Friday, February 17, 2012

Historical Photographs of the Land of Israel

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library of the University of Haifa has made available online a number of historical photographs of Israel:

http://lib.haifa.ac.il/collections/isratage/index.php/en/

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

For Classical readers: Ovid, Myth and (Literary) Exile

http://www.univ-ovidius.ro/litere/ovidius/ovid.htm

From the home page of this new, open access journal:

The general purpose of the journal Ovid, Myth and (Literary) Exile is to gather new scholarship and research on Ovid’s work and influence on world culture on the one hand, and on exile, whether literary or not, on the other. The journal addresses academics and graduate students, whose research interests are in the area, to approach Ovid’s work as well as the concepts of exile and myth from large cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary paradigms including world literature, history, anthropology, sociology, the history of ideas, geography, politics and other associated fields and disciplines.

Old Testament Essays

http://content.ajarchive.org/cdm4/index_10109919.php?CISOROOT=/10109919

From the home page of this newly open access resource:


Welcome to Old Testament Essays
23 issues (In process)

Old Testament Essays (New Series) is the academic journal of the Old Testament Society of Southern Africa (OTSSA) published since 1987. Its precursors were the individual proceedings that the OTSSA published after its meetings from 1959-1986 and the journal Old Testament Essays that was published by the Department of Old Testament at Unisa from 1983-1987. Currently it operates with a local editorial and international advisory board. The journal disseminates the results of theological research regarding any aspect of the Old Testament of interest to both national and international scholars. It has a wide scope including various disciplines that are helpful in researching the Old Testament.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Patrologia Latina, Graeca et orientalis

Patrologia makes available online a number of  resources, including Latin and Greek texts:

http://bibliotheca.plgo.org/index.html

Friday, January 27, 2012

Now partial open access: Tyndale Bulletin

The Tyndale Bulletin is publication of Tyndale House, and independent, evangelical library in Cambridge, UK:

http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/index.php?page=tyndale-bulletin

The Bulletin is open access from volume 1 to 2009.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Soncino Babylonian Talmud translation online

For an online translation of the Babylonian Talmud, go to:
http://www.halakhah.com/indexrst.html
which has links to the various books and tractates

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives (ETANA)


http://www.etana.org/coretexts

From the home page:
The civilizations of the ancient Near East produced the world's earliest written texts — in hieroglyphs, cuneiform, and alphabets — with which they described the first empires, recorded the first legal codifications, preserved the first love songs, and registered the first contracts, among states or individuals. Not surprisingly, these cultures elicited broad curiosity among later civilizations, our own not excepted, resulting in a flood of evaluation, scholarly or otherwise. While the discovery of new texts always leads to new evaluation, it is remarkable how assessments arrived at decades ago continue to be of much value, not only because they often carry editions of original documents, but because they contain insights minted freshly after first exposure to major documents.

ETANA (Electronic Texts and Ancient Near Eastern Archives) has digitized, and continues to digitize, texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to ancient Near Eastern studies. We have selected primarily editions that are outside of copyright, or with the permission of copyright holders. While the new electronic editions we have produced are under copyright, the ETANA project chooses to make these freely available for noncommercial teaching and research purposes.