The
Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library; edited by Timothy
H. Lim in consultation with Philip S. Alexander (two discs).
- All eight hundred or so
texts from the eleven caves of Khirbet Qumran, representing some
2,700 photographs are digitally captured and published here. Includes
annotations that give essential information about the Cave number,
text title, Inventory number, other photographs containing the
same scroll or fragment, and cross-references to the microfiche
edition published by E. J. Brill and the Facsimile Edition of
the Biblical Archaeology Society. A searchable list of biblical
passages attested to in the Qumran corpus is also included.
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Dead
Sea Scrolls Revealed; developed by Pixel Multimedia Ltd.
- An interactive CD-ROM that
includes original manuscripts, video clips, interviews with scholars,
and English translations of selected manuscripts.
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Encyclopaedia Judaica
- Includes the complete text
of the original sixteen volume edition of the Encyclopaedia
Judaica as well as the subsequent eight Year Books,
and two Decennials published in 1982 and 1992 respectively, plus
selected updates as well as new feature articles. The updates
account for major recent events, the State of Israel up to the
1996 elections, major Jewish communities throughout the world,
and key personalities. Feature article cover such topics as Islamic
Fundamentalism, South Africa in a Changing World, and the Middle
East Peace Process.
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Encyclopedia
of Judaism & Dictionary of Jewish Biography (Chicago: Davka
Corporation, 1996)
- The Encyclopedia...
is the an English-language, one-volume encyclopedia of Judaism.
Authorities have contributed over 1000 articles, covering a variety
of topics, from biographical entries on heroic rabbis to the customs
and traditions of Jewish communities. The
Dictionary...includes about 1000 biographies of Jewish individuals.
It includes figures from various fields: writer, philosophers,
politicians, Nobel prize winners. It covers 5000 years of history
extending from Biblical times to the present day.
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Entsiklopedyah
Talmudit
- Talmudic Encylopedia
IN HEBREW ONLY (Jerusalem: Yad harav Herzog, 1997) Includes
volumes 1-22 and index. A comprehensive presentation of all halakhic
subjects in the Talmud and post-Talmudic literature, from the
Gaonic period until the present. Includes sources, novellae (hidushim),
and legal opinions (pesakim). The hard-copy version of this work
is located in the Judaic Studies Reading Room; the latest volume
in the print version is #23.
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Judaic
Classics Library (Chicago: Institute for Computers in Jewish Life,
Davka Corporation, 1993)
- The library includes the
Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, and the Mishnah Berurah. We have version
II. This CD-ROM also contains the Shulhan Arukh Library (Complete
text of Shulhan Arukh with Mehaber and Rama). All texts are in
Hebrew only.
- Mishnah Berurah(Commentary
on the Meshnah by Pinhas Kehati). Contains the following texts
of Jewish Religious Law:
- Shulhan Arukh,
Orah Hayim
- Mishnah Berurah,
- Be'ur Halakhah
- Sha'ar Ha-Tziyon
- Ba'er Hetev
- Be'er Ha-Golah
- Sha'are Teshuvah
- Midrash Rabbah(rabbinic
biblical exegesis). Contains the following texts of Jewish
Homiletical Commentary:
- Midrash Rabbah
in Hebrew with English translation with footnotes
- Complete Tanakh
(Hebrew Bible) in vowelled Hebrew with English Translation.
- Talmud (primary
text of Jewish law). Contains the following texts of Jewish
Legal discussion:
- Hebrew and Aramaic
text of the Talmud with English translation and
footnotes
- Hebrew text of
the Mishnah with English translation and footnotes
- Zohar (primary
text of Jewish mysticism). Contains the following texts relating
to Jewish Mysticism:
- Text of the Zohar
in Hebrew and Aramaic with English translation
- Text of the Bible
in Hebrew and English
- Rashi's commentary
on the Bible (in Hebrew Only)
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Judaica
Press Complete Tanach (Hebrew Bible) with Rashi (Chicago: Davka,
1999)
- Includes the entire Hebrew
Bible with Rashi's commentary in both Hebrew and English translation.
Rashi is the acronym for Solomon Ben Isaac (1040-1105), the leading
medieval commentator on the Hebrew Bible. This resource also features
charts, maps, drawings, and full-color pictures of biblical sites,
linked to the text.
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(Complete) MAUS
(New York: Voyager, 1994)
- This CD-ROM explores many
new facets of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic
novel, MAUS, A Survivor's Tale, Volumes I and II. Drafts,
sketches, video interviews with the author, and excerpts from
his interviews with his father, Vladek Spiegelman, give readers
a unique look at this moving work.
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New
Bible Library (Oklahoma City, OK: Ellis Enterprises, 1993)
- This CD-ROM offers scholars
a range of approaches to Biblical studies, including over a dozen
versions of the Bible itself, as well as maps, dictionaries, and
commentaries, in an interlinked format.
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Nuremberg
War Crimes
- The Nuremberg War Crimes
Trials database includes three sets of government documents, and
a Final Report:
- International Military
Tribunal (IMT) A forty-two volume set known as the 'grey books'.
This set of volumes is the trial of the major war criminals,
condicted by the International Military Tribumal, with prosecutors
from the USA, France, UK and USSR.
- Nazi Conspiracy and
Aggression An eleven volume set known as the 'red books',
This state department work is an overview of the Internation
Military Tribunal proceedings; much of the documentation produced
in the IMT and NCA overlap.
- Nurember Miliratu
Tribunal (NMT) A sixteen volume set known as the 'green books',
This set of volumes includes twelve very well known cases,
such as the Kripp, IG Farben and medical experiments cases,
with prosecutors only from the USA. The NMT started later
than the IMT and often frows on the IMT as precedent.
- Final Report to the
Decretary of the Army (TTFR) This is a one-volume final report
prepared by Telford Taylor in1949; it includes the full text
of Telford Taylor's monograph, The Nuremberg Trials, War Crimes
and International Law (1949), as Appendix B.
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Reference
Bible, American Bible Society (New York: American Bible Society,
1991)
- Full-text of modern English,
German, and Spanish Bibles, and related reference works.
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The
Responsa Project: The Global Jewish Database (Ramat-Gan, Israel:
Bar Ilan University, 1996)
- This CD-ROM database, compiled
by Bar Ilan University, brings together over a thousand years
of Jewish scholarship: Tanach (Bible), Midrashim, the Babylonian
Talmud, Rashi, Maimonides, 253 books of rabinnical responsa, and
many other Judaic texts.
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