New Open Access Journal: Bulletin for Old Testament Studies in Africa

The Bulletin for Old Testament Studies in Africa has now published, open access, its issues from 1996-2006.

http://www.mhs.no/article_204.shtml

Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism

A consortium of institutions has now made available a number of texts from the Cairo Geniza that purportedly demonstrate that Jews continued to use the Greek text of the Old Testament well into the Middle Ages.

The website provides critical information about and high-quality digital scans of manuscripts as well as diplomatic and "normalized" versions of the texts.

http://www.gbbj.org/index.html

Here's the raison d'etre from the website:

The story of the Jewish transmission of Greek Bible versions has yet to be told. While it is recognised that the books of the Hebrew Bible were originally translated into Greek in Greco-Roman antiquity by Jews for Jews, it is generally supposed that at some early point Jews gave up using the translations, along with the use of the Greek language generally, and they were preserved and used only in the Christian Church. However, materials have come to light, some very recently, that make it plain that some Jews continued to use the Greek language throughout the Middle Ages, and that, while the Hebrew Bible came to play a central part in their religious and cultural life, they also knew the Bible in Greek.

The aim of the Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism project is to gather evidence for the use of Greek Bible translations by Jews in the Middle Ages, and to make these texts available to scholars as a corpus, together with the information necessary for an appreciation of their historical background, meaning and exegetical implications.

TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism

TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism has been resurrected, although the announcement makes the future of the journal sound rather tentative. Nevertheless, the fifteen volumes are open access:

http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/index.html#page=home

Ancient Egyptian Texts online from Gallica

Gallica has made available online a number of ancient Egyptian texts. The website is in French and has links to digital images of many significant texts, e.g., the Book of the Dead (Livre des Morts).

http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&f_typedoc=manuscrit&isPersoPart=false&isPersoPart=false&isPersoPart=false&q=Livre+des+Morts&lang=FR&n=15&p=1&pageNumber=9

Dig-it-al NEA

Near Eastern Archaeology has just released Dig-it-al NEA, an "online forum" that "features original essays, reviews, and other content to complement the print publication of the journal."

http://www.bu.edu/asor/pubs/nea/dig-it-al-nea.html

Hopefully it will decide to publish NEA open access online before long.

Free/Open Access Bible Software

Dr. David Instone-Brewer of Tyndale House (http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/) comes up regularly with very useful information and resources for biblical studies. He has recently published a list of electronic software for biblical studies, much of which can either be accessed directly from the web or downloaded free. The list is too long to replicate here, so I'll simply give the url and let you browse:

http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/index.php?page=tyndale-tech&add=http://tyndaletech.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-ways-to-study-bible.html

Some of the categories are parallel and interlinear Bibles, dictionaries, lexicons, concordances, structural analyses of texts, atlases, and, of course, the sorts of searching on Hebrew and Greek texts that one finds with commercial software such as BibleWorks. Instone-Brewer provides screen shots of the software, which is rather small; but just place the cursor over any and they enlarge. Tap/click the shot and you are taken to the website of the respective manufacturer.

Journal of the Evangelical Society

Volumes 12-50 of JETS -are now available, open access.

http://www.etsjets.org/JETS_Online_Archive

The Foundation for Archaeological Research in the Land of Israel

The Foundation for Archaeological Research in the Land of Israel is a nascent, yet promising, website

http://www.farli.org/home

Search engines for UK (EthOS) and European (DART) theses/dissertations

To search UK theses (EthOS), go to:
http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

For European theses, go to:
http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

For those interested in papyrus documents, here's the blurb from a resource (with a search engine) dedicated to such:

Papyri.info is dedicated to the study of ancient papyrological documents. It offers links to papyrological resources, a customized search engine (called the Papyrological Navigator) capable of retrieving information from multiple related collections, and an editing application, the Papyrological Editor, which contributors can use to suggest emendations to PN texts.

