Bible and Hermeneutics
New Features at Bible.Logos.com
I’ve mention Bible.Logos.com before. It’s a pretty handy and fluid online Bible. Today it gets an upgrade:
As you navigate through the Bible, we dynamically pull relevant content—both sermons and illustrations—from our Sermons site and display the top three hits with a link to all of the other contributions that deal with the passage of Scripture [...]
Subscribe to ESV Bible Reading Plans
My Google Reader is full of wonderful subscriptions to wonderful web sites. Little did I know that I can subscribe to daily Bible Readings courtesy of ESV. There are a number of different options available on this page. There are a wealth of different options, including a Study Bible option, Daily Reading option, and a [...]
Get Maps of Biblical Places
Ever wanted to see what Jerusalem looked like in Biblical times? Biblical Studies and Technology Tools tells you how in this post.
You can find another site with high quality maps at BibleMap.org. This site will map out places based upon selections of Scripture, which is very handy indeed. The functionality for this and the aforementioned [...]
Should you Capitalize the Word “Biblical”
I’m not an über-PC kinda guy, but in papers I try to use non-biased terms like “c.e.” and “Hebrew Scriptures” and gender neutral language where possible. But what about the word “Biblical”? Should it be capitalized? This question has always given me a bit of trouble, since you see it both ways in journals. Well, [...]
More Ubiquity Commands
For those who found this post interesting, there are a whole host of additional Ubiquity commands available to you. If you have already set up Ubiquity (follow this link if you haven’t), then you may be interested in Mozilla’s (incomplete) repository of commands that other people have been creating for this exciting new interface. Be [...]
Use Ubiquity to Listen to the Bible Online
It is now even easier to search, read, and even listen to the Bible online.
A much improved upgrade to Ubiquity has been released, making this ground-breaking Firefox plugin prettier, more robust, and exceedingly versatile. More to the point, the ESV command for this plugin has also been updated, and the update allows you to listen [...]
Lost (and Gained) in Translation
Some ideas are easily represented in any language, but more often than not translation requires sensitivity to a wide variety of often competing influences.
I just listened to a nice little story on NPR about the “Art of Translation.”
Bea Basso, who came from Italy to the United States in 2000 to study and work in theater, [...]
It’s OK to Read Fiction
John Piper reminds us fiction junkies that it’s OK to read stories, even children’s stories. Quoting C. S. Lewis:
I was therefore writing “for children” only in the sense that I excluded what I thought they would not like or understand; not in the sense of writing what I intended to be below adult attention. I [...]
BibleArc Lets You Create Thought-Flow Diagrams
There are a variety of method of diagramming available to the student of the Bible, but very few tools to actually assist in creating such diagrams. Well BibleArc does just thought, providing scholars and preachers alike with an easy way to begin constructing their own diagrams. You can view my hastily created diagram to the [...]
Pete Enns on NPR
Listen to the hour-long interview of Pete Enns, author of Inspiration and Incarnation, on NPR’s “Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane” here.
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