Research on J. David Stark

How to Master IATG^3^ for SBL Style with 4 Simple Steps

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd ed., defers to IATG, 3rd ed. for abbreviations that SBLHS2 doesn’t include. Follow these steps to make working with IATG seamless.

How to Say No to the Urgent But Not Important

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

The urgent and unimportant easily consumes more time than it should. But 5 strategies can help you say the “no” that your “yes” really needs.

10 Reasons to Use Zotero in Your Research

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

A good reference manager can be an incredibly helpful tool in your research. There are 10 reasons you should seriously consider using Zotero.

How to Easily Add Real Text to Image-only PDFs with Zotero

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:06:56 +0000

Having text in your PDFs makes them searchable and easier to mark up. For any image-only PDFs you have, Zotero can extract and add this text.

How to Increase Your Zotero Cloud Storage: 4 Ways

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:01:38 +0000

Zotero comes with a little free storage, but you’ll soon need more. So, here are 4 ways to get the space you need as you expand your research.

Why You Need to Ship for Feedback after Distribution

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

You can’t know your research is publishable unless you ship it. But even publishing should involve shipping for feedback.

How to Ship Your Research for Distribution

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

You can’t know your research is publishable unless you ship it. But even as you ship for distribution, you should still ship for feedback.

How to Ship Your Research for Feedback

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

You can’t know your research is publishable unless you ship it. But you can improve your odds by shipping it for feedback.

When Do You Need to Wait to Ship?

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

To know if your research is publishable, you need to ship it. But if you’re a student, you also might need to wait before you ship.

How Do You Know What Color Your Research Is?

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Sometimes, it can be hard to know whether your research is actually publishable. There are two steps to find out.

Two Problems You Can Have Creating Purple Research

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:00:16 +0000

You can have two problems creating purple research. Black or brown research might look purple. Or purple research might look black or brown.

Your Research Is Publishable When It's Purple

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Determining whether research is publishable is essentially the same action as seeing whether a cow is purple.

Can Your Research Really Be for Your Faith Community?

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Faith communities can be perfectly valid audiences for your research. And like any audience, that who will naturally shape your what.

What Do You Want Your Research to Be?

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Once you know who your research is for, you can then determine what it means to create publishable research for them.

Your Research Actually Isn't Just for Your Professor

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

If you’re a student, your research isn’t just for your professor because your assignment likely imitates something outside your class.

4 Questions to Help You Know Whether Something Is Important

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:08:01 +0000

To start cutting through the clamor of the urgent and discern whether something is actually important, you need to ask these 4 questions.

Who Is Your Research Really For?

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Clearly understanding what you want in your research is important. Still more foundational, though, is grasping who it’s for.

Why You Need to Back Up Your Research Locally

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Your research is worth protecting. Nobody will ever have more incentive to keep it safe than you do. So be sure you have a robust backup plan.

The Ultimate App You Need to Use for Academic Writing

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

A lot goes into writing in biblical studies.¹ And any number of tools can help you marshal your research into strong prose. For instance,

Logos can give you access to hundreds of shelves’ worth of resources,
Zotero can help you manage and cite this literature, and
Word can give you a place to craft your arguments.

But there’s another application that’s vastly more important than all of these combined.

Introducing KYRIYS

If you’re not familiar with it, I’d like to introduce you to KYRIYS (pronounced like “curious”).

How to Easily Create a Searchable Backup Archive with Macrium Reflect

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:33:06 +0000

Macrium Reflect is a wonderful backup tool. It does have a missing feature, but thankfully, a comparable solution is available.

5 Steps to Store Series Information in Zotero

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:59:36 +0000

Citation managers like Zotero can simplify how you reference series. But what a citation manager puts out is only as good as what you put into it.

How Do You Know When Something Is Urgent?

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The sooner something matters, the greater its urgency. The greater the urgency, the more whatever situation will press upon you.

You Need to Decide What Gets Priority, but How?

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Deciding what gets priority can be tricky. But a classic decision matrix can bring clarity and guide the kinds of actions you take.

Your Research Is Important, but It's Not All-Important

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000

If you never make time for your research, your project will go nowhere. But making time starts with deciding when you won’t do research.

How Zotero Makes It Easy to Cite Specific Locations

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Don’t edit Zotero citations to enter locators. Instead, let Zotero manage these locators, what goes around them, and any citation updates.

Zotero Can Now Do Even More with Your Citations

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Zotero can help you keep your citations in order while also clearing your way to focus on the substance of your research and writing.

How to Expand Your Research Materials with Amazon

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Amazon’s good for more than just buying books. Used appropriately, the “look inside” feature can be a helpful research tool on its own.

How to Expand Your Research Materials with Google Books

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Google Books can be a helpful research tool. You can find full texts of public-domain titles, as well as previews of those under copyright.