The Papyrological Navigator aggregates and displays information from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) and the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), as well as links to Trismegistos.

http://papyri.info/

Tips for getting pubished

The following link is to a report with much useful discussion on how to improve one's odds at getting published:

http://www.academicword.com/GetPublishedSpecialReport.html

The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha

For open access to critical editions of the Pseudepigrapha (some with and some without critical apparatuses), see:

http://www.mystfx.ca/academic/religious-studies/ocp/

Greek New Testament from SBL and Logos

SBL and Logos have published a new Greek New Testament. You may purchase a hard copy and/or download a soft copy that is written in Unicode at no charge. The latter is available at:

http://sblgnt.com/

Open Access: Emanuel Tov publications

Many of Tov's works, including Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert, are now available open access:

http://www.emanueltov.info/publications.html

Leiden University has made available a facsimile of the Leiden Manuscript of Talmud Yerushalmi. Here's the blurb from the website:

Leiden Or. 4720 is the only extant complete manuscript of Talmud Yerushalmi. It was written in 1289 by Rabeinu Yechiel Ben Yekutiel HaRofeh from Rome. The manuscript consists of two volumes. The total number of folios in the manuscript including the binding and the blank pages is 682. The following links link directly to the University of Leiden Library website. The images are very large and may take a long time to load.

The quality of the scans is excellent, with even marginal glosses rendering clearly. Access the (unpointed) Talmud by clicking "Leiden Manuscript" from the left-hand column at:

http://www.yerushalmionline.org/

Abzu - link to open access articles and monographs

Abzu is a resource in operation since 1994 that indexes open access material, primarily articles and monographs. You can search by keyword, author, subject, etc. Access it at:

http://www.etana.org/abzu/

`Atiqot - Publications of the Israel Antiquities Authority

`Atiqot is a new open-source publication of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Create an account, then download whatever articles you wish.

http://www.atiqot.org.il/

The Oriental Institute of Chicago has much to offer, including a number of publications which can be downloaded freely.

Here's the url to its catalog:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/

Google Earth Satellite Maps of ANE sites

Google Earth has a number of satellite maps of ancient sites, and Jona Lendering and Bill Thayer have indexed many by country. The photos are not always as detailed as one would wish, but they do give a broad idea as well as some context of the surrounding areas (many of the sites are now all but engulfed in moderned cities).

The master list is at:
http://www.livius.org/000.html

The following are links to ANE areas of interest:
Cyprus: http://www.livius.org/00cyprus.html
Egypt: http://www.livius.org/00egypt.html
Greece: http://www.livius.org/00greece.html
Iran: http://www.livius.org/00iran.html
Iraq: http://www.livius.org/00iraq.html
Israel: http://www.livius.org/00israel.html
Jordan: http://www.livius.org/00jordan.html
Lebanon: http://www.livius.org/00lebanon.html
Syria: http://www.livius.org/00syria.html
Turkey: http://www.livius.org/00turkey.html

The list of sites and locations within sites are updated periodically.

new online books from Catholic Biblical Association

The ICI (International Cooperation Initiative) has announced the following pdf downloadable books from CBA:

http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/ICI_CBA.aspx

Steiner, Richard C. Stockmen from Tekoa, Sycomores from Sheba: A Study of Amos’ Occupations

Fitzpatrick, Paul E., S.M., The Disarmament of God: Ezekiel 38-39 in Its Mythic Context

Corley, Jeremy and Vincent Skemp, eds., Intertextual Studies in Ben Sira and Tobit: Essays in Honor of Alexander A. Di Lella, O.F.M.

Barré, Michael L., S.S., The Lord Has Saved Me: A Study of the Psalm of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:9-20)

The following are more difficult to find, so I've added the direct urls:

Bodi, Daniel. The Michal Affair: From Zimri-Lim to the Rabbis. Hebrew Monographs, 3. Sheffield, Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005.
http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/onlinebooks/PDF/OnlineBooks/978-1-905048-17-5.pdf

Gordon, Robert P. Hebrews. Readings, A New Biblical Commentary. Sheffield, Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008.
http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/onlinebooks/PDF/OnlineBooks/Gordon_Hebrews.pdf

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society archives

The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, vols. 12-50 (1969 - last three years), is archived and available for pdf download at:

http://www.etsjets.org/?q=jets_pdf_archive

The pdfs from this site are much cleaner than those downloaded from ATLAS.

