The Tyndale Tech blog is a highly useful site for finding out about electronic resources for biblical studies. At the time of writing it features posts on:
- maps and geography in biblical studies (incl. interactive maps, PowerPoint maps, photos of places and archaeology;
- the Tyndale Toolbar for Bibles, languages, bibliography and news, which works in Firefox and Internet Explorer and offers easy access to translation tools, bibliography tools, Bible lookup tools, links to useful web resources and more;
- Qur’an, Arabic and Islamic theology, which includes resources on Arabic language, the Qur’an and Hadith, Islamic beliefs and practice, and apologetics between Muslims and Christians;
- Unicode fonts for biblical studies (Hebrew, Greek and others);
- publishing on the internet and on paper;
- the Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible;
- backup software;
- lexicons for biblical studies (incl. Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Akkadian, Demotic, Hittite, Hieroglyph, Sumerian as well as some modern languages);
- searching for academic research on the web (i.e. finding articles, archives, books and theses);
- the best Bible tools on the web;
- time-saving tools for writing (incl. InsertBible, Pen Scanner, speed tips for Word);
- English Bible translations, original-language Bibles, web sites for Bible study, original languages texts to download as Word documents;
- translation software;
- free scholarly texts for Palm computers;
- reading the Syriac Bible (incl. Syriac Peshitta and English translations, learning Syriac, lexicons and dictionaries for Syriac);
- Bible study software packages (e.g. Libronix, Accordance, BibleWorks, Gramcord et al.), incl. packages for PDAs;
- reading books online using TynCat (provided by Tyndale Library, Cambridge), Amazon and Google books as well as some other service;
- Rabbinics and Jewish research (incl. introductions and dictionaries, Talmud and related ancient legal texts, Targums and Aggadic texts, manuscripts and archaeology, later Jewish works and collections);
- theology periodicals online;
- book buying, selling and reviews on the web (incl. price comparison sites);
- PowerPoint images (e.g. art, geography, history, worship);
- searchable full-text commentaries (incl. volumes from the Word Biblical Commentary, the Anchor Bible Commentary, the New Interpreter’s Bible, the IVP Bible Background Commentary, the Tyndale Old Testament Commentary, the IVP New Testament Commentary and the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture);
- church history documents on the web;
- background to the Bible on the web (incl. ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, Jewish, early church and gnostic background)
- etc.
Click on the following link to visit the Tyndale Tech blog.
