Winter vacation is coming at New College Library TAGS: Books | Christmas | New College Library | University of Edinburgh New College Library will close on Friday 21 December and reopen again on Thursday 3 January. More details on opening hours for all University of Edinburgh Library sites over the …Continue reading →

The wood-walls of Scotland : a Christmas Carol TAGS: Christmas | Church of Scotland | Disruption | Free Church of Scotland | Hymn | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Pamphlets | Scotland | Special Collections New College Christmas Carol Service is taking place today at 5pm in the Martin Hall, led by members of the New College community and with singing from the New College Choir. Here’s a …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 →

To fast or feast? Celebrating Christmas in the eighteenth century TAGS: Christianity | Christmas | church history | Church of England | Edinburgh | eighteenth-century | Funk | New College Library | rare books | Theology & Ethics | theology in history | Z Collection Many folk will be going to Christmas lunches and parties this week – including New College Library staff. Outside our office window the Edinburgh Christmas fair is in full (and noisy) swing, celebrating the …Continue reading →

Festival Prayers for Hanukkah TAGS: Dalman-Christie | eighteenth-century | Funk | Hebrew | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library | online | rare books   The Mahzor Ashkenazim  is an example of a mahzor, or festival prayer book, for Ashkenazi usage, published in Venice in the early eighteenth century. Its large size makes it …Continue reading →

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 →

New books at New College Library – December TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | religion | science | University of Edinburgh New on the shelves this month is The lost world of Genesis One : ancient cosmology and the origins debate by John H. Walton. This title was purchased to support …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 →

Light Night in Edinburgh – New College Library closing early TAGS: Christmas | Edinburgh | New College Library New College Library will close early at 5pm on Thursday 29 November as installations and road closures for ‘Light Night‘ mean that readers will not be able to exit the …Continue reading →

Remembering the life of Guru Nanak TAGS: Funk | India | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Pakistan | Pamphlets | sikhism | Special Collections Sikhs around the world will celebrate the birthday of Guru Nanak on Wednesday 28 November. Guru Nanak (1469-1539) was the founder of the Sikh religion. The life of Baba Nanuk, …Continue reading →