IBR's Bulletin for Biblical Research

The Bulletin for Biblical Research has many articles freely available for download:

http://www.ibr-bbr.org/IBRBulletin/IBR_BBR_ByYearList.html

Index of Archaeological Sites in Israel

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a table of all of the archaeological sites in Israel. The table has urls to each site. Each of the sites has a brief description of its history and archaeological significance as well as a photo or two.

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Cumulative+table+of+contents+-+Archeological+Sites.htm?WBCMODE=PresentationUnpVisit+of+FM+Peres+to+the+Ukraine?DisplayMode=print

The International Greek New Testament Project

This is similar to the previous post, but does not include apocryphal writings or those of the Fathers.

Homepage:
http://www.igntp.org/

Gospel of John in Latin and Greek, respectively:
http://arts-itsee.bham.ac.uk/itseeweb/iohannes/vetuslatina/index.html
http://arts-itsee.bham.ac.uk/itseeweb/iohannes/byzantine/index.html

OpenText.org

http://www.opentext.org/

From the website's home page:

The OpenText.org project is a web-based initiative to develop annotated Greek texts and tools for their analysis. The project aims both to serve, and to collaborate with, the scholarly community. Texts are annotated with various levels of linguistic information, such as text-critical, grammatical, semantic and discourse features.

Beginning with the New Testament, the project aims to construct a representative corpus of Hellenistic Greek to facilitate linguistic and literary research of these important documents. These texts are then annotated through the addition of linguistic and literary features (including marking morphological, syntactical and discourse elements) following a comprehensive model currently under development. The resulting texts can be viewed and searched on this site. It is hoped that interested users will collaborate in the correction and enhancement of this annotation, and become involved in the annotation process themselves.

The key features of the project are:

• texts annotated at distinct linguistic levels
• the use of an XML encoding scheme to mark-up texts
• an 'open' and collaborative approach to encourage the annotation and use of texts
• an on-line tool kit to allow searching and analysis of texts
• a forum to allow the exchange of ideas and to respond to requests for specific searches

British Library Digitised Manuscripts

The BL has just published online a number of manuscripts from ca. AD 500 - AD 1900 of particular interest to the New Testament folks. The home page is at:

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/

Here's a taster from the Gospel of John:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_11300_f135r

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names Online

The general url for this resource is:

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/online/index.html

More information about it from a listserve:

LGPN began using computers to store and manipulate its data as far back as 1975. Alongside the publication programme, and despite the electronic upheavals which have marked the last 30 years, LGPN has maintained the material from all the published volumes in a consistent state in a relational database, which was designed in 1984 to reflect the potential research values of all the fields which make up an LGPN entry i.e. not only names, but places, dates, references, relationships, statuses etc.

Historical background to LGPN's use of IT

This database is the final repository of material once it has been edited, and from it:

• the printed volumes are generated and typeset by computer program;
• research questions may be answered, for our own work and for researchers who contact us;
• data are generated for online dissemination: currently, statistics (numbers of people and names, distribution by gender, place), name indexes and bibliographies;
• primary names are output for online analysis in a variety of fonts.

Online facilities based on the current database:

• Online searches: search and analyse over 35,000 published names.
• Files for downloading: bibliographies, forward and and reverse name indexes, from LGPN I-VA;
• addenda and corrigenda.to LGPN II, Attica (1987), with supplementary bibliography, posted by Sean Byrne,
• LGPN IIA: is the completely revised LGPN II, provided to the LGPN database by Sean Byrne. Full data are not yet available on this site, but the forward and reverse name indexes are available as downloadable files, and statistics about persons, names and places, are posted.
• More general statistics - in preparation.

The XML Project

Elaine Matthews and Sebastian Rahtz are now working on a major conversion project using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), as the basis for LGPN's long-term preservation, online dissemination, and interoperability with other online resources. Complete data from all published volumes (currently I-IV) will be delivered as one integrated online resource.

• TEI-XML
• LGPN data - a re-evaluation?

Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database

Blurb from the website:

The Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database is an international, cooperative research project involving a growing number of centres with coordination provided by Leiden. The currently participating centres include the following universities: Azusa Pacific, Bonn, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Florence, Harvard, Oxford, Leiden, Leuven, Paris, Rome, and Sydney.

The project's aim is to store in a computerised form all the information that a scholar, translator, preacher or layperson could require about the meaning and interpretation of ancient Hebrew vocabulary. The data will be systematically arranged, evaluated by experts in the field, and encoded so as to make consultation and cross-referencing easy and maximally productive. Both the quantity of data included and the possibilities of comparison and cross-reference will go far beyond that which any standard Hebrew dictionary can offer; the contributions of modern linguistics and computer technology will be exploited to the full. Such information lies at the foundation of all good biblical scholarship, whether this takes the form of commentaries on the Bible, historical works or biblical theology.

The following url takes you to the words that are currently available:

http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/CARTS/SAHD/words.htm

Online Critical Pseudepigrapha

From the webpage:

The mandate of the Online Critical Pseudepigrapha is to develop and publish electronic editions of the best critical texts of the "Old Testament" Pseudepigrapha and related literature.

http://ocp.acadiau.ca/

Thus far there are only two books with completed apparatuses (2 Baruch and the Testament of Job), but two more are in the making, and there are 25 texts without databases that are accessible.

Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine

From the webpage:

The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project seeks to collect and make accessible over the Web all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE). There are about 15,000 of these inscriptions, written primarily in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, by Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans. They range from imperial declarations on monumental architecture to notices of donations in synagogues to humble names scratched on ossuaries, and include everything in between.

There are approximately 1,500 inscriptions currently in the database, with more added regularly.

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/index.shtml

Digital Nestle-Aland Greek NT

The Nestle-Aland Greek NT is in the process of being digitized. Currently an incomplete version is available with lots of features. For example, pointing the mouse over a word brings a list of mss in which the word occurs as well as links to definitions

http://nestlealand.uni-muenster.de/

Demetrios Database of LXX Greek

The Demetrios Database of LXX Greek provides lexical information (parsing) for political, legal, and administrative words in the LXX. Full access to the database is currently restricted to members, but the website promises to extend this to all. At present anyone can view a subset.

http://www.reading.ac.uk/demetrios/

Concordia database of Classical Inscriptions

The Concordia database provides online access to a number of Greek and Latin inscriptions.

http://concordia.atlantides.org/

Chicago Homer

The Chicago Homer is a marvelous online database that allows one to search the following Homeric works: Iliad, Odyssey, the Theogony, Works and Days, Shield of Heracles, and some of the Homeric Hymns. It is possible to search the texts in Greek or by transliteration or lemmata, by frequency, word type, inflectional categories, line ranges, and narrative speech/speakers.

http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/homer/

Free online access to Byzantine tradition of John

UBS has released an electronic version of the Byzantine tradition of the Gospel of John. Besides the text the site has a witness list and apparatus information.

http://arts-itsee.bham.ac.uk/itseeweb/iohannes/byzantine/index.html

two websites for pdf books

The following sites offer full downloads of books, some at no charge and others for a fee. Please be sure to observe any copyright restrictions. (Thanks to Thiophilus for calling this to my attention.)

http://www.ebookee.com/

http://search.4shared.com/q/BBQD/1/pdf/cambridge+companion

Electronic Resources Relevant to the Textual Criticism of Hebrew Scripture from E. Tov

Emanuel Tov has a webpage with urls to lots of resources for textual criticism. Since many are on a subscription/payment basis and others are to websites that are no longer active (his page was created in 2003), it is somewhat "slim pickins.'" Nevertheless you may find some useful nuggets.

http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol08/Tov2003.html

Some of the categories are: I. source texts (e.g., Hebrew Bible [e.g., Leningrad and Aleppo codices], Samaritan Pentateuch, versions (e.g., LXX, Symmachus, Vulgate, various Targumim), modern translations, critical apparatuses; II. morphological analyses (e.g., Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, Targumim and Peshitta); and III. tools (e.g.,BDB, HALOT, Liddell-Scott, BAGD).

