{"id":1592,"date":"2010-02-24T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/how-did-we-ever-manage-to-do-research-before\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:30:00","slug":"how-did-we-ever-manage-to-do-research-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/how-did-we-ever-manage-to-do-research-before.html","title":{"rendered":"How Did We Ever Manage To Do Research Before?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In connection with one of my current research projects, I was looking for treatments of baptism and the figure of John the Baptist in the Nag Hammadi texts. <a href=\"http:\/\/forbiddengospels.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/7-minute-video-mandaeans-struggle-to.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">April DeConick<\/a> kindly reminded me about the two-volume Nag Hammadi Bibliography. These are very useful volumes, but without the sort of indexes that would make the printed volumes themselves particularly helpful for this kind of search.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we just find a preview on Google Books and find the relevant pages, saving literally hours of flipping through the volumes to find all potentially\u00a0useful references.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, you can then type in relevant keywords on Google Books and see what else comes up. And if you have a blog, you can even share some of what you found by embedding the books here.<\/p>\n<p>How did we ever manage to do research before we had these resources? The answer is: much more slowly and less efficiently. 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