Searching JerusalemPerspective.com Revolutionized!

JP Chosen as Launch Partner by ReferenceSearch.org

The search bar has been taking on some major improvements over the past four months. With these new tools, you can find the exact word or phrase, or biblical or other ancient reference, in any article on the JP web site.

Last week, JerusalemPerspective.com was chosen as the inaugural launch-site for ReferenceSearch.org. ReferenceSearch.org’s engine indexes biblical and other ancient references found on web pages in a way no other search engine on the Internet does. This unique ability has taken ReferenceSearch.org programmers years to develop and we are honored to have been chosen as the first web site to utilize their services.



Search by Biblical or Ancient Reference

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Prior to the launch of ReferenceSearch.org, if you were doing a study on Luke 13:19, there was no good way to find articles that referenced that Scripture. First, the author of an article might spell or abbreviate Luke in a number of ways (e.g., Luke, Lk, Luk). Second, an article might have a reference like Luke 13:18-20 and search engines are not aware that verse 19 is included in that reference.



To check out this amazing new feature, go to http://www.JerusalemPerspective.com, change the search to “by Biblical or Ancient Reference” type in “Luk 13:19“ and click the “Search” button.

Three articles are found:

Notice that two of the spellings of “Luke” are different from the search-text spelling, that two of the results don’t include verse 19 explicitly, and that none of the references have “13:19.”

Try the same search using the JerusalemPerspective.com Keyword Search powered by Google. Return to the previous page by clicking on the “Back” arrow on your browser, type “Luk 13:19” in the search box, change the search type to “by Keyword or Phrase” and click on the “Search” button. Doing the search within Google provides a “Did you mean: Luke 13:19” result.

Hopeful that a correct spelling of “Luke” will provide your response, you click on the link.

Two documents are found, however, neither are your intended request. The second link matches the word “Luke” in “Luke 1:8” and several paragraphs later matches the “13:19” with “Exod 13:19.”

With ReferenceSearch.org, you no longer have to hunt through pages of results to find the article you need for your study. And ReferenceSearch.org doesn’t just index biblical texts, it also indexes the Talmud, Mishnah, Tosefta, Josephus, Philo, Dead Sea Scrolls, the Church Fathers, and many other ancient sources. To see a complete list of references found on the JP site, go to http://ReferenceSearch.org/jp.

Click on any of the book names to see a listing of all articles that reference that book.



ReferenceSearch.org exists because of the donations it receives, so please consider thanking this site for their contribution to the research community by making a donation. You can use a credit card, PayPal, or send a check by clicking on the “Donate” link.



Search by Keyword or Phrase

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This spring, JerusalemPerspective.com upgraded its “keyword and phrase” search capabilities by using “Google Custom Search Engine.” Our users can now type into the search box any keyword or phrase and find all articles, books, forum entries and blogs which contain that search entry. Once the search results are displayed, the user is able to further define the results by clicking on one of the links (articles, forum, bookstore, blog) at the top of the results page, or can scroll to the bottom of the results page and click the link “Search Within Results,” which will confine the user’s second search to the results of his or her first search.



For example, go to http://www.JerusalemPerspective.com, in the search box type in the word “heaven” (make sure the search is set for “by Keyword or Phrase”), and click the “Search” button.

The results shows almost 300 entries!

To further refine your results, click the “Blog” link, which will show you the nine blogs that contain the word “heaven.” As is the case with all Google search results, you can scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “Search Within Results” link to further refine your search.

JP Continues to Grow

Growth is one of the best indications of a web site’s effectiveness and JP has consistently shown growth over its short history in the electronic world. Its electronic updates and free articles now go out to over 5,000 recipients, and its site is visited by over 1,200 visitors and serves up over 360,000 hits each month.

With its powerful new search features, JerusalemPerspective.com is now even more valuable to scholars, Bible translators, pastors and laypersons.