Hone Your Craft as a Biblical Scholar
Jacob Peterson and Leigh Ann Thompson discuss how to understand the multi-spectral images being produced in the work of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.
Tommy Wasserman notes that
Gorgias Press has entered a partnership with De Gruyter for the electronic hosting of the Texts and Studies volumes, which means that individual chapters are now available for each volume.
For some examples, see the original post. For the full Texts and Studies series, see De Gruyter’s website.
CSNTM discusses their recent digitization of Codex Robertsonianus.
Larry Hurtado discusses “YHWH texts” and their application to Jesus (1, 2).
Cal Newport reflects on the possibility of deleterious effects of social media on religious practice.
In part, he comments:
Courage, reassurance, revelation: these require a quiet mind capable of apophatic insight. One of the unintentional consequences of innovating an algorithmically-optimized, always-present source of attention-snagging noise is that this quiet disappears.
For more, see Cal’s original post or Digital Minimalism.
CSNTM preserves some new manuscripts currently kept in Texas, including a thus-far-unregistered manuscript still under review by INTF.