I spent a lot of time with Luke-Acts the past few years, including with many of its commentators. Here are three random thoughts from recent reflection: Howard Marshall’s NIGTC Luke commentary from 1978 is still one of the most useful commentaries for quickly thumbing to a specific passage and finding the major issues laid out. And he did it in… Continue Reading
I am always interested in the books that other academics are hoping to read. Recently Princeton released the summer reading that a handful are hoping to tackle this Summer. From those recommendations, I have highlighted the following for my own list: From AnneMarie Luijendijk’s list: Carol Harrison, The Art of Listening in the Early Church… Continue Reading
How many of these popular texts have you read? The top 30 texts in Higher Education ranked by the Open Syllabus Project are as follows (click a title to view on Amazon): Continue Reading
Part of my work at CODEC has been to redesign and relaunch the Big Bible Project. In its recently re-launched mode, Its purpose [is] To host and curate the best short-form content related to Biblical Literacy and Reception on the web, with a special focus on the digital environment. The typical articles are written by scholars and aimed… Continue Reading
It recently occurred to me that the academic Curriculum Vitae (CV) is not only an instrument through which a scholar presents the scholarly self to the scholarly world, but also an instrument through which the scholar presents the self to the self. In other words, the CV functions like a (highly skewed) window through which the world can see… Continue Reading
Devoney Looser’s piece, ‘How Your Journal Editor Works‘, is a nice reminder of the flesh-and-blood workings of a journal’s editorial work. The following points stand out: Continue Reading
One of the concerns that many share about training computers to perform certain tasks (like driving) is when or whether to allow a human to override the machine’s decision(s). I have encountered three recent discussions of this to serve as some food for thought. First, the example that gets trotted out frequently is a self-driving car that must… Continue Reading
Need to rid yourself of writer’s block? I recently heard about an open-source web app, appropriately called The Most Dangerous Writing App. Select the length of time you wish to work (e.g., 3 min) and start typing. Stop for more than 5 secs and your work is lost. Type for the selected duration and you have an… Continue Reading
Chad Wellmon, in “Sacred Reading: From Augustine to the Digital Humanists,” recounts various shifts in the conception of reading over the centuries–how we read, for what we read, the telos of reading, etc. Underlying the compelling narrative Wellmon crafts is a comparison of ‘close’ and ‘distant’ (sometimes equated with ‘computational’) reading: Continue Reading
I reflected once before on the issue of defining the ‘digital humanities’. Here’s the description I typically give now: The digital humanities is a field that (i) applies the questions and methods of computing to the humanities (e.g., sentiment analysis of 19th century Scottish literature); and/or (ii) applies the questions and methods of the humanities to computing (e.g.,… Continue Reading