Suggested Commentary Tags

9 Responses to Suggested Commentary Tags

1. Chad M. Carpenter says:

   October 19, 2011 at 2:25 am

   Thank you so much for sharing your insights on Logos Bible Software! I’ve advanced considerably in organizing my library since viewing your videos and following your suggested commentary tags.

   Would you be willing to add your tag classifications for single-volume commentaries to the list? I currently have several that I’d love to know the tag choice you use (examples include – Bible Guide, Bible History: OT, Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Bible Commentary, Word Pictures, Wuest’s Word Studies, etc.). If any further guidance on tagging commentaries could be provided, it would be greatly appreciated!

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2. Jack Caviness says:

   November 8, 2011 at 4:30 pm

   Nathan
   Thanks for these lists. You seem to have overlooked the Crossway Classic Commentary series

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3. Mark Barnes says:

   November 9, 2011 at 1:05 am

   Chad: Sorry for the delay in replying. I will add single volume commentaries to the list. Most will be ‘intermediate’, though some (like Matthew Henry) would be ‘expository’.

   Jack: I don’t own the Crossway Classic Commentary set, and no previews are available on Logos’ website. But most of the volumes are available in other Logos products (though the Crossway editions have been edited for simplicity) so I think I’m familiar enough with the volumes to say that it’s a tricky set to classify. Spurgeon on Psalms, and Ryle on Matthew I’m sure would be expository, whilst Calvin on John, or Hodge on 1 Corinthians I would class as intermediate – unless the editing process has so simplified them that they too could be classed as expository. What do you think?

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   • Chad M. Carpenter says:

     December 3, 2011 at 6:32 pm

     Great! Thanks for the time and effort you’ve put into this helpful list along with all the videos. Your tutorials have made Logos much more useful for me and I’ve let other Logos users know about this site.

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4. Craig Heberle says:

   January 16, 2012 at 12:25 am

   Mark, thanks for all your hard work! Thank the Lord that you even had some of the resources that I acutally own! LOL! I have a huge “wish list” going now.

   I assume that some of the other works of Alfred Edersheim (The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, etc.) would be included in the “Background Commentaries” or I guess I could have a “Historical Commentaries” collection to capture things like Philip Schaff’s “History of the Christian Church.”

   Do you actually own all of those volumes or do you have your own “wish list” going? LOL!

   Thanks!

   Yours in him,
   Craig

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   • Mark Barnes says:

     January 16, 2012 at 2:51 pm

     Hi Craig,
     I’ve only listed works which are actual commentaries on the Biblical text (listed in your Logos library with the ‘Type’ set to Commentary). Life and Times and History of the Christian Chuch are not commentaries in that sense, so I haven’t included them. When building my Logos library over the last ten years or so, I have concentrated on commentaries, so I’m fortunate to own about 90% of the commentaries listed here.

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5. Bethany says:

   April 1, 2012 at 3:35 pm

   Hi Mark, great stuff, thank you. When you do a custom passage guide, do you find it helpful to split the commentaries into sections by their tags? (eg. 3 commentary sections: Intermediate, Expository and Background).

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   • Mark Barnes says:

     April 7, 2012 at 1:50 pm

     Yes, Bethany, that’s exactly what I do. I find it extremely helpful because I tend to consult different types of commentaries at different points in my preparation.

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6. Philana Crouch says:

   May 20, 2012 at 5:35 pm

   Mark,

   Thank you so much for putting this list together. Once “my tags” start syncing with the mobile app this will make downloading and searching of for books in my library so much faster.

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