eBeth Arké: The Syriac Digital Library

eBeth Arké is a collection of out-of-copyright books, journal articles, pictures, music recordings, and manuscriptsto be made available on the Internet in an eLibrary, bringing this material to every classroom, library, and home. Led by Beth Mardutho in partnership with major university libraries, eBeth Arké is the first collection of published material on Syriac studies in electronic form using the latest in eBook technology.

Books to be digitized include Bible editions, grammars, dictionaries, literature, liturgies, manuscript catalogues, patristic writings, secular sciences, journals and magazines, historical works, monographs on all aspects of Syriac studies, later secular writings, and more. Books from the Middle East and India are included. There will be a section for pictures and maps with a database to allow searching them. Books in Syriac, Neo-Aramaic (Swadaya), English, German, French, Arabic, and Malayalam are included.

This costly project is made possible by the financial support of generous contributors. We are in need of much further contributions to make these books available. Please support us if you can. Financial supporters will be acknowledged on the eLibrary web site. Grant donors may choose to have a collection in the library under their name, or the name of a loved one.

The project is associated with a Library Partnership program that allows partner libraries to hold the entire collection locally on their computers. Library partners include Brigham Young University, Brown University, Princeton Theological Seminary, The Catholic University of America, and many others. According to an agreement concluded with Tübingen University and Central European University of Budapest, eBeth Arké will also publish the manuscripts digitized in the framework of the latters' Indian Syriac Manuscript Project.

To give you a taste of the eLibrary, we made available a few samples that demonstrate the quality of our digitization process, and illustrate the technology behind our work.

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