New College Library’s Torah Scroll TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | book sale | Funk | Hebrew | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library | Special Collections New College Library’s Torah Scroll (Pentateuch) was on display to visitors today in the Funk Reading Room. Scrolls such as these are an integral part of Jewish communal life, being …Continue reading →

New Cambridge History of the Bible – and more TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Divinity | online | University of Edinburgh | World Christianity The online version of the New Cambridge History of the Bible  : From 600 to 1450  by Richard Marsden, E. Ann Matter is now available to University of Edinburgh users …Continue reading →

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Divinity | online | University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh users  now have trial access to Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (De Gruyter) – trial ends 8 March. Find the link at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-trials The Encyclopedia …Continue reading →

The earliest missionary editions TAGS: Bible | China | Chinese | missions | World Christianity Interesting blog entry on Protestant missionary material in Chinese by David Helliwell, Curator of Chinese Collections, Bodleian Library

New on display – The Nativity in twentieth century art TAGS: art | Bible | Books | Christianity | Christmas | Funk | New College Library | twentieth-century New on display in New College Library’s Funk Special Collections Reading Room, is The Bible in 20th Century art.  It  is opened to show a painting of The Nativity by …Continue reading →

The saint, the saltire and a Scottish legend TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Funk | New College Library | Psalms | saints | Scotland | seventeenth-century | University of Edinburgh Today, November 30, is Saint Andrew’s day,  also celebrated as Scotland’s national day. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (available online to University of Edinburgh users)  notes that the cult of St …Continue reading →

New College Library’s earliest Bible TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | greek | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century This Greek New Testament Novum Testamentum Graece, is the earliest Bible held at New College Library. It was printed in Strassburg in 1524, and in his preface the printer speaks …Continue reading →

The Bible on Film – Film Industry magazines on trial now TAGS: Bible | film | online | Theology & Ethics | University of Edinburgh On trial now for University of Edinburgh users is the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive from ProQuest. This archival research resource contains the core US and UK trade magazines covering film, …Continue reading →

Biblical reflections of Christina Rossetti TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Books | Divinity | New College Library | nineteenth-century | University of Edinburgh   At this week’s Biblical Studies Research Seminar in the School of Divinity, the speaker is  Dr Alison Jack,  on“Reading the Parable of the Prodigal Son with Christina Rossetti”. Down …Continue reading →

Medieval Jewish Biblical Scholarship at New College Library TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Dalman-Christie | Divinity | Funk | Hebrew | Jerusalem | Jewish | Judaism | Latin | medieval | New College Library | Old Testament | rare books | seventeenth-century | Special Collections This item from New College Library’s Special Collections is a biblical commentary on the Old Testament prophets by the Portuguese Jewish scholar Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508).   Abravanel was employed by King …Continue reading →