More Ancient Sources Online
I would like to point out another online resource for ancient texts that I have found; it is another native Greek site. The site is called Παρακάλυψις, and its texts are in Unicode. Some are in PDF format; most are not.
The look of the site is crisp and clean, and navigation is simple. The text categories (and I have taken liberties with the translations here) are biblical texts, Jewish texts, apocryphal texts, patristic texts, and classical texts.
The selection of texts is pretty incredible. The biblical texts include the Hebrew Old Testament, the Targum Onqelos, the Septuagint, the Greek New Testament, the Vulgate, the Peshitta (in Syriac!), and two Hebrew New Testaments. The Jewish texts include Philo, Josephus, the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmuds. The apocryphal and patristic texts are not quite as extensive, but still well worth a look (the apocryphal texts are subdivided into Old and New Testament apocrypha; the patristic texts are prefaced by the relevant chapter of Jerome, On Illustrious Men), and the classical texts include Herodotus, Cicero, Livy, Philostratus, Isis and Osiris by Plutarch, two texts by Lucian, and Greek fragments of Dio Cassius.
Enjoy!
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October 4th, 2007 at 9:53 amI think that this web site stole without attribution, as far as I can tell, the Hebrew texts from here.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:12 pmIt appears you may be right. Unfortunately, I found the Mechon Mamre site only after I came across this one.
Thanks for your comment.
October 7th, 2007 at 8:17 amAlso, by the way, the New Testament and apocryphal texts appear to come from Skeptik.
October 7th, 2007 at 8:24 am