Hone Your Craft as a Biblical Scholar
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.
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:
The companion discounted volumes are:
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:
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.
In 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.
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.
Header image supplied by Internet Archive. ↩
Special thanks to Ronald van der Bergh for bringing this combined PDF to my attention in his comment below. ↩
Noteworthy freebies from Faithlife this month include:
