Preparing Bible Studies and Sermons using

Logos Bible Software WELS GROW Conference, 2017

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Overview

• Set up Logos with your preferred Bible, lexicons, grammars and commentaries.

• Explore the use of collections, visual filters, notes and personal books.

• Create guides to help with your text studies. These guides will use all your preferred resources for a particular verse or section of Scripture.

• Explore powerful search functions in Logos. This will help with word, phrase and clause studies.

• Test out your new Logos

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Set up Logos with your preferred Bible, lexicons, grammars and

commentaries.

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Choose your favorite books…

Prioritizes resources to come up first when you search and double-click.

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Tag your favorite resources

Gathers resources together

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Overview

• Set up Logos with your preferred Bible, lexicons, grammars and commentaries.

• Explore the use of collections, visual filters, notes and personal books.

• Create guides to help with your text studies. These guides will use all your preferred resources for a particular verse or section of Scripture.

• Explore powerful search functions in Logos. This will help with word, phrase and clause studies.

• Test out your new Logos setup

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Explore the use of collections.

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Make a collection

An alternative way to collect resources instead of tagging.

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Explore the use of visual filters

Now that you are able to gather your favorite resources lets learn how to use the visual filters to highlight your text (UBS4)

Open your UBS Greek New Testament

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Create a new visual filter

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What do you want to highlight?

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Don’t forget to enable the visual filter in your Bible

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Explore the use of notes

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Explore the use of personal books.

Uses Word Documents (.docx) to build a personal book.

What are the similarities and differences between a personal book and a Logos note?

Use chapter/verse references instead of chapter references (Genesis 1:1-31 instead of Genesis 1).

Use headings in Word to create your table of contents in Logos.

A note about fonts. *Logos can only read and convert Unicode fonts. This means any Greek in Gracea or GraecaII font or Hebrew in Hebraica font will have to be changed to a Unicode Greek or Hebrew font.

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Overview

• Set up Logos with your preferred Bible, lexicons, grammars and commentaries.

• Explore the use of collections, visual filters, and personal books.

• Create guides to help with your text studies. These guides will use all your preferred resources for a particular verse or section of Scripture.

• Explore powerful search functions in Logos. This will help with word, phrase and clause studies.

• Test out your new Logos setup

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Available Guides

Collect all your resources related to a specific passage or word in the Bible.

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Make a new guide

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Guide in Action

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Overview

• Set up Logos with your preferred Bible, lexicons, grammars and commentaries.

• Explore the use of collections, visual filters, and personal books.

• Create guides to help with your text studies. These guides will use all your preferred resources for a particular verse or section of Scripture.

• Explore powerful search functions in Logos. This will help with word, phrase and clause studies.

• Test out your new Logos setup

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Search capabilities in Logos

Goals:

Search your Bible in Logos for various word forms in a close proximity to each other.

Learn the Logos wildcard characters and search terms

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Wildcard Characters in Logos

The first wildcard character is: *

This wildcard character looks for any characters in sequence.

For example a search for S*R will give any word that starts with S and ends with a R. It does not matter how many letters are between the S and the R. Results in this search would include Star, Sour, Sir, etc.

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Wildcard Characters in Logos

The second wildcard character is: ?

This wildcard character looks for any single character.

For example a search for S?R will result in any three letter word beginning with S and ending with R. Results in this search would include SIR, etc.

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Searching for multiple words

NEAR - Within 48 characters

WITHIN X WORDS - The results will display two words that are within X words of each other.

BEFORE X WORDS - The results will have word 1 before word 2.

AFTER X WORDS - The results will have word 1 after word 2.

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An example

Open your search window in Logos

Set your search parameters

Let’s try it:

How would you find every instance (plene and defective) of דוד in the Old Testament with a single search string?

How would you Find any time the personal pronouns David and Saul (ׁשאול) are near each other?

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Overview

• Set up Logos with your preferred Bible, lexicons, grammars and commentaries.

• Explore the use of collections, visual filters, and personal books.

• Create guides to help with your text studies. These guides will use all your preferred resources for a particular verse or section of Scripture.

• Explore powerful search functions in Logos. This will help with word, phrase and clause studies.

• Test out your new Logos setup

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Exercises

How many occurences are there of Abraham or Abram in the OT? Use 1 search term.

How many occurrences are there of Abraham, Abram, Sarai, and Sarah near each other? Use 2 search terms connected together.

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Exercises

Use your guide to find all the occurrences of your verse within your favorite lexicon (BDAG/BDB).

Use your guide to find notable constructions (grammar) in your verse.

What does Luther have to say about it?

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Questions

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