Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 162:647 (Jul 2005)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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Bsac 162:647 (July 2005) p. 366

Book Reviews

By The Faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary

Matthew S. DeMoss, Editor

Logos Bible Software Series X: Scholar’s Library Silver Edition. Libronix Digital Library System. Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, 2004. $999.95.

This software represents the latest development in the venerable Logos Bible Software Series X software line. Building on the high-end Scholar’s Edition, Silver Edition raises the bar high in terms of both excellence and inclusiveness of powerful academic resources for both pastors and biblical scholars.

Logos reports that the Silver Edition includes approximately $8,000 worth of print-equivalent content, and integrates completely with the almost four thousand other titles now available, with many more offerings being announced on an almost-daily basis.

The Scholar’s Library Silver Edition (as does the Scholar’s Library itself) now fully integrates all thirteen of the add-in modules—many of which were formerly separate products (such as the Biblical Languages Supplement and the Original Languages Supplement). The Biblical Languages Supplement includes a number of helpful features for working with the original languages, including “Visual Filters” that mark up a resource automatically (including the Morphological Filter which provides markups for Greek and Hebrew morphological coding).

The Silver Edition adds only one English Bible, the kjv Word Study Bible (Zodhiates) and its associated Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary, and four volumes of Zodhiates’s Sermon Starters.

However, the real value in the Silver Edition lies elsewhere, namely, in the inclusion of quality technical resources for students of Scripture. The edition includes Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with the Groves-Wheeler Westminster 4.0 Hebrew Morphology (again, as does the Scholar’s Library QB)—itself a powerful inducement to upgrade to gain the corrections from previous versions as well as the new features (e.g. cantillation and accent marks, annotation of the differing electronic editions of BHS, the textual annotation from the Westminster Morphology Database, and the inclusion of Ketiv/Qere readings). Gesenius’s Hebrew Grammar as well as the Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures complete the Hebrew-related offerings.

Of particular benefit to students of the Greek New Testament is the inclusion of the Newberry Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament as well as Friberg’s Analytical Greek New Testament and the USB 4th edition Greek New Testament with M...

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