John 7–8, as well as a longer ending of the Gospel of Mark. There are also several apparent additions, including a story found nowhere else of Jesus addressing a man found working on the Sabbath. ...
As Anthony Le Donne and Michael Bird have already noted, N. T. Wright’s much-anticipated fourth volume in the Christian Origins and the Question of God Series, Paul and the Faithfulness of God, has now become three installments. Besides the series’ first three volumes, all three installments of the new fourth part are now available for pre-order via Logos Bible Software. The three individual installments’ contents are outlined there as follows: ...
Courtesy of Logos Bible Software, Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Affections is available for free this month: http://twitter.com/Logos/status/286528925717393408
J. P. Migne’s two massive compilations of Patristic literature have now made their way onto Logos Bible Software’s community pricing platform ( Greek, Latin). Also appearing there now is some of René Graffin, Francois Nau, and Max de Saxe’s compilation of other Patristic texts not included in Migne’s anthologies. ...
Logos Bible Software is now shipping version 5. For an overview of the new version, see the playlist below: &feature=autoplay&list=PLXkjd_l1xkSQAozD4PNGZALI6GolOqTas
Richard Baxter (1615–1691; photo credit: Wikipedia) For today’s “Pastor Appreciation Month” sale, Logos Bible Software is offering volume 14 of their series of Richard Baxter’s practical works for free. The volume includes Baxter’s classic The Reformed Pastor (1655) and his Confirmation and Restauration (1658).
Logos Bible Software now has a Herman Ridderbos Collection available for order on their pre-publication program and a John Huss Collection open for bidding on their community pricing program. According to the respective product pages: ...
Faithlife Study Bible Although the product has already some limited availability, Logos Bible Software has now announced that the Faithlife Study Bible, which includes the Lexham Bible Dictionary, is available for free through March 2014. ...
Following up on yesterday’s comment about upgrading to and installing Logos 4 on Ubuntu via a Windows XP machine in VirtualBox, Logos 4 offers a nice import procedure that allows Logos 3 users to transfer all their personal user data files (e.g., notes, markups, queries) into Logos 4 relatively painlessly. There do, however, seem to be a couple hitches when trying to import Logos 3 user data in virtualized setup like the one described here. For the import to work properly, ...
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“125” caption=“Thomas Aquinas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)”] [/caption] Through their pre-publication program, Logos Bible Software is now offering English translations of Thomas Aquinas’s commentaries on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Aquinas’s Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles have been available in English for some time, but once enough pre-publication orders have accumulated, Logos’s texts of these three commentaries will be the first time they have been available in English. ...
I hadn’t noticed it until now, but Logos Bible Software has a very nicely developed YouTube Channel with a number of helpful videos both about individual resources that they offer and about using the Logos 4 engine (HT: Josh Burdick). ...
Logos 4.5 (SR3) is now available with a couple minor bug fixes. For the change log, see here. Also, February’s free resource is now available: The Works of B. B. Warfield (Vol. 1: Revelation and Inspiration).
Despite what was apparently some earlier confusion about the timing of the release, Logos 4.5 is now shipping. This significant update mainly introduces improvements in highlighting and note taking, but it contains several other improvements also. For the full release notes, see here. ...
The folks at Logos Bible Software have started a monthly free book giveaway for 2012. This month’s title is volume 6 from their collection of the Works of John Owen. ...
To complement the earlier pre-publication release of its Hebrew Bible counterpart, Logos Bible Software now has the first six volumes of the Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament Series available for order through its pre-publication program. Also noteworthy are the 12 Days of Logos promotions on Calvin’s Commentaries and the Pillar New Testament Commentary. ...
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Grant Osborne”] [/caption] Today, the second edition of Grant Osborne’s Hermeneutical Spiral for Logos Bible Software has come on sale. According to Osborne, hermeneutics is a spiral from text to context–a movement between the horizon of the text and the horizon of the reader that spirals nearer and nearer toward the intended meaning of the text and its significance for today. ...
The first four volumes of the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible Series are now available for order from Logos Bible Software via their pre-publication program. In general, Rather than devote space to the type of theological and exegetical comments found in most commentaries, this series instead focuses on the Hebrew text and its related issues, syntactic and otherwise. The volumes in the series serve as prequels to commentary proper, providing guides to understanding the linguistic characteristics of the texts from which the messages of the texts may then be derived. ...
Logos 4.3 (SR7) is available and includes a couple bug fixes. For the release’s details, please see here.
Logos 4.3 (SR6) is available and includes a few bug fixes. For details, see here.
As they have for some others already, most of my Perseus collection downloads for Logos have recently been processed. Below are a few particularly anticipated texts from these collections: [caption id=“attachment_8343” align=“aligncenter” width=“497” caption=“Click for the full-size image.”] [/caption]
Logos 4.3 (SR5) is now available. For the release notes, see here.
Logos 4.3 (SR4)Â is now available and mainly includes a bug fix for right-to-left languages in personal books.
Logos 4.3 (SR3) is available. For the release notes, see here.
As noted earlier, Logos Bible Software is working on releasing over 3000 texts from the Perseus Project for free to Logos 4 users. Included here is Perseus’s substantive collection of Greek and Latin classics and their translations. This collection also offers access to Perseus’s dictionaries and lexica and integrated searching with the rest of a user’s Logos library. For further details, see here. ...
Logos 4.3 (SR2) is available. The release notes contain details for the update.