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October 2022

October 13, 2022

Job Opportunities: Remote Research Positions, Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library

The Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library (SMDL) at the UCLA Library is currently hiring for several...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

Spiritual Deserts

Recently in my Sunday school class we talked about the possibility of inviting others to...

August 06, 2020

Talk Gnosis: The Origins of Gnosticism

One of the things that I got pushback about in my Enoch Seminar conference paper...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

Surrogate Knowledge and Information Literacy

This article gets things exactly right. Digital skills cannot be either an "add-on" or the...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Consulting a Library

It so happened that I was sitting in a room in the Scarritt-Bennett Center in...

August 2018

August 16, 2018

Neglected Mentions of John the Baptist and Mandaeans in Syriac and Aramaic Sources?

Several sources online have highlighted a new resource related to the study of Syriac literature:...

November 2016

November 18, 2016

Digital Futures of Religious Studies at #AARSBL16

Chris Cantwell blogged about this interesting session tomorrow, which the powers that be at AAR...

December 2015

December 20, 2015

Digital Humanities SBL 2016 Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 2016 Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting is now...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Digital Humanities at #AARSBL15

One important element in the decision to bring the Blogger and Online Publication program unit...

November 19, 2015

The Last Blogger Session #AARSBL15

This year's session of the SBL Blogger and Online Publication program unit will be the last...

November 02, 2015

New Star Trek Is Coming!

The news broke today that a new Star Trek series will be made, to premiere...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Post Doc Fellowship – Digital Library of the Eastern Mediterranean

Via the Hugoye list: The Harvard Library seeks applicants for a two-year Post Doc Fellowship...

January 2015

January 02, 2015

Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository

Ancient World Online linked to the Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository, which includes...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

Books.logos.com

Torrey Seland drew attention to the website , where books (mostly on the Bible and theology)...

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Googleful vs. Google-free Digital Bible Literacy

Brian Bibb recently shared the final exam from a course he teaches called "The Digital...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

GERT at SBL

Randall Tan passed on this information, which is also on the Biblical Humanities website: The...

October 16, 2013

AAR THATCamp

I've heard a lot about THAT Camp, and there will be a meeting at AAR...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Beyond Library Walls

Today's Indianapolis Star includes an article by Stephanie Wang on academic libraries' move in the...

August 2013

August 15, 2013

Princeton Theological Commons

Princeton Theological Seminary has made a large number of digitized volumes available online, in its...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

Are E-Books Unscholarly?

I found myself feeling somewhat dismayed reading Michael E. Smith's grumpy post about e-books at...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library

Remember when getting all the Dead Sea Scrolls published and available to scholars and the...

December 13, 2012

Durham Theses of Interest

Via Ancient World Online, I learned of an enormous horde of doctoral and masters theses...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

What is a Library?

I spent a day during Butler's Fall break at a strategic planning retreat for the...

August 2012

August 15, 2012

Online Sources in the Classroom

In my current teaching, I focus increasing amounts of attention on the discerning use of...

May 2012

May 07, 2012

John’s Apologetic Christology for Kindle

I somehow failed to notice earlier that my first book, John's Apologetic Christology: Legitimation and...

March 2012

March 25, 2012

Melammu, the Mandaeans and other Mesopotamians

Charles Jones posted at Ancient World Online about the Melammu project, which has a digital...

March 13, 2012

The Talpiot Mysteries: Featuring the Biblioblog Detectives and the Case of the Ichthyomorphic Ossuary Unguentaria/Amphora

The biblioblogs have been abuzz with discussions about the Talpiot tombs. Here are some highlights:...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

New Online Jewish Studies Resources

Two major resources that I want to share: The Cairo Genizah Collection at the Bodleian...

February 13, 2012

Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts Online

The British Library blog shared a long list of links and some sample images from...

February 01, 2012

Digital Analysis of Mandaic Manuscripts

My collaborator on the Mandaean Book of John translation project, Charles G. Häberl of Rutgers University,...

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