Useful Links
Beth Mardutho: eBethArké Digital Collection
A collection of online books from Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, which seeks to promote the study and preservation of the Syriac heritage and language, and to facilitate opportunities for people to pursue the study of this ancient legacy globally. Beth Mardutho aims to serve the academic community and the heirs of the Syriac heritage transcending denominational diversity. It carries out innovative educational projects that globalize Syriac studies, making it available through the internet in every university, classroom, library and home.
Gospels.net
This web site is dedicated to extracanonical Gospels – early Christian Gospels which weren’t included in the New Testament.
NASSCAL North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature
The North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature is a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the Christian Apocrypha, a vast assortment of texts that feature tales of Jesus, his family and his immediate followers but, for various reasons, are not included in the New Testament. These texts were composed as early as the first century, and the creation of apocrypha continues even to today. The society was founded in 2014 with the goal of fostering collaboration between scholars in the field and cognate disciplines, both within North America and abroad. It welcomes participation from scholars at all stages of their careers, including graduate study.
St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute
SEERI has been conceived and established to be a teaching-learning centre, as well as a centre for research for scholars and students of Syriac literature, history, worship and traditions.
The Tanho Center
Dedicated to the exploration of the many discoveries of texts from the earliest Christ movements. By incorporating recently discovered texts into contemporary practices, the Tanho Center hopes to signify exactly what tanho means in Coptic: “to make or be alive.”
Early Christian Texts: The Bible and Beyond
Exploring historical and spiritual questions about Jesus, women, salvation, healing, gender, and wholeness raised by extra-canonical books, forgotten scriptures, and so-called “gnostic” gospels.
CAL The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project
This new dictionary of the Aramaic language is currently in preparation by an international team of scholars, with headquarters at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio USA.
Coptic Dictionary Online
The Coptic Dictionary Online aims to make it easy to look up Coptic words in all dialects and supply freely accessible translations in English, French and German, via human and machine readable interfaces.