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The Scripture Index

You can also use the Browse indexes to see all of the citations in the database near the one you want. Look at the colored tabs at the top of the search screen; click on the one marked Scriptures.

Go to Old Testament Abstracts. Try entering Genesis 18 in the Browse for: box, and then click on the Browse button. You receive a list of all of the Scripture passages in or near Genesis 18 that are used as subject matter for articles in this database.

This technique can be used for OTA, NTA and CPLI, except that CPLI has no Scriptures tab. In CPLI, you must click on Indexes instead, enter your Bible passage, choose Scripture Reference from the drop-down menu, and click on Browse.

The Browse indexes have the annoying habit of listing passages by decimal place instead of canonical order. After Genesis 1 comes Genesis 10, then Gen 11, 12 and so on through Gen 19, then Genesis 1:1. Again, after Gen 2 comes Gen 20, then 21-29, then Genesis 2:1. Very irritating -- and it's worse with the Psalms! However, you can defeat this tendency by searching first on Genesis 1, then doing a second search on Genesis 1: with a colon after it. In this fashion, you can be sure you have retrieved all of the relevant records. Until EBSCO fixes this fault in their interface, users will need to compensate for it.

IMPORTANT NOTE : If you do a Scripture Citation search and get a message reading "No results were found," check to see if the Linked Full Text box is checked under Limit your results:

Click on the box to unmark it, and try your search again. There will be many more articles in the index that exist in paper form but not as electronic full-text files, so you are likely to get many more citations if you do not limit your search to Linked Full Text.