How to Expand Your Research Materials with Libraries

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Expanding your research materials doesn’t have to break the bank. So much is already available through the libraries you have access to.

How to Make Bulk Editing Items in Zotero Easy

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000

“Garbage in, garbage out” applies to Zotero just like any other software. But there’s an easy way to bulk edit items to tidy your database.

How to Easily Change Text Directions after Hebrew Words with Zotero

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Right-to-left text like Hebrew can sometimes cause unexpected results in Zotero citations. But if so, it’s easy to straighten things out.

How to Customize Your Citations with Zotero

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Sometimes, you work with sources that involve some extra complexity if you’re going to cite them properly.((Header image provided by Zotero via Twitter.)) Rather than making these changes one by one, however, Zotero allows you to make them automatically any time you cite a given source.

That way, you only have to work out once how to cite a source once. After that, it’s saved in your library, and you can focus on how you want to discuss that source rather than on how you need to cite it.

How to Control Citation Title Casing with Zotero

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Different languages and styles have different capitalization conventions. But Zotero can handle all these different requirements for you.

How to Find a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000

What ISBNs do for books DOIs do for all kinds of sources. And if you need DOIs in your citations, there are some simple ways to collect them.

How Todoist Can Support Your Work and Life

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

School, work, and life are complex. You need a way of managing your commitments. If you’re looking for this, Todoist might be the tool for you.

You Need to Scale Up Your Research Project Timeline

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

You need to scale up your research timeline because of inaccuracies in small samples, differences between projects, and the planning fallacy.

How Long Will Your Research Project Really Take?

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

You can better understand how long your research project may take if you track your progress, set your scope, and scale your timeline.

Who Is Your Research Question Good For?

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Your research question can be known or unknown by your audience. But they need to have the question before you can answer it.

How Can You Make Your Research Remarkable?

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:02:52 +0000

Purple, or remarkable, research shares some common elements. But it can also have different shades depending on who it’s for.

Behind the Scenes of "Understanding Scripture through Apostolic Proclamation"

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Seeing how others work can give us helpful ideas for honing our own craft. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at my essay in “Scripture First.”

Daily Gleanings: Creating (18 December 2019)

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:44:31 +0000

Michael Hyatt has a brief, helpful discussion of differences in mindset between successful and unsuccessful creatives.

Pro Tips for Busy Writers: Alex Stewart

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:00:56 +0000

Alex Stewart provides a number of pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Alex stresses the importance of taking a long-term view of one’s writing.

Pro Tips for Busy Writers: David DeSilva

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:49:42 +0000

David DeSilva provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. David stresses the importance of “no” and working on one project at a time.

How to Quickly Number Pages for Long Essays in Word

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:22:39 +0000

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.

Daily Gleanings: German (12 December 2019)

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:22:18 +0000

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.

How to Quickly Number Pages for Short Essays in Word

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:00:22 +0000

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

Daily Gleanings: Old Testament (8 November 2019)

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:00:45 +0000

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

How to Easily Edit and Unedit Zotero Notes

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Zotero makes it very easy to edit notes beyond what a particular citation style allows. Unediting notes is also simple but less immediately clear.

Pro Tips for Busy Writers: Anthony Le Donne

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Anthony Le Donne provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Anthony stresses self-awareness and prioritizing your dissertation.

Pro Tips for Busy Writers: Jason Maston

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:00:35 +0000

Jason Maston provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Jason stresses working on projects that matter to you in your specific context.

Daily Gleanings: Origen on Hebrews (27 September 2019)

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:00:42 +0000

Daily Gleanings about Origen’s position on Paul’s authorship of Hebrews and the importance of reading primary literature.

Daily Gleanings: Software (1 August 2019)

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:00:47 +0000

Daily Gleanings about improved cross-compatibility among word processors in Zotero and about exporting information from PhraseExpress.

Pro Tips for Busy Writers: Craig Keener

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:00:39 +0000

Craig Keener provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Craig stresses scheduling writing time and working on one project at a time.

Pro Tips for Busy Writers: Nijay Gupta

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:00:43 +0000

Nijay Gupta provides a number of pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Nijay stresses the importance of planning, organization, and persistence.

Pro Tips for Busy Writers: New Series

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:00:16 +0000

In this series, we hear from mid- and later-career scholars who have successfully created habits for productive writing in busy lives.

Daily Gleanings: Thoughts from Larry Hurtado (31 May 2019)

Fri, 31 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings from Larry Hurtado about early Christian investment in manuscripts and “extant” evidence.

Daily Gleanings (30 May 2019)

Thu, 30 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings from Roger Pearse about the translation of the King James Version and AWOL about Brill’s “Digital Biblical Studies” series.

