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Many blogs and social media posts are highlighting the publication of a new book from E. J. Brill, the latest volume in the Digital Biblical Studies series<\/a>. I\u2019m one of the contributors \u2013 my chapter is\u00a0 \u201cLearning from Jesus\u2019 Wife: What Does Forgery Have to Do with the Digital Humanities?<\/a>\u201d\u00a0The volume is open access, and so you can read and download the entire book from the E. J. Brill website<\/a>.\u00a0 Larry Hurtado was very kind to single out my chapter among the contents when he mentioned the book on his blog<\/a>.\u00a0 The other volumes currently available in the DBS series are also open access<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had a draft post for some time that was about technology in Biblical Studies, and so I\u2019ve finished it off and included those other things here.\u00a0I was going to have the title of the post I originally envisaged be \u201cIs It Intertextuality If It Requires Technology To See It?\u201d I hope that the shorter punny reference to texts, tech, and intertextuality is better. But I think the question is still worth asking in its longer form, however one poses it and whatever the headline. We are entering an era in which we can spot similar vocabulary using powerful search algorithms. Does that help, or will it lead us to see things that no ancient reader could have noticed, and no ancient author is likely to have intended?<\/p>\n

Library of Antiquity posted about the use of Tesserae<\/a> for work on intertextuality<\/a>. Part 3<\/a> and Part 4<\/a> in that series of blog posts are likely to be of particular interest.<\/p>\n

Kyle Dunham\u2019s conference paper on corpus linguistics and intertextuality<\/a> will likely also be of interest. It comes courtesy of the Alpha Christianity Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ancient World Online<\/a> shared some other open access pieces from E. J. Brill, including two chapters about Sennacherib\u2019s campaign against Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Studies in Late Antiquity<\/em> is also open access<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Review I wrote of Warren Carter\u2019s book Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament<\/em>
\nGospels<\/em> (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016) has appeared in\u00a0CBQ\u00a0<\/em>and if you subscribe or have access to a university library database, you can read it immediately through digital means<\/a> (which makes for a connection with the theme of this post). And if you don\u2019t, presumably you can ask me for a copy.<\/p>\n

Also of interest:<\/p>\n

Recently in\u00a0First Monday<\/em><\/a>\u00a0there was an article about the ReDigi court decision.<\/p>\n

Digital epigraphy in the news<\/a><\/p>\n

Augmented reality and cultural heritage<\/a><\/p>\n

Digital collection of cuneiform texts<\/a><\/p>\n

An insider\u2019s account of what happened at Stanford University Press recently<\/a><\/p>\n

iDAI.world<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/relcfp.tumblr.com\/post\/184431632107\/cfp-digital-hermeneutics-from-research-to<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"