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Would you like to improve your Spanish or brush up on your Luxembourgish this summer? You are in luck…because the library subscribes to Byki Online, an online language learning system that provides instructional materials for 70+ languages. The first time you use Byki will you need to create a new user account with a username [...]

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The Duke University Libraries and the Duke University Alumni Association have worked together to provide access to a set of online resources available to all registered Duke alumni including the full ATLA Religion Database. Also, the Duke Alumni Card (mailed to you after graduation) allows the cardholder book check out privileges at Perkins [...]

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How many United Methodist congregations are there in Durham county? What does survey data reveal about the American public’s view of life after death? What are the major religious groups in Bahrain, how do these numbers compare to Qatar? Data and statistics can provide valuable insight into research questions on a wide variety of topics [...]

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Encyclopædia Britannica announced last week that it will no longer publish printed volumes of its 244-year-old encyclopedia. The encyclopedia will continue its publication online with the goal of “delivering the most accurate content available to a broad range of users around the world” (explains Dale Hoiberg, Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopædia Britannica).  Some have hailed this [...]

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Jewish Annotated NT

On February 14, 2012 By

*NEW* addition to the reference collection: the first-ever complete version of the New Testament edited and annotated by Jewish scholars. Co-editors Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt Univ.) and Marc Zvi Brettler (Brandeis Univ.) describe the work as: “designed to allow all readers to understand what the texts of the New Testament meant within their social, historical, and [...]

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The Divinity School Library is pleased to promote a new research guide devoted to Biblical Commentary from Historic Sources. The guide includes historic commentaries, historical works with scriptural indexes, and scriptural indexes to the Patristics.

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It’s on! The Library staff hopes to inspire your creativity by posting our own video. Come on, give it your best shot. Give us another reason to come to the Divinity School Library by entering our contest.

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Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

On September 29, 2011 By

The first fruits of a partnership between the Israel Museum and Google are now available as the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls. Five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project at this stage including the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, [...]

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As of July 5th, the library catalog will add some new features and improvements. The new interface includes the display of related subject searches, a “shopping cart” feature for adding multiple citations, a new view of holdings at other area research libraries, and a significant improvement in speed. In addition to the updated library [...]

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If you haven’t looked at the Duke Digital Collections in a while (or ever!), check out their new website where you can search among the digitized books, sheet music, advertisements, photographs, and more.  Our digital collections provide you with digital versions of library materials as well as tools to [...]

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