Author: Brian Davidson
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Fourth Edition of Tov’s Textual Criticism of HB
I just recieved an email from Fortress Press announcing a fourth edition of Emanuel Tov’s monumental Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. This is very surprising because the third edtion was itself a huge expansion and revision. Tov’s work is more than an “introduction.” There’s nothing else like it. What’s new in the fourth edition? […]
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Jobes and Silva’s Intro to the LXX (2nd ed.) in Accordance
The very first post on this blog was a quote from the first edition of Jobes and Silva’s Invitation to the Septuagint: There is no such thing as “Septuagint without tears” (indeed, without the affliction of trial-and-error, one seldom learns anything) It’s a fitting quote because Septuagint studies is a sprawling field, intersecting with so […]
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Jesus, Jokes, and Joy — a sermon on John 21:1–14
you can listen to the sermon here, beginning at 25:44 This morning we gather around a fire pit with Jesus. Is that not a wonderful thought? I wonder if you think of Jesus as a good fire pit friend? Do you know what happens around a fire pit? There is peace, solace, warmth, delightful crackling […]
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The Good of Good Friday
a Good Friday Sermon from John 19 It would be easy to riff on the name Good Friday, but I don’t want to do that tonight. I want to talk about what’s truly good about Good Friday. Good Friday shows us what winning looks like. Good Friday shows us the true, long-awaited king. Good Friday […]
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An Accordance Workspace with Room for Looking Up Verse References
In Accordance, you can set your preferences so that hyperlinks open in a text browser tab. If you make room for the text browser in your workspace, you can explore any hyperlinked verse references in multiple versions. Hyperlink to Text Browser In your Accordance preferences, at the very bottom of the amplify section, you can […]
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Searching a Phrase in Accordance Across all Greek Texts
I want to demonstrate a particularly useful, quick search method in Accordance. It’s particularly noteworthy because of of the combination of how easy it is to run and how significant and useful the results are. This morning, I was reading Luke 21, and a couple words stood out to me. Here’s the verse: Luke 21:22 […]
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The World’s Oldest Alphabet in Accordance
Last week, Accordance released a few new Hebrew-related modules. You can read my post here about one those new modules, Ada Yardeni’s Understanding the Alphabet of the Dead Sea Scrolls. In this post, I want to highlight Douglas Petrovich’s The World’s Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto-Consonantal Script, published by Carta with […]
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Multiple Posts: Anchor Yale Bible Commentary in Logos
In these three posts, I describe what it looks like to access and use the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary in Logos. Some people are apprehensive about how easy it is to actually use and read digital editions, but I hope these posts give you a feel for just how helpful the Logos editions can be. […]
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Using the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary in Logos on a Mobile Device
For this final post on the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary in Logos, let’s take a look at how you can use the series on a mobile device. You can find two other recent posts on AYB here. Scenario Perhaps at church, or in conversation with a friend or at work, the topic of “the mark […]
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OT Anchor Yale Bible Commentary in Logos
In a previous post, I demonstrated what it looks like to access and use the NT Anchor Yale Bible Commentary (AYB) in Logos Bible Software. In this post, I want show you how and why I modify my layout when using the AYB Old Testament and Apocrypha volumes. We’ll also take a look at some […]
Brian W. Davidson 