tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38395214971137667462012-01-25T04:55:49.054-08:00Electronic resources for Biblical StudiesDavid IBnoreply@blogger.comBlogger701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-60339894236961510592011-11-14T07:44:00.001-08:002012-01-25T04:55:49.073-08:00

Perseus in Logos (free!) The Perseus collections: 1750 free books (1370 important for the NT) with awesome search software from Logos. These scholarly resources are invaluable for any contextual word studies in the Greek Bible. Greek background is easy to study when you have these texts available. Hands-on working examples in this review

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Significant Advances in BibleWorks 9 BibleWorks 9 is out, though a lot of people are happy with older versions. Is it worth upgrading? NT variants are fuller and easy to investigate and NT manuscripts are fully visible - and you can even manipulate the images like a pro! The new cross references produced automatically from

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Rabbinic Texts to Read and Search It is now easy to look up most of the early rabbinic legal texts. The rabbinic texts were among the first to be digitised and there are some wonderful tools, but the good ones cost a lot of money and aren't very friendly. So I made a web-based tool for myself which is quick to use and more powerful than most.

David IBnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-44185291300617501592011-01-28T08:08:00.000-08:002011-12-14T02:34:02.369-08:00

Semi-Automated Indexing Everyone has a book in them, but when you've finished it, the publisher will email you asking for an Index by yesterday. This will show you how to index semi-automatically. You can create a Subject index, a Scripture index (with everything in the right order) and any additional indexes in Word, without reading your book,

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-26479610265252798732010-12-07T04:48:00.000-08:002011-04-30T04:14:20.086-07:00

Getting the most out of Accordance Accordance is native to the Mac, though it is arguably the best Bible software for Biblical Studies on any platform. Logos packs in more books and BibleWorks gives you more for less money, but Accordance is easy to use and it has more scholarly Biblical texts than any other package - and it is beautiful.

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Finding and Reading Online Books & PeriodicalsDec 2010: added note re Calameo. Online books are becoming more accessible, but not as fast as we want. It is still difficult to find the books and articles, and there are annoying restrictions, some of which can be got round. Tyndale Toolbar Tubingen Article Search Theological Journal Search

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Translating online - ancient and modern languages We spend a lot of time with foreign texts - some ancient and some modern - that computer help can save days of work. Getting good help is hard to find, as they say, but here is the best which is available for free. And it is getting pretty good! Tyndale Toolbar Perseus Lexicon 2LetterLookup

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Writing Greek & Hebrew on a computer In the old days, a font only had as many characters as a keyboard, so when you made a Hebrew font, the A was Aleph, B was Beth etc. Now we have Unicode, which is much easier to use, but a little more difficult to implement. This will show you how to install and use Unicode easily on your computer.   Unicode

David IBnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-60763496262670296592010-11-10T12:59:00.000-08:002011-04-30T04:15:03.606-07:00

Surviving the death of your Hard Drive Backup is a nice idea which people usually try to implement in retrospect. (In recognition of this, one very good backup software is called Retrospect) Your hard drive will certainly die before you do, and probably before your present project * after 2 years or so, modern harddrives

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Research you can re-Search I've made lots of notes I'll never read again, because they are on paper and I can't search them. There are now lots of tools for recording research and searching it. Here are my favourites. Word Outline PBWorks Wiki Zotero FoxIt FileLocator Acrobat OCR EverNote

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Writing a book or thesis We make plans before a long journey, and we need to plan how to write a long document just as carefully - it will save a lot of time in the long run. Word Processors Word Versions Styles Heading Formatting Navigating Planning Tracking Speed tips Replace tips Chapters . Which Word processor? Open Office

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Bible software is so wonderful and plentiful, you can get lost in a toyshop full of wonders. This list is based on what I like, which is the original texts with lots of English tools & translations.   New stuff is listed first, and then a round up of the best, listing my favorites first. A host of new online tools have been released recently. Here

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Logos Scholar's Library  - Guides, tips and treasures I have a lukewarm relationship with Logos. I love the power and the resources, but I can't get used to the interface. This doesn't stop me from recommending Logos for anyone who wants to integrate secondary literature with Bible tools, because  they have the price right and the technology works, and it keeps getting easier to

David IBnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-7338405767284312292009-07-01T07:46:00.000-07:002011-04-30T04:15:41.980-07:00

