For real. The site is called Elyonim veTachtonim. Here's the description from the site: Elyonim veTachtonim project web site. As of today the first version of the database is finally available on-line and: covers the Babylonian Talmud [BT]; bases on the Soncino...
Journals and Databases
After 90 Years the CAD is "Finished" (Chicago Assyrian Dictionary)
Here's the link to the recent announcement. I say "finished" because, having been begun in 1921, many volumes are now outdated. But it's still a great achievement. The CAD is available for free in PDF (or you can buy all the volumes for $1400). I mention the CAD on...
Gods of the Biblical World
This looks like a useful online resource. Here is the explanation on the site landing page: Welcome! This website was constructed to supply resources for an undergraduate class at Wofford College, called “Gods of the Biblical World: Polytheism, Magic, and Israelite...
Vatican Library Provides Online Access to High Resolution Images of New Testament Papyri
Jean-Baptiste Piggin of the Macro-Typography blog has a nice listing of available manuscripts here. If you're interested in New Testament textual criticism, papyrology, and the transmission of the Greek New Testament, you'll want to take a look. If you read Greek, you...
British Library to put Greek Manuscripts Online
Pretty cool -- read about it here. Here are some excerpts: The British Library said Monday that it was making more than a quarter of its 1,000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available online free of charge, something curators there hope will be a...
New Online Site for Public Domain Bible Reference Works
Check out Bible Ref Shelf - a very useful (if small) site for public domain Bible study materials. Editor's note: additional info provided.
New Open Access Resource: Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies
I just came across this new journal. It's rationale is as follows: The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies intends to promote the hermeneutical approach to the study of the Scriptures generally known as Inductive Biblical Studies. By Inductive Biblical Study (IBS)...
Dissertations and Theses Available in PDF from Duke University’s Religion Department
Some good items (to my interests) here, so I thought others might want to have a look.
On Academic Journals: The JSTOR Treasure-Trove
Came across this today, from the erstwhile AWOL blog of Chuck Jones. Click here for a reminder on why you need to get access to JSTOR. AWOL has posted an exhaustive list of journals accessible through JSTOR. Just gives you an idea. I'll be posting some things to...
Cambridge University Digitization Project
Certainly a worthwhile project. Have a look!
Want to Study How the Church Fathers Cited the Bible?
Then I highly recommend this post for its description of an important online resource for just this purpose. It's excellent. Editor's note: resource mentioned can be found here: Home • BiblIndex
How Did the Early Church Fathers Cite Scripture?
Is this cool or what? Click here for a free searchable database of "Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Early Christian Literature." The project is now in financial limbo, but as it is, you can still search the corpus for its database of 400,000 biblical references....
Resource: Ancient World Digital Library
I just discovered this resource via the Ancient World Online blog. The site has a number of scholarly monographs on Egyptology, Mesopotamia, Israel, etc. that can be downloaded as PDF. For example, click here for the books in the Mesopotamian category. One of the...
Scholarly Journals in Biblical Studies and the Humanities Just Became More Accessible
I've blogged about the importance of scholarly journal literature a number of times on this blog. The primary impediment to their use is that you need to live near a university or seminary library that subscribes to them or has a JSTOR subscription it can extend to...
Geographical Place Names in Ancient History: An Online Thesaurus
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is now available for free download. This resource of over 2 million place names includes ancient and modern names. It's an invaluable resource for connecting place names throughout the ancient world to other disciplines....