Tag: Writing

Authorities for SBL Style: Publisher House Style
As comprehensive as it is, the SBL Handbook of Style (SBLHS; affiliate disclosure) doesn’t include everything.1 Instead, you’ll often need other sources to determine what SBL style requires. Knowing where and when to refer to these other sources can be tricky. In this series, we dispel this mystery and discuss seven common authorities for SBL…
20 May 2019
Daily Gleanings (9 May 2019)
Andreas Köstenberger offers reflections and advice on writing (1: Why, 2: How). Peter Gurry extracts some preview examples of translation revisions in the NASB 2020 by comparison to the NASB 1995. HT: Fred Sanders on Twitter
9 May 2019
Daily Gleanings (8 May 2019)
De Gruyter Open has a number of volumes in classical and Ancient Near Eastern studies via open access. HT: AWOL Freedom continues the dialog over Apple’s added rules that effectively removed much of Freedom’s functionality for new iOS users. For background, see: Freedom Has Been Temporarily Removed from the App Store How to Download Freedom…
8 May 2019
Daily Gleanings (7 May 2019)
Doist provides a “complete guide to deep work.” The essay is mainly geared toward summarizing the advice of Cal Newport’s Deep Work with some additional insertions from Digital Minimalism. Both books are definitely worth reading. But Doist’s essay is a thorough crash course on the basics. Douglas Estes offers some helpful reflections on perfectionism, especially…
7 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