Daily Gleanings (27 May 2019)

Mon, 27 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings on “Paul, a New Covenant Jew” and from J. T. Ellison on productivity as a writer.

Daily Gleanings (23 May 2019)

Thu, 23 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

On theLAB, Dougald Mclaurin discusses how faculty can “work with librarians to help students write better papers.”

Similarly, see also these prior discussions about how to use your school’s library or other libraries near you.

From Brill:

With the publication of Keeping Watch in Babylon, Brill is happy to have published the 100th volume of the series Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.

To celebrate, we are offering a selection of free articles from some of the most successful volumes in the series. Access to these articles will remain free until July 31st, 2019.

Daily Gleanings (8 May 2019)

Wed, 08 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

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:

Daily Gleanings (3 May 2019)

Fri, 03 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Gleanings about Greek, linguistics, and saint cults in late antiquity and the early middle ages.

Daily Gleanings (2 May 2019)

Thu, 02 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Gleanings about expanding your research materials with “Library Extension” and the possibility of 1 Timothy’s quoting Luke.

Daily Gleanings (26 April 2019)

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Gleanings about resources for moving from biblical studies to theology and expanded JSTOR access for members of the Society of Biblical Literature.

How to Accommodate Publication Year Ranges in Zotero

Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:00:09 +0000

At present, Zotero’s “date” field doesn’t properly handle publications made over a range of years (e.g., 1950–1960).((Header image provided by Zotero via Twitter.)) 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 on entering the following syntax in an item’s “extra” field: issued: [first year]/[last year]. Thus, for example, if the extra field has issued: 1950/1960, Zotero would properly output a range of publication dates (thus: “1950–1960”).

TopTracker

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:00:10 +0000

TopTracker provides a straight-forward, free time tracking utility that works on both Windows and OS X.

Reading for writing

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0000

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.”

Digital notekeeping

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Michael Hyatt has a good discussion of digital notekeeping tools, a.k.a. “Evernote alternatives.” As even the nomenclature might suggest, Michael opts for Evernote.

I used Evernote for quite some time too but transitioned several months back to OneNote. I haven’t ever gotten particularly sold on Apple devices, so Apple-only alternatives were out by default.

While I enjoyed Evernote, their limiting their “Free” plan to sync with two devices was the main impetus for me to look for a change. I already had OneNote at the Office and via an Office 365 University subscription at home. Plus, OneNote has both iOS and Android apps, as well as a web version, so it was a logical option.

Tracking Writing Progress

Sun, 30 Oct 2016 11:09:29 +0000

In How to Write a Lot ( affiliate disclosure), Paul Silvia provides his own progress monitoring system as an example (39–45). Since finishing the book last month, I have been adapting Silvia’s database format to a Google Docs spreadsheet that will track some additional data in addition to the data that he finds helpful. Since it has been helpful thus far, I thought I would make it available with some sample data.

Thesis-style Numistmatism Wanted

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:45:00 +0000

From AWOL:

The American Numismatic Society has created an Open Access digital library. One purpose is to host unpublished and/or orphaned MA and PhD theses/dissertations that have numismatic content. As a part of this library your thesis will be Open Access, full-text searchable, and http://schema.org properties will help Google relevance. If you (or someone you know) wants their research hosted for free (CC-BY license) alongside other numismatic work, email Andrew Reinhard at areinhard@numismatics.org.

Research@StAndrews

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:59:03 +0000

Research@StAndrews:FullText is:

[A] digital repository of research output from the University of St Andrews. Since 2006 the University has required theses to be submitted to the repository. . . . The Research@StAndrews Portal provides links to the full text of research publications which are stored in Research@StAndrews:FullText.

From the School of Divinity, 160 theses are available.

STEP Beta

Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:21:58 +0000

Scripture Tools for Every Person

Tyndale House recently announced the beta release of their Scripture Tools for Every Person (STEP) project, headed by David Instone-Brewer. The resource includes a nice selection of original-language texts—apparently including some, like the Samaritan Pentateuch, not yet listed in the documentation. Later this year, the Tyndale House edition of the Greek New Testament should also appear in STEP.

For those interested, Mark Hoffman has already provided a helpful, general review of some of STEP’s current functionality. Update (8/2): Via email, David IB especially encourages STEP testers and users “to click on the ‘Feedback’ button in STEP with bugs, errors and their wish-list of features they can’t find.”

Nicoll, Expositor's Greek Testament (vol. 5) Free @Logos

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:03:13 +0000

As their free book of the month, Logos Bible Software is giving away volume 5 of the Expositor’s Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll. Volume 5 includes:

J. H. A. Hart, “The First Epistle General of Peter”
R. H. Strachan, “The Second Epistle General of Peter”
David Smith, “The Epistles of John”
J. B. Mayor, “The General Epistle of Jude”
James Moffatt, “The Revelation of St. John the Divine”

For more information about the text and to download this volume, please see here.

