New Testaments from history TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | New College Library | New Testament | sixteenth-century At the beginning of next month, the University of Edinburgh welcomes the Annual Meeting of the British New Testament Society, which will take place on 3- 5 Sept 2015. Currently on display in …Continue reading →

New Bloomsbury eBook Collections available for Divinity TAGS: Biblical Studies | Books | Divinity | online | Religious Studies | Theology & Ethics New Bloomsbury eBook Collections are now available for Divinity. Bloomsbury eBook Collections deliver instant access to Bloomsbury’s research publications with unlimited user access and the facility to download and print …Continue reading →

Trials – e-resources on trial this week TAGS: Biblical Studies | Brill | Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts | history | Parliament Rolls of Medieval England database | Politics | Scholarly Digital Editions Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts is on trial until 24th June.  It presents a complete Hebrew transcription and English translation of the Biblical texts, together with high-resolution images …Continue reading →

Unwrapping the Martin Hall Collection TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | medieval | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century This January we began cataloguing work on the MR Collection from New College Library’s Special Collections. This sequence contains much early and rare material, and carries the shelfmark MR because at …Continue reading →

Trial – Gregory of Nyssa Online (comprising Gregorii Nysseni Opera Online and Lexicon Gregorianum Online) TAGS: Biblical Studies | Classical Greek | Gregorii Nysseni Opera | Gregory of Nyssa | Lexicon Gregorianum We have trial access to Gregory of Nyssa Online (comprising Gregorii Nysseni Opera Online and Lexicon Gregorianum Online) until the 25th February. Gregorii Nysseni Opera Online is the ultimate online …Continue reading →

Trial – Brill Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics TAGS: Biblical Studies | Computing Learning Technology Research Support Help & Consultancy About IS Service info Related links Help Your feedback about this page University home Schools & departments Information Servi | general linguistics | Hebrew and Jewish literature | Hebrew linguistics We have trial access to Brill Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics until the 18th February. Brill Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment …Continue reading →

Travel back 500 years with rare Hebrew book from New College Library TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Dalman-Christie | Funk | Hebrew | Jewish | New College Library | rare books This early commentary on the Pentateuch, published in 1514 has travelled all the way to Latvia to be part of the exhibition “1514. The Book. 2014“. On display until April …Continue reading →

Imagining Noah’s Ark : Special Collections on display at New College Library TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | New College Library | science Noah’s Ark has been in the news lately with the recent block buster film Noah. Currently on display in the entrance to New College Library is a nineteenth-century imagining of …Continue reading →

Missionary to the North – The Paterson Bible Collection TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Funk | missions | New College Library | rare books | russia | World Christianity In early 2014 we began work to catalogue the Paterson Bible Collection, as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library. This collection of over 300 Bibles in …Continue reading →

Chinese rare books on display for Peking University at Edinburgh Day TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | China | Chinese | Divinity | New College Library | World Christianity New College Library was part of the University of Edinburgh’s Peking at Edinburgh day on Monday 18 November with a display of Chinese items from our Special Collections. These included the beautiful …Continue reading →