28 Free Wallpapers from Logos Bible Software

| Mon, April 5, 2010 | Misc.

20 Free Wallpapers from Logos Bible Software

Have you been meaning to find a new wallpaper in order to freshen up your computer screen? Spring is here, and besides baseball starting again (yes!), Spring means cleaning things up, putting away winter darks and bringing out lively, fresh spring and summer colors. Why not start with your computer screen by quickly setting a new Logos wallpaper? Besides, there is only so long you can look at Stonehenge, tulips, a tropical setting, or the galaxy’s expanse, right?

Our art department has been busy designing a variety of free wallpapers for you to choose from based on the new Logos Bible Software 4. With 28 brand new wallpapers, each available in 8 different screen resolutions, there should be something of interest for everyone. And just because they are called wallpapers, doesn’t mean they are limited to your computer screen. Feel free to use them as an overhead image before church service or in a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.

Head on over to our Logos Bible Software Desktop Wallpaper page to view larger versions and to download one—or all. Or, come back often and switch your wallpaper on a weekly or monthly basis. There are five resolution sizes to choose per wallpaper.

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Which one will you be using?

Logos 4: Open Features to a Specific Screen Location

| Mon, April 5, 2010 | Training

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

When you click on a toolbar icon or make a choice from one of the menus, that selected feature will open, but it may not open exactly where you want it on the screen. In such cases you then have to drag the panel to the desired position. If this happens try this.

  • Click a toolbar icon or menu choice and hold down the left mouse button
  • Drag the feature to the desired location on the screen

The light blue highlighted area will let you know where the feature will open when you release the mouse!

Moving from Theology to Doxology

| Fri, April 2, 2010 | Products

Millard Erickson

Today’s guest post is from Johnny Cisneros, of our Design & Editorial department.

When I was in graduate school, I had the privilege of taking systematic theology of J.I. Packer. He started every class lecture by saying, “Arise, friends, let us sing the Doxology!” After singing and a word of prayer, he would remind us, “The goal of theology, friends, is doxology.” That is, our view of God should inspire us to worship God.

Dr. Packer’s devotional approach to theology was evident even in his choice of textbook for the course – Millard J. Erickson’s Christian Theology. Here’s just an excerpt:

“Because God is a person (indeed, he is pictured as our Father), our relationship with him has a dimension of warmth and understanding. God is not a bureau or a department, a machine or a computer that automatically supplies the needs of people. He is a knowing, loving, good Father. He can be approached. He can be spoken to, and he in turn speaks” (Christian Theology, pg. 296).

Now that’s the kind of doctrine that moves us from, “You’re right, God” to “You’re good, Father.”

Are you interested in moving from theology to doxology?

Then check out The Moody Theological Studies Collection (10 Vols.) on Pre-Pub.

Other great titles by J.I. Packer:

Also by Millard J. Erickson:

In a future blog post, I’ll introduce you to a theologian who had a profound influence on Millard J. Erickson.

Zondervan Bundle Discounts Expire This Weekend!

| Thu, April 1, 2010 | Products

Zondervan is one of the leading publishers of Bible commentaries, reference works, and books written by today’s top evangelical scholars. Last September, we announced a new partnership with Zondervan, and offered 87 of their books through our Pre-Pub program.

Now, seven months later, we are only a few days from having Zondervan’s titles available for Logos Bible Software. On Monday, April 5, we’ll begin processing all the Pre-Pub orders. If you haven’t yet pre-ordered, this is your last chance to get the Zondervan books while they’re on Pre-Pub!

The best deal is on the 87-volume Zondervan Bible Reference Bundle. With this bundle, you get Zondervan’s bestselling books, commentaries, and reference works at the best price. It’s heavily discounted for a few more days, so this is your last chance to order the entire bundle before the price goes up on Monday, April 5.

Zondervan

This giant collection includes Zondervan’s bestselling titles at a steep discount:

Remember, the price goes up on Monday April 5th, so pre-order now to lock in the Pre-Pub price!

Are you a Pradis user?

If you’re a Pradis user, we want to make your transition to Logos Bible Software as smooth as possible. We realize that you might have spent years building up the titles in your Pradis library, and you’ve made a significant financial investment in buying those titles.

