Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Loads of open access oldies but goodies

Many, many of older scholarly works are accessible, with many having PDF download options as well. Examples include Eichhorn, Ewald, Budde, Wellhausen, Driver, BDB/Gesenius, and Briggs:


The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

This resource was originally posted on 9/27/2011, but the site may have been updated. This link
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
has links to the Great Isaiah Scroll, War Scroll, Temple Scroll, Community Rule Scroll, and Habakkuk Commentary. The site has videos as well.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Open access Latin texts from the Packard Humanities Institute

This one's a little far afield from the ancient Near East, but for those interested in reading Latin, the Packard Humanities Institute offers quite a number of Classical Latin authors.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (CSCO): Scriptores Coptici Online

From the Oriental Research Archives: Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (CSCO): Scriptores Coptici Online, vols. 1-7, 9-10, downloadable as PDFs:

vol. 1 = series secunda, tomus II, textus: Iohannes Leipoldt, W. Crum (eds.), Sinuthii archimandritae vita et opera omnia, I, Paris, 1906.

vol. 2 = series secunda, tomus IV, textus: Iohannes Leipoldt, W. Crum (eds.), Sinuthii archimandritae vita et opera omnia, III, Paris, 1908.

vol. 3 = series tertia, tomus I, textus: I. Balestri, H. Hyvernat (eds.), Acta martyrum, I, Paris, 1907.

vol. 4 = series tertia, tomus I, versio: I. Balestri, H. Hyvernat (eds.), Acta martyrum, I, Paris, 1908 (Reprint: Louvain, 1960).

vol. 5 = series secunda, tomus V, textus: Iohannes Leipoldt, W. Crum (eds.), Sinuthii archimandritae vita et opera omnia, IV, Paris, 1913.

vol. 6 = series tertia, tomus II, textus: I. Balestri, H. Hyvernat (eds.), Acta martyrum, II, Paris, 1924

vol. 7 = series tertia, tomus VII, textus: L. Th. Lefort (ed.), S. Pachomii vita bohairice scripta, Paris, 1925.

vols. 9-10 = series tertia, tomus VIII, textus: L. Th. Lefort (ed.), S. Pachomii vitae sahidice scriptae, Paris, 1933.

British Museum Collection Database

The British Museum's nearly 2,000,000 objects are are now searchable, of which over 600,000 have one or more images.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

OAPEN Library

From the homepage:

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe.

http://www.oapen.org/home

Since the library covers such a broad range of studies, it will be hit or miss for biblical studies per se. Still, the books are peer-reviewed and the site is searchable.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Scripture Bulletin

The Catholic Biblical Association of Great Britain has announced its open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Scripture Bulletin.

The Homer Multitext

For Homeric studies see now the Homeric Multitext, which provides a number of resources including diplomatic editions of manuscripts of the Iliad.


More from the home page:

The Homer Multitext seeks to present the textual transmission of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey in a historical framework. Such a framework is needed to account for the full reality of a complex medium of oral performance that underwent many changes over a long period of time. These changes, as reflected in the many texts of Homer, need to be understood in their many different historical contexts. The Homer Multitext provides ways to view these contexts both synchronically and diachronically.

The Homer Multitext is a long-term project emphasizing collaborative research (we are particularly interested in undergraduate research), openly licensed data, and innovative uses of technology.The Homer Multitext welcomes collaboration in the form of diplomatic editions, images of historical documents, and translations. All material must be openly licensed and attribution will be given to the contributors.



Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft/www.academic.bible.com

Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft/www.academic.bible.com has made available an astounding collection of online resources for biblical studies, including a Hebrew text that follows Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, and Greek texts following Rahlf's LXX and the Nestle-Aland 27th ed. of the Novum Testamentum Graece, and a Latin Bible after the Vulgate. The website has further resources.