Produce Reports about Biblical People, Places & More with Factbook

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris, who has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos seminars, provides many training materials.

Just like the CIA publishes The World Factbook with facts and figures about the countries of the world, Logos 6 presents the Factbook (replacing Bible Facts in Logos 5), which produces reports about biblical people, places, things, and events, as well as a host of other subjects. In addition to being opened from numerous hyperlinks throughout the program and the Context menu, the Factbook is housed and accessed from the Tools menu.

Try this:

• Choose Tools | Factbook
• Type a subject in the box (A), such as a:
  • Biblical book, like Ephesians
  • Biblical person, like Moses
  • Biblical place, like Jericho
  • Biblical thing, like sandal
  • Biblical event, like feed 5000
  • Biographical person, like John Wesley
  • Topic, like baptism
  • Cultural concept, like marriage
  • Preaching theme, like mercy
• Select your desired item from the drop-down list (or press the Enter key if your item is already highlighted in the list) (B)

The various sections in a report differ depending on the subject under study, but expect to see information types like:

• Media
• Dictionary articles
• Search results from your library
• Referent dataset
• Community tags
• Miscellaneous links to Wikipedia and searches

For quick access to the Factbook, right click a word in a Bible and open the Factbook from the Context menu! The more you use it, the more you’ll be impressed with this goldmine of information neatly organized in a hyperlinked article for almost any subject related to biblical studies.

For complete written instructions on all the new Logos 6 features, check out the Logos 6: What’s New? Manual or attend our in-depth Camp Logos in Arizona or Tennessee.