Daily-Gleanings

Daily Gleanings from Freedom about distractions (digital and otherwise) and how to overcome them to improve your focus on what matters.

Daily Gleanings about the Muratorian fragment and the expansion of one’s English vocabulary through reading German texts.

Daily Gleanings about biblical theology from Eckhard Schnabel and Craig Keener’s commentary on Galatians from Larry Hurtado.

Daily Gleanings about how David Allen would design software for GTD and how to use Todoist to leverage the Eisenhower matrix.

Daily Gleanings about simple productivity improvements to try and better understanding the importance of networks for work in biblical studies.

Daily Gleanings about open access references for Greek personal names and subsequent transmission of classic Greek literature.

Daily Gleanings from RBL about Heath Thomas’s commentary on Habakkuk and Rocketbook about maximizing productivity.

Daily Gleanings about finds from AWOL about Hittite and expanded ranges of fonts.

Daily Gleanings about reviews of recent publications on Paul in the Review of Biblical Literature.

Daily Gleanings about new releases from SBL Press on the theology and intertextuality of the Hebrew Bible.

Daily Gleanings about books available for free—or otherwise deeply discounted—this month from Logos and Verbum.

Daily Gleanings about complex systems, their failure, and remedies for these failures, as well as brief suggestions for restoring motivation.

Daily Gleanings from Brice Jones about P.Oxy. 83.5345 (a “first-c.” Mark fragment) and Larry Hurtado about Darina Staudt’s, “Der eine und einzige Gott.”

Daily Gleanings from RBL on Fiona Gregson’s, “Everything in Common?” and Jason Maston and Benjamin Reynolds’s, “Anthropology and New Testament Theology.”

Daily Gleanings from RBL about Channing Crisler’s “Reading Romans as Lament” and David Capes’s “Divine Christ.”

Daily Gleanings from Dropbox about Jenny Odell’s “How to Do Nothing” and Freedom about time tracking.

Daily Gleanings about Mike Aubrey’s discussion of new books in Greek linguistics and Mark Ward’s review of Dirk Jonkind’s “Introduction to the GNT.”

Daily Gleanings about the final EAGLE conference proceedings and Cairo Geniza texts, transcriptions. Both are freely available online.

Daily Gleanings about the publication of the proceedings from the 16th IOSCS congress and Matthew Crawford’s treatment of Eusebian canon tables.

Daily Gleanings from Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller about how to avoid drifting through life and from Cal Newport about avoiding digital distraction.

Daily Gleanings from Freedom on the new Insight extension for Chrome and on how to manage time effectively and cut the clutter of distraction.

Daily Gleanings about multi-spectral images from CSNTM and an open access series from Gorgias in partnership with De Gruyter.

Daily Gleanings from Michael Kruger about ordination exams (with applications for new faculty) and from Todoist about “eating the frog” for productivity.

Daily Gleanings about Digitial Classics on YouTube and the Catalogue of Digital Editions.

Daily Gleanings about Colin Whiting’s “Documents from the Luciferians” and Crawford and Zola’s “Gospel of Tatian.”

Daily Gleanings from the Review of Biblical Literature on gift exchange in Paul’s letters and rewritten and received Bible.

Daily Gleanings from Joseph Dongell, Ben Witherington, and Craig Keener on the New Perspective on Paul.

Daily Gleanings from Todoist on the Pomodoro technique and Peter Gurry on the Harklean Syriac.

Daily Gleanings from Larry Hurtado about early Alexandrian scholarship and INTF about how ECM handles patristic material.

Michael Thomas discusses the importance of sleep for knowledge work through the lens of a couple key anecdotal narratives. Todoist has published a helpful introduction to “GTD practices and what [they] think is the most intuitive way to implement the[se practices] in Todoist.” The essay comments, in part, that “the key to GTD isn’t the techniques or tools you use to execute tasks but rather the habits you employ on a daily basis to think about and prioritize your work.” ...