{"id":16043,"date":"2013-07-23T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=16043"},"modified":"2013-07-23T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T13:10:07","slug":"academic-scholarship-on-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/07\/academic-scholarship-on-reddit.html","title":{"rendered":"Academic Scholarship on Reddit"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-16044\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/07\/reddit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"123\">Today I learned (sorry, I couldn\u2019t resist using that popular Reddit phrase in this context) that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AcademicBiblical\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a subreddit on Reddit dedicated to matters pertaining to the academic study of the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting discovery there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/3988852\/The_Quest_for_the_Historical_Nazareth\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">an article by Greg Jenks, available on Academia.edu, on \u201cThe Quest for the Historical Nazareth.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Scholar\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a subreddit dedicated to the exchange of scholarly articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The internet continues to impact and transform the way scholarship is done, and the ways in which it can be done. Requests in e-mail lists and on blogs for an article to which one doesn\u2019t have access are very common. Using Reddit to create a more systematic way of seeking such assistance is a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned (sorry, I couldn\u2019t resist using that popular Reddit phrase in this context) that there is a subreddit on Reddit dedicated to matters pertaining to the academic study of the Bible. 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