I decided this morning to do a quick screen capture video on reverse interlinears. This tool was pioneered in digital form by my employer, Logos Bible Software. I’m asked repeatedly about how to do word studies, so I created this as an answer to that question (I...
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Addendum to Heiser’s Laws for Bible Study: 5 Minutes is a Long Time
I just read and replied to Denver’s comment. He had just read my old “laws for Bible study.” It made me think of this essay — to encourage him and the rest of you. It’s short and not published (yet). It’s part of another manuscript...
Revisiting Heiser’s Laws for Bible Study, Part 2
As noted in my first return to my old “laws,” I’ll be periodically be posting items drawn from a little writing project I’ve been working at on the side. Here’s the second sample: Bible study is a discipline, not a ritual event. Two of...
Revisiting Heiser’s Laws for Bible Study
Back in 2011 (hard to believe it’s that long ago) I posted a short list of what I called “Heiser’s Laws for Bible Study.” It was a popular post, perhaps because it was prompted by questions I get all the time related to how to study the Bible....
Logos (Lexham) Bible Guides
I want to alert readers to a recent resource that Logos Bible Software has produced and is in the process of producing — something we’re calling Bible Guides. These are not Sunday School resources. They are designed to be of academic assistance in...
All Commentaries are Not Created Equal, Part 4
This is actually a short follow-up to Part 3, where I recommended some commentary sets. In that post I had two links to web pages on the Denver Seminary website to their own commentary recommendations. I have gone through that site and highlighted the volumes I have...
All Commentaries are Not Created Equal, Part 3: Commentary Recommendations
In response to my two previous posts about commentaries, several readers have asked me for recommendations on commentaries. This is a little like asking me to recommend a Bible translation (see here for my thoughts on that), but this request actually calls for more...
Tools for Biblical Research, Part 2: Access to Scholarly Journals
In the wake of the last post (the NT commentary example ), I’ve had several requests about commentaries and journals. I’ll say something about commentaries in future posts, but those of you who are keeping up already know that I view them as one of several...
All Commentaries are Not Created Equal, Part 2
To continue with what separates a good commentary from a lame one (with respect to engaging the original text), we’ll look at a New Testament example this time. For newcomers, please see my first example , as well as the post that started this trajectory about...
All Commentaries are Not Created Equal, Part 1
In my experience, most students who venture beyond just reading the Bible have heard of Bible commentaries. But in case someone reading this hasn’t heard the term before, I should explain. A Bible commentary is just what it sounds like — a book that...
Tools for Biblical Research, Part 1: Toward the End of Bible Study as Most Think of It
In addition to my day job at Logos I’m an adjunct distance ed professor of biblical studies at the seminary level. One of the more common questions I get from students is about sources for biblical research papers. Poor sources are the bane of both the student...
Learning to Use Hebrew and Greek
I think I blogged about this in the past, but if not, here goes. One of the recent projects I’ve worked on at Logos has been creating a set of video tools for teaching people who can read only English how to use Greek and Hebrew for Bible study. I did the...
What Can You Do With a Syntax Database?
I’m getting close to abandoning the discussion about software, at least for the foreseeable future. Hope those of you who don’t care about Bible software haven’t been bored by it all. I haven’t made any attempt to scour the web for traffic...