Saturday, October 23, 2010

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/

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

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

Saturday, October 2, 2010

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

Friday, October 1, 2010

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.
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.