Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash and Liturgy
- Bar-Ilan Judaic Responsa Online This link opens in a new windowPresently, Bar Ilan Responsa Project does not work on mobile devices connected remotely.
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Includes Responsa literature, the Bible, the Talmud and their principal commentaries; works about Jewish law and customs; major codes of Jewish law, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with its principal commentaries; midrashim, Zohar, etc - Invitation to Piyut This link opens in a new windowComprises two archives: piyutim and melodies, and other texts and melodies not classically defined as piyutim, such as selections from Psalms and Jewish prayers.
- Judaic Classics Library - DavkaAccess on YULIS PCs in the Library only. Click START on lower left corner of desktop and select Davka.
- Ma'agar Sifrut HaKodesh (Snunit) This link opens in a new windowJewish texts: Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Bavli, Mishneh Torah leha-Rambam.
- Mechon Mamre This link opens in a new windowJewish texts: "Hebrew Bible (Tanach) in four editions inHebrew (including one withcantillation marks), one inAramaic(Targum Onqelos), one in English(JPS 1917), and one in parallel Hebrew and English," Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Bavli, Mishneh Torah and more.
- Talmud Text Databank This link opens in a new windowManuscripts, first editions, and Cairo Geniza fragments of the Babylonian Talmud, plus more than 1,700 digital photographs of Mishnah and Talmud fragments.
Bible, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
- Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon ProjectComprehensive in that it takes into account all of ancient Aramaic, including, for example, the Aramaic translations of the Bible. So, it provides verse by verse displays with lexical analysis of the various targums, in addition to the usual dictionary searches.
- Early Jewish WritingsProvides the text of the Bible in English in the King James and JPS (1917) translations; apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature, Philo’s writings, Josephus’ works all in English translation; Rodkinson’s partial English translation of Talmud Bavli. For each, links to online and offline resources are added.
- Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: Life of Adam and EveFor each of the narrative units of this group of pseudepigraphical works English translations are provided (but the links to the texts in the original languages are broken at present).
- Internet Sacred Text ArchiveProvides the vowelled text of the Hebrew Bible (based on the Leningrad Codex) which will display only in unicode, with facing English transliteration; a variety of Mishnaic, Midrashic and Talmudic texts in translation; Isidor Kalisch’s edition and translation of Sefer Yetzirah.
- Targum in EnglishProvides an English translation of the ancient Aramaic translation of the Biblical books of Ruth and Lamentations as well as images of an important manuscript of the latter.
Click the drop-down arrow on the Targum tab.
Early Mysticism
- Academy for Ancient TextsProvides Westcott’s English translation of Sefer Yetzirah and R.H. Charles’ English translation of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch.
For Book of Enoch, click Ethiopian
For Sefer Yetzirah, click Jewish - Eliezer Segal’s Jewish Mysticism and KabbalahProvides selections in English translation from some primary sources on early mystical works. Note the interactive “Ascent to the Merkabah.”
- Hermetic KabbalahProvides a wide selection of ancient texts in translation, including: Genesis Rabbah, Sword of Moses, Talmud Bavli, Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer, Ethiopian and Slavonic books of Enoch, Hekhalot Rabbati, Shi’ur Komah, 3 Enoch, Sefer Yetzirah. Background material for each.
Philo and Josephus
- Josephus in French translationThe Reinach-Weil edition and translation originally published 1900-1932.
- Perseus Digital Library, Tufts UniversityOutstanding collection of ancient texts. Includes the works of Josephus in Greek and in English translation in searchable format. Also has the text of the Latin Vulgate and Greek New Testament.
- Text of Philo’s worksThe Cohn-Wendland edition of Philo in Greek as scanned by Google.
Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Gnostic Society Library: Dead Sea ScrollsIncludes a handful of texts in English translation. Also provides links to the Library of Congress exhibit on the scrolls, where additional texts are given in translation together with references to relevant literature.
- Dead Sea Scrolls Reference Library (CD-ROM on XP computers on 5th floor of the Library)Images of Dead Sea scroll fragments searchable by: cave number, work and fragment, title, Biblical passage, inventory number. For each, it provides the Biblical text(s) included in the fragment (if any), related publications, other fragments related to or associated with it.
Other
- Digital Scriptorium - A web-based database of images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts which provides full cataloging information and a small number of selected images for each manuscript. A search, for example, for “Josephus” returned 19 results.
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Israel - The sections on Hellenistic Judaism: diasporas, religious developments and Rabbinic Judaism are relevant. For each section there is a selection of linked primary and secondary readings with added notes.