TDNT Sale @ CBD

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:49:39 +0000

Christian Book Distributors now has the 10-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament on sale for $99.99. Orders for the product should ship on or after October 1.

2013 IBR Research Group Sessions

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:37:10 +0000

While this year’s SBL program is still in preparation, the contents of the IBR research group sessions are now available via the individual research group links on the call for papers page.

Update: After copying this link yesterday, the call for papers page URL was apparently updated. Such is the Internet; the link above has now been corrected to reflect the current page location (HT: Joseph Kelly, Kirk Lowery).

On the Web (April 11, 2013)

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:27:07 +0000

On the web:

Zotero 4.0.4 is now available with some minor improvements over the previous stable version.
Joseph Kelly highlights some good advice about how not to write a thesis or dissertation.
Logos Bible Software has added the Aramaic Bible series to their pre-publication program.

Zotero 4

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:14:59 +0000

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I’ve just now noticed, but a stable release of Zotero 4 became available earlier this week. This release includes a substantial number of updates over previous versions. For highlights, see here, or peruse the whole change log.

S. R. Driver on Google Books

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:12:31 +0000

Reverend Samuel Rolles Driver (1846–1914; Photo credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

Google Books has full-text PDFs freely available for the following works by S. R. Driver:

Commentary on Deuteronomy (International Critical Commentary; 1895; repr., 1903)
Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament(International Theological Library; 1891)

BibTeX-formatted bibliography information for these texts is available here.

On the Web (February 9, 2013)

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:38:19 +0000

On the web:

The SBL website now has a page with links to a number of program unit and seminar papers (HT: Charles Jones).
Ohio State University has a special online exhibition about the King James Version (HT: Bill Warren).
Zotero has seen a significant and a couple more minor updates over the past few days. The SBL citation style is also newly updated as of January 29.
The W3 Consortium has a list of fraktur characters (e.g., for cases where they are used as text-critical siglia) and their corresponding Unicode character assignments. Among other fonts, Gentium Plus natively includes 1D510 (Majority Text) and 1D513 (Papyrus).

On the Web (January 26, 2013)

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:32:16 +0000

On the Web:

Phil Gons digests Tony Reinke’s suggestions for reading more.
Logos Bible Software has added the 12-volume Clarendon edition of Aristotle’s works (1908–1952) to their community pricing offerings.

Get Codex Bezae for Free in Logos

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:09:46 +0000

Codex Bezae with text Luke 23:47–24:1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Logos Bible Software is now taking $0.00 pre-orders for their upcoming edition of Codex Bezae. Among the manuscript’s noteworthy characteristics,

It is the oldest-known manuscript containing the story of the adulterous woman found in John 7–8, as well as a longer ending of the Gospel of Mark. There are also several apparent additions, including a story found nowhere else of Jesus addressing a man found working on the Sabbath.

On the Web (January 18, 2013)

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:53:37 +0000

On the web:

Mark Hoffman notes that Google Maps’ street view now includes several additional locations of significance around Israel.
Charles Jones identifies several publicly accessible dissertations from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dirk Jongkind reflects on Acts 17:3 in connection with the two latest Nestle-Aland texts.

PhD Studentships at Aberdeen

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:20:57 +0000

Christian Askeland highlights four PhD studentships available at the University of Aberdeen set to engage the topic of “Authority and Texts: Concepts and Use,” considering questions like:

What constitutes authority and provides authenticity to texts and what is the role of textual criticism? How should authoritative texts (including religious, legal, and other texts), be used and interpreted, and how is this issue determined? Is investigation of the contextual meaning of texts at their time of composition necessary to understanding and respecting their authority, or do different criteria exist which influence readings of texts?

Zotero 3.0.11.1

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:48:08 +0000

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Zotero 3.0.11 and 3.0.11.1 have just been released with some additional bug fixes. For change logs, see here, and for basic introductory material to the platform, see here.

Zotero 3.0.10

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:12:04 +0000

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Zotero 3.0.9 and 3.0.10 have recently been released with a number of bug fixes. For change logs, see here, and for basic introductory material to the platform, see here.

Logos 5

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:32:31 +0000

Logos Bible Software is now shipping version 5. For an overview of the new version, see the playlist below:

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Open-Access JETS Archive

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:21:51 +0000

If I had noticed it before, it had since slipped my mind. But, the PDF archive for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society is largely open-access. The open-access portion of the archive contains all the Journal’s volumes except those from the past two full years, which are accessible to subscribers. The archive also contains the first four volumes of the older Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society.

The Imaging Papyri Project

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:13:20 +0000

University of Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Oxford University Classics Faculty’s PINAX “is a digital library comprised of collections of displayed papyrus images and texts at Oxford.” Texts include papyri from Antinoopolis, Herculaneum, and Oxyrhynchus, as well as magical texts (HT: Charles Jones).

