Tag: Research

Daily Gleanings (3 May 2019)
Mike Aubrey is “rethinking transitivity and the Greek perfect.” The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity provides a database that is making readily accessible and searchable as much as possible of the early evidence for the cult of Christian saints (up to around AD 700), with key texts presented in their original language, all with…
3 May 2019
Daily Gleanings (2 May 2019)
I recently did a blog post series on expanding your research materials. In this same vein, Mark Hoffman discusses the “Library Extension” for Chrome and Firefox. As Mark summarizes, Once you add the extension in either of the those browsers, an icon appears in the toolbar. Click it on to select your available public library…
2 May 2019
Daily Gleanings (26 April 2019)
Nijay Gupta digests the main resources he suggests for “mov[ing] from biblical text to theology and application.” According to a recent email from the Society of Biblical Literature to its members, JSTOR has invited SBL into a two-year pilot program that provides access for all SBL members to more than eighty journals in JSTOR’s Religion…
26 April 2019
How to Accommodate Publication Year Ranges in Zotero
At present, Zotero’s “date” field doesn’t properly handle publications made over a range of years (e.g., 1950–1960).1 Instead of including the full range in the corresponding note or bibliography entry, only the first year of the range would be presented (e.g., 1950). If the Range Has an End There is, however, a workaround that depends…
18 December 2017
TopTracker
TopTracker provides a straight-forward, free time tracking utility that works on both Windows and OS X. The utility allows commenting on each session tracked (e.g., words written during that session). It also allows export via CSV, from where numbers can be crunched further in Excel to see how well progress is going. By default, TopTracker will…
9 October 2017
Reading for writing
Cal Newport outlines the basics of how he reads when working on a project. According to Newport, The key to my system is the pencil mark in the page corner. This allows me later to quickly leaf through a book and immediately identify the small but crucial subset of pages that contain passages that relate…
18 August 2017