For registered Pradis users only, Zondervan has authorized a special discount of an additional 40% off the newly-lowered Pre-Pub prices. The discounts are designed to help you transition to Logos Bible Software editions for the same books you’ve already purchased in Pradis. If you’re a registered Pradis user, this is your chance to get your books in Logos Bible Software at rock-bottom prices. Learn more about discounts for registered Pradis users.

The Other Third of the Hebrew Bible

| Wed, March 31, 2010 | Products

Approximately one third of the Hebrew Bible is poetry and needs to be interpreted with a sensitivity to the devices used by Hebrew poets. However, most books covering the grammar and syntax of the Hebrew language are devoted almost entirely to prose, and leave investigations of poetry to more specialized books.
Those using Logos Bible Software to study the Hebrew Bible have a great selection of these prose grammars available to them, from Waltke and O’Connor’s An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax and the classic Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley Hebrew Grammar to Joüon-Muraoka’s A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew and Christo van der Merwe’s A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar. But until now, there have been few works made available for studying Hebrew poetry. Happily, the news isn’t all grim: a number of collections are now listed on the pre-publication page that can round out your Hebrew library nicely.
Hebrew Studies Collection (7 Vols.)
The Hebrew Studies Collection, consisting of seven volumes from the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, includes no less than four books on Hebrew poetry: Traditional Techniques in Classical Hebrew Verse, Classical Hebrew Poetry, A Guide to its Techniques, Directions in Biblical Hebrew Poetry, and Structural Analysis of Biblical and Canaanite Poetry. Parallelism, word pairs, figurative language, metre and a host of other rhetorical and structural devices are explored in this collection, making it an excellent first stop for exploring Hebrew poetics.
Word Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry, by Nicholas Lunn. Changing the expected word order is one method the biblical authors use to highlight or emphasize certain aspects of their sentences. Word order has oft been studied for Hebrew prose, but this book explores how those dynamics play out in the poetic genre.
The BHS Helps Collection features Luis Alonso Schokel’s A Manual of Hebrew Poetics. The manual is not primarily a reference book but rather a volume of initiation into the practice of analysis. Among the poetic techniques discussed are sound and sonority, rhythm, imagery, figures of speech, dialogue and monologue, development and composition.
Biblical Languages: Reference Grammars and Introductions (19 vols.) includes George Buchanan Gray’s classic The Forms of Hebrew Poetry, which includes extensive discussions of parallelism, rhythm, and alphabetic acrostics. Also included is Wickes’ Two Treatises on the Accentuation of the Old Testament, a study in the cantillation system of the Hebrew Bible.
I encourage those interested in studying the other third of the Hebrew Bible to take a look at some of these collections.

Free Logos 4! T-shirt

| Tue, March 30, 2010 | Misc.

Free Logos 4! T-shirt Offer

We’re giving away free Logos t-shirts and making it as easy as possible to get ‘em! Just spend $50 or more on Logos March Madness deals, or subscribe to Bible Study Magazine. No limit, while supplies last, no rain-checks, just cover S&H. Get your free Logos 4! T-shirt in either blue or green—or both—today!

Starting today, as the Logos March Madness Final 4 round starts, every $50 spent on Logos March Madness titles, and every subscription to Bible Study Magazine (with auto-renew selected) will qualify for a free tee. There is no limit on how many free t-shirts you may get—so don’t hold back. Get one for yourself, your spouse, your children, your staff, your friends!

There are two ways to get this special offer:

Logos March Madness purchases over $50:With limited time left in Logos March Madness competition, all new orders over $50 qualify—until March Madness ends. Every $50 increment gives you a coupon code for a free t-shirt. That is, $50 orders get one free tee, $150 purchases get you three coupon codes for three free tees and so on. Simple enough, right? Check out our Current Coupon Codes list now and place your order!

Simply forward the order confirmation receipt we send to your inbox
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Logos 4: Look Up Multiple Cross References at Once

| Mon, March 29, 2010 | Training

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

Perhaps you enjoy studying the Bible through a series of cross references. If so, you’re familiar with the cross references placed inline the biblical text. In Logos 4, cross references are hyperlinked which means resting the mouse pointer on a link reveals a popup of the biblical passage from your Preferred Bible.

You can also look up numerous cross references at one time. Here’s how:

  • Open a Bible
  • Open Power Lookup from the Tools menu
  • In the Bible, select (highlight) text containing the cross references you want to look up

The Power Lookup displays only the selected cross references!

More Titles on Sale with Logos March Madness

| Sat, March 27, 2010 | Misc.

