Author: J. David Stark

  • Future Developments Preview at the Document Foundation

    Just a bit ago, on the Document Foundation’s listserv, the following press release came out: “The Document Foundation is about documents and the associated software is pivotal to create, exchange, modify, share and print documents”, says Thorsten Behrens, a software developer and a member of TDF Steering Committee. “LibreOffice 3.3 is the first flavour of…

  • Emanuel Tov Online

    Emanuel Tov has posted a number of his publications online in openly-accessible, PDF format. Hearty thanks to Dr. Tov for this contribution to digital scholarship in biblical studies. HT: Tommy Wasserman.

  • Lightfoot, “Colossians and Philemon”

    In working on the phrase εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν τοῦ μυστηρίου τοῦ θεοῦ, Χριστοῦ in Col 2:2 (NA27 punctuation), I stumbled upon J. B. Lightfoot’s commentary on Colossians in full view, PDF format on Google Books. According to Lightfoot (239), The “note” to which Lightfoot here refers is too lengthy conveniently to reproduce here, but it may…

  • New Ancient World Bibliographic Resource

    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.

  • SBL Contingent Faculty Survey

    In conjunction with the Coalition on the Academic Workforce, the Society of Biblical Literature is conducting a survey about contingent faculty, and the survey has already garnered more than 20,000 responses. To continue making the survey results as complete and informative as possible, this afternoon, SBL has written the membership’s current survey respondents to request…

  • Biblioblog Top 50 (October, 2010)

    This post is a bit late, but among the top 50 biblioblogs for October, 2010, the top 10 student biblioblogs are: Student Overall Author(s) Blog Alexa Score 1 2 Joel L. Watts Unsettled Christianity 95521 2 8 Scott Bailey Scotteriology 212042 3 12 Jeremy Thompson Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog 294803 4 15 Jonathan…