Publication written using Nota Bene
- 1993 Das Reich Gottes als Wirklichkeit und Hoffnung. Neuere Entwicklungen in der evangelikalen Theologie. Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus
- 1995 Sind Evangelikale Fundamentalisten? TVG-Orientierung. Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus
- 1999 ed. Das Studium des Neuen Testaments. Band 1: Einführung in die Methoden der Exegese. 2 vols. Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus. 733 pp.
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- 2006 Sind Evangelikale Fundamentalisten? Neuauflage/New Edition. Holzgerlingen: Hänssler Verlag
- 2002 Urchristliche Mission. Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus. xxxiii+1806 pp.
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- 2004 Early Christian Mission. Vol.1: Jesus and the Twelve. Vol. 2: Paul and the Early Church. Translated and edited by E. J. Schnabel. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press. xliv+1928 pp.
- 2006 Der erste Brief des Paulus an die Korinther. Historisch-Theologische Auslegung. Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus. 1134 pp.
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- 2008 Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies, and Methods. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press
- 2011 40 Questions on the End Times. Grand Rapids: Kregel
- 2012 The Book of Acts. Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. 1162 pp.
- 2012 with Stanley E. Porter, eds. On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries. Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 8. Leiden: Brill
- 2013 Das Neue Testament und die Endzeit. Giessen: Brunnen
- 2014 The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus: Texts and Commentary. With David W. Chapman. WUNT. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. ca. 750 pp.
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- 2015 (forthcoming) Der Brief an die Römer. Historisch-Theologische Auslegung. Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus. Ca. 1200 pages.
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- Plus ca. 90 essays and articles, and ca. 170 book reviews
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When I wrote my dissertation at Aberdeen with an IBM “golf-ball” typewriter, I was convinced that being able to type English, German, Greek, and Hebrew by juggling “balls” was the ultimate improvement. After Filipino colleagues at the Asia Theological Seminary in Manila challenged me in 1986 to switch to an XT computer, somebody mentioned Nota Bene as the software that makes writing Hebrew and Greek both possible and easy. Steve Siebert had compassion on a potential customer living on a missionary salary in Asia, offered me a reduction in price, I bought the necessary Hercules Plus Card for displaying Greek and Hebrew, and the rest is history, as they say. Apart from emails, I have never used a different word processing software.
Nota Bene can make you feel guilty if you have written your dissertation accompanied by the trials of estimating the space footnotes take, leaving spaces for foreign language words, and compiling and retyping bibliographies. When you write a 1800-page manuscript with Nota Bene, it takes only a few seconds to create a 100-page bibliography, which is way too quick for former manual laborers.
I have written and produced three large camera-ready manuscripts with Nota Bene. There is nothing that publishers’ editors ask me to do that Nota Bene cannot do. When prompted to insert microspaces in certain places, I discovered that Nota Bene not only knew what that is but was able to perfom. Ibidem, which has grown to over 60,000 titles, with some duplicates, makes writing footnotes even more enjoyable that it already was. Orbis makes it possible, among many other things, to check and harmonize tricky spellings of geographical names in large manuscripts.
The fact that it was possible to switch to Version 10 in the middle of two projects as a member of the alpha and the beta family, without a single word lost and without formatting messed up, is no small feat in a multi-lingual publication with Akkadian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, Latin, German, and English text (Russian titles in Cyrillic were written for another book). The power and the beauty of Nota Bene is a testimony to the programming skills of Steve Siebert and his team (which often seems to be as small as the “team” sitting at my desk), who remains marvelously accessible. The new version is a marvel to behold, and gives even old hands the sinking feeling that the program can do much more than we already do with it every day.
EDITOR’S NOTE
When Dr. Schnabel says that “there is nothing that publishers’ editors ask me to do that Nota Bene cannot do,” he’s not just talking about getting the text of the manuscript to a publisher who will then rework it (although he’s done that multiple times as well).
Instead, Dr. Schnabel is talking about using Nota Bene to create publication-quality, camera-ready copy with every footnote, every accent, all of the spacing (including microspace adjustments) perfect and ready for publication. Along with many thousands of pages that were submitted to publishers in RTF (Word) format, Dr. Schnabel has produced over 5,600 pages of camera-ready copy using Nota Bene!
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