Imagine a world where everything you read is searchable so you can re-view any page containing a word or reference; where your computer is accessible from any other computer; and where you can instantly find any file you want. You can do all this now, with your present computer, for free. This posting will show you how, at zero cost, you can: have an

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Getting the best out of Bible Software: BibleWorks 8 BibleWorks 8 - Guides, tips and treasures. If you don't know BibleWorks, this will show you what you're missing. If you're already a fan, here are some tips and treasures you may have missed. Version 8 has many new features, and these guides often depend on them. The new

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Finding books and articles online is getting easier. There are more titles availableand fewer places which need searching, thanks to huge aggregated indexes.The best indexes are now available from the Tyndale Toolbar, so everything's in one place.Online versions are better than paper because you can usually search them,and take notes by copy and paste. Now all we need is time to read them.1)

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-58522173991385012592008-12-17T09:55:00.000-08:002011-04-30T04:15:56.179-07:00

The key to research is taking notes and being able to find them again. This used to be done on 5x3 library cards. Now it is best done on the web.A former flatmate kept his PhD notes in two large trash sacks in a wardrobe.To find a reference, he'd pour them on the floor, rummage, then stuff them back.I don't think he ever completed. My system was better - I used a cardboard box.With computers and

David IBnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-41651372093918841152008-11-05T03:48:00.000-08:002011-04-30T04:15:58.854-07:00

The inventor of the book was probably a Christian because all theearliest codexes contain Christian writings. Too poor to buy large piecesof papyrus or leather scrolls, they joined together lots of small scrapsof papyrus to create a 'codex’ and wrote on both sides to maximise space.Will our generation see the demise of the book? This has been predictedas often as the ‘paperless office’. It may

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-57741680132972844052008-08-08T12:06:00.000-07:002011-06-02T02:00:00.291-07:00

Minor updates 11 April 2011 ==================== The bread and butter of New Testament studies is finding out how a word is used elsewhere. Usually this means looking it up in a good lexicon, but a real scholar does a word search. This has recently got a whole lot easier. TLG and Perseus are still the best sources, but now there are new ways to use them, including instant lexical help which

David IBnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-52487016313994286592008-04-22T10:19:00.000-07:002011-04-30T04:17:13.638-07:00

Satellites surround the earth, and Google Earth can zoom in to individual houses. Bible maps have now been adapted to take advantage of this amazing facility, especially the Bible Geocoding project which links 800 places and 10,000 photos. Traditional maps are still very important, especially for explaining specific events. And photographs bring the places alive, especially when linked to a map.

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Time is too short to keep opening programs or hunting for web pages for simple things like looking up a Bible text or finding bibliography. So I wrote the Tyndale Toolbar to save time. It works on PC (Firefox & IE) and Mac (Firefox & Safari). It isn't the prettiest toolbar on the planet, but for Biblical scholars it is the most useful. Speaking of pretty things, are you artistic? I'm

David IBnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-78466591106353190732008-02-19T06:01:00.000-08:002011-04-30T04:18:24.718-07:00

At Tyndale House we regularly have Christian scholars who are researching Islam,and occasionally Islamic scholars who are studying the Bible.A few years ago we welcomed a delegation from the Cairo's Al-Azhar University.The Qur'anic commentary on the Gospels we presented to them is now online.Most Muslims have a great reverence for the Bible and this was a treasured gift.The following links aim

David IBnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-47448828980052652492008-01-11T01:52:00.000-08:002011-04-30T04:16:14.762-07:00

In the bad old days you had to worry about Greek and Hebrew fonts.Now everyone is using Unicode. Well... everyone who wants to communicate.Unicode means everyone can read what you write, on a PC, Mac or web browser,in Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, complext transliteration, or even English,Hebrew is formatted right-to-left, and wraps at the end of lines properly.And things continue to get easier.1)

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Tyndale Tech tries to keep you up to date with electronic resources for Biblical Studies.I've now moved it to a blog-style site where you can add your comments on the issues.All the old posts are there, and new ones will be posted there as well as appearing in email.This means you can add your wisdom on the various topics to share with other scholars.It also means you can hear about new posts

David IBnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-33450274329209477352007-11-15T01:32:00.000-08:002011-04-30T04:16:21.183-07:00

I've recently had a brush with notoriety. It wasn't completely nice.Being criticized for what you didn't say is difficult to respond to.Still, it resulted in an interview in Time magazine about my research on divorce,and my research was, for a while, the most 'popular' story on Yahoo News.Hopefully more people will read my work than they would have done otherwise,though more people will also

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The Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible  The Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible is an electronic version of the most fundamental documents in Biblical Scholarship – the main texts of the Hebrew and Greek Bible with their critical apparatus. This tool demonstrates that these resources are much easier to use as an electronic publication than on paper. The Logos

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The little known saying of Paul, "Backup, backup and again I say backup"is something which every Biblical Scholar (and everyone else) should heed.A book will survive 1000 years or more with benign neglect in a dry place,but a hard drive will function inside a computer for only 3 - 10 years.A floppy disc will fade, a CD will scratch, and even flash memory will die.So whatever we want to keep, we

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Lexicons are at the heart of Biblical Studies, but usually we neglect them becausethey're cumbersome to use, and anyway our Bible software tells us what the word means.But without a real lexicon we miss so much - the nuance, context, and possible meanings.So I decided to make real lexicons easier to use. I've put them at http://www.2letterlookup.com/These lexicons require no typing - just click

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The good news for everyone is that Unicode has solved all our font problems.The bad news for Mac users is that Hebrew doesn't work properly in Word.The really good news is that NeoOffice now works as well as Word, with Hebrew, for free!Macintosh or PC for Biblical Studies?Macs had a head start in Biblical Studies, because they could display Greek & Hebrew.Actually, right-to-left Hebrew was

David IBnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-56978852937526254272007-01-01T10:47:00.000-08:002007-11-14T10:52:24.343-08:00

Google is surprisingly useful even for academic research, but evenGoogle Scholar fails to find most of the important material.The specialist databases are the key - and this is how to find them.1) Finding articles and archives2) Finding books and theses3) Use the new IE7 Searchbox1) Finding articles and archivesATLA - the American Theological Library Association database is still the best source

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-87884059379393544852006-11-01T09:01:00.000-08:002008-01-15T02:20:37.125-08:00

NET Bible have raised the standard for web Bible tools with their NeXt Bible.It does almost everything you want, and fast. Of course it can't touch the big boyslike Accordance, BibleWorks, Logos etc, but unlike them, it is free.There are other free web Bible tools which do some things better than NeXt.Here are the best of the best, so you can find the right tool for your next study.The NeXt Bible

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-25965769464890687182006-09-01T10:00:00.000-07:002007-11-14T10:58:30.686-08:00

I'm just about to start the third volume in my TRENT series, so my thoughts arepartly on how to save time in the writing process. Here are my best tips.The best bit comes first - if you do nothing else, get the InsertBible tool.1) InsertBible tool2) Pen Scanner3) Summary and Bibliography4) Speed tips for Word1) InsertBible tool Michael Stead unveiled a wonderful new tool at the Tyndale Fellowship

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We now have so many Bibles on the web it can take a long time to find the best.I have hunted out all the versions available, and made a link for each one with thebest facilities for searching and study (such as links to lexicons & parsing).I made this list while revamping the Tyndale links for Biblical Studiesand while writing a new page summarising Bible Software.My most exciting discovery was

David IBnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-29370727878031511412006-04-01T10:05:00.000-08:002008-10-01T05:23:13.523-07:00

Translation software is normally free or expensive, though it is coming down in price,and I've found a very special limited offer (see below). At Tyndale I've linked our scannersoftware to open a translation package automatically when a page is saved. It readsyour German book for you almost as easily as a dishwasher cleans your crockery. Well,not quite - you still have to read the translation,

David IBnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-6948521397475171272006-03-01T10:08:00.000-08:002009-06-30T01:33:51.861-07:00

I feel lost without my Palm. I can survive without its diary, word processor,reminders and most of the books, but the Bibles are indispensable.It is so much faster to look up a Hebrew word or find a text on a Palmthan to open up a book or a laptop program. I use BiblePlus which also hasextra-biblical books, linked lexicons and parallel windows.And the price couldn't be better: Free.Like many free

David IBnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-994286543677764602006-02-01T10:42:00.000-08:002007-11-14T10:23:56.143-08:00

