This blog provides links to open-access resources for the study of the Old and New Testaments as well as for the ANE, and, occasionally, for Classics. The source for the great majority of the posts is Chuck Jones's The Ancient World Online (http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/).
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Here's the url to its catalog:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Google Earth Satellite Maps of ANE sites
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.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
new online books from Catholic Biblical Association
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
http://www.etsjets.org/?q=jets_pdf_archive
The pdfs from this site are much cleaner than those downloaded from ATLAS.
Monday, October 11, 2010
IBR's Bulletin for Biblical Research
http://www.ibr-bbr.org/IBRBulletin/IBR_BBR_ByYearList.html
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Index of Archaeological Sites in Israel
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
Saturday, October 2, 2010
The International Greek New Testament Project
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
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
Friday, October 1, 2010
British Library Digitised Manuscripts
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
http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/online/index.html
More information about it from a listserve:
- 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.