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You might think citing a grammar according to the “SBL Handbook of Style” would be straightforward. It is, but there are several special cases to account for.

Plumbers, electricians, and carpenters all have specific tools they use for their trades. As they hone their skill in those trades, a good part of that development means improving their skill at using the tools of their trade. If you had a plumber who ended up being able to use his or her tools only as well as a weekend “do-it-yourselfer,” you’d probably find someone else next time. (I’ve seen this recently. It wasn’t pretty.) ...

Logos is an incredibly useful tool straight out of the box (or off the website). But as with any tool, it can take some time to get to know it well and use it better. As an academic user, you’re also coming to Logos from a specific angle. Your context uniquely shapes how you want to use the tool. And as with any craft, you can produce better results by learning to use your tools better. ...

Purple, or remarkable, research shares some common elements. But it can also have different shades depending on who it’s for.

Logos can give you access to an extensive digital library. And with 5 simple steps, you use that library properly in your research.

SBL style prescribes different citation formats for encyclopedias, lexicons, and dictionaries. Zotero can handle these formats if you know how.

Your word processor is an important tool. But how to make it do many things that are quite common in biblical studies has been pretty obscure.

Seeing how others work can help us hone our own craft. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at Stephen Lawson’s essay in 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵.

Seeing how others work can give us helpful ideas for honing our own craft. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at my essay in “Scripture First.”

The preorder bonuses for 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 help you see behind the scenes of and learn from the process for producing the volume.

𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 argues for reading Scripture along with earliest Christian tradition as the church seeks to express its unity better.

Combined with a few other steps, editing Word’s “Bibliography” style will give you more consistent formatting with fewer headaches.

You can get your bibliography to look like SBL style requires in a few different ways. But several common approaches create serious problems.

On the first page of a major section, SBL style asks for a 2-inch top margin. But that doesn’t mean you need to change the margin size in Word.

You need to budget your time to avoid having priorities assigned to it by social pressure that aren’t consistent with your vocation.

Budgeting your time can help put you in a better position to avoid additional time and energy spent managing schedule crises.

You need to budget your time in order to get the most out of it not only by doing more things but also—and more importantly—by doing more important things.

You need to budget your time in order to manage your commitments because your time is limited, but your possible commitments are unlimited.

Do you really need to budget your time in the first place? There are at least 4 very good reasons the answer is a firm “Yes.”

Michael Hyatt has a brief, helpful discussion of differences in mindset between successful and unsuccessful creatives.

“Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions” illustrates how modern readers can work to recover Second Temple interpretive contexts.

If your schedule is both regular and irregular, you can budget your time by combining approaches for regular and irregular time.

It’s easy to pit Scripture against tradition. But the Bible articulates a fundamental unity between Scripture and the tradition it embodies.

In a special podcast, Chris Jones and I discuss the challenging issues of Romans’s audience and the letter’s perspective on predestination.

From Rob Bradshaw: The following rare monograph is now available on-line in PDF: F.F. Bruce, Paul and the Mind of Christ. Leicester: Religious & Theological Students Fellowship, 1982. Pbk. pp.43. Visit the latest additions page for the link.

It can be a challenge to read Scripture historically and theologically. “Explorations in Interdisciplinary Reading” helps you address this challenge.

When you select a font, you select its size in a unit called “points.” But the font face also affects the visual size of lines and type on the page.

You can save yourself a lot of time by letting Word handle title page formatting—particularly when you’re vertically justifying the title page text.

If you delegate your title page formatting to Word, you can save time formatting. A key preparatory step is to properly segmenting your title page text.

In his Tyndale series Romans commentary, F. F. Bruce offers the following colorful, if also sad, illustration as he discusses Rom 6: A notable historical instance [of a tendency to read Paul as advocating antinomianism] may be seen in the Russian monk Rasputin, the evil genius of the Romanov family in its last years of power. Rasputin taught and exemplified the doctrine of salvation through repeated experiences of sin and repentance; he held that, as those who sin most require most forgiveness, a sinner who continues to sin with abandon enjoys, each time he repents, more of God’s forgiving grace than any ordinary sinner.((Bruce, Romans ( affiliate disclosure), 134.)) ...