• History,  Humanities,  Religion,  Research

    Dear Encounters,

    November 5, 2015 /

    Great to see you this week!   Here is the direct link to your research guide.   Thanks for the excellent analogies and helpful search suggestions.  I love Lily’s ’16 analogy comparing a concordance to the Control + F feature for the Bible.  Thanks Rita ’16 for suggesting we search JSTOR for our specific biblical passage.  

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  • History,  Humanities,  Literature,  Religion,  Research

    Encounters Research

    April 23, 2015 /

    Explicating Mark, Matthew or Job? Consider using the digitized The New Interpreter’s Bible available from the library’s Ministry Matters collection. (Ministry Matters is a collection of digitized Christian religious texts to support of religious researchers and practitioners.) Use  The New Interpreter’s Bible to locate historical and social context for, and commentary on: Matthew Mark Job Statue Of St. Mark (detail Of The Hands), Torcello, Venice. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 21 Feb2014. http://quest.eb.com/images/153_2929747

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  • Religion,  Research

    Encounters Explication

    March 27, 2014 /

    Working on the Encounters Explication project? Newly updated is the library’s research guide created for this assignment.  The updates include: A new page in the guide dedicated to Ministry Matters, a divinity school product purchased by the library in March 2014, for this assignment. A new page in the guide dedicated to researching and explicating a section of the Quran, highlighting the library’s Oxford Islamic Studies eCollection. Improvements?  Need more?  Let me know!  🙂  lsanborn at sps dot edu       Image credit: Statue Of St. Mark (detail Of The Hands), Torcello, Venice. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 21 Feb2014. http://quest.eb.com/images/153_2929747

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