EThoS -- British Library e-theses

http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

From the website:

EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.

It demonstrates the quality of UK research, and supports the UK Government’s open access principle that publications resulting from publicly-funded research should be made freely available for all researchers, providing opportunities for further research. EThOS helps institutions to meet the expectation of the UK Research Councils that PhDs supported by a Research Council Training Grant should be made freely available in an open access repository, as indicated in its Training Grant Terms & Conditions (Paragraph 104).

EThOS aims to provide:

• A national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions
• Free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers to further their own research.

There are approximately 400,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 160,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 240,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility.

Records are held for all UK PhD-awarding institutions, but we do not (yet) hold all records for all institutions. Every month around 3000 new records are added and an additional 2000 full text theses become accessible. Access routes to the full text are determined by the individual institution and may depend on:

• Mandatory electronic deposit of newly awarded theses by its students
• Availability of its theses in the institutional repository
• Its level of repository development
• Digitisation priorities for its print theses

The digitisation on demand facility is a unique feature of EThOS and brings new e-born theses and older print content together into a single place. Users ordering a copy through digitisation on demand may experience a turnaround time of up to 6 weeks. There may also be a charge for the scanning process (currently £45.40 + VAT £9.08 = Total £54.48). Details are provided within each record.

EThOS continues to be developed to benefit both participating institutions and users. In June 2015 new data started to be added: ORCID and ISNI are two international author systems which provide unique identity profiles for any researcher or author to support the visibility and re-use of their works. Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are unique persistent identifiers for research works increasingly issued and required by publishers and should be used to cite or link to the work wherever possible. All three identifiers are now being embraced by universities for their students, academics, PhD theses and other works.

The EThOS Toolkit provides further information about all aspects of the service.

View a list of participating institutions

The "Google of the Bible" by Herzog College

http://www.hatanakh.com/en
This site purports to be a digital edition of the complete Tanakh (Old Testament/Hebrew Bible). It also has rabbinic writings and "touring" via Google maps.

JSTOR

http://about.jstor.org/rr

Although I mentioned this last year, it's probably worthwhile reiterating the value of the JSTOR database. Limited access is available if you register (free).

Classicsindex: Links to Online Books (Google Books, Archive.org, etc.) for the study of Greek and Roman Classics, early Judaism, and Christianity

http://classicsindex.wikispaces.com/

This site is pretty much as the title indicates. Following are the main categories, and the home page has links to other resources.

Ancient Greece: Language and Literature

[Download older (non-wiki) page of Greek Literature links here]

Ancient Rome: Latin Language and Literature

[Download older (non-wiki) page of Latin Literature links here]

Mythology

Bible [Hebrew : LXX : NT : Latin]

Judaism [2nd Temple : Rabbinic]

Early Christianity

[Download older (non-wiki) page of Bible, Judaism, Early Christianity, Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation links here]

• General, Reference, and Periodicals on Bible, Judaism, and Christianity
• Texte und Untersuchungen
• Language: Hebrew and related languages : NT Greek / Koine : Coptic
• Pseudepigrapha pertaining to Hebrew Bible / Old Testament : NT Apocrypha
• Migne, PG
• Migne, PL - links for vols. 1-126 now revised

Medieval and Byzantine

• Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae

Renaissance

Reformation

Classics of Scholarship

Unicode Hebrew Bible/OT

http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml

The J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research has published a Unicode text of the Hebrew Bible/OT. From the website:

Citation
Syntax

   

Torah	Prophets	Minor prophets		Writings
Genesis	Joshua	Hosea	Nahum	Psalms	Ecclesiastes
Exodus	Judges	Joel	Habakkuk	Proverbs	Esther
Leviticus	1 Samuel	Amos	Zephaniah	Job	Daniel
Numbers	2 Samuel	Obadiah	Haggai	Song of songs	Ezra
Deuteronomy	1 Kings	Jonah	Zechariah	Ruth	Nehemiah
	2 Kings	Micah	Malachi	Lamentations	1 Chronicles
	Isaiah				2 Chronicles
	Jeremiah
	Ezekiel

Coptic Scriptorium's full, machine-annotated NT

http://blog.copticscriptorium.org/2016/05/16/full-machine-annotated-new-testament-corpus-updated/

From the website:

Accessing document visualizations of the Sahidica corpus via ANNIS

Full, machine-annotated New Testament Corpus updated

May 16, 2016 / ctschroeder / 0 Comments

We’ve updated and re-released our fully machine-annotated New Testament corpus.  sahidica.nt V2.1.0 contains the Sahidica NT text from Warren Wells Sahidica online NT, with the following features:

• Annotated with our latest NLP tools (part of speech tagger 1.9, tokenizer 4.1.0, language tagger and lemmatizer include lexical entries from the Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic (DDGLC))
• Now contains the morph layer (annotating compound words and Coptic morphs such ⲣⲉϥ- ⲙⲛⲧ- ⲁⲧ-)
• Visualizations for linguistic analysis

Please keep in mind that this fully machine-annotated corpus is more accurate than previous versions but will nonetheless contain more errors than a corpus manually corrected by a human.

