Daily Gleanings: Free Books (9 December 2019)

This month, Logos Bible Software is offering Jaroslav Pelikan’s Acts commentary from the Brazos series for free.

The deeply discounted companion volumes are from the same series and include Stanley Hauerwas’s Matthew and Peter Leithart’s 1 & 2 Kings.

Similarly, Verbum is offering for free the Matthew volume of Thomas Aquinas’s Catena Aurea.

The deeply discounted companion volumes there are from the Fathers of the Church series and include Jerome’s and Hilary’s commentaries on Matthew.

Daily Gleanings: Free Books (25 November 2019)

This week is the last opportunity to grab the Faithlife platforms’ free and deeply discounted volumes this month. In a rare trifecta, all three have resources of interest here.

The free resources include:

  • R. T. France’s commentary on Mark from the New International Greek Testament Commentary series.
  • Jason Fout’s Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture in the T&T Clark Theology series.
  • Leland Ryken’s J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life.

The companion discounted volumes are:

  • From the NIGTC: James Dunn’s volume on Colossians and Philemon and Anthony Thiselton’s on 1 Corinthians.
  • From von BalthasarA Short Primer for Unsettled LaymenLove Alone Is CredibleExplorations in Theology (vol. 1), and The Glory of the Lord (vol. 1).
  • Other biographies of C. S. Lewis, Francis Schaeffer, and Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

Daily Gleanings: Free Books (12 August 2019)

This month, Logos is giving away Peter Gentry and Stephen Wellum’s God’s Kingdom through God’s Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology (Crossway, 2015). The related titles on deep discount are:

  • James Hamilton Jr., God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology (Crossway, 2010).
  • Gerald Bray, God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology (Crossway, 2012).

For more information and to order, see Logos’s website.


This month, Verbum is giving away the Berit Olam series volume on 2 Samuel by Craig Morrison (Liturgical, 2013). The related titles on deep discount are the volumes on Genesis, Psalms, and 1 Samuel.

For more information and to order, see Verbum’s website.

Logos 7 academic basic

Logos Bible Software logoIn addition to Logos 7 basic, Logos 7 academic basic is available for free. Resources included in the package are sufficient to get one’s feet wet with the principles of how research in and with biblical languages work in Logos—namely:

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew lexicon
Lexham Bible Dictionary
Septuagint (Lexham English and Swete Greek editions)
Lexham Hebrew Bible
Greek New Testament (SBL)
Lexham Textual Notes
Abbot-Smith Greek Lexicon

For additional information about Logos 7 academic basic, see the LogosTalk blog. To download the package, see the Logos website. For other discussion, see also Logos 7 Basic for free and Trial versions of Biblical Studies software.

Get Strack and Billerbeck via Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has PDF scans openly available for each of the first three volumes of Hermann Strack and Paul Billerbeck’s Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch, 6 vols. (München: Beck, 1922–1961):1

In addition, there is also a combined PDF that includes vols. 1–3 and2

Each of the files is reasonably large (75.7–134 MB). So, they may take some time to load on slower connections or browsers.


  1. Header image supplied by Internet Archive

  2. Special thanks to Ronald van der Bergh for bringing this combined PDF to my attention in his comment below. 

May freebies from Faithlife

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Noteworthy freebies from Faithlife this month include: