Blogger is behaving oddly, so I’ll make this brief.
Here’s the official announcement about what happened to The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon:
A Note to our users: We apologize for the unavailability of our system during the six weeks between early May and mid-June, 2011. The CAL server was struck by a hacker from an ISP in London, UK precisely on the day that Dr. Kaufman left the country, apparently simply because he or she wanted a complete copy of our online version of Sokoloff’s DJPA and wanted to save the $100 for the second edition and received instead an early draft of the first edition, while totally comprimising the system. There is no indication that the identity of any of our users was looked for or their own privacy comprised in any way. The length of the delay is a direct function of the fact that we have failed to have any NEH funding renewed for many years now and the CAL continues on solely as a labor of love without any paid researchers.
If I find out who did this, it may not be pleasant.
Now off to get some queries done… 🙂
Peace,
-Steve
Steve,
A quick question from an avid user before the hack…what happened to the original concordance layout that allowed you to view an entire verse in context by simply selecting on the number of the verse? Does this access still exist? It is very frustrating having to continuously work between two windows to determine the context. I am not in any way proficient with Aramaic just yet and used this site regularly to review in context, now it’s nearly impossible from where I sit! Help!
Remiel
Remiel,
Aye the link to the whole text from the keyword-in-context (“kwic”) seems to be absent since the security was tightened up. I’ll see if Dr. Kaufman will re-implement it.
Peace,
-Steve
Thanks Steve…
Please send word if this gets back into the access for text browsing!