Classic Hebrew, Classic Greek, Coptic, Dead Sea Scrolls

[size=85]Well, here’s the deal.
A large chunk of people that traffic here are from the western cultures.
As such, a good chunk are inquisitive regarding Biblical discussions.

Therefore, anyone that might have the time and energy, I’m posting this as a list of resources for both Classic Hebrew and Classic Greek resources.
They cover everything from sources to read in the original dialect to extremely lengthy books and papers on grammatical theory of the languages.[/size]


Quick Links
Introduction - Description
Classic Hebrew Resources
Classic Greek Resources
Coptic Resources
Dead Sea Scrolls Resources
Social Anthropology Resources of the Levant Region
Update Log


For now, I’m not going to sticky this.
If people would like it to be, then shout it out and I’ll make it so.

Introduction
Resources are listed by Language, and then broken down into four categories:
Reading
Dictionaries
Grammar
Fonts

Reading Resources
Reading resources are those that have the writing in the classic Hebrew or Greek in raw form without any translation or transliteration.
Where possible, I provide a link to resources that provide high resolution photographs of ancient documents that contain the classic Hebrew or Greek (currently only Greek as I haven’t found an ancient Torah high resolution resource yet), as I personally prefer working from these documents purely as much as possible to reduce errors in the relay of the information.

Dictionary Resources
Anything that has to do with the meanings of the words.

Grammar
Grammar resources are those that deal with how the writings you read work, and how to read them, and determine which of many possible definitions a word has is the right pick (often you end up with just getting to narrow things down to a set of words that refer to the same concept).

Fonts
Self explanatory

Reading:

  • http://classic.net.bible.org/bible.php
    [size=85]Doubles as dictionary & options for grammar, but you can’t take everything they say as final; it’s a good indication of the options, and then you can work from there. It makes it much more easy than otherwise.
    The definitions are just all of the options, and not specific to the grammatical use, though which form the grammar is (of verbs) is stated.
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  • http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm
    [size=85]My personal favorite for Hebrew.
    I have simply never found a better online resource for raw classic Hebrew from the Bible.
    The easiest way to use this is to type in the book you are looking for, then click on a result that has a chapter listing (like Genesis 1, is an example of a result if you type in Genesis). Once you get into a chapter (even if it is not the chapter you are looking for), all of the book’s chapter’s will be visible at the top as clickable links. (In short, their search engine isn’t too great, but it’s workable.)
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  • http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm
    [size=85]This one is alright, but it’s easy to get distracted with their translations, which aren’t bad exactly or anything, I just prefer as raw as I can get.[/size]

Dictionaries:

  • http://classic.net.bible.org/bible.php
    [size=85]As stated above, useful as a dictionary as well.[/size]

  • http://morfix.mako.co.il/
    [size=85]This one is tricky to use because the site navigation is in Hebrew, so that may cause stumbling blocks at first, but just paste the Hebrew into the search bar at the top right and click on the first button to the left of the search field to find a result.
    Results are in English.
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Grammar:

Classic Hebrew Fonts:

Reading:

  • http://classic.net.bible.org/bible.php
    [size=85]Again, a great resource for definition possibilities and grammar indications.
    They do a much better job representing the Greek grammar; you can almost just go on what they state the grammar is completely.
    But I did say, “almost”.
    A few times I have found their transliteration to be counter to papyri, which then changes the grammatical manner in which the word is translated.
    Generally, I don’t see this as a problem, however, as in doing translation work of Greek you should always check against multiple sources for what the Greek is written as (it’s fairly common for accidental errors to occur in this field for Greek; not to mention the variations in manuscripts and papyri).[/size]

  • http://www.greekbible.com/
    [size=85]I generally use this along side of net.bible.org as a double check of the conjugations in use. When I see a divination, I start looking at the Papyrus directly (if more than one papyrus, then I look at them all).[/size]

  • http://chrles.multiply.com/
    [size=85]Unrivaled collection of Papyri in high resolution and large images; both Coptic and Greek (I don’t have anything up yet for Coptic btw).[/size]

Dictionaries:

  • http://classic.net.bible.org/bible.php
    [size=85]As mentioned, doubles as a dictionary.[/size]
  • http://www.laparola.net/greco/parola.php?p=ἀσπάζομαι
    [size=85]Use the greekbible.com site to grab a copy of a word in Greek and replace the part of the address that reads, “ἀσπάζομαι”, with the word you are interested in and you’ll end up with simply the best definition listing I’ve seen for classic Greek (at least Biblically related words).
    It even lists all variants of conjugations in Greek so you can see what other forms of the same word look like in other uses.
    Also lists multiple dictionary’s definitions rather than just one so you get a better overall grasp of the concept of the word.[/size]

Grammar:

Classic Greek Fonts:

Reading:

Dictionaries:

Grammar:

Coptic Fonts:

Dead Sea Scrolls Resource:

  • http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/back_dss.php
    [size=85]There really isn’t a need for any other resource for the Dead Sea Scrolls than this.
    If this site doesn’t cover every possible corner and perspective of the field, then I’m not sure what would![/size]
  1. 07/18/10 - Updated Coptic resources and added category for Dictionaries for all languages.
  2. 06/26/11 - Added Social Anthropology Resource of the Levant Region.

Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life (Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, Vol 7) - K. van der Toorn

Biblical Peoples And Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, And Early Israel 1300-1100 B.C.E. (Archaeology and Biblical Studies) - Anne E. Killebrew

Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel - Paula M. McNutt