New e-resource: The Textual History of the Bible

Access enabled for Cambridge to one of the most comprehensive projects on the text of the Hebrew Bible.

Cambridge University now has access to the Textual History of the Bible, published by Brill.

The Textual History of the Bible Online is unique in providing, for the first time, a cross-searchable platform which will contain all available information regarding the textual history, textual character, translation techniques, manuscripts, and the importance of each textual witness for each book of the Hebrew Bible, including its deutero-canonical scriptures.

In addition, it includes articles on the history of research, the editorial histories of the Hebrew Bible, as well as other aspects of text-critical research and its auxiliary fields, such as papyrology, codicology, and linguistics.

This new online resource has been made available through special funding provided by the University to support teaching and learning impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the unavailability of library resources on campus.

Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – the Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis 

Theater Heute

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Theater Heute

From the journal website:

“Theater heute ist seit seiner Entstehung zur Instanz für die kritische Begleitung des deutschsprachigen Theaters geworden. Gegründet wurde die Zeitschrift im Sommer 1960 von Erhard Friedrich und Henning Rischbieter.

“Zusammen mit dem späteren Dramaturgen und Regisseur Ernst Wendt entwickelte Rischbieter eine Zeitschrift, die über die feuilletonistische Tageskritik weit hinausging. Dabei beobachtete Theater heute von Anfang an nicht nur das Geschehen auf den Bühnen im deutschsprachigen Raum – einschließlich der DDR – , sondern auch international.

“Neben Rezensionen trat die Reflexion übergreifender Zusammenhänge und Tendenzen im zeitgenössischen Schauspiel. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt lag auf neuer Dramatik; jeden Monat wurde und wird ein neues Stück vollständig abgedruckt – eine Enzyklopädie der dramatischen Weltliteratur. Seit Mitte der sechziger Jahre ermittelt die Redaktion alljährlich in einer Kritiker-Umfrage das Theater, das Stück, den Regisseur sowie die Schauspieler und Nachwuchsdarsteller des Jahres – diese im Jahrbuch veröffentlichte Wahl zählt bis heute zu den meistbeachteten Auszeichnungen in der deutschsprachigen Theaterszene.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from 2004 to present.

Access the Theater Heute via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z or at this link.

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Zeitschrift fur Religionswissenschaft

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Zeitschrift fur Religionswissenschaft

 

From the Walter de Gruyter website:

“Commissioned by the German Association for the Study of Religions, the Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft (Journal of Religious Studies) provides a forum for debates about important topics, questions, theories, and methods in the study of religion. The articles discuss theoretical problems on the basis of historical or contemporary examples from any region of the world. Due to their comparative perspective they contribute substantially to the disciplinary discourse in the study of religion and its neighboring disciplines.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (1993) to present.

Access the Zeitschrift fur Religionswissenschaft via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z or at this link.

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New e-resource : Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online

The University of Cambridge now has access to Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism online

From the Brill website:

Recently relaunched in March 2019 with many improvements and new content, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions. Its essays are original work written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The encyclopedia presents a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the divergent perspectives and methods in the academic study of a religion that is both an ancient historical tradition and a flourishing tradition today. The encyclopedia embraces the greatest possible diversity, plurality, and heterogeneity, thus emphasizing that Hinduism encompasses a variety of regional traditions as well as a global world religion. Presenting all essays and research from the heralded printed edition, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is now available in a fully searchable, dynamic digital format. The service will include all content from the six printed volumes.

 

Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism online is available to access via the in this post or the Databases A-Z.

A round up of new eresrouces made available between 3rd to 17th April

As new eresources are made available due to COVID-19 they are being added to the Databases A-Z and promoted by the ejournals and ebooks teams on WordPress blogs (ejournals@cambridge and ebooks@cambridge) and Twitter (@ejournalscamb and @ebookscamb). When records are available in Alma for the new databases and collections they will be activated and be loaded into iDiscover.

The new databases and collections made available and promoted between 3^rd and 17^th April are listed below. Details about trial end dates are included in the blog posts that are linked to each title.

Inter-disciplinary

Artfilms, Bloomsbury ebooks, Textbooks on Cambridge Core, ProQuest Databases (including ProQuest Dissertation and Thesis Databases and ProQuest Video Online), Archive Direct, Project Muse, VitalSource Helps, JSTOR ebooks, SpringerLink textbooks, Brepols Online, Perlego

Arts & Humanities

Architects Journal and Architectural Review (new subscriptions from recommendations), Babelscores, Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection (Drama Online), Maxine Peake as Hamlet (Drama Online), Medici.TV, Littman e-library of Jewish Civilisation, Theology and Religion Online , RIPM North American and Music Periodicals, RIPM Jazz Periodicals, Bloomsbury Fashion Central, Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament

Humanities and Social Sciences

Bristol University Press and Policy Press journals (Business, Economics, Education, Law, International Relations, SPS), Oxford Handbooks – Criminology and Criminal Justice, Encyclopedia of Early Modern History, South Asia Archive

Biological Sciences

Rockefeller University Press journals (Medicine, Life science, Physiology), Thieme Connect Medical Journals , British Small Animal Veterinary Association, SIAM Epidemiology collection, Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Physical Sciences

Oxford Handbooks – Physical Sciences, Lyell Collection (Geological Society Publications), Thieme Connect Chemistry Journals, GeoScience World ebooks collection

Technology

Oxford Handbooks – Business and Management, Harvard Business Publishing Collection on EBSCOhost

For details on sending suggestions regarding new acquisition of ebooks, ejournals or eresources (databases) please see the instructions on the recommendations page.

