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Jason Maston provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Jason stresses working on projects that matter to you in your specific context.

Daily Gleanings about academic job hunting and finding your place in the higher education landscape.

Daily Gleanings about Nir Eyal’s discussion about how to improve focus and become “indistractable.”

Daily Gleanings about how to get the 21-volume “Assyrian Dictionary” via open access from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute.

Daily Gleanings about how best to minimize the footprint doing email has in your days.

Daily Gleanings about “The Article in Post-classical Greek.”

Daily Gleanings about the return of app blocking to Freedom for iOS.

Daily Gleanings about Origen’s position on Paul’s authorship of Hebrews and the importance of reading primary literature.

Daily Gleanings about a new open-access monograph series from the Council for British Research in the Levant.

Daily Gleanings from Michael Kruger about evidence for the importance of written gospel texts to the Apostolic Fathers.

Daily Gleanings about the importance of focus for productivity and a case study in thinking about productivity in the context of full-time church work.

Daily Gleanings about the importance of community for enabling productivity in settings and times where you feel like you’re under pressure.

Matthew Bates provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Matthew stresses the need to stay focused and work on one project at a time.

Daily Gleanings about planning preaching and coordinating it with academic work.

Daily Gleanings from Michael Hyatt about the importance of consistent effort over time and this effort’s relationship to (mega)batching.

Daily Gleanings about openly accessing Alwin Kloekhort’s 2007 dissertation from Leiden University, “The Hittite Inherited Lexicon.”

Daily Gleaings about how to access BDB openly online.

Daily Gleanings about how to free yourself to focus better on what matters.

Daily Gleanings about Brandon Crowe’s forthcoming “Hope of Israel: The Resurrection of Christ in the Acts of the Apostles.”

Daily Gleanings about the “Hebrews” inscription discovered during ongoing excavations at Atarot in Jordan.

Daily Gleanings from Craig Keener about David Hume’s objections to miracles.

Daily Gleanings about a couple free works by Origen, courtesy of Verbum, as well as deep discounts on related resources.

SBL style shares much with Chicago but also has many details specific to biblical studies. Here’s a 7-step checklist to help you master SBL style.

Daily Gleanings about David Downs and Benjamin Lappenga’s “Faithfulness of the Risen Christ,” which links “pistis Christou” and Jesus’s resurrection.

Daily Gleanings about the free Zondervan Exegetical commentary on James from Logos, as well as deep discounts on related resources.

Daily Gleanings from Todoist about how to do a weekly review to keep perspective amid hectic weeks.

Daily Gleanings about Siegfried Kreuzer’s “Introduction to the Septuagint.”

Daily Gleanings about Matthew Bates’s “Gospel Allegiance,” which follows up on the thesis of “Salvation by Allegiance Alone.”

Ben Blackwell provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Ben stresses scheduling time both for writing and for rest.

Daily Gleanings in the month of September will be a bit different. Here’s what to expect and why.