Hebrew Transliteration

 Charles Loder has created an app that transliterates Hebrew. When you open it, it looks like this:

As you can see, the example does a pretty good job, except that it does not distinguish plosives from fricatives (e.g., the "b" and "t" are not underlined.) There are three schema to choose from and there are some other ways to customize it.

You copy/paste Hebrew into the top box, and presto! It translates the word. I tried copy/pasting the following from Logos:

 

ANE Site Placemarks for Google Earth

According to the website download Google Earth and open it. Then open the ANE Site Placements from within Google Earth. Unfortunately, it's not clear to me how to do that.

Further from the website:

ANE.kmz is a set of site placemarks for Google Earth of a selection of the most important archaeological sites in the Ancient Near East. ANE.kmz works with Google Earth Pro, which first has to be downloaded for free. When opened inside Google Earth Pro, ANE.kmz gives, to the left, an alphabetic list of ancient sites and, to the right, on the satellite images the same sites marked. For the moment, there are some 2500 sites with modern names; among them some 400 have ancient names. Additions of more sites are planned. Ancient names are written without parenthesis. Modern names are within parenthesis. Most sites have been identified on the satellite images.

ANE Waters.kmz is an experimental set of provisional water placemarks for Google Earth covering Mesopotamia up to modern time.

ANE Picture.jpg is just illustrating the appearence of ANE.kmz before zooming in and is not for use.

A Collection of Ancient Inscriptions from Israel/Palestine

 Collection of Ancient Inscription from Israel/Palestine

From the website:

The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project seeks to collect and make freely accessible all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE). Epigraphy is the study of such inscriptions, defined as texts written on durable materials (except for coins, which falls under the academic category of numismatics). There are about 10,000 of these inscriptions, written primarily in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, by Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans. They range from imperial declarations on monumental architecture to notices of donations in synagogues to humble names scratched on ossuaries, and include everything in between.

These inscriptions are an invaluable resource for historical investigation, for they provide information that is frequently not available in the extant literary texts. Recently, for example, scholars have used these inscriptions to:

• Reconstruct the ancient Roman road system throughout Israel/Palestine, thus revising our understanding of trade routes and the economy;
• Investigate the involvement of the Roman government in municipal building projects;
• Revise our understanding of the Bar-Kokhba Revolt, suggesting that the revolt was far more serious than we previously thought;
• Recover the role (and perhaps even voices) of women in Jewish and Christian communities - voices that otherwise are silent in the literary record; -Provide insight into linguistic use and change in the area.

Some examples of the kind of information that inscriptions provide about the ancient world can be found on our "Stories" page. Please take a look and tell us what you think!

All inscriptions are encoded according to Epidoc guidelines.

The DOI of the project is: 10.26300/pz1d-st89 (https://doi.org/10.26300/pz1d-st89)

The Digital Coin Cabinet of the Institute of Classical Archaeology

 Digital Coin Cabinet of the Institute of Classical Archaeology

Tyndale Bulletin

 Tyndale Bulletin

A source for solid, evangelical/creedal scholarship.