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If you never make time for your research, your project will go nowhere. But making time starts with deciding when you won’t do research.

Being good at taking time away is part of the craft of biblical scholarship. With 8 steps, you can take this time better and enjoy it more.

Human bodies differ, as do their adaptations for reading. But they’re also similar. So, what’s helped me might spark your imagination too.

Reading is a task for the whole body. And the discipline of “ergonomics” can help you improve how you read.

The body’s influence on reading isn’t an excuse for inattention to ourselves or criticism of others. It’s a basis for learning to read better.

The body shapes interpretation and, therefore, reading as an interpretive act. But that’s no excuse for “Bulverizing” dismissal of others.

Your body can pose challenges to your reading efforts. But addressing those challenges are precisely part of how your body enables reading.

Biblical studies isn’t jurisprudence. But both are thoroughly interpretive. So, you need to watch for where you’re being a “hungry judge.”

Forgetting the reading body can have a kind of utility to it. Despite this fact, that forgetfulness remains problematic and needs a solution.

You can’t read independently of your body. But for three reasons, reading bodies often get forgotten in thinking about the task of reading.

Biblical scholarship often considers reading as a mental activity. It’s about understanding texts. But in reading the whole body is critical.

SBL style’s citation formats are sometimes challenging to accommodate. But Zotero can handle even cases like serialized journal articles.

Usually, journal articles are fairly brief. But when they’re long enough to serialize, citing them in SBL style involves some challenges.

Microsoft Word’s automatic language detection can seriously mess up the placement of diacritics. So, it’s a feature that’s best avoided.

Spiritual formation needs contextualization for particular vocations. As you contextualize yours, you might find these resources helpful.

Don’t edit Zotero citations to enter locators. Instead, let Zotero manage these locators, what goes around them, and any citation updates.

To safeguard your research, you need to have a plan that addresses how you’re protecting it even from generally trustworthy sources.

The Internet is an incredible tool. But threats from it can devour your research. It almost happened to me. Don’t let it happen to you.

It can be hard to make time for the biblical languages amid everything else that’s going on. But two simple steps can help you start today.

The Larger Cambridge Septuagint project, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Text of Codex Vaticanus, had 9 fascicles published from 1909 to 1940. These fascicles are available in full-text PDFs via Internet Archive: Octateuch and Later Historical Books((For making me aware of this section, I’m grateful to Karen Jobes and Moíses Silva, Invitation to the Septuagint, 2nd ed. ( affiliate disclosure), 68n12.)) Esther, Judith, Tobit Although the Larger Cambridge series is incomplete and has been superseded by the Göttingen edition, the volumes are still quite valuable and, for the texts they cover, perhaps also much more accessible than the corresponding Göttingen volumes. ...

Citing conference papers involves certain ethical questions. But if you are able and need to cite one, Zotero can handle that citation.

Zotero can help you keep your citations in order while also clearing your way to focus on the substance of your research and writing.

Logos 10 is now available. As an academic user, there are 10 things you need to know about this new release.

There are more up-to-date translations of the fathers. But if you do use ANF or NPNF, Zotero can handle SBL style’s special citation format.

Internet Archive has a vast repository of books, including some that are hard to access otherwise. So, it’s well worth seeing what’s there.

Amazon’s good for more than just buying books. Used appropriately, the “look inside” feature can be a helpful research tool on its own.

Google Books can be a helpful research tool. You can find full texts of public-domain titles, as well as previews of those under copyright.

Expanding your research materials doesn’t have to break the bank. So much is already available through the libraries you have access to.

“Garbage in, garbage out” applies to Zotero just like any other software. But there’s an easy way to bulk edit items to tidy your database.

Tables of contents can consume much more time than they should. But Word can create tables that automatically update with your document.