Göttingen Septuagint Sigla Chart

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:02:55 +0000

Further thanks to Jonathan Kiel (via Brian Davidson) for passing along Miles Van Pelt’s Göttingen Septuagint sigla chart PDF.

Kindling Cave 4?

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:33:00 +0000

Amazon’s selection of texts available for the Kindle platform occasionally includes some interesting oddities. For instance, those who really want to do so can apparently read the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert volumes 10 (4QMMT) and 16 (cave 4 calendrical texts) on Kindle for a mere $239.20 and $254.34 respectively, without print-equivalent page numbers. Or, used hard covers are available for just under $180. ;-)

On the Web (July 22, 2012)

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:35:20 +0000

On the web:

Tokens makes available the final part of their interview with Walter Brueggemann.
Theological Studies has back issues from 5 years ago and beyond freely available online (HT: Charles Jones).
Michael Halcomb reflects on some of Albert Schweitzer’s comments on Christian scholars.
Tommy Keene highlights BibleArc.
Archive.org has Gordon Fee’s PhD thesis available online (HT: Larry Hurtado).
Bavarian authorities are commissioning annotated editions of Mein Kampf in hopes of further defusing the work’s value for extremists’ use as it comes into the public domain.
Joel Willitts reflects on some of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s comments on “self forgiveness.”

On the Web (June 23, 2012)

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:21:21 +0000

On the web:

Randy Kennedy discusses how the current economic crisis in Greece is imperiling local antiquities.
Matthew Kalman discusses documentary sensationalism and its impact on the status of biblical archaeology.
Charles Jones highlights resources for Macedonian coinage, the Acta Sanctorum, Augustan Rome’s geography, and the Byzantine scholia on Homer’s Iliad.
Jim Davila notes Google’s efforts to read unopenable Dead Sea Scrolls.
Joel Willitts comments on selections from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together.
Robert Woods discusses wisdom from a Thomistic perspective.
Tokens provides part 3 of a series of YouTube clips series from their October 24, 2011 interview with Walter Brueggemann. See here for parts 1 and 2.

Homer and the Papyri

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:31:38 +0000

Homer was also called Melesigenes (son of Mele…

Charles Jones notes that

Homer and the Papyri, first created by Professor Dana Sutton of the University of California, Irvine, is . . . published [online] in a second electronic edition. The new edition consists of a fully searchable relational database of Homeric papyri.

For more details and to access the Homeric papyri database, please see here.

Resources from Tyndale House

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:46:04 +0000

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Tyndale House has done some wonderful work making very helpful resources available online, but today, I stumbled upon the following that I had forgotten or not noticed before:

The Tyndale Bulletin is available in full-text from volume 1 forward, excepting the last three years’ issues.
The Tyndale House library catalog will return search results that include works available online in full-text.
The library’s periodicals section also contains a number of links to journals with full-text articles available online.

Zotero 2.1.7

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:42:03 +0000

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.

Zotero at the Chronicle of Higher Education

Fri, 27 May 2011 06:40:59 +0000

On Tuesday, Brian Croxall compared Zotero and EndNote. At least until a stable release of Zotero standalone arrives, the review has the two platforms standing fairly on equal terms. Recent updates to Zotero’s SBL citation style have included some additional issues, but hopefully, those problems will soon be remedied also.

Today, Amy Cavender mentions some interesting compatibility between Zotero and Readability.

New Zotero Styles and Updates for Biblical and Theological Studies

Thu, 26 May 2011 16:30:59 +0000

The Society of Biblical Literature style for Zotero has recently been updated (8:16 pm, May 11, 2011). Since I had last visited the style repository, development versions of the following styles have also been added:

Currents in Biblical Research
INTER. Romanian Institute for Inter-Orthodox, Inter-Confessional and Inter-Religious Studies
Universidad Evangélica del Paraguay
Wheaton College PhD BITH

For some time Zotero, had only supported SBL style, but the addition of CurrBR as another major field journal format is certainly positive.

Zotero Updates

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:51:14 +0000

Zotero 2.1.3, 2.1.4, and 2.1.5 have rolled out with several minor updates. The Microsoft Word plugin has also been updated, but details about this update are still forthcoming from the plugin change log page.

Zotero 2.1.2

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:11:38 +0000

A new Zotero update is now available. The update mainly contains bug fixes, but it also allows Zotero to “[r]ecognize .csl.txt files as CSL files.”

Zotero 2.1 Is Live

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:15:04 +0000

Zotero 2.1 is now available with a number of enhancements over the previous stable version. You may download the latest version from the Zotero homepage.

