There are so many interesting and useful online materials mentioned today around the blogosphere that I felt I ought to mention them, and gather them together in one post.
Via Steve Caruso, I learned that the Arshama Project (based in the Classics Department at Oxford University) has posted online Aramaic lessons and related learning materials.
The Canadian Biblical Studies Blog announced research scholarships related to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Ancient World OnLine shared open access materials from the Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology (which has some truly fascinating stuff, as well as articles by Barbara Thiering) and the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement. And Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources linked to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which has articles on subjects such as “Philo of Alexandria” and “Gnosticism.”
Also on the subject of the academic study of the Bible, Jim Linville continues the discussion of the Society of Biblical Literature, secular scholarship, the academy and the church (a discussion that also continues here and elsewhere around the biblioblogosphere).