All of us here at Logos (especially Rick Brannan) are thrilled to announce that there is finally a complete Septuagint Greek-English interlinear available to everyone interested in Septuagint research. It took a bit longer than expected, but it's done! If you know...
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SBL and Logos Bible Software’s New Edition of the Greek New Testament
Well, the cat's out of the bag now, so I can blog this. Logos Bible Software (my employer) and the Society of Biblical Literature have announced the release (next month at the SBL conference) of a new edition of the Greek NT. (Free print copies will be handed out at...
British Library to put Greek Manuscripts Online
Pretty cool -- read about it here. Here are some excerpts: The British Library said Monday that it was making more than a quarter of its 1,000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available online free of charge, something curators there hope will be a...
English-Greek Reverse Interlinear APOCRYPHA
Yes, that's right - another digital first from Logos. This item just went on prepub. More specifically, the interlinear is made from Rahlf's LXX Greek and the NRSV English of the Apocryphal books. The Greek has tagged morphology. Read all about it at the link above,...
Now Jesus Didn’t Die on a Cross…or Did He?
A nice treat for us -- some scholarly paleobabble! Readers may have seen or heard the "news" that, according to scholar Gunnar Samuelsson, the gospels do not say Jesus died on a cross. This, my friends, is either a good example of sophistry or yet another reason to...
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 Hebrew; my...
Get the Entire Gottingen Septaugint for 90 Percent Off
That's right. No kidding. For those who know don't know what the Göttingen LXX is, it's the premier critical text edition of the Septuagint. There are 24 volumes in print, each of which go for $150 or more in print. That's $3600 for the set. Plus it's in electronic...
Has the Original Labyrinth Been Found?
Could be. This isn't from a paleo-babbling source, either. Real archaeologists doing what they do. Read about it here.
New Online Site for Public Domain Bible Reference Works
Check out Bible Ref Shelf - a very useful (if small) site for public domain Bible study materials. Editor's note: additional info provided.
The Name of Jesus: Does it Matter?
One of the most frequent email questions I get concerns the name "Jesus." More specifically, the question goes something like this: "Isn't the name ‘Jesus' a pagan invention? Shouldn't we say "Yeshua" or Yahshua" instead?" I'm not sure what motivates people who...