Kindle Gets Real Page Numbers

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:40:13 +0000

In the preview release of the latest Kindle software update (3.1), Amazon is beginning to allow Kindle edition readers to access the same page numbers that their print edition-reading counterparts can see:

Our customers have told us they want real page numbers that match the page numbers in print books so they can easily reference and cite passages, and read alongside others in a book club or class. We’ve already added real page numbers to tens of thousands of Kindle books, including the top 100 bestselling books in the Kindle Store that have matching print editions and thousands more of the most popular books. Page numbers will also be available on our free “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” Kindle apps in the coming months. If a Kindle book includes page numbers, press the Menu key in an open Kindle book to display page numbers ( Amazon).

Zotero Standalone Alpha

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:38:37 +0000

In the fairly short time since the initial notice, the alpha version of a browser-independent Zotero has now become available. A fully stable release is likely some time away yet, but the noticeable and rapid progress on the initiative is encouraging.

The Google eBookstore is Live

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:16:26 +0000

The Google eBookstore is now live and offering more than 3 million ebooks with an accompanying web-based ebook reader.

Donnerstag Digest (December 2, 2010)

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:04:46 +0000

This week in the biblioblogosphere:

Bob Cargill notes that, on December 11, the National Geographic Channel will re-air its special on “Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls.”
Brian LePort hypertextually ponders Derridean non-extra-textuality and deconstruction, and he notes twenty-nine doctoral theses that the University of Durham has recently made available.
Michael Bird shows how to benefit most from the new SBL Greek New Testament and notes that the new Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters now has its own blog.
Google Editions are poised to hit the e-book market later this month and allow fee-based full access to copyrighted titles. For some additional details and thoughts, see Blog Kindle and Google Books Help.

New Thoughts from Tyndale Tech

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:31:15 +0000

Yesterday, Tyndale Tech released the following series of helpful posts:

New Ancient World Bibliographic Resource

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:59:49 +0000

Over at Academia.edu, Charles Jones, Head Librarian at New York University, has requested suggestions for additions to a new list of “Ancient World Open Bibliographies.” Of course, as it develops, the bibliography should certainly list New Testament Gateway. Maintainers of ancient world bibliographic resources can note additions on Academia.edu or the bibliography page itself.

Zotero Here, Zotero There, Zotero Everywhere

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:38:39 +0000

Earlier today, the Zotero Project announced concrete plans to release a stand-alone, browser-independent version of their open-source, bibliographic management system. Since its inception, Zotero has been tied to Mozilla Firefox as a support for its underlying architecture. Yet, as the members of the Zotero Project recognize, “not all researchers can or want to use” Firefox. In addition to maintaining Zotero’s compatibility with Firefox, this “major new initiative” for a stand-alone version of Zotero will “soon” allow users of “Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer” to use Zotero with whichever of these browsers they choose. This move will extend Zotero’s availability to approximately 98% of internet users.

Zotero 2.0.7–8

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:44:20 +0000

Another set of Zotero updates is available that remedies some stability issues and brings us up through 2.0.7 to 2.0.8.

Zotero 2.0.4–6

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:29:25 +0000

This past week, along with several bug fixes, Zotero got some substantive updates to its syncing and word-processor integration features. As usual, the Zotero website has change logs for the main new release, 2.0.4, as well as what are, thus far, the two additional, supplementary ones ( 2.0.5, 2.0.6).

Donnerstag Digest (August 26, 2010)

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:46:44 +0000

This week in the biblioblogosphere:

Mark Goodacre finds and makes available a PDF version of Wilhelm Wrede’s Paul.
Daniel and Tonya draw attention to Alex Andrason’s recent article on the use of yiqtol in Biblical Hebrew (via Uri Hurwitz) and Randall Buth’s response to the article.
Via Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Holger Szesnat mentions the availability of the new Journal of Ancient Judaism.
Christian Askeland notes the availability of a stable, Unicode-compliant Coptic font.
At BioLogos, Peter Enns interviews N. T. Wright about Jesus’ humanity.
Kirk Lowery ponders current developments in the peer review process for scholarly publications.
Scot McKnight prepares his readers for a change of blogging address.
Larry Hurtado uploads an essay on Martin Hengel’s impact on English-speaking, New Testament scholarship.
Charles Halton considers cartographic hermeneutics and some of their implications for readers of biblical texts.

Donnerstag Digest (August 19, 2010)

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:03:05 +0000

This week in the blogosphere:

James McGrath helpfully notes that John Byron, Associate Professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary, is now blogging at The Biblical World.
Sadly, Gerald Hawthorne passes away (HT: John Byron).
Helen Bond discusses the composition of the Sanhedrin in first-century Palestine.
Trevor provides a good summary of a variety of different ways to add records to Zotero.
Happy Dissertating suggests priming the writing pump as necessary via 750 Words. Based on what the site provides, it looks like a fully private blog could also be used in much the same way, but particularly for those who would prefer not to need to ensure for themselves that all their privacy settings are correct or who might enjoy some of the other features that 750 Words offers, the site may be worth a look.
Pat McCullough begins a bibliography of resources about the application of Social Identity Theory to biblical studies and invites suggestions for additions.