One of the first translations of the Bible was the Syriac, which makes it very importantfor textual criticism and early Church history.Don’t be put off by the Syriac script – it is the Hebrew alphabet written in a different way.Here is Matt.1.1 in Syriac, converted into Hebrew characters:Notes:The "de-" prefix means "of", and a final aleph is the definite article, as in Aramaic.diliduth is

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-12780215921272288442005-12-01T10:14:00.000-08:002007-11-14T10:25:49.369-08:00

Biblical scholars are pampered. Unlike almost any other discipline, all our primary textsand most of our background texts are easily available with full searching and parsing facilities.At SBL recently, I was pushing the software producers to remember the scholars, even thoughthey can make much more money by selling popular texts. Mostly I didn't need to push - theyare all doing us proud. The

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-9784734709600955312005-09-01T10:17:00.000-07:002007-11-14T10:25:19.400-08:00

The Tyndale Library catalogue lists almost every Biblical Studies book worth reading.Now you can read a large proportion of them online, thanks to Amazon and Google.Just look up the book at http://www.tyncat.com/ and click on the link to read it online.Passing on this news will transform you into an 'internet guru' in your community.It is still easier and quicker to browse the books at Tyndale

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I looked in vain for Greek & Hebrew Unicode keyboards, which wereeasy to install, intuitive to use, and free. Some keyboards are free for a trialperiod, some include just Hebrew or just Greek, and most are difficult to use.So I wrote my own, and I'm sharing them as the Tyndale Unicode Font Kit.Almost all word processors now support Unicode - with the notableexceptions of Word Perfect on the PC

David IBnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-90336355371446024662005-03-01T10:31:00.000-08:002009-09-25T10:18:50.101-07:00

Israel is a very web-based society. Many books, introductions and allthe basic rabbinic sources are available freely on the internet in Hebrewthough translations are more difficult to find. All the early traditionsare becoming available in my TRENT online (the translations are freelyavailable, but the discussions can only be previewed). This will, I hope,enable a revival in the serious use of

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-34947900679012906152005-03-01T10:28:00.000-08:002007-11-14T10:32:15.017-08:00

At Tyndale House we have access to 419 Biblical Studies and Theology periodicals. See:www.TyndaleHouse.com/Periodicals.htm Most of these are onlyavailable on squashed trees, but about 100 can be read online and 50 are online-only,while another 80 have abstracts or titles listed online. Web links are often very tedious tofind - I know, I've done it. Encourage your librarian to use this data, but

David IBnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-55925691597879456712004-11-01T10:39:00.000-08:002007-11-12T10:40:17.819-08:00

We recently celebrated 60 years at Tyndale House, with a day conferenceabout William Tyndale and his Bible, as well as our own history.David Daniell gave an entertaining and informative account based on hisacclaimed biography of William Tyndale. To see and hear some of the daygo to http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Tyndale/Tour/Aerial.htm and click on"60th Anniversary". If you can't hear the talks,

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I carry about a hundred books in my pocket on a Palm computer - Bibles(including Greek & Hebrew) and other texts which I often want to referto (eg Philo). They're quicker to look up than books, and mostly free.On PC, Mac & Web, there are many remarkably good free Bible programs.You only need to pay if you want to be able to search pointed Hebrew.1) Free Bible software to install on a PC2) Free

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-28595198083222651162004-07-01T10:07:00.000-07:002007-11-12T10:11:13.635-08:00

When you buy books you want to save time + money, and find out moreabout what you are getting. Reviews and Price Comparisons are noweasier to find on the web. And when you've finished with your books,selling them or giving them to good causes is also getting easier.1) TynCat. All in one place: reviews, libraries + price comparisons2) Reviews and previews of books on the web3) Price comparison

David IBnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-33625283932607977652004-05-01T10:11:00.000-07:002007-11-12T10:13:18.287-08:00

Whether you stand before a conference, a class or a congregation,they all expect you to illustrate your talk with relevant pictures.The following are good sources for illustrating Biblical Studies.They are not easy to categorise, and many sites are not easy tosearch so, as with all galleries, you have to spend time browsing.1) Start here first - the quickest sources of images2) Primarily art -

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-43578191714250347802004-04-01T10:13:00.000-08:002007-11-12T10:16:50.915-08:00

Significant advances in Unicode makes this a good time to switchto these future-proofed fonts. But some people should wait. Thisemail is mostly about Hebrew, but it also tells you how to installGreek fonts. Most of the fonts I discuss are free and easy to use,and this email includes a 20% discount on Linguist fonts.1) What is Unicode and OpenType, and why is it important to me?2) New Hebrew

