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Use double quotation marks for exact phrases:
"early church"
"social progress"
"sermon on the mount"
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Search for items containing all of the specified words:
"New Testament" apocrypha
Finds items containing both the phrase
New Testament
and the wordapocrypha
Alternatively, use
AND
explicitly:"New Testament" AND apocrypha
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Search for items containing any of the specified words:
covenant OR promise
"king james" OR authorized
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Search for words starting with the specified letters:
homil*
Finds homily, homilies, homiletics, etc.
justif*
Finds justification, justify, justified, etc.
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Use
-
(minus sign) to exclude words:missions -China
Finds items containing
missions
and not containingChina
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Use
title:
to search only within titles,name:
to search only within author names, or no prefix to search all fields. Combine prefixes to search different fields simultaneously:Jerome title:translation
Finds items where any field contains
Jerome
and the title containstranslation
title:psalms name:Augustine
Finds items where the title contains
psalms
and the author name containsAugustine
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Combine the techniques above to compose arbitrarily complex queries, using parentheses as needed:
("Old Testament" OR "Hebrew Bible") AND prophe*
Finds items containing either
Old Testament
orHebrew Bible
while also containing words such as prophecy, prophet, prophets, prophetic, etc."practical theology" AND (title:introduction OR title:manual)
Finds items containing the phrase
practical theology
anywhere in the text and containing eitherintroduction
ormanual
in the title
Notes
- With the exception of
AND
andOR
, which must be entered in all capital letters, the search engine ignores case. Capitalizing proper names is harmless but unnecessary. - The search engine ignores diacritic marks in search keywords.
Searching for
Zockler
returns the same results as searching forZöckler
.