New books at New College Library – January TAGS: Biblical Studies | Books | Divinity | film | library catalogue | New College Library | students | Theology & Ethics | University of Edinburgh New College Library has a regular display of new books at the far end of the Library Hall, close to the door to the stacks. Currently in the display is …Continue reading →

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Online Archive TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | ejournals | journals | New College Library | online | theology | University of Edinburgh The Scottish Evangelical Theological Society have agreed to allow biblicalstudies.org.uk to host the on-line archive of the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology (SBET). All issues of the journal, which began …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 →

Manchester Contributes to the Friedberg Genizah Project TAGS: Biblical Studies | Jewish | Judaism | medieval | middle east | online | research A growing resource for Jewish / Ancient World Studies – I see that as well as the digitized images of Genizah collections at Cambridge and Birmingham there are links to …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 →

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 →

Israel, the Assyrians and a shoemaker’s gift TAGS: Biblical Studies | Disruption | Divinity | donations | eighteenth-century | history | Israel | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Presbyterian | rare books | Special Collections | U.S.A. | Z Collection At todays’ opening seminar in the Divinity Biblical Studies Research Seminar series, the speaker is Dr Carly Crouch, Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, University of Nottingham, on “Israel and the Assyrians”. On …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 →

A Study in Syriac TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | donations | Funk | Hebrew | Latin | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | Special Collections | Syriac | University of Edinburgh Syriac has been taught at New College, Edinburgh, since its earliest days, as part of the family of ancient languages studied here. Today, for University of Edinburgh Students in years …Continue reading →