Pitts Theology Library has just purchased online access to a collection of dozens of biblical commentaries from Eerdmans. This acquisition brings valuable resources that have long been appreciated in the library’s print collection to an online audience. The collection includes ebooks curated for New Testament and Old Testament research,…

Pitts recently added to its growing collection of incunables (books printed before 1501) a 1479 lexical manual for preachers and clergy. The Latin book, titled Mammotrectus super Bibliam (“Nourisher on the Bible”), printed by Nicolas Jensen in Venice, contains etymological and grammatical explanations of words found in the Bible,…

Open Access publishing follows several practices to make academic research more accessible to more people. As you might expect, publishing has costs, and in the most common form of academic publishing, those costs fall on the institutions and individuals who hold subscriptions. In other words, while scholars can publish…

The constitution and canons of the African Orthodox Church Year after year, one of the most frequently requested and most commonly researched collections in the Pitts Special Collections is the archives of the African Orthodox Church (AOC). This collection contains the records of the African Orthodox Church in South…