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-20916344746455072882003-12-01T10:17:00.000-08:002007-11-12T10:20:21.066-08:00

Since sending out my last email, I have found some significantextra sites and sources.1) Full-text books via the web - for payment or subscription2) Full-text books via the web - for free3) links for searchable full-text commentaries4) A peek into the future of publishing======================================================1) Full-text books via the web - for payment or subscription=============

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-64610309054183994972003-10-01T10:25:00.000-07:002007-11-12T10:27:42.928-08:00

Good lexicons are now available on BibleWorks, Accordance, Logos andother expensive software, but there are many available on the Web.1) Hebrew & Aramaic2) Greek3) Latin4) Egyptian & Coptic5) Akkadian & other ANE languages6) Syriac & Arabic7) Update about fonts==================================================1) Hebrew & Aramaic==================================================Strong's dictionary

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Does it take you too long to find books and articles?You can quickly build up a bibliography from web catalogues,but finding the books and journals often takes longer thanreading them. Many books and journals are on the web.I have listed the the best places to find them.The most important news is that TynCat (the Tyndale Catalogue)will point you to a free full-text source when available, andwill

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-68672082125048781402003-07-01T10:27:00.000-07:002007-11-12T10:30:34.665-08:00

Many of us now carry computers in our pockets whichare more powerful than the ones which took the Apolloastronauts to the moon. It's a pity to just use themfor addresses and to-do lists. My Palm contains a dozenBibles in English, Greek & Hebrew, lexicons, Dead SeaScrolls, all of Talmud and more.This updates a previous Tyndale Tech on this subject:http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Tyndale/TTech/

David IBnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-44164291198672792562003-06-01T08:46:00.000-07:002007-11-09T09:07:05.732-08:00

Solomon said that there was nothing new under the sun.Mark Twain (I think) said: there are no 'original' sins left.Internet criminals are perhaps proving both of them wrong.Spam is just a nuisance, and viruses can be dangerous.Spam can be diminished, and viruses can be defeated,even without anti-virus software (though this helps).Most of us should also lock our doors with a Firewall.There is lots

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Church History resources on the Web are growing, but the best onesremain expensive. There have been some recent commercial developmentswhich are very important.1) Migne's Patrologiae Graecae2) English Short Title Catalogue (STC)3) Early English Books Online (EEBO)3) Thesaurus Linguae Graecae4) Patrologia Latina5) Free Church History Documents on the Web============================================

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Everyone needs word-processing skills, but we need some skills which others can live without.1) Upgrading. Which version is best?2) Saving as web pages3) Styles and Master Documents4) Exporting to a Palm5) Unicode Greek and Hebrew fonts6) Recording Macros7) Tips and Little-known features==================================================1) Upgrading. Which version is best?=========================

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I’m a reluctant convert to Palm computing, having been a long-timeuser of Psion computers (the ones with a real keyboard).I've been very pleasantly surprised by the high quality of Palmsoftware for Biblical Studies. Much of this also works on PocketPC,but I haven’t tried it, and won’t comment specifically.For a lot of this software you either need a large memory, orextended memory. If you are

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Tyndale House was visited by 97,000 different individuals this year.Fortunately they didn't all stay for coffee - they came to the web site.They read 5 million words a day (as well as look at a few pictures).We would like more people to discover our resources, and I'm sure thatyou too have a web site or two which you would like people to discover.This email looks at ways to promote your website

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I've re-organised the Biblical Studies page on the Tyndale site athttp://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Tyndale/links_Biblical.htmso that it is now subdivided by the following specialities:Ancient Near Eastern BackgroundEgyptian BackgroundGraeco-Roman BackgroundJewish BackgroundEarly Church and Gnostic BackgroundThe links are all there on the site for you to see so I won't boreyou with them all, but there

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At Tyndale we've just got a copy of the new facsimile of Vaticanus,and I thought they had sent the original by mistake - it really lookslike the real thing! Every page is cut exactly like the original,so where the original pages have holes, the facsimile has holes.A new website about Vaticanus will tell you more.I've just come back from SNTS in Durham where I spoke to a designerof the new

