Just thought I’d say hi to any Moore college first year students who may have stumbled across this blog…It was really exciting for me to see so many of you when I popped across to morning tea today. Hope you’re enjoying getting to know each other and life at college.

Word is that you’ve just started to learn a bit of vocab. eventually you’ll need to learn a lot of vocab…so…

If it’s any help to you, check out the flash cards widget for your computer desktop or flash cards for your mobile if it can play flash stuff (most newer phones but not iPhone – for that get the excellent provoc app).

davemiers.com has a page of links you might find useful too.

εἰρήνης ἔξω

For the he- and/or she-brew students among my readers…i’ve found this to be a great resource. Have been meaning to blog it for a while…better late than never!

Animated Hebrew Resources

Animated Hebrew Lectures following Ross’ ‘Basics of Biblical Hebrew’.

The Jonah comic is fun too…

Have just handed in my OT essay. woohoo!

Ask me about Jehoiachin’s release in 2 Kings 25.27-30 and its implications for the theology of the Deuteronomistic history and I’ll tell you a little bit more than I could have a week ago…

One thing I found immensely helpful in the process is a free tool for getting biblical languages like hebrew and greek into your word processor easily: Shibboleth check it out if you think you can use something like this.

They also have a Hebrew and Greek keyboard for windows + mac which is a whole lot better layed out than the one that comes with your operating system imo.

I recommended Zotero for bibliographic goodness a while back, here is the Moore College style produced by Dan Saunders for anyone who needs it. Thanks Dan!!

To install you’ll probably have to save the file to your computer then in firefox choose the menu option ‘file > open file…’. Zotero will then offer to install the style.

(It is the SBL style with Brittish variations like single quotes)

I particuarly hate spending time formatting references in essays and inputting titles/publishers/authors etc. I’ve found that Zotero is really useful and for MTC peeps you can load it up with the SBL style.

Biggest plus for me (over endnote) is that it runs in firefox so as you browse the library catalogue or EBSCO you can click a button in the address bar to add books straight into your referenced items. Sweet! There is a plugin for word and OpenOffice too.

Check it out: http://www.zotero.org/

SBL Style is in this list: http://www.zotero.org/styles

Some of you in 2nd year may not have purchased Bible software yet. Bibleworks and Accordance are the college recommended products, but Logos seems to compare feature-wise and was a bit cheaper.

We got the ‘original languages collection’ ($294 @ the ‘rong with student discount) + BDAG + Wallace (~$275AUD from the logos online shop).

So we got UBS4, BHS, BDAG and Wallace for about $570 and so far have been really happy with using it.

It runs on PC or MAC.

For the Moore students reading:

If you’ve had problems with the word macros at lionelwindsor.com you’re not alone… I couldn’t get them to work at all with word 2007! I have changed the code so it does work and some brief install instructions are included.

If you have any use for such things…head to the ‘other files‘ section of my language tools