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This page was last updated 19 June 2012 General NRSV Text NotesThe New Revised Standard Bible comes with textual and translational notes that give the reader valuable information about textual variants and alternative translations. This page expands on the explanation of the notes given in NRSV Study Bibles. NET Bible I'm in the early stages of actually using the free online New English Translation; so far I like it very much. Fonts for Scholars If you want to include actual Greek or Hebrew characters in a word processing document, you'll need to use a special font. New Testament (Biblical) Greek Reading the New Testament (and LXX) in Greek, Aloud or Otherwise: Learn the Greek alphabet Complete with sound files, so you can learn to sound out NT Greek words. Greek New Testament Read Aloud Download or listen online, to a chapter at a time or the entire New Testament, read aloud in Greek. Biblical Greek Courses: Other Helps for Learning Greek: Biblical ("Classical") Hebrew Aramaic

Academy of Ancient Languages The audio tracks below in mp3 format are courtesy of Audio Scriptures International. I have used audio editing software to divide the book files from ASI into separate chapter files. Please report broken links or any other problems to me via email. Please note: We cannot sell or otherwise distribute CDs of these audio files. Thanks to two email replies, the reader has been identified as Abraham Shmuelof, a priest born in Jerusalem and now deceased. The reader distinguishes ayin from aleph, and double consonants are distinctly pronounced. Gary Martin For Aramaic Sections only, click here Click on a chapter number to hear the mp3 audio. The Tower of Babel << Home Page The Tower of Babel An International Etymological Database Project Participants (so far): The Russian State University of the Humanities (Center of Comparative Linguistics) The Moscow Jewish University The Russian Academy of Sciences (Dept. of History and Philology) The Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico, USA) The City University of Hong Kong The Leiden University The main goal of the project is to join efforts in the research of long range connections between established linguistic families of the world. Every person or organization interested in this noble task is invited to join.

How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs By the beginning of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (a few years after 2000 B.C.E.), the pressure of immigrants on the eastern Delta was so strong that the Egyptian authorities built a series of forts at strategic points to “repel the Asiatics,” as the story of Sinuhe tells us.1 More than a century later, however, Egyptian policy toward the Asiatics changed. Instead of trying to prevent them from coming in, the Egyptians cultivated close relations with strong Canaanite city-states on the Mediterranean coast and allowed select Asiatic populations to settle in the eastern Delta. The last of the great pharaohs of the XIIth Dynasty, Amenemhet III (c. 1853–1808 B.C.E.) and Amenemhet IV (c. 1808–1799 B.C.E.), even established a new town for them. The XIIth Dynasty was followed by the much weaker XIIIth Dynasty. But before this, at the end of the XIIth Dynasty during the reigns of Amenemhet III and Amenemhet IV, Egypt was at the height of its power.