The new blog Sacred Texts promises to offer lots of goodies for the text/tech geek crowd. With “Sacred Techs” we wanted to bring together information focused upon using technology in the real of biblical and ancient studies. It will be periodically updated, on a monthly basis at the least, with articles and interviews on various [...]
The New Jerusalem Talmud is an interesting attempt to merge both the multi-vocality and graphic of the Talmud with modern technology and issues.
The Judaic Studies department at Brown University will be hosting a workshop on Ancient Religion and Modern Technology that will take place on February 13-14. The schedule and information can be found here.
The Schocken Institute in Jerusalem has begun to sell much of the JTS catalogue of books in Hebrew in e-book format. (here) You can purchase books such as Ginzburg’s Perushim ve-Ḥiddushim bi-Yerushalmi and Davidson’s Otzar ha-Shira ve-ha-Piyyut. There is no information on the web site, at least I can’t find any, about the format of [...]
PaleoJudaica links to an article about the future use of OCR by the Responsa Project. I wonder in what direction the Responsa Project is planning on going.
The Atlantic Wire has a good post discussing the issue of Shabbat observance, e-readers, and modern technology, “People of the E-Book? Observant Jews Struggle With Sabbath in a Digital Age.” So how are Jews responding? Some are thinking of ways to accommodate emerging technology within the structure of traditional Sabbath observance while others wrestle with [...]
The Babylonian Talmud is now available for users of Accordance software. See here for details. The text is from the editio princeps (Venice, 1520-1523). They have also reformatted Jacob Neusner et al.’s English translation to better work with the original. This is great news for this snowy day. There are still a few tractates which [...]
From the Jpost. Many of the country’s most influential rabbinical arbiters have gradually changed their minds from considering the woman who undergoes in-vitro fertilization (IVF) with donor eggs the baby’s halachic mother, to regarding the donor – even if she is not Jewish – as the real mother.
Accordance, the unbelievable Mac program for scholars of Biblical and related literature, has just announced the first taste of a Rabbinics bundle which is in the works. Now available for download and purchase are Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael, based on the Munich Codex provided by the Primary Textual Witnesses Project (PTWP) of Bar-Ilan University under the [...]
Hebrew Books has a new feature which allows one to view a page of Talmud in PDF format along with commentaries. Details can be found here. This doesn’t seem to work with Firefox on a Mac and on Safari it doesn’t have all the features. The PDF scan is from a new printing of the [...]
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