If a subscribed version of an article is not readily available you may find the ‘Search and Discovery Tools’ pages useful. The browser plug-ins section includes details for Lean Library (which gives access to subscribed articles by reloading publisher platform URLs via Raven as well as searching for an OA copy if a subscribed version is not available) and Open Access browser plug-ins.

We hope you find this digest of recently added ersources useful.

Theology & Religion Online : access until 30th June 2020

We have access to the Theology & Religion Online collection from Bloomsbury, until 30th June 2020.

Please send any feedback about this eresource via the online form.

Theology & Religion Online is home to T&T Clark Theology Library, T&T Clark Jesus Library, and additional forthcoming resources.

T&T Clark Theology Library, part of Theology and Religion Online, offers students and scholars of theology core theological content via primary texts and supporting articles. Brand new introductory articles commissioned exclusively for T&T Clark Theology Library, written by key academics. These articles are comprehensive overviews of the theologians featured on the platform, and introduce the doctrines, their relevance for study today, and their importance for our understanding of theology

T&T Clark Jesus Library, part of Theology and Religion Online, offers students and scholars of religion and biblical studies core resources for studying the life of Jesus and his impact in history and culture. The resource contains a brand new reference work on the Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries as well as topical articles commissioned exclusively for the resource, written by leading academics.

Text taken from the Bloomsbury website.

Judaïsme Ancien – Ancient Judaism

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Judaïsme Ancien – Ancient Judaism

From the  website for the journal:

“The journal is both historical and philological with the intention of being interdisciplinary. It focuses on literature, archaeology and epigraphy, culture, religion and sociology. It intends to cover the period spanning between the 6^th century BCE and the 9^th century CE. The journal is to be a milieu in which to characterize the interactions (relationships, specificities, distinctions, acculturations) between Rabbinic Judaism, Christian Judaism, and Early Islam. Thus the journal covers a broad spectrum without being exclusive. It accepts contributions in French as well as in English, German and Italian. Moreover, it is the only international journal published in the French language on the subject of Ancient Judaism that is characterized by historical and philological approaches to the material.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2013) to present.

Access Judaïsme Ancien – Ancient Judaism via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

Patrologia Orientalis : trial access

The University of Cambridge has trial access to the Patrologia Orientalis database, published by Brepolis via the following link:

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=http://clt.brepolis.net/pod/pages/Search.aspx

The trial is active from today and ends on 28 August 2019.

Please tell us how this trial has been useful to you via the feedback form.  Thank you.

The Patrologia Orientalis Database (POD) is the Online version of the famous collection of patristic texts from the Christian East, including works, recorded in non-Latin languages, that come from geographical, cultural, or religious contexts somehow linked to Rome or the Eastern Roman Empire.

This initial version of the database allows users to access texts included in the Patrologia Orientalis (PO) series in two forms: the original text and a searchable translation.

The user can search for items (such as keywords or quotes) in the language into which a text was translated in the PO. All the texts in the PO are searchable, and the reader can check the translation with the original text visible alongside as a non-searchable PDF file.

The Patrologia Orientalis is a source of prime importance for many disciplines: in Patristic Studies, in History, in Theology, in Canon Law, and so on.

Numerous major works are included in the Patrologia Orientalis. It is only right to draw attention to the Armenian, Copto-Arabic, Ethiopic, and Georgian Sinaxaria, such as the commentated edition of the Ṣoma Deggua and the Ethiopic Me‘eraf, and to Bar Hebræus’s complete encyclopaedia, also known as Candélabre du sanctuaire. The complete collection of the Homiliae Cathedrales by Severus of Antioch is outstanding, published in the Syriac translation by Jacob of Edessa, in the original Greek when extant, otherwise in the Coptic version.

Detail from a panel representing Christ and the Abbot Menas, from the Bawit monastery.

Nova et Vetera

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : Nova et Vetera

From the St. Paul Center website for the journal:

“The English edition of Nova et Vetera is published quarterly and provides an international forum for theological and philosophical studies from a Thomistic perspective.

“Founded in 1926 by future Cardinal Charles Journet in association with Jacques Maritain, Nova et Vetera is published in related, distinct French and English editions.”

Nova et Vetera publishes articles and book reviews in theology, philosophy, and biblical studies that address central contemporary debates and discussions.

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 14 (2016) to present.

Access Nova et Vetera via the Journal Search or from the iDiscover record.

Image credit: “The Angelic Doctor” by Lawrence OP on Flickr – https://flic.kr/p/9dPkEr

New eresource: Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL)

New to the LibGuides Databases A-Z: Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL)

http://oadtl.org/

The mission of the Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) is to make all open access content in religious studies and related fields discoverable to everyone, everywhere in the world through a single search experience for free forever.

As the initial phase of this mission, the Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) has gleaned high quality content from hundreds of publisher sites, institutional repositories, museums, scholarly societies and public domain collections. The OADTL currently contains about 100,000 OA ebooks and several hundred thousand articles in religious studies. Highlights from the collections contain published books from Brill, de Gruyter, the Society of Biblical Literature and the University of Chicago among others. The collections also contain thousands of Ph.D. and D.Min. dissertations. The collections are growing quickly. The OADTL offers both simple and advanced searching for content. All content is fully cataloged by professional librarians.

The OADTL is proud to be the world’s only fully open access library running OCLC’s WorldShare Management System as its operating system. The searching, discovery and retrieval are truly sophisticated and reliable.

The sponsors of the OADTL are: Claremont School of Theology, Denver Seminary, Evangelical Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Hartford Seminary, International Baptist Theological Study Centre (Amsterdam), Lexington Seminary and Singapore Bible College.