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The Vatican Library has an online facsimile of Codex Marchalianus (7th–8th c.). The codex contains the text of the prophets and associated writings.

CMS17 eliminates the use of “ibid.” SBLHS2 follows suit but does have a slightly different convention for how to format notes where “ibid.” would have appeared.

Presence is possible online—it’s just different than it is on campus.

Internet Archive has a full-text PDF of Codex Sarravianus, a 5th-century majuscule witness to the Septuagint.

At present, Zotero’s “date” field doesn’t properly handle publications made over a range of years (e.g., 1950–1960).((Header image provided by Zotero via Twitter.)) Instead of including the full range in the corresponding note or bibliography entry, only the first year of the range would be presented (e.g., 1950). If the Range Has an End There is, however, a workaround that depends on entering the following syntax in an item’s “extra” field: issued: [first year]/[last year]. Thus, for example, if the extra field has issued: 1950/1960, Zotero would properly output a range of publication dates (thus: “1950–1960”). ...

Stephen Chan has a substantive essay on interaction between Jürgen Moltmann and Paul Ricoeur that focuses on the centrality of hope to Christian eschatology.

Crossway has provided a nice video introduction to the new Greek New Testament edition, produced at Tyndale House.

Holger Strutwolf has made the Editio Critica Maior for Acts freely available online.

In JGRChJ, Zachary Dawson discusses “The Books of Acts and Jubilees in Dialogue: A Literary-Intertextual Analysis of the Noahide Laws in Acts 15 and 21.”

Tommy Wasserman and Peter Gurry have a new introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM).

Logos Bible Software appears to have started releasing an updated set of tutorials about syntax searching.

In an interview with Faithlife, Craig Bartholomew delivers a poignant challenge about the vocation of Christian academics for the broader world.

Due out with InterVarsity Press is John Walton’s “Old Testament Theology for Christians: From Ancient Context to Enduring Belief.”

According to the Tyndale Greek New Testament’s FAQs sheet, a digital version of the text is set to be made available for free.

Recent updates to Logos Bible Software for Windows have included an additional feature to speed up the platform’s load time.

This month, three Anchor Bible volumes are free or deeply discounted from Logos Bible software. The Anchor Bible series is itself also on sale for 50% off.

InterVarsity Press has released James M. Scott’s “Exile: A Conversation with N. T. Wright.”

Faithlife has launched a new journal specifically for faculty, Didaktikos, which focuses on issues related to theological education.

The Association of Theological Schools has several helpful webinars archived for new faculty.

With the release of the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, SBL style now defers to this edition in certain circumstances.

TopTracker provides a straight-forward, free time tracking utility that works on both Windows and OS X.

The Journal of Textual Reasoning is an open-access publication from the Society for Textual Reasoning.

The Lying Pen of the Scribes has a growing index of online information about “post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like fragments.”

Biblical interpreters must always be alert to when the text begins to disappoint the fore-meanings they bring to it.

To the standard and academic basic editions, Logos Bible Software has now added free access to “Cloud Basic.”

Whether scholarship “is” or “should be” a meritocracy could be discussed, but even when it falls short, one should still act as though it is a meritocracy.

Scripture can speak for itself. But, those with Christian education vocations are specially bound to pass on its testimony and interpretation for their milieux.

From the morass of the unfamiliar and strange, humans seem to acquire language or other forms of understanding by known quantities.

Due out this November is Randall Price and Wayne House’s “Zondervan Handbook of Biblical Archaeology.”

The free book of the month from Logos Bible Software is David Garland’s commentary on Mark in the NIV Application Commentary series.