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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.

Emmanuel Nataf outlines several concrete practices to develop in order to foster consistent writing.

Larry Hurtado reviews Archibald Hunter’s “Paul and His Predecessors.” The full text of the revised 1961 edition was available on Internet Archive.

Michael Hyatt suggests five reasons to cultivate the skill of gracefully saying no.

The guidance about page number placement in for SBL style long essays is clear enough. Achieving this placement in Word can be too with some simple steps.

Now a good five years in the making Alan Ng and Sarah Korpi, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have made openly available online a German grammar.

Stephen Altrogge provides a helpful introduction to time blocking as a way of creating and committing to space for deep work.

Logos Bible Software now offers gift cards so others can partner in building your Logos library.

For December, Logos is offering Jaroslav Pelikan’s Acts commentary for free. Verbum is offering Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on Matthew.

James Clear and Cal Newport discuss the symbiotic relationship their prior work has in terms of fostering focus.

Jory MacKay discusses productivity shame and five strategies for coping with it.

Using a baking metaphor, McGever encourages chronic over-preparers not to “overwork the batter” of their lectures so that they don’t come out overly dense.

In Logos’s 2020 seminary guide, Daniel Zacharias and Benjamin Forrest discuss how to finance seminary or other similar education.

Corey Pemberton discusses eight specific types of challenges with focus and provides some suggestions for overcoming each type.

Steven Pressfield shares his thoughts on winning inner creative battles. Pressfield encourages continuing to show up, do the work, and keep moving forward.

Michael Hyatt and Ian Cron discuss different personality types, their particular productivity challenges, and how to overcome these.

Peter Gurry distills five lessons for budding scholars. Textual criticism isn’t something you can afford to ignore if you’re dealing with the biblical text.

The Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age is producing a database of Latin inscriptions.

This week is the last chance to grab the Faithlife platforms’ free and deeply discounted volumes this month. All three have resources of interest here.

Daily Gleanings about 1 Enoch and the problems with establishing a Second Temple period text for it.

Daily Gleanings about Occam’s Razor and how it does and doesn’t play into arguments about Q and the Synoptic Problem.

Daily Gleanings about the need to miss out on some things in order engage most fully with what’s most important.

Daily Gleanings about overviews of the “Getting Things Done” methodology popularized by David Allen.

Daily Gleanings about how to be a better conversationalist, not least in professional networking contexts.