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Read the SBLGNT Online
1–2 minutesIn the process of making the SBLGNT available in Kindle and EPUB formats, I also made a HTML version which can be easily viewed right in your browser by visiting https://maustsontoast.com/sblgnt. You might find this useful for a quick copy and paste.
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SBL Greek New Testament for Kindle
1–2 minutesUPDATE – this version has been superseded by the version available here. I was overjoyed to find out about the publication of The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition, a new critical edition of the Greek New Testament with a very liberal license (“You may freely distribute the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT), but you are not permitted to sell it on its own, either in print or electronic format”). Thanks to the above license I am pleased to make available an experimental conversion of the SBLGNT to ebook format that I made (.mobi and .epub). This is only the text…
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Oh That He Would Grant
1–2 minutesThat he would grant me to participate in bringing the scriptural world to believers who struggle to find a door the size and shape of their language. photo credit: ~Oryctes~
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Summary of God’s Battalions by Rodney Stark
1–2 minutesTo close out God’s Battalions Rodney Stark draws together his research and insights into one concise concluding paragraph: The thrust of the preceding chapters can be summarized very briefly. The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. They sincerely believed that they served in God’s battalions.[1. Rodney Stark, God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 248.] With this in mind what I find particularly interesting in the closing chapter is Stark’s…