The Bible Tool

The Bible Tool (http://crosswire.org/study/index.jsp) is "a free, evolving open source tool for exploring the Bible and related texts online. Created by CrossWire Bible Society, the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Bible Society as the first in a number of coming Bible engagement tools using an XML standard called OSIS, we provide power searching capabilities and cutting edge tools to help you engage the Bible at a deeper level."

The site has links for lots of freebies, e.g., The Sword Project, Unbound Bible, Bible Gateway, Crosswalk, and the Blue Letter Bible.

Directory of Open Access Journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/) provides links to all open access journals, or at least those that it is aware of. The website at present has 6679 journals, 2957 of which are article-searchable, and 584,857 articles.

The Directory receives journals from all disciplines, so you can search by journal name or by country. The site has a search field for articles as well.

SBL Greek NT critical edition

SBL and Logos have just published a Unicode critical edition of the New Testament. The soft-copy version is freely downloadable:

https://secure.aidcvt.com/sbl/ProdDetails.asp?ID=069022C&PG=1&Type=BL&PCS=SBL

I is edited by one rather than by a committee. Pace Michael W. Holmes, the editor, this is a regrettable deficit in what is otherwise a wholeheartedly welcome addition to the repository of open access resources. Downloadable versions (text and critical apparatus) include one that syncs with Logos, PDF, XML, OSIS, etc. Moreover several of the options come as Zip files for a speedy download.

Open Access Dissertations and Theses

It is now possible to access full-text dissertations and theses through PDQT/ProQuest:

http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/

The dissertations and theses are from all disciplines, so it's better to know the author and/or title. There is an advanced search engine which has further options, e.g., keywords.

So far this does not appear particularly valuable. A search on the keywords "Old Testament," "Hebrew Bible," and "New Testament" returned only six hits (total). Nevertheless the dissertations were recent and were from some top rate universities (e.g., Yale). Hopefully, ProQuest will make more available soon.

The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project

Hebrew Union College has an online lexicon for Aramaic lemmata and extending to the Targums.

http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/

Link for open access Egyptology sources

Michael Tilgner has compiled a list of open access sources for Egyptology on behalf of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum.

http://www.egyptologyforum.org/EEFDigijournals.html

Ejournal: Rosetta

Rosetta is a publication from the University of Birmingham. From the website:

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The Rosetta journal is aimed at postgraduates and professionals from a variety of historical and archaeological disciplines.

Within Rosetta you will find articles covering a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects, book reviews, museum and conference reports. There are also links to other sites of interest and forthcoming seminars and conferences.

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Not all the articles relate to the ANE.

http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/

Resource for Rabbinic literature: Rabbinic Traditions

David Instone-Brewer has done it again. Here's online access to many rabbinic texts, with search capacity and links to chapter from his TRENT monograph on the dating of the early literature.

http://instonebrewer.com/RabbinicTraditions/