What follows is a brief review of Daniel Lynwood Smith, The Rhetoric of Interruption: Speech-making, Turn-taking, and Rule-breaking in Luke-Acts and Ancient Greek Narrative (BZNW 193; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012). This monograph is a revision of Smith’s doctoral work completed under David Aune at the University of Notre Dame. In it, Smith examines the occurrence… Continue Reading
I want to wrap up my BibleWorks 9 review and fill in a few gaps that my previous posts have left. Purchasing and Installation As I said, I have used BibleWorks for nearly 10 years, and I have always found their customer support very good. Now, when you purchase a product, you will be sent… Continue Reading
As I said in the intro (see also pt 2), I have been upgraded to BibleWorks 9 from BW8. In this post I want to highlight some of the features new to BW9. Interface One of the first things I noticed was that the interface is a bit more aesthetically pleasing, particularly with the updated… Continue Reading
In the second installment of my BW9 review (see pt. 1), I want to focus on how BibleWorks performs on the Mac. Yes, natively on a Mac. Now if you happily use Windows (on PC or Mac), great. What follows below is not applicable to your setup. This is one of the most important new… Continue Reading
As I said recently, the time has come to do a fresh Bible software review series. Last week I talked briefly about a resource using Logos, a topic to which I will return shortly. This week I want to focus on BibleWorks, which has kindly allowed me the opportunity to review BW9 (upgrading me from… Continue Reading
It seems I find the word ubiquitous, derived from Latin, showing up more and more in my reading. A quick Google Ngram search confirms that the word has gained steam more broadly, especially in the last 30 years. Compare its usage to two similar words, prevalent and omnipresent (1800–2008): This is one of many “academic”… Continue Reading
I plan to review these volumes in three parts, the final two of which will be devoted to the content of the commentaries. I begin in this first part with a few thoughts on using the Logos version of this resource. I have used Logos for nearly 10 years, mostly as a digital library of… Continue Reading
At Marginalia: François was a scholar’s scholar. Those of us who were privileged to work beside him on his publications were always amazed at his ability to sight-read any ancient text in Greek or Latin as well as modern scholarly works in French, German, Spanish, Italian, and English. And François read ancient scholarship as well… Continue Reading
The false dichotomy plagues conversations in every sphere, not least in scholarship, theology, and politics! Not a day goes by where I do not encounter it even in prominent peer-reviewed publications. I suspect I am guilty of it more often than I realize, but I am watching out for it as much as possible in… Continue Reading
Things have been a bit quiet around the blog for a few reasons, not least of which was preparing for and attending the BNTC followed immediately by packing up house and moving from the south side of Edinburgh to the north(ish) side. I will resume the series on academic blogging this week or next and… Continue Reading