Tag: Daily Gleanings
Daily Gleanings: New Releases (26 June 2019)
Newly available from SBL Press is Gideon R. Kotzé, Wolfgang Kraus, and Michaël N. van der Meer’s edited collection, XVI Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies: Stellenbosch, 2016. According to the Press, This book includes papers given at the XVI Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS), held…
Daily Gleanings: Avoiding Distraction (25 July 2019)
Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller discuss how to avoid drifting along without accomplishing what you mean to. The discussion is directed most immediately at leaders. But as with many such things, there are direct lines of application in other contexts too (e.g., those of us who need to avoid drifting off course from completing…
Daily Gleanings: Insights from Freedom (24 June 2019)
Freedom releases Insight for Chrome. According to Freedom, Insight is a simple plugin that shows you where you are spending your time in Chrome. … Insight tracks the time you spend on websites in Chrome, and provides a simple display so you can see where you’re spending your time. You can drill down into individual sites…
Daily Gleanings: Textual Criticism (21 June 2019)
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…
Daily Gleanings (20 June 2019)
Michael Kruger gives “7 Tips on How to Survive an Ordination Exam.” On reading these suggestions, it strikes me that they are also fairly applicable—some with a little tweaking—to surviving the interview process for a faculty position at a confessional institution. Todoist discusses how to “eat the frog”—i.e., how to focus on one next high-importance…
Daily Gleanings: Digital Humanities (19 June 2019)
The Institute of Classical Studies has a YouTube channel with a number of videos related to digital work in classics. HT: AWOL The Catalogue of Digital Editions: has been gathering digital editions and texts in an attempt to survey and identify best practice in the field of digital scholarly editing. Analogous initiatives exist but don’t…