![]() I buy all my academic and popular books in it when possible. ![]() Logos is like a supercharged Kindle on steroids, which I use as my research library. ![]() Logos just released the free version of its new engine, Logos 7 for Mac, PC, iOs, and Android. And it’s free! I’ll provide a description, then walk through the steps to get it, demo some things on video, and then make some suggestions. I am terribly pleased to inform you that there is a new technology-assisted way to move directly from the KJV to legitimate scholarly Greek and Hebrew tools. They use it as a lexicon, as a guide to meaning, but this is highly problematic. If you read something citing Strong’s to establish what a word means, you can be fairly certain the authors have not actually studied Greek or Hebrew, and I strongly recommend not giving that source any scholarly weight or authority in Gospel Doctrine or Seminary. They’re typically relying on Strong’s Concordance, which can be used legitimately (see my article here, the section called “original language resources”) but 99% of the time, Strong’s is abused by people who just don’t know better. I’ve seen several bad uses flagrant abuses of original languages recently by people who don’t actually know the languages. I’ll get back to my Transitional Mormonism and Tradition, but I was really excited about this development. I tend not to accept friend requests from people I’m not acquainted with. If you friend me on Facebook, please drop me a note telling me you’re a reader. You can also get updates by email whenever a post goes up (subscription box on the right). ![]() Below, I walk you through another tool to help with words and translations.Īs always, you can help me pay my tuition here, or you can support my work through making your regular Amazon purchases through this Amazon link. Now, I know Logos looks intimidating, but you can treat it like a Kindle until you start figuring stuff out. This is an introductory guide to common pitfalls people make when they start digging in to original languages and words. If you want that capability in the NRSV or ESV or some other translation, you have to acquire the reverse interlinearversion (see my demo for explanation) which cost more individually or are sold as part of most packages. That’s because the KJV is a reverse interlinear, tagged with the appropriate Greek and Hebrew. Note that this version of the NRSV will not do what your free KJV does. Many other useful translations like the NRSV are also $10.
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