Hooray! That's huge! Congrats! 🎉

Calling all Professors of Religion! Do you teach an intro to the study of religion course? If so, would you be willing to share your syllabus? Collecting for research purposes.

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Cheers!

Just emailed it to you

The brilliance of the timing here is I can see this being an April Fool's prank AND I can see it actually happening...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Back from a week in the mountains. It's going to be a multi-cup of coffee day.

After closing freelance projects for a month, I'm about to re-open spots for the year. Let's see those #books, #dissertations, #articles! (Copyediting, language correction, proofreading, typesetting, indexing available)

Father of a 13-year-old. Yes. And if someone is cooking, you need to "Let them cook."

The lighting is stunning!

This is Aly. She just learned about capitalism. Certainly not a perfect system, but if that is what it takes to put chippies on the table, she understands. 13/10 (IG: alythebichon)

Stardew Valley 10-year Anniversary Video (Retrospective & New Spouse Reveal) YouTube video by ConcernedApe

One of the greatest video games ever made keeps going:
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Brilliant, I just snagged Marsh's from the library. Much obliged!

What are some good Bonhoeffer biographies?

Publisher proof of internal cover page for The Book of Joshua: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Edited by Lissa M. Wray Beal, Craig A. Evans, and D. Allen Hutchison

Proofs day!
The Book of Joshua: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation.
Edited by Lissa M. Wray Beal, Craig A. Evans, and D. Allen Hutchison.
Slated for May 2026.

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What a milestone! Congrats. And I remember being utterly terrified.

De Gruyter Brill. I'm the junior editor on the Joshua FIOTL volume. 🤓

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I finally heard back from the publisher on this indexing question. They said the same. Thank you for being an outside verification. I appreciate it!

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Indexing question: if a verse gets cited in the text only as "In v. 4, ....", should that be included in the Scripture index? From the context, you can tell what chapter it comes from, but it's not listed in the text as 1:4. The SBL Handbook does not address this very niche question.

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Xeirographa A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.

Please share and give feedback!

xeirographa.com

Soon after I heard of Ray's passing yesterday and many tears fell, I thought of people who would be grieved because they had been so impacted by his life. You and Tim Mackie were at the top of that list.

Like you, I cannot quantify just how much Ray impacted me.

May God comfort us as we grieve.

did anyone make a roundup of book discount codes for this year's #aarsbl25 #sblaar25 ?

Just finished reading Nobody's Mother by @sandraglahn.bsky.social. What a compelling argument steeped in primary sources! It grounds Paul's letter to Timothy in their reality and helps me understand mine.

Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Canada. FT. Deadline: December 12, 2025. nt4ox.link/wycliffeTO26

Summer 2026

The Book of Joshua
in the The Formulation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature series
with DeGruyter Brill.

Editors: Lissa Wray Beal, Craig A. Evans, and D. Allen Hutchison

Screenshot of an email that says: Dear Allen, I am pleased to inform you that your book has now been sent to production!

Always exciting to start the day with kind of email!

The Siren's Call by Chris Hayes. I really appreciated it.