How to Study the Apostle Paul's Letters with Logos

About This Training

In this training, Dr. John Fallahee shows how to use Logos Bible Software to study the Apostle Paul’s life and letters in a clear, organized way. He walks through practical methods like building a biography using tagged searches, the Fact Book for relationships and events, and the timeline tool to see how Paul’s journeys connect to other biblical timelines. These tools help you find relevant passages, understand context, and keep your notes structured.

The second part of the training covers Smart Search and the Study Assistant, which organize search results by theme and provide deeper summaries. Dr. Fallahee also shows how to bring in external AI tools to supplement your study, then copy key insights back into Logos. He demonstrates how to create collections with custom rules and use event tagging to link passages across Paul’s letters and missionary journeys.

In the third segment, he focuses on intertextual connections between Paul’s letters and the Old Testament using the Intertext tool. He also shows how to use the List tool for quick reference, personal books for saved study work, and AI prompts to automate research. The training ends with a reminder that Logos helps you explore Paul’s unique journey and teachings with practical, hands-on methods.

What You'll Learn

• Build a Pauline biography using Logos’ “Paul Person” tag to find all 1,445 mentions of Paul, including indirect references
• Refine searches with “intersect” to separate pre- and post-conversion references and “equals” for exact matches
• Use the Fact Book to view relationships (e.g., Paul’s nephew) and lists of places Paul visited for contextual study
• Organize insights in a “Paul’s Biography” notebook with pages for events like conversion and cross references
• Save commentaries and study notes as clippings linked to your notebook for easy reference
• Visualize Paul’s life events in the timeline tool alongside Jesus’ life and other biblical timelines
• Paste sentences into Bible Smart Search to automatically group and rank relevant passages by theme
• Use Study Assistant to generate detailed, cross-referenced summaries of topics like conversion and suffering
• Integrate AI tools by pasting content into ChatGPT or other platforms and returning insights to Logos
• Use Logos’ “Add from Clipboard” to import verses or phrases from external sources into your documents
• Build chronological frameworks using external books like *Paul Apostle of the Free Spirit* and Logos’ library integration
• Search the Library by subjects and tags (e.g., “Paul,” “the Apostle”) with Boolean logic for targeted results
• Create custom collections with rules to auto-group books, passages, and notes around themes like “conversion”
• Right-click on names (e.g., Aquila) to link person searches with missionary journeys and related passages
• Use the Bible Browser to combine tags (e.g., “Paul” + “event”) for precise contextual searches
• Combine keywords and operators (e.g., “Paul and map”) to find visual resources like maps and images
• Use the Intertext tool to see how Paul’s letters quote or allude to Old Testament passages visually
• Access the List tool to organize key people, places, and verses from Paul’s letters for quick review
• Study cultural context like biblical slavery using Factbook and AI searches to clarify historical differences
• Apply AI prompts to trace argument structures in Paul’s letters (e.g., “structure near argument near Ephesians”)
• Use Passage Guide to identify Old Testament quotations in Paul’s letters and visualize connections
• Leverage Passage Guide’s parallel passages feature to locate cross-references and contextual links
• Explore Intertext and Bible Books Explore to map all Old Testament citations across Paul’s 13 letters