BiblicalStudies.org.uk

Anvil Journal Digitisation

2013-05-03T00:30:00.000Z

For the last few months I have been working with the Editorial Committee of Anvil journal. Anvil has now become an on-line journal and the plan is to place as many of the print back-issues on-line on biblicalstudies.org.uk as possible. At present I am contacting contributors for their permissions and, as you can see from the table of contents, the response from authors has been extremely positive. So much so that although I am currently only up to issue 10.1 I am uploading so many articles every day that it would be impossible to blog about each one.

If you are interested in this journal I recommend that you visit the table of contents regularly over the coming month. If you are an author whom I have not yet contacted yet, feel free to get in touch with me first [rob(at)biblicalstudies.org.uk].

E.H. Askwith on the Historical Value of the Fourth Gospel

2013-04-30T19:05:00.001Z

I am pleased to announce that the following Public Domain book is now available as a PDF:

E.H. Askwith, The Historical Value of the Fourth Gospel. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. pp.316.

Click here for the link.

Two articles by Stephen S. Smalley now online

2013-04-15T00:30:00.000Z

I am currently working at placing on-line articles from the old series of Themelios, originally published by the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) - not to be confused with the new series published by UCCF from 1975 and more recently by the Gospel Coalition. The latest additions are:

Stephen S. Smalley, "The Imitation of Christ in the New Testament," Themelios 3.1 (1965): 13-22.

Stephen S. Smalley, "Holy Worldliness," Themelios 3.3 (1966): 16-23.

Visit the latest additions page for the links here or the table of contents for the journal here.

Graeme Goldsworthy on Old Testament Study

2013-04-12T12:21:00.002Z

Dr. Goldsworthy gives some good advice to evangelicals preparing to start theological study in the 1970's:

Graeme Goldsworthy, "Will the Real Moses Please Stand Up!" Themelios 7.2/3 (1970): 6-12.

Click here to visit the latest additions page for the link.

Is what he says still as applicable today?

Bible Translator Table of Contents now on-line

2013-04-10T06:41:00.000Z

For some years the United Bible Societies have made their extremely useful journal Bible Translator freely available on its website. ~~As the online version lacks a searchable table of contents it has proved difficult to use unless you knew in advance what you wanted.~~ [see comments] The articles - being presented in the form of individual jpg images served - are not picked up by search engines and so don't appear in web search results.

For these reasons I have produced a table of contents for the journal here to make it more accessible.

B.H. Streeter's The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins

2013-04-04T19:39:00.000Z

I have digitised and uploaded a copy of B.H. Streeter's classic statement of the Four Source Hypothesis of Gospel origins in PDF:

The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins. London: London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1930. Hbk. pp.624.

Click here to visit the download page.

Winner of the Easter Giveaway

2013-04-03T12:28:00.003Z

Congratulations go to Leanna Reece who wins an electronic subscription to Evangelical Quarterly. The Easter giveaway had 444 entries, making it the most popular to date. As a result of the there has been interest from other journal publishers and I expect to be able to offer two more subscription giveaways in the Autumn. So, if you are not already subscribed to the blog feed remember to do so to avoid missing the announcements.

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Vol. 20 now on-line

2013-03-12T07:47:00.000Z

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Volume 19 now on-line

2013-03-07T13:39:00.001Z

Easter Giveaway: e-subscription to Evangelical Quarterly

2013-03-01T00:30:00.000Z

Theology on the Web has always enjoyed a good relationship with publishers, none more so than with Paternoster Periodicals. Over the years biblicalstudies.org.uk has become the on-line archive of three of its four ongoing publications, The Evangelical Quarterly, The European Journal of Theology and the Evangelical Review of Theology. I was therefore delighted when the new publisher offered a free 1 year individual subscription to Evangelical Quarterly as a giveaway.

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Vol. 18 now available on-line

2013-02-27T13:00:00.000Z

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Vol 17 now on-line

2013-02-15T00:30:00.000Z

Letitia D. Jeffreys on The Unity of the Book of Isaiah:

2013-02-14T19:43:00.000Z

The foillowing monograph is now available on-line in PDF:

Letitia D. Jeffreys, The Unity of the Book of Isaiah: Linguistic and other Evidence of Undivided Authorship. Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., 1899. Hbk. pp.56.

As the author died in 1920 the work is now in the Public Domain.

Visit my latest additions page for the link.

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Volume 16 now available on-line

2013-02-08T00:30:00.000Z

Church Planting Initiative by Baptists (BACUP Papers) now online

2013-02-06T19:22:00.000Z

By popular request the Church Planting Initiative by Baptists, known as the BACUP Papers, are now available for free download here.

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Volume 15 now available on-line

2013-02-01T00:30:00.000Z

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Volume 14 now on-line

2013-01-24T13:41:00.001Z

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Volume 13 now on-line

2013-01-18T07:46:00.003Z

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Volume 12 now on-line

2013-01-11T21:14:00.000Z

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Volume 11 now On-line

2013-01-04T00:30:00.000Z

Is There a Structure in Luke's Travel Narrative? by Tan Geok Hock

2013-01-03T00:30:00.000Z

As those who regularly visit my websites will know I am very keen to promote not just theological material produced in the West, but contributions to biblical scholarship from all over the globe. For this reason I host a number of journals published in the Majority World (e.g. Indian Journal of Theology, Melanesian Journal of Theology, etc.). I therefore wanted to mention a book published in Kindle-format which is a summary of a Master's Thesis written by a Malaysian scholar, Tan Geok Hock, entitled Is There a Structure in Luke's Travel Narrative?

