Depending on your perspective, it may or may not be a surprise that Logos 7 was released this morning. We’ve been on a six-week release cycle in support of Logos Now for over 18 months. That’s a new release, every six weeks, for 18 months. So we were going to have an update today (August 22, 2016) anyway.

But the release of Logos 7 is big because it means the stuff that Logos Now members have had access to over the last 18 months (with new stuff every six weeks) is now available for purchase and upgrade. And my team has been busy (BUSY!) over those 18 months. I have two lists below representing what we’ve done. The first is stuff my team worked on for the actual Logos 7 release (meaning, it was released this morning), followed by the stuff my team has worked on over the past 18 months that everyone who upgrades to Logos 7 can now access.

I may have posts in the future about some of the new things.

New Stuff for Logos 7 Release

Resources

1. Lexham Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew-English Interlinear Bible
2. Lexham Latin-English Interlinear Vulgate Bible
3. The Reverse Interlinear Vulgate
4. The English-Greek Reverse Interlinear Deuterocanonical Old Testament Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition

Datasets

1. Hebrew Grammatical Constructions — difficult to search for Hebrew constructions annotated so they can be more easily discovered. Verbless clauses, tripartite nominal clauses, and several different flavors of hollow verbs.
2. Speech Acts (New Testament) — Speech Acts and Sentence Types (#3 below) are separate analyses but when combined offer unique capability. Speech Acts is more functional. For example, sometimes a functional request is formally a declarative sentence. Mt 8.5–7 records the centurion asking Jesus to help heal his slave. But the centurion only tells Jesus his slave is paralyzed and tormented; he doesn’t really ask for him to be healed. Sort of like how my kids say “I’m thirsty!” but what they really mean is “May I have something to drink?” Speech Acts annotates this more functional use of language.
3. Sentence Types (New Testament) — Sentence types annotates the formal nature of a sentence/clause. Is it declarative, interrogative (question), or imperative (command)? This dataset provides an easy way to search for items that are formally questions or commands in the New Testament — a frequent request from users.
4. Longacre Genre Analysis — Robert Longacre defined four major types of genre that are applied to larger blocks of text (pericopes). Each type has two nuances or sides. This analysis annotates the Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament with Longacre’s categories.
5. Figurative Language (Gospels) — This analysis is of figurative language in the Gospels. We plan to expand it to cover the whole New Testament. So in Mt 5.19 where Jesus notes there will be some called “least in the Kingdom of Heaven” and some called “greatest”, this is metaphorical language. In this case, an orientational metaphor. Where is other language like this used? Mt 10.24, “A disciple is not superior to his teacher, nor a slave superior to his master.” You would’ve never found that other example before, now it can be easily found by searching on the category of figurative language. Or maybe you’re interested in the use of “Shepherd” in figurative language. A search finds several examples in the gospels (Mt 26.31; Mk 14.27; Jn 10.2, 11ff.).

Other Logos Now Material Now Available

These items have been available for Logos Now members, and can now be accessed by Logos 7 owners.

Datasets

1. Discourse Datasets and Visual Filters 
2. New Feature: Cascadia Syntax Graphs of LXX Deuterocanon and Apocrypha 
3. Miracles of the Bible 
4. Syntactic Force 
5. Speaking to God 
6. Proverbs Explorer, vol. 2 
7. Biblical Theologies Section
   
8. Israelite Sacrifices
9. Reported Speech, Speakers, and Addressees for Deuterocanon
10. New Testament Use of the Old
11. Confessional Documents Section
12. Proverbs Explorer Dataset
13. Bullinger’s Figures of Speech Dataset
14. Addressees in Reported Speech 
15. Greek Grammatical Constructions 
16. Old Testament Propositional Bible Outlines 
17. Psalms Explorer Dataset 
18. RSVCE Hebrew Old Testament Reverse Interlinear 
19. Systematic Theologies Section

Interactives

1. Miracles of the Bible 
2. Speaking to God 
3. Systematic Theologies Interactive 
4. Hebrew Bible Manuscript Explorer
   
5. Names of God: Deuterocanon 
6. Proverbs Explorer, vol. 2
7. New Testament Use of the Old Testament 
8. Synopsis of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles
9. Before and After Vol 2 
10. Commandments of the Law
    
11. Names of God Interactive 
12. Narrative Character Maps Vol 2 
13. New Testament Manuscript Explorer 
14. Septuagint Manuscript Explorer

Resources

1. Parallel Passages in the Pauline Epistles