The Logos March Madness Sweet 16 round is complete and we now have 56 titles on sale from 25-35% off their retail price. That also means that there are now only 8 titles remaining in the race for a 75% off coupon code. Your votes determine which titles will win, so head over and vote. The Elite 8 round will be open for voting through March 29th. The titles that don’t advance out of this round will be receive a 40% off coupon code and the remaining 4 titles will battle it out to see who will be in the championship round.

Here’s a list of the current Logos March Madness titles on sale with the corresponding coupon code.

Use code LMMR3 to save 35% on these titles Retail 35% off
The Ways of Our God: An Approach to Biblical Theology $48.00 $31.20
The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by the Apostles $43.75 $28.44
The Treasury of David, Charles Spurgeon (6 Vols.) $59.95 $38.97
Encountering the Book of Romans, Douglas Moo $24.99 $16.24
He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World, R. Albert Mohler, Jr. $24.99 $16.24
A Quest for Godliness, J. I. Packer $14.95 $9.72
Old Testament Survey, William Sanford LaSor, David Allan Hubbard, Frederic William Bush $50.00 $32.50
1-3 John: The MacArthur New Testament Commentary, John MacArthur $26.99 $17.54
Use code LMMR2 to save 30% on these titles Retail 30% off
Commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew, A. T. Roberton $23.95 $16.77
An Introduction to the Old Testament, Edward J. Young $38.00 $26.60
An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, B. B. Warfield $20.99 $14.69
The Doctrine of Justification: An Outline of Its History in the Church and of Its Exposition from Scripture $40.95 $28.67
The Genesis Question: Scientific Advances and the Accuracy of Genesis, Hugh Ross $14.95 $10.47
Paul’s Letter to the Romans, Ben Witherington $40.00 $28.00
Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Letter of James, Douglas Moo $32.00 $22.40
The Work of the Holy Spirit, by Abraham Kuyper $29.95 $20.97
Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Charles Hodge $26.95 $18.87
The Epistle to the Galatians, by James D. G. Dunn $34.95 $24.47
A Short Grammar of the Greek New Testament, for Students Familiar with the Elements of Greek, A. T. Robertson $42.95 $30.07
Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) and 20th Century Evangelicalism $27.99 $19.59
The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary, Merrill F. Unger $39.95 $27.97
Story as Torah: Reading Old Testament Narrative Ethically, Gordon J. Wenham $23.00 $16.10
The Pauline Writings, Craig A. Evens and Stanley E. Porter $70.00 $49.00
A Concise New Testament Theology, I. Howard Marshall $23.00 $16.10
Use code LMMR1 to save 25% on these titles Retail 25% off
The Great Exchange: Justification by Faith Alone in the Light of Recent Thought $12.99 $9.74
The Last Things: An Eschatology for Laymen, George Eldon Ladd $14.00 $10.50
Commentaries for Biblical Expositors, Jim Rosscup $19.99 $14.99
Old Testament Theology: Basic Issues in the Current Debate, Gerhard Hasel $22.00 $16.50
The New American Commentary: Isaiah 1-39, Gary Smith $29.99 $22.49
The First and Second Letters to Timothy, Vol. 1 and 2, Jerome D. Quinn and William C. Wacker $88.00 $66.00
The Major Works of Anselm of Canterbury (4 Vols.) $19.95 $14.96
Finally Alive, John Piper $14.99 $11.24
The History of the Second Temple Period, Paolo Sacchi $84.00 $63.00
The Doctrine of Endless Punishment, William G. T. Shedd $15.00 $11.25
Josephus and the New Testament by Steve Mason $9.95 $7.46
A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage, H. Leon McBeth $39.99 $29.99
The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being Three Persons, by Thomas F. Torrance $44.95 $33.71
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, by Loraine Boettner $14.99 $11.24
Cornerstone Biblical Commentary: Luke, Acts, William J. Larkin and Allison A. Trites $34.99 $26.24
Reading Romans, Luke Timothy Johnson $29.95 $22.46
The Septuagint as Christian Scripture: Its Prehistory and the Problem of Its Canon, Martin Hengel $60.00 $45.00
The Shape of Sola Scriptura, Keith A. Mathison $21.00 $15.75
Caring for Souls: Counseling Under the Authority of Scripture $27.75 $20.81
The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, James C. Vanderkam $19.95 $14.96
Believer’s Baptism: The Covenant Sign of the New Age in Christ, Thomas R. Schreiner & Shawn Wright $19.99 $14.99
A General View of the History of the English Bible by B. F. Westcott $32.00 $24.00
The Holy Spirit, by Charles Ryrie $13.99 $10.49
Grammatical Insights into the New Testament, Nigel Turner $72.00 $54.00
Revelation 20 and the Millennial Debate, Matt Waymeyer $9.99 $7.49
Eternal Covenant: How the Trinity Reshapes Covenant Theology, Ralph A. Smith $12.00 $9.00
Glimpses of a Strange Land: Studies in Old Testament Ethics, Cyril Rodd $108.00 $81.00
Justification: The Heart of the Christian Faith, Eberhard Jüngel $72.00 $54.00
Theologians of the Baptist Tradition $24.99 $18.74
Calvinism, by Abraham Kuyper $24.95 $18.71
Jensen’s Survey of the New Testament $34.99 $26.24
Light from the Ancient East (Deissmann) $49.95 $37.46