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I've just finished a huge project of upgrading the library catalogue at Tyndale House. I ended up writing our own catalogue using FileMaker which enabled me to integrate our ordering and cataloging into one system so that purchase orders turn into library records automatically. Filemaker is a superb programming environment, and although the web connection is not as fast as some, it is very easy

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Here's the really fundamental stuff - Bibles in Greek & Hebrew.And lots more too: interlinear translations, Targums, and OCR Hebrew!1) Greek, Hebrew & Interlinear Bibles2) Textual variants and Manuscripts3) Early translations (LXX, Targums, Syriac)4) Tools to Scan and OCR your own texts======================================================================1) GREEK, HEBREW & INTERLINEAR BIBLEShttp:

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My daughter recently bought an artefact from a suspicious looking Egyptian in a London street. It is a small Anubis (the god who weighs one's heart before allowing entry into the afterlife) with hieroglyphics round the base, about two thirds of which are readable. We have enjoyed learning to read these and deciphering a little. In the process, I discovered that the Web is a surprising treasure

David IBnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839521497113766746.post-57189018409624737792001-05-01T08:18:00.000-07:002008-03-14T03:20:20.827-07:00

You probably have sermons and worship to prepare, and little time to do it. There is help on the Web. Much of the 'help' out there is of dubious value, but this is the best that I have found.My advice: Don't try to preach someone else's sermon - just use their ideas. Unlike in the academic world, plagiarism of sermons is flattering.1) COMMENTARIES & STUDY AIDS2) SERMON ILLUSTRATIONS3) PICTURES

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I remember how grateful I was when Andrew Clarke (the then Librarian at Tyndale House) did an ATLA bibliographic search for me. He was also willing to photocopy the odd article.My church was far away from a good theological library and without this help, research would have been very difficult.We now provide this as a service, with the help of students at Tyndale House. The charges are reasonable

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1) English Bible translations on the Web2) Greek, Hebrew etc Bibles on the Web3) Bible programs and texts to download.=====================================================1) ENGLISH BIBLE TRANSLATIONS ON THE WEBYou can search Bible versions at several sites, especially:Crosswalk - http://bible.crosswalk.com/ParallelBible/Bible Gateway - http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?STG - http://

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1) GENERAL NEWS SOURCESYou need never buy a newspaper again.Or, if you've thrown the paper away, you can look up the story in the archives.2) SPECIALIST NEWS SOURCESScience and technology are especially well served on the Web, but almost anything is available.Even specialist news sources which are uneconomical to print, are found on the Web.3) CHRISTIAN NEWS SOURCESSome Christian and some of

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You have finished your magnum opus, and your publisher wants an index. He refuses to pay a professional indexer, and expects you to do it. What do you do? Save this email for that eventuality. These notes will assume you are using Word 2003. Other word processors are similar. You can index a book the hard way, or the easier way, or the easy way. THE HARD WAY: MARK EACH WORD MANUALLY - i.e. go

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A vast number of church history primary documents are available on the Web.There are many more sources than those listed here, but these are the most complete.1) Early Church Fathers2) Catholic Documents3) Orthodox Documents4) Reformation Texts5) Huge general collections of historical texts6) Greek and Latin original texts7) What is missing?1) Early Church Fathers==================You can buy the

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Greek & Hebrew on computers===========================The Macintosh was the first computer to make Greek and Hebrew easy on computer. So a lot of Biblical Studies is done on Macs, but that is changing. The PC is just as easy to use now, and everything you need is available for free.Free Fonts for Mac and Windows==============================Details and links to sources of free fonts and font

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The web is a big place (40 million computers and growing). There is a lot of treasure out there, among the trash.These are my tips for finding things on the Web. There are lots of search engines, and different ones are good for different things.These are the best in each category. Bookmark them.===============================http://www.download.com/ - best for softwareeg shareware, freeware,

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It is now very easy to publish your courses, papers, books and journals on the Web. This email will tell you how.My own experience:I've been amazed at the number of people who have read my unfinished book while I write it on the web - see http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Brewer/divorce.htm I get about 700 visitors per month (that's visitors, not visits - if they read every chapter or come back 100

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The Perseus site has undergone a major transformation. It now contains:Encyclopaedia of the Hellenistic worldA large number of articles on all aspects of the Greek life and History, together with maps, a gazeteer, some books, including Greek grammars, and a huge database of pictures.Greek & Latin Literature with translationsA large number of Greek works and some significant Latin works. Most

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