Many of the websites have digital images of their respective texts.

SIL Apparatus

SIL has updated the previous set of fonts for the Hebrew and Greek apparatuses (i.e. the Gothic symbols for, e.g., MT, LXX, etc.). The new version are in Unicode, which makes it well worthwhile to update. The url is:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ApparatusSIL

While you are there, why not browse the other font packages on offer? Backstep a couple of pages or use this url:

http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font

open access: Bible Study Textbook Series

From the homepage of: http://www.collegepress.com/storefront/node/238

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Bible Study Textbook Series

Many of you are familiar with the Bible Study Textbook Series (The Old Green Commentaries). These were very popular several years back and many of you have requested copies of these timeless treasures. Because reprint cost are so high we have chosen not to reprint but instead, we are offering them electronically for free. These commentaries are being made available for your personal use. Feel free to download them to your computer. These files are very large and may take a while even with high speed and DSL services. If using dial up service please be aware the your download times may be extensive and you may encounter problems during the download. If you have problems downloading these files you want to consider using a download manager.
Thank you for your interest in College Press.
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If my quick glance at Genesis, Vol. 2, is indicative of all of the volumes in this series, the series is conservative in its orientation, that is, the commentaries do not utilize any of the "higher" critical methods such as form- or redaction-criticism.

CBA joins SBL in providing open access books

This just in from the Sept '10 SBL newsletter:

"SBL welcomes The Catholic Biblical Association of America as a new publishing partner in the International Cooperation Initiative (ICI) Online Books project. Joseph Jensen, CBA Executive Secretary, advised SBL of the decision August 27. CBA has provided PDF files of their most recent publications and we will begin to make them available in September."

And a reminder that you can join SBL for a pittance.

Claremont Colleges Digital Library (Nag Hammadi texts online)

Claremont Colleges Digital Library has several open-access points of interest for Church History and New Testament folks, especially their archive of the Nag Hammadi codices.

The url for the home page is:
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2009/01/claremont-colleges-digital-library.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Awol-TheAncientWorldOnline+%28AWOL+-+The+Ancient+World+Online%29

The url for the Nag Hammadi collection is:
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/collection.php?alias=nha

Here's an example (Codex 1, papyrus page 9):

Lectio difficilior

Lectio difficilior, besides a term in textual criticism, is also an open access journal for feminist criticism:

http://www.lectio.unibe.ch/e/index_e.html

With the motto "lectio difficilior lectio melior est," it must be worth a look!

Bible and Interpretation

A new open-access journal has appeared: The Bible and Interpretation:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/

The developing site's remit is "to bring the latest news and information in the field of biblical studies to a wide readership and to contact scholars for comment and analysis." Despite the popular readership, the site has articles from some very distinguished scholars.

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new open access journal in Jewish studies

http://www.mucjs.org/MELILAH/index.htm
For those interested in "Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought in the ancient, medieval and modern eras," a new open-access journal, Melilah, is out. It seems oriented towards junior scholars, but open to established ones as well.

Sheffield Press joins ICI

More good news, in that Sheffield Press has joined SBL-ICI to provide open access books. The first two are:

The Coming King and the Rejected Shepherd: Matthew’s Reading of Zechariah’s Messianic Hope, Clay Alan Ham, New Testament Monographs 4, 2005.

“I Have Written to the King, My Lord”: Secular Analogies for the Psalms, Roger Tomes, Hebrew Bible Monographs 1, 2005.

The url is the same as ICI's:
http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/onlinebooks.aspx

updated ICI list of open access books

ICI has updated its list of open access publications. Again, many of these are highly specialized monographs and will thus appeal to a very narrow readership, but there are a number of more general works and even some fine reference works.

The url is:
http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/onlinebooks.aspx

You will probably need to scroll down to find the general categories, which are hyperlinks to the individual titles.

IVBS website launched

After some two years, the Society of Biblical Literature has completed work on the new International Voices in Biblical Studies (IVBS). IVBS is basically a venue for open access publishing of scholarly monographs in the field of biblical studies. It is peer-reviewed.