Search and queries

For searches and queries using our ANNIS database to find specific terms, for this corpus we recommend searching the normalized words using regular expressions (to capture instances of the desired word that may still be embedded in a Coptic bound group, instances that our tokenizer may have missed):

• Search for ⲥⲱⲧⲙ: norm=/.*ⲥⲱⲧⲙ.*/
• Search for ⲉⲛⲧⲟⲗⲏ: norm=/.*ⲉⲛⲧⲟⲗⲏ.*/

Lemma searches are now also possible.  You may wish to search for the lemma using regular expressions, as well, in order to find lemmas of some compound words.  For example, the following search will find entries containing ⲥⲱⲧⲙ in the lemma:

• lemma=/.*ⲥⲱⲧⲙ.*/

The results include various forms of ⲥⲱⲧⲙ (including ⲥⲟⲧⲙ) lemmatized the lexical entry “ⲥⲱⲧⲙ”, compound words lemmatized to ⲥⲱⲧⲙ or to a lexical entry containing ⲥⲱⲧⲙ, and some bound groups containing the word form ⲥⲱⲧⲙ, which our tokenizer did not catch:

Frequency table of normalized words lemmatized to ⲥⲱⲧⲙ or a lemma form containing ⲥⲱⲧⲙ (May 2016 Sahidica corpus)

As you can see, most of the hits are accurate (e.g., ⲥⲟⲧⲙ, ⲁⲧⲥⲱⲧⲙ, ⲣⲁⲧⲥⲱⲧⲙ, ⲣⲉϥⲥⲱⲧⲙ); some of the Coptic bound groups did not tokenize properly (e.g., ⲉⲡⲥⲱⲧⲙ, ⲙⲁⲣⲟⲩⲥⲱⲧⲙ).  We expect accuracy to increase as we incorporate more texts into our corpora that have been machine annotated and then manually edited.

Reading by individual chapter

You can also read these documents and see the linguistic analysis visualizations at data.copticscriptorium.org/urn:cts:copticLit:nt.  The first documents you will see (Gospel of Mark, 1 Corinthians) are manually annotated.  Scroll down for “New Testament,” which is the full, machine-annotated Sahidica New Testament.  Click on “Chapter” to read each chapter as normalized Coptic (with English translation as a pop-up when you hover your cursor).  Click on “Analytic” for the normalized Coptic, part of speech analysis, and English translation for each chapter.  Please keep in mind the English translation provided is a free, open-access New Testament translation from the World English Bible; it is not a direct translation from the Coptic.
Note:  we know that our server is slow generating the documents for this corpus.  It may take several minutes to load; please be patient.  For faster access, use ANNIS.  Visualizations to read the chapters are available by clicking on the corpus and the icon for visualizations.

Accessing document visualizations of the Sahidica corpus via ANNIS

We hope this corpus is useful to researchers.

Books from Gorgias Press

http://gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/t-openaccess_repository.aspx

The following are freely available from Gorgias:

Download The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough, Edited by Carlos Segovia and Basil Lourié John Wansbrough is famous for his pioneering studies on the “sectarian milieu” out of which Islam emerged. In his view, Islam grew out of different - albeit rather marginal - Jewish and Christian traditions. In the present volume, which is dedicated to Wansbrough’s memory, specialists in Islamic studies and students of the Jewish and early Christian traditions summarise Wansbrough’s achievements in the past thirty years and chart the future of the tradition study of the “sectarian milieu.”	Download Commentaries, Catenae and Biblical Tradition, Edited by H. A. G. Houghton This collection of original research papers examines early commentaries on the New Testament and the transmission of the biblical text. Focussing principally on Greek and Latin tradition, it provides new insights into the sources and manuscripts of commentators and catenae.
Download Dischronology and Dialogic in the Bible’s Primary Narrative, by David A. Bergen This ground-breaking study offers a reassessment of Moses' book of the law from a narrative theory perspective. Concerned for the long-term viability of his people, Moses legislates a public reading of his document which is deposited next to the ark of the covenant as a national testament. Through the mechanics of narrative mediation, the narrator reveals to the reader of Deuteronomy the contents of Moses' enshrined publication. Deuteronomy's simulcast of Moses' book invites external readers to compare and evaluate their readings with story-world readers who access the same text within the Bible's Primary Narrative.	Download Early Readers, Scholars and Editors of the New Testament, edited by H.A.G. Houghton A collection of ten original papers on the New Testament text, first presented in 2013, which reflect the diversity of current research. Examples of ancient engagement with the Bible include Origen, Eusebius of Caesarea and Augustine along with early translations.
Download The Historiography of Music in Global Perspective, edited by Sam Mirelman This volume examines the perception of music’s past, in all its historical, geographical and cultural breadth. The wide-ranging collection of papers address the interpretation of past music cultures from the earliest records of antiquity until the present.	Download Recent Developments in Midrash Research: Proceedings of the 2002 and 2003 SBL Consultation on Midrash, Edited by Lieve Teugels and Rivka Ulmer This work consists of a selection of papers from sessions during the first two years of SBL Consultation on Midrash. It demonstrates innovative approaches to midrashic texts and hermeneutic reflections on similarities and differences between interpretations of the Bible.
Download Salvation in Christ According to Jacob of Serugh: An Exegetico-theological Study on the Homilies of Jacob of Serugh on the Feasts of Our Lord, by Thomas Kollamparampil Jacob of Serugh’s vision of ‘Salvation in Christ’, in its exegetical, theological, catechetical, liturgical and pastoral aspects, is reviewed in this monograph. Jacob’s mode of symbolic-mystical-silence approach to the mystery of Christ is explained. This treatise gathers up Jacob’s typological and symbolic thought-patterns, in his own language, categories, terminologies, and imageries.	Download "Some Lexical and Legal Notes on a Syriac Loan Transfer of 240 CE", by John Healey This article, drawn from Malphono w-Rabo d-Malphone, analyzes a Syriac legal document from the Upper Euphrates. Along with his analysis, Healey provides a translation and translitera