Tag: Research
On the Web (June 23, 2012)
On the web: Randy Kennedy discusses how the current economic crisis in Greece is imperiling local antiquities. Matthew Kalman discusses documentary sensationalism and its impact on the status of biblical archaeology. Charles Jones highlights resources for Macedonian coinage, the Acta Sanctorum, Augustan Rome’s geography, and the Byzantine scholia on Homer’s Iliad. Jim Davila notes Google’s efforts…
Homer and the Papyri
Charles Jones notes that Homer and the Papyri, first created by Professor Dana Sutton of the University of California, Irvine, is . . . published [online] in a second electronic edition. The new edition consists of a fully searchable relational database of Homeric papyri. For more details and to access the Homeric papyri database, please…
The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
It has taken some time, but in cooperation with Google, the Israel Museum has now released the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls. The website presently has five scrolls available: the Great Isaiah Scroll, the War Scroll, the Pesher on Habakkuk, the Temple Scroll, and the Community Rule. Here is the introductory video clip with voice overs…
Resources from Tyndale House
Tyndale House has done some wonderful work making very helpful resources available online, but today, I stumbled upon the following that I had forgotten or not noticed before: The Tyndale Bulletin is available in full-text from volume 1 forward, excepting the last three years’ issues. The Tyndale House library catalog will return search results that…
Zotero 2.1.7
Zotero 2.1.7 is now available with a number of performance improvements and bug fixes over the previous stable version. The current version is available from the Zotero homepage.
New Zotero Styles and Updates for Biblical and Theological Studies
The Society of Biblical Literature style for Zotero has recently been updated (8:16 pm, May 11, 2011). Since I had last visited the style repository, development versions of the following styles have also been added: Currents in Biblical Research INTER. Romanian Institute for Inter-Orthodox, Inter-Confessional and Inter-Religious Studies Universidad Evangélica del Paraguay Wheaton College PhD…