Links to Useful Sites

This page contains some websites that are either important, interesting, or useful for the Archaeology of Hellenistic and Roman Palestine, as well as the study of Ancient Judaism and Religion. If there are any website which you think should be added to this list, please to hesitate to make suggestions by sending an email.

Professional Societies

• American Schools of Oriental Research
• Archaeological Institute of America
• Archaeological Institute of America, North Carolina Society
• Archaeological Institute of America, Tucson Society
• Society of Biblical Literature
• Israel Exploration Society (IES)
• Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society
• Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS)
• Association for Jewish Studies

Research Institutes and Government Organizations

• W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Reseaarch
• Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
• Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA)
• Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI)
• American Center of Oriental Research, Amman (ACOR)
• Deutsches Evangelisches Institut f&252;r Altertumwissenschaft des Heiligen Landes (DEI)

Blogs

• Bible Places Blog
• LacusCurtius and Livias.org
• PaleoJudaica
• Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
• Hagahot
• Toshunka
• Ancient Mediterranean Musings
• Archaeologica, Archaeological News and Information

Excavations and Sites

• Abila Archaeological Project
• Apollonia-Arsuf Archaeological Project
• Ashkelon Excavations
• Athienou Archaeological Project
• Beth Shean Valley Archaeological Project, Tl Rehov
• Tel Bet Yerah Research and Excavation Project
• Cana of the Galilee
• Tel Dor Project
• Hazor Excavations Project
• Hippos (Sussita) Excvation Project
• Jerusalem Archaeological Park
• Kabri
• Megiddo Expedition
• Tell Nimrin
• Omrit Israel Archaeological Program at Macalister College
• Ramat Rahel Archaeological Project
• Tel Rehov Excavations
• Tiberias Excavations
• Restoration of Ancient Technology: Umm el-Kanatir
• The Roman Fort at Yotvata, Israel
• The Zippori-Sepphoris Hebrew University Excavation Project
• Tel Kedesh, Israel

Primary Texts Online

Second Temple Period

• Early Jewish Writings
• Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement. Maintained by Steve Mason, and primarily focused on Flavius Josephus. Includes Greek text and the Whiston translation.
• Book of Tobit in the New Revised Standard Version.
• Book of Judith in the New Revised Standard Version.
• Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch, in the 1913 Oxford translation, by R.H. Charles.
• Ben Sira, also known as Ecclesiasticus or the Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach, in the New Revised Standard Version.
• 1 Maccabees in the New Revised Standard Version.
• 2 Maccabees in the New Revised Standard Version.

Biblical

• Jewish Publication Society Tanach includes the 1917 JPS English translation of the Hebrew Bible.
• Hebrew-English Tanakh side-by-side using the Masoretic text and the 1917 JPS translation.
• Resource pages for biblical studies includes Greek and Latin texts for the Septuagint, New Testament, and Vulgate.

Classical and Near Eastern

• The Perseus Digital Library
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook has translations of texts from all over the ancient world.
• Roman Sources on the Jews and Judaism, 1 BCE - 110 CE

Rabbinic

• Babylonian Talmud (Epstein translation)
• Snunit. A website that includes the Hebrew text of the Tanach, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmudim, Midrash Tanhuma, and the Mishnah Torah of the Rambam.
• Responsa Project is maintained by Bar Ilan University and is a database of all rabbinic and biblical works. The free online version allows you to search, but not browse, the texts.

Christian

• Early Christian Writings has both New Testament texts as well as those of the Christian Apocrypha, Gnostic works, and the Church Fathers.
• John Chrysostom's Homilies against the Jews

Online Dictionaries

Ancient

Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies has online dictionaries for Biblical Hebrew, Rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic, Coptic, Syriac, and Arabic.
Comprehensive Aramic Lexicon
Akkadian Dictionary
Introductory Lessons in Biblical Aramaic

Modern

Milon is a modern Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew dictionary.
German-English, English-German Dictionary
Word Reference has online dictionaries for English-speakers in French, Italian, and Spanish.

Other Useful Online Tools for Research and Teaching

General

Citation Styles
Columbia Guide to Standard American English
Photo Library of the Ecole Biblique

Archaeology

Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine is maintained by Michael Satlow and includes an extensive bibliography as well as a searchable database.
Marriage & Divorce Papyri of the ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish World, 4th c BCE - 4th c CE is maintained by D. Instone-Brewer and includes original language texts.
Archaeowiki

Classical Studies

The Roman Legions
Jews and Late Roman Law: 315-531 CE
Julian and the Jews: 361-363 CE
The Roman Army Illustrated

Near East

Parthia
Mesopotamia - The British Museum
Coptic Research
Yiddish Dictionary Online

Judaism

The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-06)
Second Temple Synagogues is maintained by Donald Binder and inlcudes a literary archive as well as images and other information.
HUC's Research Guide for Rabbinic Literature includes online resources and bibliographies.
Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah" is maintained by Eliezer Segal, and includes helpful bibliographic guides.
The Jewish History Resource Center maintained by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with links to almost any relevant source online.
Tzvee Zahavy's Homepage
Jewish Studies Network
Routledge Downloadable Maps for Judaic Studies
Jewish History Resource Center
RAMBI, Index of Articles on Jewish Studies.

Christianity

Guide to Early Church Documents

Religion

Virtual Religion Index has links to loads of internet resources for the study of almost any aspect of religion you can think of.

Course Tools

• Citing Sources: A Guide to Citation Methods and Styles for Undergraduate Courses
• Glossary of Terms for Second Temple Judaism
• Time Line of Early Judaism
• Periods and Dates for Early Judaism
• Maps of the Eastern Mediterranean and Palestine during the Second Temple/Classical Periods
• Brief Bible Background
• Jewish Sects Table
• Important Figures for Hellenistic Palestine
• Hasmonean Family Tree
• Abridged Herodian Family Tree
• Jewish Festivals Handout
• Samaritan Passover Sacrifice, 9 April 2009
• Jewish Art from Late Antiquity

University of Arizona

• University Homepage
• Center for Judaic Studies
• IGERT Program in Archaeological Sciences
• Religious Studies Program
• Department of Classics
• Department of Near Eastern Studies
• University Libraries

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• University Homepage
• Ancient World Mapping Center
• Archaeology Program
• The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies
• Department of Classics
• Department of Religious Studies
• University Libraries

Duke University

• University Homepage
• Department of Classical Studies
• Department of Religion

Libraries in Jerusalem

• Albright Institute
• Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise
• The Rockefeller Museum (IAA)
• Hebrew University
• Council for British Research in the Levant (Kenyon Institute and CBRL-Amman)
• Hebrew Union College
• MALMAD-Israel Union List (All Israeli Universities)
• The Jewish National and University Library, with links to online catalogs of Israeli libraries.
• Qiryat Sefer, National Library of Israel.
• Bibliothek des DEI Jerusalem

Steven H. Werlin's Library Catalog

The SHW catalog includes both shelf-material and electronic files. These electronic files are, for the most part, not available for public use online. If needed, some can be obtained by email request, though this depends on file-size, copyright law, and the author's willingness. Please be aware that the catalog is updated periodically.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Last Modified: 15 April 2009

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