From Justin Taylor:
Princeton Theological Seminary has partnered with the Internet Archive to provide an online database called the Theological Commons digital library. It provides free, online access to over 50,000 theology and religion books from the PTS Library.
Drew Maust has recently gone through the tedious process of getting the aforementioned SBLGNT into a format appropriate for the Amazon Kindle. There is also an epub version available. You can download it here.
Trying to decide between Logos, Accordance, or Bibleworks? Want to get more out of the platform you already have, or what you’re missing? Check out this post from Justin Taylor, who is compiling some material from David Instone-Brewer at Tyndale House in Cambridge.
Google just officially announced and released their competitor to iBooks and the Kindle platform. You can check out the announcement and details here and the actual store here.
There are four things I like about this, even though I have a growing collection of Kindle books. First, it encourages competition and development. Second, Google includes a web-based reader, which means I don’t need any kind of device other than a computer to read my books. Third, finding free (open-domain) books is much easier with Google than with the Kindle. Finally, I love that all the open-domain books that Google has been scanning over the years (such as random volumes of the Patrolagiae Graeca Hodge’s Systematic Theology) are all freely readable on any device that Google Books runs on (which is, like, all of them).
And Apple’s iBooks might as well be dead to me, since it only runs on one device. It’s the prettiest and easiest, but also the least accessible.
Your opinions?
That didn’t take long. The aforementioned new critical Greek New Testament has now been published in a variety of formats. You can start downloading here.
Here’s the really cool bit. Because they are providing the text in plain text, as well as other formats like PDF and XML, people have the freedom to play around with this stuff. What does that mean? It means you are not limited to Logos software (though that is available, and they have promised a free download for Logos on the iPhone). You can, for example, load a PDF onto Apple’s iBooks, and I’m sure a Kindle version is just around the corner.
And, within a couple of hours, Michael Hanel has already got a working copy running in Bibleworks, so grab that here.
For those who want to play around with the text for further distribution, you can find the license terms here. They are pretty lenient.
This is awesome stuff!
Yes you read that right. And if you are a regular follower of Nerdlets you can appreciate why this is significant. Up to this point there are no up-to-date critical editions of the Greek NT that are digital, freely available, and web/font friendly.
The announcement comes from Mike Holmes, the editor of this GNT, at Evangelical Textual Criticism. The text is being produced in partnership with Logos Bible Software and the Society of Biblical Literature. The details are available here.
Some highlights:
In short, this is all kinds of awesome. Thanks to Mike, SBL, and Logos!
Google has teamed up with The Israel Antiquities Authority in a project to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls into the digital age. From the Washington Post:
The Israel Antiquities Authority and Google announced Tuesday that they are collaborating to produce digitized images of the entire collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls and put them on the Internet, making the archaeological treasure available to anyone with the click of a mouse.
Anyone familiar with the Dead Sea Scrolls knows that getting access to the information they contain is cumbersome at best, and this promises to finally end that difficulty. Read the whole article for more information and really cool pictures.
Andy Naselli has an excellent and thorough post on using Zotero to organize your personal library. As a follow up for those interested in using Zotero in biblical studies, check out my guide here.
Google translate now offers Latin translations. Church historians rejoice!
Via: New York Times
Zotero’s previously announced plans to move Zotero out of Firefox and into, well, everything is getting closer to realization. It’s a major push to make Zotero available everywhere, and to allow you to integrate your libraries and research with all sorts of different platforms and interfaces (IE, Firefox, Chrome, mobile, etc.) through a set of APIs.
I could go on an on about how great this is, but there’s no need, as David Stark has already done all the heavy lifting. He beats me to the punch every time! You can find the official announcement here, and a full and very helpful run down at ReadWriteWeb here.
