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May 24, 2006
Great Collection of Old Scholarly Books
Perhaps I'm the last to know about this but I found a great collection of scholarly books whose copyrights have expired. It's online at Case Western Reserve University's Kelvin Smith Library. There are hundreds of books in PDF format ready to download.
Here are a few that I was glad to know were online.
- Breasted, James Henry, Ancient Records of Egypt. Historical Documents: From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, Volumes I-V
- British Museum, Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c. in the British Museum, Parts II to XV
- Erman, Adolf, A Handbook of Egyptian Religion (both English and German versions)
- Chiera, Edward, Old Babylonian Contracts and several other works by Chiera
- Gardiner, Alan. H., Egyptian Hieratic Texts. Series I: Literary Texts of the New Kingdom, Part I and Notes on the Story of Sinuhe
- Gunkel, Hermann, Schopfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit
- Hilprecht, H. V., The Earliest Version of the Babylonian Deluge Story and several other works.
- Hronzny, Friedrich, Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi
- Langdon, Stephen, The Epic of Gilgamish and several others
- Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart, The Excavation of Gezer 1902 - 1905 and 1907 - 1909. Volumes 1 - 3
- Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Hyksos and Israelite Cities and about a dozen other works
- Sayce, Archibald Henry, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians
- Smith, George Adam. Jerusalem: the Topography, Economics and History from the Earliest Times to A.D. 70, Volumes I and II
- Stevenson, James Henry. Assyrian and Babylonian Contracts: with Aramaic Reference Notes, 1902.
- Thureau-Dangin, François. Rituels Accadiens
- Tolstoy, Leo, My Religion, 1885 .
- Tyndale, William. Translator, The First Printed English New Testament, 1871.
- Zeller, Eduard. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates, Volumes I and II, 1881.
And I only listed those that really caught my eye as I scanned the list of authors. Take a look at the whole list, you're sure to find a gem that you've wanted to look at.
All of these are very dated and should be handled with care. However, some of them, like the British Museum volumes that contain the only sources for many cuneiform tablets, are indispensable to the serious student. In some cases, it is gratifying to see how far we have come but in other cases, it is a little frightening to see how little more we have learned. Some of these PDF files are huge and take a fair amount of time to download and process after that so a little patience is sometimes required. Did I mention that they also have dozens of old books on the history of Cleveland?
Posted by Duane Smith at May 24, 2006 7:36 AM | Read more on Archaeology |
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