The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon is Up



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

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