The Virtual World Project

The Virtual World Project provides video clips and stills of many archaeological sites in Israel and Jordan, and is updated when possible. The website is impressive, featuring panorama shots, archaeological plans, and even photos of epigraphic significance (e.g., some of the Lachish letters).

Presently for Israel the website goes no farther north than `Izbet Sartah.

http://www.virtualworldproject.org/vr/core/toc.html

2 new publications from IBR

The Institute for Biblical Research (IBR) is now making freely available online some of its publications.

For studies go to:
http://www.ibr-bbr.org/IBR_Studies.aspx

For IBR's newsletter (mostly conference announcements), go to:
http://www.ibr-bbr.org/IBR_News.aspx

Tyndale House toolbar

Tyndale House makes freely available a toolbar with many useful functions:

The free Tyndale Toolbar brings together many of the best Bible tools on the web.

• Bibles: Quick access to the main commercial Bibles and 70+ other translations.
• Languages: Quick dictionaries and full lexicons for modern & ancient languages (Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, Syriac etc, French, German, Thesuarus etc)
• Books and articles: Online libraries, specialist theology libraries and article subject searches.
• More help: Links to the best of the web for Biblical Studies, preaching and teaching, concentrating on the best of the free.
• News: Notices of events, publications and opportunities for jobs and scholarships

Download the toolbar at:
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Download a "how to" video at:
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Bibliography Database

Via Wikipedia, an annotated bibliography of the Near East and Egypt is now being developed. Search existing bibliographies for sources or to get an idea of what a book is about. You may also add to existing bibliographies or begin your own.

http://ancientbibliographies.libs.uga.edu/wiki/Main_Page

Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon now online

Edward William Lane's An Arabic-English Lexicon is now online:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2002.02.0015

It is searchable and in Unicode fonts.

Nag Hammadi texts online

Claremont Libraries Digital Collection has made available online digitized photos of the Nag Hammadi texts, searchable by codex, codex series, and subject. There are also many photos of places and individuals associated with the texts.

http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/collection.php?alias=/nha