Monday, June 20, 2005

So, I'm not directly involved in the production of Greek lexical resources at Logos anymore. I know what we're working on and follow what's going on, but my day-to-day role has been more in the realm of working on the development of new databases of Greek morphology-type stuff.

That said, I just installed Eerdmans' Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (EDNT), as mentioned in the post below.

I also know that at the end of the previous post, I said I'd be leaving "corporate shill" mode. But I have to go back because upon first glance, the Logos Bible Software edition of EDNT is so very, very cool.

Wow. Is this thing linked to the hilt or what?! One of the cool features of LDLS books is you can view a page "About This Resource". One of the options on this page lists the "data types" that the book supports as a destination (the 'Keylink Target' column below) and the types of references that this book has to other books (the 'Searchable' column below). The second ('Searchable') column means that you can click on the reference and in most instances go somewhere, or you can search by reference for other places the citation occurs.

Now, that said, check this out. I just did a screen capture of this after installing the resource at home.

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Look at all that stuff that is linked to! ANET milestones are integrated into the LDLS edition of Context of Scripture. (Bet you didn't know that!) Apostolic Fathers are a data type that is supported but has no direct target (yet ... did I mention I'm working on Greek morphological databases?). Dead Sea Scrolls (for the non-biblical stuff) to Garcia-Martinez' edition. Josephus. Mishnah referneces. Philo. Pseudepigraphal references (to Charles' edition). Quran? Sure. Laws of Hammurabi? Huh? (In Context of Scripture, as I recall). Sentences of Sextus? Try Nag Hammadi. It even jumps into the TDNT as cited (by vol/page).

How cool is that? I'm stoked by this. We've got some significant non-canonical material to reference (Context of Scripture, Nag Hammadi, Pseudepigrapha, Josephus, Philo, etc.) and doing our best to try to get these sorts of references in there so that the material can be examined with relative ease.

This is awesome.

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Post Author: Rico
Monday, June 20, 2005 5:34:08 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00) 

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