New web resource: Theological Commons from Princeton Theological Seminary

To celebrate its 200th Anniversary, Princeton Theological Seminary has launched an open-access collection of digital and non-digital material held in the Seminary's Library.
Material in the collection dates from circa 975 to the 20th century and as well as covering Christianity, mission studies and theology, there are also substantial holdings on the Eastern Church, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism.
The collection is in a database format, so searches for particular topics can be refined by date, language and keyword etc.

CLICK HERE TO TRY OUT THIS NEW RESOURCE

A link will shortly be appearing on the Library web subject guide for Religions, under Electronic Publications

Jews and Christians in 5th and 6th century Arabia: book review

Professor Hagith Sivan of the Department of History, University of Kansas, writes about the collected 2008 conference proceedings published in Paris in 2010 as Juifs et chrétiens en Arabie aux Ve et VIe siècles: regards croisés sur les sources (edited by Joëlle Beaucamp, Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Christian Julien Robin)


Read her opinions in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Find this book in SOAS Library at QO296.396 / 750253

Oriental Orthodox church history : open-access texts via ...

Goussen Library (Universität Bonn)

The Goussen Library on Oriental church history was collected by Heinrich Goussen (d.1927) and has been the subject of a digitisation project by the Universität Bonn since 2007.

This open access collection comprises over 1,000 digitised documents and books dating from the 16^th – 20^th centuries in Western languages, and also in Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian and Georgian, among others.

Links to this resource will shortly be added to the Library subject guide for Religions, under Electronic Publications, and Individual Religions: Christianity

Christianity in the Middle East: manuscripts blog

HMML Chronicle is  new blog has just been launched by Dr Adam McCollum, Lead Cataloger of Eastern Christian Manuscripts at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (St. John's University, Minnesota). The blog will discuss manuscripts and the languages, literature, and history of Christianity in the Middle East.
See also the Hill Museum's main website for more information on the collections (including material in Arabic, Armenian, Syriac and Ge'ez), and links to articles, images and exhibition reports.