Donnerstag Digest (August 12, 2010)

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:53:51 +0000

This week in the blogosphere:

Baker acquires Hendrickson’s academic arm (HT: Nijay Gupta and Rod Decker).
Larry Hurtado rightfully lauds and recommends careful attention to Harry Gable’s Books and Readers in the Early Church.
Cynthia Nielsen continues her discussion of interconnections between Joerg Rieger and Frederick Douglass with a post about duality in identity construction.
Michael Halcomb has a new website specifically dedicated to Getting (Theological) Languages.
Kirk Lowery returns to the biblioblogosphere after a hiatus for the development of the Groves Center as an independent research unit. I had the privilege of doing an Aramaic and a Hebrew Bible text-linguistics seminar under Kirk and am again looking forward to seeing what shows up on his “scratchpad.”
Happy Dissertating suggests PhD2Published as a potentially valuable resource for new PhD graduates in humanities disciplines.
James McGrath spots several video recordings of presentations at this past year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.
Michael Bird starts reading a recent biography of Ernst Käsemann and reproduces several, brief quotations from Käsemann that are, as one might expect, particularly insightful.
Todd Bolen reports a recent spectrometric analysis that suggests a Jerusalem origin for a newly discovered cuneiform tablet.
Ken Schenck discusses the reading of biblical literature as Christian scripture.
Brian LePort discusses the relationship between scripture and tradition in view of the Trinitarian-Oneness debate. On this relationship, our Writing Center director at Southeastern recently brought to my attention F. F. Bruce’s edited volume, Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition. I have yet really to peruse it, and the book is scarcely findable in print at this point. Still, it does look like a very interesting volume, and much of it is available through Google Books.
Google and Verizon propose, regarding Net Neutrality,“that ‘wireline broadband providers [sh]ould not be able to discriminate against or prioritize lawful Internet content, applications or services in a way that causes harm to users or competition’, but broadband providers [sh]ould be able to offer ‘additional, differentiated online services’.”
Chris Brady shares some of his conclusions from his recent International Organization for Targumic Studies presentation about Boaz in Targum Ruth.

Another Hat Tip to Paul Silvia

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:32:59 +0000

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Over at To Do: Dissertation, one of the authors provides a list of aids that dissertation writers may find helpful. Second on this list is Paul Silvia’s book How to Write a Lot, which has proven particularly helpful to me as well. The book really is worth its purchase price for the number of practical thoughts that it includes that may help the writing process go more smoothly.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek on Google Books

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:00:20 +0000

According to Google’s blog, the National Library of the Netherlands will soon start making over 160,000 public-domain volumes available through Google Books. Works targeted for digitization “constitute nearly the library’s entire collection of out-of-copyright books, written during the 18th and 19th centuries.” Among the authors whose works this post explicitly notes as being included within this group is Abraham Kuyper (at least via a direct link to his Wikipedia page), the Dutch Reformed theologian, philosopher, and politician.

Ubiquity Search Command for Evernote Web

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:42:19 +0000

The Evernote blog has a helpful new video for Google Chrome users, showing them how to get Chrome to search their Evernote accounts directly. Firefox users can achieve the same results with Ubiquity (0.1.9.1) by copying this code into the Ubiquity command editor or by subscribing to this command feed.

Zotero 2.0 Final Release

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:28:51 +0000

The final release of Zotero 2.0 is now available. For a list of changes since 2.0rc5, see here, or check this page for upgrade instructions and a list of new features in Zotero 2.0.

Online Research in Biblical Studies

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:39:18 +0000

I have been asked to produce a resource for distance education students who may have more difficulty than on-campus students with accessing traditional research venues like the brick-and-mortar library. To that end, this blog now has an Online Research page, part of which subsumes and expands the old, Other Websites page. I have tried to highlight and link to many of the wonderful resources already available for distance education students who are doing biblical studies work, but if anyone has suggestions about other free-access resources that these students might find particularly useful, please do post them in the comments section here. The students who will use this page and I would be very grateful for these additions.

Zotero 2.0 RC 3–4

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:11:56 +0000

Zotero 2.0 release candidates three and four have been released with several improvements, including upgrades and fixes for the synchronization and indexing functionality. As always, new Zotero users can download the latest version from the Zotero homepage. For those who may be interested, although composed for Zotero 1.5, the screencast below still highlights the main features of Zotero 2.0.

