April Rains Bring News: Read. Live. Now

May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth. Deuteronomy 32.2 (NRSV)

Dear LPTS Friends, 

In March 2021, on the one year anniversary of COVID19, we launched Read. Live. Now. A digital space with our writings about new books, updates to the research databases, and more. We celebrate life even as we mourn the lives lost. We bless the Ultimate, Divine Reality, Co-Creator of our days, who gifts us with life, love, hope, and joy. Read. Live. Now. we hope will inspire, and impart learning. May our writings be a blessing. Enjoy the 6 newsy posts from the Librarians just for you!

Anita

READ. LIVE. NOW

1. Bibliotherapy: Poetry Therapy of Therapeutic Storytelling
2. New Ebooks Added (Faculty Requests)
3. ATLA Religion Database's Focus on Asia
4. Open Access Additions to ATLA Religion Database
5. Trauma, Teaching and Learning (American Academy of Religion Spotlight on Teaching)
6. A Poem About A Tree (inspired by our campus) 
   

Remote Access Workaround to ATLA Religion Database

Thanks to the students who emailed us about your remote access login problems. Please be aware that it is not your individual remote access credentials. The system is inaccessible.

I am sorry for the incredibly bad timing.

Here's a quick little video showing a different way to remote access into ATLA Religion Database.

Credentials were in email sent to all students.

Continue to contact library@lpts.edu as needed.

Resources for NT 1023 (Prof. Soards, Spring 2020) Final Exegesis Paper

An Introduction to the E.M. White Digital Library (video) and How to Find Full-text Scholarly Articles and Ebook Commentaries for Final Exegesis Paper for NT 1023 (Prof. Soards, Spring 2020)

 

The video provides a quick introduction to this blog cum digital library. We call it With Much Love: E.M. White Digital Library Services in the time of COVID19 / #HealthyAtHome.

Two exhaustive guides have been created  specially to help Prof. Soards NT 1023 class write their final Exegesis Paper on Luke 9:28-36, with step by step directions and screenshots.

Finding Articles in the ATLA Religion Database Using the Assigned Passage Luke 9:28-26

Finding Ebook Commentaries in the EBook Religion Collection, Ministry Matters, and Oxford Biblical Studies Online databases

If you need other help, we're here for you! Check these links and let us know. Additional Resources  |  Online Help

Remote Access and Use of Commentaries and the ATLA Religion Database for Exegesis

This guide is for the use of LPTS students, and learning community. It shows step by step how to remotely access and use ebook Commentaries as well as the Scripture hierarchy in the ATLA Religion Database for exegesis. 

Download the Guide (4 pages, 9 steps).Generic - for use with any OT or NT Book

Download the Remote Access and Use of Commentaries and the ATLA Religion Database for Exegesis of Exodus - This is a copy of the guide with Exodus as examples and prepared for the Ordination Exams of Spring 2020.  

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT HOW TO CITE EBOOKS AND E-RESOURCES FOR THE ORDINATION EXAMS (Updated 04/23/20):

Do not include a web address in your citations that indicates a library or commercial bibliographic database that is available only through subscription or library account (e.g. ezproxy.presbyseminary.edu). Especially be careful not to identify LPTS or lpts urls in your answers and reference lists/bibliographies.

Additional Resources for the Spring 2020 Ordination Exam: 

Prof. Justin Reed's Recommended Exegetical Texts for Exodus 

PC(USA) Ordination Examination Guide for LPTS Students (Spring 2020)