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I don't personally have a strong opinion about identifying the
EarlyFathers Genbook as containing heretical material, though I think
Eeli is right that the wrong notice would only look ridiculous to the
kind of people who would make use of this. <br>
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Regarding the question of breaking up the module, if there aren't major
performance problems with keeping it together, there is good reason to
keep it as one module. It was published as a set and would be easier to
download as a set, but the more practical reason for me is that it
makes it easier to search the module. I am working on a paper on the
ethics of lending in the OT, so to find out what patristic
interpretation of the issue was I decided to search for the word
"usury" using BibleTime. It turned up 82 hits. Being far from a
theological library, I was elated to see that I could do some
reasonable primary source reading on that issue for my own paper. On
the other hand, I noticed that Augustine's comments on the Psalms are
in there, and I agree it would be nice to have them in commentary form.
My suggestion is to keep a complete module available and then when
someone wants to have a work from that set as a commentary he or she
can do the work to spin it off for that purpose.<br>
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That brings me to another issue: the ability to search genbooks and
commentaries. I have a vague memory of comments on this forum to the
effect that such a feature isn't necessary or desireable, but the
Father's module is a prime example of the kind of genbook that one
would want to be able to search. This isn't just useful for scholars
but for your average person who wants to know what different writers
have said about "holiness" or "creation" or "the Holy Spirit." I use
that feature all the time in several other Bible software programs
because it saves me time having to read through a lot of material to
find what I am looking for (and is also the reason why theological
libraries subscribe to ATLASerials and such). I don't know what kind of
load that puts on the engine (creating indexes and such), but it seems
to me it ought to be a basic part of the functionality of the Sword
front-ends. Not everyone would make use of such a feature but many
would, and apparently the engine supports it if BibleTime does. It
would just be nice to have a general search dialog that gave the option
to search in all genbooks and commentaries and maybe even dictionaries.<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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Brian J. Dumont wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
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<pre wrap="">"Brian J. Dumont" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bdumont@ameritech.net"><bdumont@ameritech.net></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">I'd strongly be in favor of a notice in the About section that this
module contains a wide swath of texts of interest to Biblical scholars,
including documents that have historically and currently are considered
heretical as well as documents which have been widely accepted in
mainstream Christianity.
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<pre wrap="">Done, using just that text, slightly tweaked.
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Thanks
Brian
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