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Zotero 2.0 Release Candidates

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:38:08 +0000

Yesterday, Zotero 2.0 moved from beta into its first and second release candidate versions. If you have yet to try Zotero, you may download it or view the video introduction from their homepage. At this point, Society of Biblical Literature Handbook of Style support is still under development, but even so, Zotero does provide a fairly good approximation that can be tweaked here and there with reasonable ease.

Also, with the recent release of Google Chrome 4 and its “full” extension support, my curiosity was renewed about whether a Google Chrome port of Zotero might be feasible so that Zotero could take advantage of Chrome’s improved JavaScript engine. Yet, Chrome’s extension system apparently does not provide the necessary support for some key, Zotero features. So, Zotero will remain tied to Firefox for the foreseeable future and will continue seeing the benefits of future JavaScript engine improvements as have also already been made for Firefox 3.5 and 3.6.

Evernote for Windows Overhaul

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:57:02 +0000

Evernote is a program that manages assorted notes and images while attempting to render searchable any text—even handwritten text—that is in its database. While the program already provides some very useful features for biblical studies research, a beta version of a major overhaul for Evernote’s Windows client is now available. The new version mostly aims to enhance performance and to make future improvements easier.

To download and try Evernote, click here. To see a list of some of the biggest changes in the latest, Windows client beta version, click here.

A Plea for Scholarly Engagement

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:04:56 +0000

Steve Runge has posted a fantastic essay on “The Bane of Dismissive Scholarship.” Among his most poignant statements are the following:

[T]he literature review and preparation for writing the paper. . . . is where I should be adding to my already profound arsenal of Knowledge, filling my cup til it runneth over. Realistically, I feel like many use this stage to fill their quiver with barbs that they will launch at other scholars. Why? Because some folks seem more interested in being right than in getting it right. . . . The specific issue that has got me in a tizzy is folks getting it mostly right, but being dismissed because of the portion that is lacking. To put it another way, instead of remodeling the missing element of the structure, they demo the whole thing so that THEY can be the builder, THEY can save the day. . . . It behooves me in writing my paper to stop and ask what my objective is: to be right or to get it right? If I am claiming something that no one else has ever claimed before, I have good reason to fear. If I am claiming something that represents the core idea the grammarians have expressed for over a century and I can build on or clarify that argument, there is a far greater chance of getting things right. It is a win-win: in getting it right, I get to be right (Runge, “Dismissive Scholarship”; italics and capitalization original).

Creating Research Timelines in Excel

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:14:01 +0000

Although it certainly can be used otherwise, a progress tracking system like the one Paul Silvia suggests in his book How to Write a Lot seems to work best for writing that can be open ended: by following a regular writing schedule, projects can regularly and reliably come to completion. What happens, however, if one is working under a deadline (be it self-imposed or not) and, therefore, needs to develop a writing schedule backwards from this due date?

"How to Write a Lot"

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:06:50 +0000

Paul Silvia

Paul J. Silvia teaches psychology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. In
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing, Silvia chiefly pleads with his readers to set aside specific, regular blocks of time for writing and to adhere steadfastly to this schedule ( 16–17). “The secret,” he says, “is the regularity, not the number of days or the number of hours [allotted for writing]” ( 13). Silvia argues that observing such a regular writing schedule will allow an author to produce better material more efficiently ( 1). “More efficiently” does not, of course, necessarily indicate that all academics should publish a large quantity of material; those whose interests lie elsewhere can still use a regular writing schedule to produce the quantity of literature that they wish. Thus, Silvia suggests that a more accurate title for the volume would be How to Write More Productively During the Normal Work Week with Less Anxiety and Guilt, but he humorously recognizes that such a title may well have inhibited book sales ( 130).

Zotero 2 Beta Launches

Fri, 15 May 2009 09:17:58 +0000

Zotero is a bibliographic and research management addin for the Firefox web browser. The latest test release, 2.0b3, succeeds Zotero 1.5b2.1 with some substantial improvements, particularly by increasing Zotero’s flexibility and usefulness for research collaboration among several, different Zotero users.

In addition to the resources on Zotero’s website, Tommy Keene has a good quickstart guide over at Nerdlets.org, and he plans to post a fuller review and guide for Zotero 2.0 fairly soon.

PDF Markup Tool

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:00:04 +0000

I recently found a thread on the Zotero forum that mentions the PDF XChange Viewer, which is supposed to allow users to markup PDF files.

Especially if you use Zotero, you may want to use PDF XChange as your default PDF browser plugin. After installing PDF XChange, you may still need to do the following:

Open PDF XChange.
Go to the “Edit” menu, and click “Preferences.”
Under “Categories,” click “File Associations.”
Check “Display PDF in browser,” click OK, and close PDF XChange.

Also, if you have the Adobe Acrobat plugin installed in Firefox:

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