If you delegate your title page formatting to Word, you can save yourself time spent formatting.((Header image provided by Etienne Girardet.)) You can also end up with a title page that’s more precisely formatted. To start delegating your title pages to Word, there are four basic steps. The first of these is to capitalize and center your title page text. ...
You can space your title page content simply by entering blank paragraphs. But if you do so, you set yourself up for more work and at least three problems.
To pass your title page formatting off to Word, you need to start by understanding what SBL style requires in formatting your title page.
Okhlah we-Okhlah is a medieval compilation of information about the Hebrew Bible. Here are the basics about why it’s important and how to access it.
Style manuals often require that footnotes have a blank line between them. The best method for achieving this spacing is to edit the footnote style.
In INTF’s database, sometimes a transcription isn’t available or a manuscript image is harder to read. In these cases, check external image repositories.
With the document ID handy, INTF’s Liste search makes it quite easy to see additional information about that manuscript—and possibly the manuscript itself.
Adaptability is central to productivity. Especially amid life’s complexities, to stay productive, you need to stay adaptable and open.
Once you understand INTF’s system, you can call up any manuscript in the database. For Greek New Testament witnesses, the document ID is a 5-digit sequence.
A modern Greek New Testament’s critical apparatus holds a wealth of information. When you’re uncertain what the apparatus means, consult the manuscripts.
To follow the “Student Supplement for The SBL Handbook of Style,” there are three key steps to editing the styles for your table of contents.
It’s not immediately clear how to customize some formatting for tables of contents. The key to make the formatting “stick” is to modify its styles.
Hildegard von Bingen Courtesy of Michael Barber, I have realized (somewhat belatedly) that Hildegard von Bingen has now been added to the list of “doctors of the church.” Like many, I have been very unfamiliar with Hildegard, but some of her hymnody is exceptional (e.g., Last.com, Pandora). ...
Microsoft Word can quickly create tables of contents so that the headings and page numbers update along with your document.
In Microsoft Word, a “style” is a collection of one or more pieces of formatting information. Styles are especially helpful when you use them to format your headings.
Alex Stewart provides a number of pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Alex stresses the importance of taking a long-term view of one’s writing.
David DeSilva provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. David stresses the importance of “no” and working on one project at a time.
I’m running an experiment with how to format the content that has been in the Daily Gleanings series.
Chris Bailey and James Clear, author of “Atomic Habits,” discuss habit formation and the impact that small habits can have.
The Database of Religious History tries to address the volume of scholarly literature being produced and the difficulty of keeping current with it all.
Gavin Ordlund’s “Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals” addresses a “‘me and my Bible’ approach to theology.”
Now available from Brill is Donald Parry’s treatment of the Dead Sea Isaiah scrolls and their variants.
Erik Fisher and Craig Jarrow discuss essential time management tools.
Sarianna Metso’s edition of the Community Rule addresses all surviving witnesses for the Rule and includes a critical apparatus.
Chris Tilling has a very fine two-part lecture on Karl Barth’s commentary on Romans.
Katja Kujanpää discusses Paul’s quotation in Rom 11:35 and argues that it comes not from Job 41:3 but from Isa 40:14.
Pasi Hyytiäinen discusses the “Evolving Gamaliel Tradition in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, Acts 5:38–39.”
Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller reflect on some “reasons you can’t stop working.”
To finish goals or projects that seem to drag on forever, try time keys or splitting things up into smaller units.
Instead of simply focusing on skill development, Scott Young suggests that “benchmark projects” will tend to be more effective.