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For December, Logos is offering Jaroslav Pelikan’s Acts commentary for free. Verbum is offering Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on Matthew.

James Clear and Cal Newport discuss the symbiotic relationship their prior work has in terms of fostering focus.

Jory MacKay discusses productivity shame and five strategies for coping with it.

Using a baking metaphor, McGever encourages chronic over-preparers not to “overwork the batter” of their lectures so that they don’t come out overly dense.

In Logos’s 2020 seminary guide, Daniel Zacharias and Benjamin Forrest discuss how to finance seminary or other similar education.

Corey Pemberton discusses eight specific types of challenges with focus and provides some suggestions for overcoming each type.

Steven Pressfield shares his thoughts on winning inner creative battles. Pressfield encourages continuing to show up, do the work, and keep moving forward.

Michael Hyatt and Ian Cron discuss different personality types, their particular productivity challenges, and how to overcome these.

Peter Gurry distills five lessons for budding scholars. Textual criticism isn’t something you can afford to ignore if you’re dealing with the biblical text.

The Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age is producing a database of Latin inscriptions.

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.

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 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.

The guidance about page number placement in the “Student Supplement for the 𝘚𝘉𝘓 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦” is mostly clear. But some of it takes some guesswork.

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.