Tag: Daily Gleanings
Daily Gleanings: Freedom (22 July 2019)
Freedom interviews Brian Solis about digital distractions and overcoming them to improve your ability to focus. Solis comments, in part, One big side effect of all this tech-based distraction is a compulsion to multitask. I was surprised to learn just how many negative aspects of multitasking there are. First, let’s cut through one big illusion—it…
Daily Gleanings (19 July 2019)
Peter Gurry highlights recent debate over whether the Muratorian fragment is a late antique fake. Ever helpful, HarperCollins’s Unabridged German Dictionary (5th ed.) glosses “sentenziös” simply as “sententious.” Perhaps we need a hashtag for “English vocabulary learned while reading German.” Any ideas? 😉
Daily Gleanings: Recent Publications (18 July 2019)
In the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 62.2, Eckhard Schnabel discusses “Biblical Theology from a New Testament Perspective” (225–49). According to the abstract, The history of writing comprehensive treatments of Old Testament theology, New Testament theology, and biblical theology shows that some authors pursue a historical reconstruction of theological traditions and proclamation, some authors…
Daily Gleanings (17 July 2019)
David Allen shares how he would design software for GTD if he could. And he invites those who are able and willing to take a crack at it. But even for those of us who don’t fall into this category, the sketches may still provide some helpful workflow models for improving whatever system it is…
Daily Gleanings (16 July 2019)
In another “not just for dudes” episode, Brett McKay interviews Albert-László Barabási about his book The Formula (Little, Brown, & Co., 2018). Barabási’s background in network science brings an interesting, research-driven perspective to the discussion. There are a number of ready analogues in the interview to study and work in academia. Since Barabási is himself an…
Daily Gleanings: Open Access References (15 July 2019)
The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) is attempting to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names, drawing on the full range of written sources from the 8th century B.C. down to the late Roman Empire. These are being made available in an online database. HT: AWOL The Bibliotheca Polyglotta Graeca et Latina (BPGL) is working…