Friday, June 08, 2007

Fast dictionaries go online

Payne Smith's Syriac dictionary, Crum's Coptic dictionary, Gesenius' Hebrew dictionary, and Jastrow's Aramaic dictionary have recently been put online at Tyndale House. Unlike most online dictionaries, these are faster to use than the paper copies since you can click the letter you want on the left hand side.
Posted by P.J. Williams at 12:46 PM

6 comments:

Stephen C. Carlson said...

Very nice! Thanks to those involved for doing this.

3:09 PM, June 08, 2007
P J Williams said...

All the work of David Instone-Brewer.

3:53 PM, June 08, 2007
Anonymous said...

These are really nice. When they are loading it says something like "If loading is slow you may want to purchase the CD," is there a CD version of the HTML with the same interface? -John Quant

12:37 PM, June 10, 2007
P J Williams said...

The page is still under construction and I imagine that further details will appear with time.

10:29 AM, June 11, 2007
John said...

Thanks for the heads up. One only wishes that more up to date dictionaries might be included.

10:48 PM, June 12, 2007
Roger Pearse said...

Very nice! For the Syriac it would be generally useful to have the option for the entries appear in a Serto font; i.e. the letter forms that most of us learn, and that most manuscripts contain.

11:39 AM, June 14, 2007

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