Will the venerable Oxford English Dictionary (OED) become a thing of the past? No, but it is likely to become incorporeal.
A spokesperson for Oxford University Press told the Oxford Times, in response to a story in the Telegraph contending the next edition of the OED will be all-digital, that “No decision has yet been made on the format of the third edition. It’s likely to be more than a decade before the full edition is published and a decision on format will be taken at that point. Lexicographers are currently preparing the third edition of the OED, which is 28 per cent complete. No final completion date is yet confirmed.”
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Authors: Gary M. Burge, Lynn H. Cohick and Gene L. Green
Do you know why Jesus did not write his autobiography era book outlining his theology? It was because all the teachers of this time gained popularity by the number of students they attracted, not the number of books they wrote. None of the great teachers of that era wrote books–they left it to their students to do compilations of their teaching.
That’s the sort of background information you’ll get from The New Testament in Antiquity, by Gary M. Burge, Lynn H. Cohick and Gene L. Green, a trio of professors from Wheaton College and Graduate School. [Read More]
Ernest Hemingway was a powerful, original writer and anyone who puts words to paper can benefit from learning about his writing style.
He was such an excellent writer that it is easy to get lost in his stories and forget to look at their construction. He is best known for The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bells Toll, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. He won the Nobel Prize for fiction in 1954.
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Books have an important role to play when it comes to affecting the way people think about controversial topics. They have the power to change the way people think, and that can change lives.
In November of 2009, Ray Comfort, a New Zealand Christian author who now lives in the U.S., gave away 170,000 copies of On the Origin of Species to students at 100 of America’s top universities. This special edition of the book has a foreword by Comfort that explains the Christian position on the evolution controversy. [Read More]
Jesus said “go and make disciples of all nations.” The Internet Age makes that easier. The “uttermost parts of the world” are only keystrokes away. To help individuals become aware of the power of the Internet, April 25, 2010 has been designated Internet Evangelism Day. The awareness event began in 2005.
Internet use has skyrocketed in the past few years. At the end of 2000, there were 105 million Internet users in North American, and today there are over 341 million. But that 134% increase is dwarfed by what has happened in other parts of the world. Internet use has soared by 546% in Asia, 1,392% in Africa and 1,648% in the Middle East in less than a decade. [Read More]