Note: Please follow these instructions when purchasing titles using multiple coupon codes.

First, add all the titles you want to purchase to your cart:

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Digging into the Church Fathers

| Fri, March 26, 2010 | Products

The collection of writings known as the Early Church Fathers (37 vols) is included in Scholar’s Silver, Gold and Platinum collections, and also in Portfolio (LE editions).
That is a large collection. It’s great, and it is very handy to have indexed by reference and topic. I’ve personally benefited from it many times over the years. But it is tough to dig into and understand as a whole, particularly if you’re not familiar with the major writers. What to do?
One place to start out is H.B. Swete’s Patristic Study (sold separately; not included in base collections). This is a small book, but it gives an overview of people and themes in the first five centuries of the church. The product page gives a good description:

Patristic Study focuses almost exclusively on the Fathers of the first five Centuries. After reviewing these writers, Dr. Swete proceeds in the closing chapters to suggest methods of employing the work of the Fathers for the particular purposes of those in different lines of religious and theological study.

Swete’s book is handy to use as an less technical introduction to the writings of the Church Fathers found in the much larger Early Church Fathers (37 vols) collection.
What about other titles in this area? Logos has several available:

  • Getting to Know the Church Fathers; An Evangelical Introduction is a title on prepub (at the time this blog post was written). It distills information about the person instead of only the writings the person is responsible for. So figures in the early church like Augustine, Ignatius, Origen, Perpetua and Tertullian (and more) are described in ways that make their writings more accessible.
  • The Apostolic Fathers Greek-English Interlinear is also presently gathering interest as a prepub. Lexicons like BDAG, TDNT and TLNT (as well as several commentaries) cite the writings of the Apostolic Fathers all the time. If you don’t remember as much of your Greek as you’d like, or if you haven’t had a chance to take Greek yet, sometimes an interlinear can be helpful in tracking down these cross-references and examining word usages in context.
  • The New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers is a handy work that provides cross references between New Testament passages and writings of the Apostolic Fathers. This can be very handy.
  • Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels by Thomas Aquinas is presently a community pricing title. This is less of Aquinas and more of a compilation of sentences/notes from the church fathers that end up functioning as a commentary — by the church fathers — on the Gospels. Fun stuff, might be worth checking out.

I’d better stop now — but can you tell I’m excited about this stuff? Logos has a goodly amount of titles available in this area (even a chunk of volumes from Patrologia Graeca on prepub!) so I’ll have to blog again about this in the future to point out some more stuff that you might be interested in.

Introducing the Lexham English Bible

| Thu, March 25, 2010 | Apps & Web Tools, Products

Lexham English Bible

The Lexham English Bible (LEB) is a new translation of the Bible into English, and one of the newest additions to a suite of resources from Logos which connect the original language texts to formal translations. New translations of the Bible into English appear every few years. So what’s so special about the LEB?

Your Second Bible

The LEB complements your primary translation. Its transparent design and literal rendering helps you see the text of God’s Word from another angle. Whether you use the ESV, NIV, KJV, or another popular English translation, the entire translation process helps you identify difficult texts, idiomatic phrases, grammatical issues, and more. The result? A better understanding of the Bible in English—whatever translation you use.

In Logos Bible Software, interlinears reveal the path from the original language texts to formal translation. This type of information, used in concert with your primary translation, helps you dig deeper into the text of the original languages. The entire translation process is visible and transparent—you can see the entire process.

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