Tag: Liberal Arts
Smith, The Bible Made Impossible
Via the Brazos website, the introduction and first chapter of Christian Smith’s recent Bible Made Impossible (2011) are available, as is the below interview with Smith about the book. Although Smith’s argument seems, to me at least, to have difficulties in some different places, other parts do offer some helpful thoughts. Among these salutary points are Smith’s…
Logos Bible Software and the Perseus Project
As noted earlier, Logos Bible Software is working on releasing over 3000 texts from the Perseus Project for free to Logos 4 users. Included here is Perseus’s substantive collection of Greek and Latin classics and their translations. This collection also offers access to Perseus’s dictionaries and lexica and integrated searching with the rest of a user’s Logos…
RBL Newsletter (September 9, 2011)
The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies A. Graeme Auld and Erik Eynikel, eds., For and against David: Story and History in the Books of Samuel, reviewed by Frank H. Polak Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger, ed., Die Samuelbücher und die Deuteronomisten, reviewed by Graeme Auld New Testament and Cognate Studies Nina E. Livesey, Circumcision…
A New Offline Gmail Web App
Today, Google has released an Offline Gmail web app, which uses HTML5 in place of the now-deprecated Google Gears. Similar offline access for the Calendar and Docs apps is available through these apps’ settings, but offline editing in Docs is apparently still in the works. Related articles Offline Gmail, Docs and Calendar finally come to Google…
Roads to Rome (and Elsewhere) for Digital Classicists
Alison Babeu has a new ebook freely available in PDF format: “Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day”: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists (Washington, D. C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2011). According to the publisher, The author provides a summative and recent overview of the use of digital technologies in classical studies, focusing on classical…
A New Medieval Historical Theology Collection
Logos releases a new collection for medieval historical theology, which includes: Aidan Nichols, Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to His Life, Work, and Invluence and Lawrence Cunningham, Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel of Life. For more information, please see the product page.