Saturday, December 27, 2014

Index of Archaeological Sites in Israel (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Books and articles on Egyptology from the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

From the website:

The world-wide-web is replete with links to Egyptological resources, and there are many pages of bibliography out there, of which the prime example is the Online Egyptological Bibliography. But as yet, none of the more systematic bibliographies are publishing links to the actual PDF files of books and articles which may be freely acquired online, although they may be collecting the URL references. This project attempts to go some way toward filling that gap.
Click here for the full list.
Notice: Bookmark this page, not the full list, as the file name may change.
The list uses standard Egyptological abbreviations for books and journals.
This project is a "work in progress", and is bound to contain errors and omissions. The document takes the form of one large HTML file with the data arranged by author; links to both the web page from which the file can be accessed and the PDF file for the document itself are given. Searching must be done using the Find function of your web browser. It may be possible to enhance this capability in the future, but much will depend on the reactions of internet users to this work.
The data has been collected and arranged by Andrea Middleton, Brooke Garcia, and Robyn Price, Graduate Assistants in the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, a unit of the Department of Art in the University of Memphis (Tennessee, USA). We have tried to seek out as many books and articles as possible on Egyptological subjects which are freely accessible to anyone without the need for privileged access. Thus we have searched sites such as the Internet Archive, the University of Heidelberg Library, the Oriental Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, the Giza Library, Ancient World Online (AWOL), and many more, as well as attempting to collect links noted in the pages of EEF (Egyptologists' Electronic Forum) News.
Sites which require institutional access or a password are not included—thus journals on JSTOR have not been indexed. Nor have papers available on www.academia.edu or  http://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/ (BIFAO) been included here. It is likely that some articles on JSTOR are duplicated elsewhere, and it is equally possible that some articles and books are available at more than one location. In the latter case, we have tried to give all the options.
Please report comments, errors, omissions, etc. to  nigel.strudwick @ memphis.edu. We hope this work is useful.

Nigel Strudwick
December 2014

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

STEP Bible

For several years scholars at Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK, have been working on powerful Bible software to make features that one finds in expensive programs like Logos and BibleWorks freely availalble to students and scholars in developing countries. The project is called the STEP Bible, "STEP" standing for Scripture Tools for Every Person.

Although work on STEP continues, it is now accessible:
https://www.stepbible.org/

You'll find an orientation video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLm6UMEOjb4&index=1&list=PLaG6d96SWm5_Z0KViIk4XCy51HeeSuovL

Monday, December 15, 2014

Various Akkadian and Sumerian texts from Marburg University


Ur III Transliterationen mit Hyperlinks
Quelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
ur3_20110805_public.atf 
Ur III Glossar Teil 1 (A–E) mit Hyperlinks
Quelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
ur3_20110805_public.atf
Ur III Glossar Teil 2 (G–L) mit Hyperlinks
Quelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
ur3_20110805_public.atf
Ur III Glossar Teil 3 (M-Š) mit Hyperlinks
Quelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
ur3_20110805_public.atf 

Ur III Glossar Teil 4 (T–Z, Numeralia)) mit Hyperlinks
Quelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
ur3_20110805_public.atf  

Ur III Zeichenkonkordanz
Quelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
ur3_20110805_public.atf
Der Kodex Hammurabi (KH) Transliteration [PDF]
Quellen: Rykle Borger, Babylonisch-Assyrische Lesestücke3 (Analecta Orientalia 54)
Heft I, XIII–XV, 2–50 (2006)
Dokumentation (Fotos und Kopien): Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) http://cdli.ucla.edu/P249253
Der Kodex Hammurabi (KH) Transliteration [text]
Quellen: Rykle Borger, Babylonisch-Assyrische Lesestücke3 (Analecta Orientalia 54)
Heft I, XIII–XV, 2–50 (2006)
Dokumentation (Fotos und Kopien): Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) http://cdli.ucla.edu/P249253
Der Kodex Hammurabi (KH) Glossar
Quellen: Rykle Borger, Babylonisch-Assyrische Lesestücke3 (Analecta Orientalia 54)
Heft I, XIII–XV, 2–50 (2006)
Dokumentation (Fotos und Kopien): Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) http://cdli.ucla.edu/P249253
Der Kodex Hammurabi (KH) Zeichenkonkordanz
Quellen: Rykle Borger, Babylonisch-Assyrische Lesestücke3 (Analecta Orientalia 54)
Heft I, XIII–XV, 2–50 (2006)
Dokumentation (Fotos und Kopien): Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) http://cdli.ucla.edu/P249253

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Themelios

http://themelios.thegospelcoalition.org/

This journal of an evangelical perspective was published in print before ending in that medium. It is now published online by The Gospel Coalition. The above url takes you to the current edition and the following url takes you to the archives:

http://themelios.thegospelcoalition.org/archive

Internet Archive

https://archive.org/

Download books (and other media) from this site. Many classical volumes in Biblical Studies may be found here.

Open Library

https://openlibrary.org/

This site has many texts (and other media) that are freely accessible, although the majority will be outside the field of Biblical Studies.

Monday, December 1, 2014

The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/

From the website:

Numerous royally commissioned texts were composed between 744 BC and 669 BC, a period during which Assyria became the dominant power in southwestern Asia. Six hundred to six hundred and fifty such inscriptions are known today. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, under the direction of Professor Grant Frame of the University of Pennsylvania, will publish in print and online all of the known royal inscriptions that were composed during the reigns of the Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC), Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Sargon II (721-705 BC), Sennacherib (704-681 BC), and Esarhaddon (680-669 BC), rulers whose deeds were also recorded in the Bible and in some classical sources. The individual texts range from short one-line labels to lengthy, detailed inscriptions with over 500 lines (2500 words) of text.

These Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions (744-669 BC) represent only a small, but important part of the vast Neo-Assyrian text corpus. They are written in the Standard Babylonian dialect of Akkadian and provide valuable insight into royal exploits, both on the battlefield and at home, royal ideology, and Assyrian religion. Most of our understanding of the political history of Assyria, and to some extent of Babylonia, comes from these sources. Because this large corpus of texts has not previously been published in one place, the RINAP Project will provide up-to-date editions (with English translations) of Assyrian royal inscriptions from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) to the reign of Esarhaddon (680-669 BC) in five print volumes and online, in a fully lemmatized and indexed format. The aim of the project is to make this vast text corpus easily accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. RINAP Online will allow those interested in Assyrian culture, history, language, religion, and texts to efficiently search Akkadian and Sumerian words appearing in the inscriptions and English words used in the translations. Project data will be fully integrated into the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) and the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc).

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the RINAP Project research grants in 2008, 2010, and 2012 to help carry out its work. The publications of the RINAP Project are modeled on those of the now-defunct Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) Project and carry on where its Assyrian Periods sub-series (RIMA) ended.
Released in April 2016:

Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers relating to the ancient world

From AWOL:

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 06:30 AM PST
[Most recently updated 26 November 2014]

Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers relating to the ancient world
Additional resources of thus type are accessible through the  Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) Project pages at the University of Minnesota.

And see also Lexicity
And see also  Smarthistory, a "multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook"

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