You can send manuscripts to IVBS for publication as well as access any forthcoming books published through it online at no charge.

The url is:
http://ivbs.sbl-site.org/home.aspx

Comprehensive, alphabetical list of all open access journals for ancient studies

I try to post any newly accessible open access journals, etc., that I feel are relevant to those on this blog from Chuck Jones's AGADE listserve. Periodically, Jones posts an alphabetical list of all the open access journals for ancient studies. I thought that perhaps some of you might wish to look at the whole thing in case you find some of interest that I have not alerted you to. Here's the url

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2009/10/alphabetical-list-of-open-access.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Awol-TheAncientWorldOnline+%28AWOL+-+The+Ancient+World+Online%29

Here's a new online journal for the NT crowd:

http://www.blogger.com/home

Here's an update to open access journals:

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2009/10/alphabetical-list-of-open-access.html

Free SBL books

The following url has links for free, downloadable books published by SBL under the International Cooperation Initiative, an SBL group interested in promoting (otherwise expensive) scholarship to developing countries. Scroll toward the bottom of the page where you will see links under general categories, e.g., Archaeology and Biblical Studies. Most of these are monographs, e.g., very specialized, but there are some more general works as well.

http://sbl-site.org/publications/onlinebooks.aspx

Free books for ANE studies

The following url has links to many free, downloadable books. Most are pretty old, but there are some diamonds, e.g., the old ICC series:

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=d9xh4s8_21x7n3f

Free two-keystroke lexicon

Again, from Tyndale House, you can download a free lexicon program that looks up Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Greek, Hebrew/Aramaic, Latin, and Syriac words:

http://www.2letterlookup.com/

Free reference management/bibliographical software

Archiving sources, consistency in citation styles, and ensuring that cited sources (and only cited sources) wind up in your bibliography are just three of the reasons you should use reference management software.

See the following urls for free bibliographical software:

Aigaion:
http://www.aigaion.nl/

BibDesk
http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/

I, Librarian
http://bioinformatics.org/librarian

RefBase
http://www.refbase.net/

Zotero
http://www.zotero.org/

See the helpful comparison chart of these programs and more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

The following is supposedly good for Biblical Studies (from SBL website):
http://www.sgj.org.uk/CiteSBLHS/

Free Bible software

The following links will take you to various free Bible software for pcs and Macs. For a brief review of each, see the resources page at the Tyndale House website.

Online Bible:
http://www.onlinebijbel.org/html/eng/index.htm

E-Sword
http://www.e-sword.net/

The Sword
http://www.crosswire.org/index.jsp

Bible Database
http://bibledatabase.org/full.html

Free Unicode Hebrew and Greek fonts

There are many advantages of using Unicode Hebrew and Greek fonts in your writing as opposed to non-Unicode is (see, e.g., http://www.i18nguy.com/UnicodeBenefits.html), but certainly one is that Unicode fonts render your Hebrew and Greek readable to anyone using any Unicode font.

There are at least two sources for obtaining free Unicode Hebrew and Greek fonts, the first being SBL:

http://sbl-site.org/educational/biblicalfonts.aspx

For the Hebrew, use the SIL package (more intuitive keyboard map) rather than the Tiro.

The second is Tyndale House:

http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/index.php?page=fonts

This site also has downloadable Cardo Unicode Greek and Hebrew Bibles, which is efficient if you need to copy/paste substantial portions of Scripture.

Both sites have instructions on how to download and install the fonts.

LEO - online German/English English/German dictionary

For help with German terms, see:

http://dict.leo.org/

If it doesn't return a definition, you can query the online community.

British Library EThOS dissertation search engine

Another search engine for doctoral dissertations:

EThoS: http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

Searches dissertations from many UK universities (but Oxford and Cambridge are not participating schools, so not all theses from them). Some are downloadable, some are for purchase. I don't think it supplies abstracts. You don't need to register to use it, except for downloading or purchasing.

PhDData.org

For US PhD dissertations, see:

http://www.phddata.org/index.php

Abstracts are free, downloads are for a fee.