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Textual Research on the Bible
Through its Academic Bible website’s homepage, the German Bible Society is offering a free download of the brochure Textual Research on the Bible: Introductions to the Scholarly Editions of the German Bible Society. The Society envisions that the brochure will provide insight into this fascinating field of research. We have particularly in mind the interests of first-year students,…
On the Web (September 1, 2011)
On the web: Google Docs can now display page numbers in documents themselves and not just on a printed or PDF copy. Google Chrome Frame now has a beta version that does not require administrative privileges to install. The third edition of Emmanuel Tov’s Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible should be available around November 1…
A New Offline Gmail Web App
Today, Google has released an Offline Gmail web app, which uses HTML5 in place of the now-deprecated Google Gears. Similar offline access for the Calendar and Docs apps is available through these apps’ settings, but offline editing in Docs is apparently still in the works. Related articles Offline Gmail, Docs and Calendar finally come to Google…
On the Web (August 30, 2011)
On the web: Steve Caruso connects one of the recently-discovered Jordanian codices to a coin from the era of John Hyrcanus I (HT: Jim Davila) Brian LePort surveys interpretations of ἡ κτίσις in Rom 8:19–22. John Byron notes a “music video” that particularly appeals to doctoral students. Dirk Jongkind considers Margaret Sim’s Marking Thought and Talk…
On the Web (August 29, 2011)
On the web: Stirling Bartholomew considers Ezek 37:1b. Yonatan Adler lectures on “The Tefillin of Qumran: Archeology and Halacha” this Friday (HT: Jim Davila).
Roads to Rome (and Elsewhere) for Digital Classicists
Alison Babeu has a new ebook freely available in PDF format: “Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day”: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists (Washington, D. C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2011). According to the publisher, The author provides a summative and recent overview of the use of digital technologies in classical studies, focusing on classical…