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Daily Gleanings about manuscript structure (ektheses) and using Patristic citations for textual criticism of the Greek New Testament.

Daily Gleanings about focus and Focusmate.

Freedom interviews Ros Barber on how to nurture the focus necessary for academic and creative writing.

Daily Gleanings about free books for August 2019 from Logos and Verbum.

Daily Gleanings from Mark Goodacre about “sourceomania” and from Nir Eyal about distraction and focus.

Daily Gleanings from Joshua Becker about the unimportance of the “right” tool or “best” gadget and from Michael Hyatt about the significance of stillness.

Communication is hermeneutical; it involves people sending and receiving messages. To make the communication process work, the sender(s) and receiver(s) both have to meet their own particular, communicative responsibilities. Of course, with literature like the New Testament, the people who sent the messages it contains cannot clarify or supplement anything they have already said. So, if communication is to happen, any modern readers, or receivers, must try to understand the text’s own communicative horizon, for all the problems that task entails (see this post for a discussion). On this task, consider the following, insightful comments from N. T. Wright’s New Testament and the People of God: ...

Daily Gleanings from Dan Wallace about CSNTM and Roger Pearse about the longevity of manuscripts in antiquity.

Daily Gleanings from John Meade about the Göttingen Septuagint volume for Ecclesiastes and Peter Gurry on the Johannine comma’s origin story.

Daily Gleanings from the 2019 Christian Scholars’ Conference plenaries on child rearing in the Greco-Roman world and the Christology of the Greek fathers.

Daily Gleanings about Nijay Gupta’s critical introduction to 1–2 Thessalonians and KoineGreek.com’s videos of Mark’s gospel in Greek.

Daily Gleanings about improved cross-compatibility among word processors in Zotero and about exporting information from PhraseExpress.

Daily Gleanings from Freedom about avoiding procrastination and Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s thoughts on how to foster focused work as a busy academic.

Daily Gleanings about Chrome’s new “Limit” extension by Freedom and Logos’s double- and triple-click shortcut options.

Daily Gleanings about the Göttingen Septuagint volume on Ecclesiastes and possible new fragments of 1 Corinthians.

Craig Keener provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Craig stresses scheduling writing time and working on one project at a time.

Daily Gleanings from Logos about plotting search results on a timeline and from William Ross about the Song of Songs in Greek.

Daily Gleanings about managing stress and living with students as a faculty member.

Daily Gleanings from Greg Goswell about reading Romans after Acts and from Carol Newsom about rhetoric and hermeneutics in biblical and ST literature.

Daily Gleanings from Richard Middleton on Christian worldview and ethics and from Larry Hurtado on scribal and readerly changes.

Daily Gleanings from Freedom about distractions (digital and otherwise) and how to overcome them to improve your focus on what matters.

Daily Gleanings about the Muratorian fragment and the expansion of one’s English vocabulary through reading German texts.

Daily Gleanings about biblical theology from Eckhard Schnabel and Craig Keener’s commentary on Galatians from Larry Hurtado.

Daily Gleanings about how David Allen would design software for GTD and how to use Todoist to leverage the Eisenhower matrix.

Daily Gleanings about simple productivity improvements to try and better understanding the importance of networks for work in biblical studies.

Daily Gleanings about open access references for Greek personal names and subsequent transmission of classic Greek literature.

Daily Gleanings from RBL about Heath Thomas’s commentary on Habakkuk and Rocketbook about maximizing productivity.

Daily Gleanings about finds from AWOL about Hittite and expanded ranges of fonts.

Daily Gleanings about reviews of recent publications on Paul in the Review of Biblical Literature.

Daily Gleanings about new releases from SBL Press on the theology and intertextuality of the Hebrew Bible.