This work would prove of interest to anyone studying Luke or the aspects of the Synoptic Problem that it touches upon. The author argues that the material in the travel narrative section of Luke's Gospel is arranged thematically, rather than chronologically, into three blocks each with its own distinct theme. Viewed from this perspective the author seeks to provide solutions for a number of historical problems with traditional interpretations of the narrative. The thesis also has implications for the emphasis Luke places on the city of Jerusalem, for discipleship and suffering for one's faith.

Although the text is not free, the research it contains is certainly worth much more than the small amount that Amazon are charging for it. As far as I am aware it is rare for a higher level thesis from the Majority World to be made widely available and such an opportunity for "cross-pollination" of Western and Eastern scholarship is surely to be encouraged. It would be wonderful to see more such material becoming available.

To purchase and download a copy of the e-book please use the Amazon links below.

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Vol. 10 Now on-line

2012-12-27T20:28:00.000Z

End of Year Review for 2012

2012-12-19T13:46:00.003Z

Let me begin by thanking all those who have helped to make 2012 the most successful year since biblicalstudies.org.uk's launch. I have greatly valued the contributions of all those who took the time to pray, post a comment, e-mail a question or just contacted me to point out a broken link. I have put together a brief summary here of what I consider to have been the highlights of the last year and my plans for 2013.

New material added in 2012

The following journals were added to the site in 2012:

Ashland Theological Journal
Churchman
Foundations
Grace Journal
Grace Theological Journal
Haddington House Journal
Mainstream (Baptists for Life and Growth)
Melanesian Journal of Theology
Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society
Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology

Of these, two (Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society and Churchman) took a total of 7 months work to complete. The remainder were added using existing scans supplied by the various publishers. The websites currently host between 18,000 and 19,000 peer-reviewed theological articles.

Increase in Visitor Numbers

Following the release of Churchman journal there was a significant increase in visitor numbers to the site, reaching over 64,000 in October and 60,000 in November. This put biblicalstudies.org.uk's ranking in the top 400,000 websites in the world according to Alexa.

Site Support in 2012

In May I had the privilege of attending the European Leadership Forum in Hungary and through contacts made there received a grant from a Charitable Trust. This has allowed me to upgrade my computer hardware and software and begin a major site-wide design update to make accessing the site via mobile devices easier. Also as a result of the Forum I took on paid advertising [from Tyndale Seminary Europe] for the first time since the start of the current recession.

Things That Just Didn’t Work

In order to keep focused on your main purpose it is necessary from time to time to prune away those things that didn't quite work out, such as:

Multiple File Formats

Over the years I have experimented with a variety of file formats to see which could be accessed most easily, including pdf, iPaper and djvu. Of these pdf has proved to be the one which most users can use and so I am in the process of removing iPaper from the site and were necessary re-scanning djvu format articles into pdfs.

Multiple Languages

Getting articles translated into other languages has been time-consuming and not particularly successful. So, for the time being I am putting this on hold.

The Next Phase in Development

For the last 12 years I have had a list of journals in mind that I wanted see on-line and have concentrated my efforts in making that a reality. Over the last months, truly remarkably, I have seen the last two on my list "fall into my lap" as it were.

This has brought me to the realisation that it is now time to move on the Phase Two of the Theology on the Web project, something that has only taken form in detail over the few weeks or so. Phase Two involves a slight shift in focus from adding new material (though more will still be added), to making the 18,000-19,000 (soon to be over 21,000+) articles easier to find on-line. To this end I plan to convert the tables of contents pages into database-friendly CSV files for incorporation into Tyndale House's Scripture Tools for Every Person (STEP) software. Within that superb (and free!) software package the articles will be linked into the verse structure offering the readers relevant secondary literature to enhance and inform their Bible study. This process should a couple of months to complete, but will mean that many more people will gain access to the resources I already have on the sites.

Looking forward to 2013 I hope to make the following my priorities for the year:

Convert journal tables of contents into a database
Re-optimise pdf files with the aim of reducing their file size as much to reduce visitor bandwidth.
Roll-out new website layout throughout the sites
Find further advertisers for the sites
Add more material
Establish a base of support - click here to find out how you can help

Thank you again for your support over the last year – have a Wonderful Christmas!

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Vol. 9 now available

2012-12-19T01:30:00.000Z

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology to go on-line

2012-12-13T00:30:00.000Z

I am delighted to be able to announce that the Scottish Evangelical Theological Society have agreed to allow biblicalstudies.org.uk to host the on-line archive of the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology (SBET).

All issues of the journal, which began in 1983, will appear on the site ten years after publication. Volumes 1 - 9 are already available and include articles by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, David F. Wright, Carl F.H. Henry, A.T.B. McGowan, Derek Kidner, Geoffrey Grogan, Alan Millard and Gerald Bray. The table of contents and the articles can be accessed here.

A new volume will be uploaded each week until volume 20 is reached. Updates on new material will appear on this blog.