Daily-Gleanings

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.

Daily Gleanings about the importance of doing textual criticism on the texts of church fathers.

Daily Gleanings about Word & World’s issue on Romans and especially Arland Hultgren’s essay on “Paul, Romans, and the Christians at Rome.”

Daily Gleanings about avoiding digital distractions, prioritizing writing, using social pressure, and sleeping.

Daily Gleanings about “Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures,” co-authored by John Collins, Craig Evans, and Lee Martin McDonald.

Daily Gleanings about memory and its improvement.

Daily Gleanings about the open access journal “Old Testament Essays.”

Daily Gleanings about Freedom for Chrome OS and Linux.

Daily Gleanings about overwhelm and some strategies for moving past it.

Daily Gleanings about the (non-)use of linguistics in biblical studies, particularly in Hebrew lexicography.

Daily Gleanings about Freedom’s release of white-listing for Windows users.

Daily Gleanings about the problems of studying scribal habits via work on singular readings.

Daily Gleanings about the recent discovery of the tomb of Ptolemy IV Philopater.

Daily Gleanings from Joe Gordon based on his book “Divine Scripture in Human Understanding.”

Daily Gleanings from Matthew Thomas about the second-century reception of Paul’s comments on “works of the law.”

Daily Gleanings about what’s available through the British Library’s “Discovering Sacred Texts” web portal.

Daily Gleanings about Edwin Abbott’s “Johannine Grammar.”

Daily Gleanings about transportation networks in the Roman World of the 3rd century.

Daily Gleanings about getting started with case frame analysis.

Daily Gleanings about “Reading Revelation in Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism.”

Daily Gleanings from Michael Kruger about arguments against the possibility of miraculous events based on probability.

Daily Gleanings from Peter Gurry about textual criticism and preferences regarding explanations from intentional and unintentional changes.

Daily Gleanings about overcoming feelings of overwhelm.

Daily Gleanings about newly digitized fragments of MS 967 containing Greek text of Ezekiel.

Daily Gleanings about the Monastic Manuscript Project.