Showing posts with label Copyediting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Copyediting. Show all posts
Thursday, April 03, 2025

Citing the NRSV updated edition

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Now that the updated edition of the NRSV has been out for a while, I'm starting to see it cited. But, How do you cite it? I've seen ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

A prayer for writing and checking footnotes!

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There's remarkable post today at the Christian Scholar's Review on set liturgical prayers and their value. But the thing that jumpe...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Miscellaneous language tidbits

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From the forthcoming The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures 2: Parthian had been the official language under the...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Public Service Announcement (Use of etc. and e.g.)

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<rant mode on> I'm seeing this everywhere lately, so consider this when you use e.g. and etc. together: The abbreviation e.g. ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Getting your goat

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I'm copyediting a book for Lockwood Press, Cattle, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs in Pharaonic Egypt: A View from the Herd (it's not on the...
Monday, November 13, 2023

I like this!

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I'm in the midst of editing a commentary and they cited a text from Wisdom of Solomon. One of my jobs is to make sure that the version t...
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Saturday, September 09, 2023

Don't you just love the passive voice?

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Ran across this quotation in a book I'm editing: In [Rev 13] vv 5–7, the singular aorist passive verb ἐδόθη, ‘was given,’ occurs five ...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

New book!

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I get to edit a lot of really interesting books, but rarely do I request a copy for my personal library. I think over the last ten years, I...
Friday, April 07, 2023

Citing NABU

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This is more for my personal reference than anything, so I don't need to search through a million email records to find it. If you find ...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

So-called benefactors

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On the Anxious Bench the other day, but I just finished reading it now (I’ve taken it in chunks), reflection on the the mature Dr. Martin Lu...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Surveys of previous work

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Sometimes, ok, frequently, when I'm reading surveys of previous work in a book, and it goes on for page after page, I think they should ...
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Thursday, January 12, 2023

The order of authors in a reference list

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This one is a bit tricky, and I had to confirm it in CMS17 . What's the order of entries in an author-date reference list when there is ...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Numismatic abbreviations

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The last two books I've edited have had numismatic references, and therefore abbreviations. I'm not a numismatics guy—far from it! S...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Citing a YouTube video

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This was a first for me. I needed to know how to cite a YouTube video! According to Chicago Manual of Style , it gets cited as follows: ...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Differences between CMS and SBLHS in multiple authors

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This is a reminder to myself more than anything, but you might find it helpful. This is for bibliographies, not notes! First, CMS (§14....
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Gripe

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Just a comment: I don't like the new layout of WorldCat . I buries all the important information and makes it more difficult to find the...
Friday, July 22, 2022

But how to fix it?

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The new Anxious Bench editor/contributor Malcolm Foley has a very good post up today: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2022/07/but...
Monday, July 18, 2022

A warning

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Editing an article for a Classics journal (to appear later this year), and ran across this statement, which I think could also be expanded t...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Knowing just enough Greek to get into trouble

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Saw this over the weekend on JSTOR . It highlights the dangers of knowing some, but not enough Greek. The error is fairly easy to do, in tha...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

The importance of proofreading front matter

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The most overlooked part of a book while proofreading is the front matter. I was discussing that the other day with Gary Rendsburg, and he f...