Tag: Technology
Select Kindle History and Biography Texts for $1
Through the end of the day tomorrow, Kindle with Special Offers users or Kindle users who have turned on the Special Offers feature are able to take advantage of a promotion that Amazon is running to “Buy one of 50 biography and history titles for $1.” A list of eligible titles is available here. Among…
Viewing Nonprinting Characters in LibreOffice
Apparently, recent versions of LibreOffice have a slightly different defaults for what nonprinting characters will display in a document. Instructions for customizing these settings are available here.
The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
It has taken some time, but in cooperation with Google, the Israel Museum has now released the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls. The website presently has five scrolls available: the Great Isaiah Scroll, the War Scroll, the Pesher on Habakkuk, the Temple Scroll, and the Community Rule. Here is the introductory video clip with voice overs…
On NT Blog
NT Blog turns eight today, and Mark Goodacre also notes that the German Bible Society has made the main texts of BHS, Septuaginta (ed. Hanhart), and NA27 available online.
A Major InscriptiFact Update
According to Ancient World Online, InscriptiFact has just added “approximately 5700 new images of 296 new texts from the Persepolis Fortification Archive. The majority of Aramaic texts from the archive are now available.” From this archive, the InscriptiFact database also includes several anepigraphic and Elamite tablets.
Zotero 2.1.7
Zotero 2.1.7 is now available with a number of performance improvements and bug fixes over the previous stable version. The current version is available from the Zotero homepage.