Google Books, However!
Google Books has become my constant companion during my dissertation research. You can see it up on my extra monitor below (I've been studying this past week at a basement hideout in a secret, no cellphones location far from South Carolina!). I'm reading again through a very helpful book, Faithful Feelings by Matthew Elliott (it was his dissertation at Aberdeen), and I frequently check Google Books to see if I can read more of the pages he cites. For example, he cites Davies and Allison's ICC...
Wikipedia and Ponies
I did it. I gave $ 10 to Wikipedia. I use the service 20-40 times a day, so it's about time I ponied up. Click below to join me.
Canon Comparison Chart
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Maoz Zur
Pick up some free cultural and religious enrichment at Amazon׃ a traditional Hanukah song which is more than reminiscent of the biblical Psalms. While listening, try to follow along in the Hebrew. (Please try, if only to justify the time I spent typing it out!) Hebrew: מָעוֹז צוּרִ יְשׁוּעָתִי לְךָ נָאֶה לְשַׁבֵּחַ תִּכּוֹן בִֵּית תְּפִלָּתִי וְשָׁם תּוֹדָה נְזַבֵּהַ לְעֵת תָּכִִין מַטְבֵּהַ מִצָּר הַמְנַבֵּהַ אָז אֶגְמוֹר בְּשִׁיר מִזְמוֹר הֲנֻכַּת הַמִּזְבֵּהַ English Translation:O mighty...
Literacy Rates and the King James Version
Literacy in the U.S. is embarrassingly low. Nearly 50% of the adult US population reads at a 7th grade level or lower. Nearly 25% has reading proficiency so low they cannot read instructions on medication bottles, the manual that comes with a piece of machinery, or a newspaper. This means roughly 40 million Americans cannot do something as simple and critical as read the handout a pharmacist gives them that warns them of lethal drug interactions.[From Blog Action Day 2008: Attack Poverty...