For years, my Bible notes have lived in a folder only I could see, which is a pretty selfish place to keep 929 of them. Whenever I read through a book, prep a sermon, or write a daily lectionary note, the notes go into Obsidian, filed by book and chapter, where nobody else can get at them.
So I let them out. It's called Study, and it lives at parrott.ink/study. Right now it covers 274 chapters across 46 books of the Bible, plus 158 sermons going back to 2009 and every daily note, all sorted by the passage they're about.
You can browse it like a Bible. Pick a book, pick a chapter. My notes run down the page in verse order, and the sermons and daily notes on that chapter sit in a sidebar.
There's a row of verse numbers across the top. Click one and the page jumps to whatever I've written on that verse, or admits I haven't written anything yet and points you to the closest verse I have. I'm working on it.
Take Exodus 3, which happens to be today's daily reading. Click verse 14 and, if you're a paid subscriber, you land on אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה (ehyeh asher ehyeh), the name God gives Moses from the bush, along with Robert Alter's case for "I Will Be Who I Will Be." The sidebar has the two sermons I've preached on Exodus 3 and today's daily note.
Search works two ways. Type a reference like Col 1:15 and it takes you straight there. Paid subscribers can search inside every note, Greek and Hebrew included. Search "ehyeh" and you'll find both places I've written about it. Search "empire" and you'll get 33 notes, which probably tells you something about me.
I don't reproduce the Bible text itself. Yes, Bible translations are copyrighted, blah, blah, blah. Every note links to the passage in the NRSVue, so pop that open in another tab and read along.
A word of warning: these are working notes. Some run a full page. Some are, like, one line. In my notes on Romans 1, riffing on a footnote from N. T. Wright, I spent an entire bullet point agonizing over how to translate ἀδελφοί (adelphoi): "Siblings is a sufficient but somewhat cold translation. Friends isn't strong enough. Perhaps 'family.'" Riveting stuff.
You'll find typos. My notes on Mark say no Gospel was more "consensually recevied" for use in "public worshpi." I'll fix those. Eventually.
Older notes are in there too, written by a past me with a lot of confidence that present me would like a word with. I've left those up. My theology has moved over the years, and the notes show it.
New notes get added on the first of every month. Daily notes show up on their chapter the morning they publish.
Anyone can browse every book and chapter and read a free preview on a lot of them. Birds of a Feather, the paid tier, gets every note and the full search. That's $5 a month or $50 a year.
Start with Exodus 3 or upgrade to Birds of a Feather.
This is brand new, so I'm sure there are rough spots. If something breaks, tell me, and I'll act like I meant to do that.
— Anthony
