Tag: Writing

  • Daily Gleanings (8 May 2019)

    De Gruyter Open has a number of volumes in classical and Ancient Near Eastern studies via open access. HT: AWOL Freedom continues the dialog over Apple’s added rules that effectively removed much of Freedom’s functionality for new iOS users. For background, see: Freedom Has Been Temporarily Removed from the App Store How to Download Freedom…

  • Daily Gleanings (7 May 2019)

    Doist provides a “complete guide to deep work.” The essay is mainly geared toward summarizing the advice of Cal Newport’s Deep Work with some additional insertions from Digital Minimalism. Both books are definitely worth reading. But Doist’s essay is a thorough crash course on the basics. Douglas Estes offers some helpful reflections on perfectionism, especially…

  • Daily Gleanings (2 May 2019)

    I recently did a blog post series on expanding your research materials. In this same vein, Mark Hoffman discusses the “Library Extension” for Chrome and Firefox. As Mark summarizes, Once you add the extension in either of the those browsers, an icon appears in the toolbar. Click it on to select your available public library…

  • Daily Gleanings (26 April 2019)

    Nijay Gupta digests the main resources he suggests for “mov[ing] from biblical text to theology and application.” According to a recent email from the Society of Biblical Literature to its members, JSTOR has invited SBL into a two-year pilot program that provides access for all SBL members to more than eighty journals in JSTOR’s Religion…

  • Daily Gleanings (19 April 2019)

    Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal has a new issue available via open access. HT: Jim Davila Freedom interviews Laura Turner on how she focuses on writing and avoids distractions.

  • 4 Steps to Using IATG with the SBL Handbook of Style

    4 Steps to Using IATG with the SBL Handbook of Style

    In the second edition of the SBL Handbook of Style (SBLHS2; affiliate disclosure), chapter 8 is entirely dedicated to abbreviations.1 According to the Handbook, “abbreviations for works not listed below should follow Siegfried M. Schwertner, Internationales Abkürzungsverzeichnis für Theologie und Grenzgebiete, 3rd ed. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014 [=IATG3])” (affiliate disclosure). Here are four steps to…