Religious Studies: Biblical Studies
Comprehensive Web Sites
| Bibles
| Noncanonical Texts
| Manuscripts
| Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
| Textual Criticism
| Image Resources
| Other Resources
Comprehensive Web Sites
- All-in-One Biblical Resources Search
- Designed & Maintained by Dr Mark Goodacre, University of Birmingham
From one page, search online Bible web sites, comprehensive Biblical Resource
Sites, Email Discussion List Archives, the Perseus Project, and more!
- New Testament Gateway - Mark Goodacre, University of Birmingham
Great site divided by topics such as Greek New Testament, Textual Criticism,
Judaica, Jesus in Film, and Maps. Also includes links to images. Well
maintained and up-to-date.
- Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
A comprehensive list of links to Bible translations, linguistic resources, lexica,
electronic articles, course material, bibliographies, and Bible related software.
Bibles
- The Unbound Bible
A collection of searchable Bibles consisting of 7 English versions,
Greek and Hebrew Versions (including the Septuagint/LXX text
extracted from the morphologically analyzed text of CATSS LXX, prepared by
CATSS under the direction of R. Kraft), Latin Vulgate and other ancient
versions, and 15 other languages. A terrific resource, especially for the
ancient languages.
- The Bible Browser
searches for words, multi-word phrases, and passages in the Revised Standard,
King James, Jerome's (Latin) Vulgate, Weymouth New Testament, Bible in Basic
English, The Holy Bible by Noah Webster, and Young's Literal Translation
versions. Advanced and basic searching are available.
The Bible Gateway
searches many of the same translations, but provides searching in the following
languages: German, Swedish, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, Norwegian.
- The University of Michigan provides searching of the following individual
translations: Bibel, Martin Luther translation,
Bible: King James Version,
and the Rheims New Testament (1582).
- Biblical Studies Press has a new translation designed for web use,
the NET (New English Translation) Bible
It includes extensive notes of use to
lay people and scholars. The project began at the 1995 annual meeting of the
Society of Biblical Literature. In order to read notes with Hebrew and/or
Greek characters, the Galaxie Software
must be downloaded.
- The Hebrew Text of the Tanach
contains links to the full Hebrew text of the Tanach, Talmud Bavli, Talmud
Yerushalmi as well as information to find out how to read Hebrew on the net.
- Steve Gross has made available a Transliterated Tanach
Noncanonical Texts
- The Wesley Center for Applied Theology has a good collection of Noncanonical Texts
for the Old Testament Apocrypha
and Pseudepigrapha
(translations by R.H. Charles from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the
Old Testament, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1913),
the New Testament Acts,
Apocalypse, and
Gospels
(many translated by M.R. James from The Apocryphal New Testament,
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.).
- Aseneth Home Page - Dr. Mark Goodacre, University of Birmingham
An introduction, translation, bibliography, and links concerning the tale of
Joseph & Aseneth.
- The Gnostic Society Library - Societas Gnostica Norvegia
includes texts from the Nag Hammadi Library, Pistis
Sophia, and The Book of the Saviour
- Steven Davies' Gospel of Thomas Homepage
has a translation of the Gospel by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer as well
as links to non-English language translations, the Greek and Coptic versions,
other ancient Thomas texts, its relationship to Q, bibliographies, and essays.
- Metalogos Index - Ecumenical Coptic Project (Athens)
An effort to create scholarly editions of the Nag Hammadi Gospels.
Manuscripts on the Web
- Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts - Timothy Seid.
- Biblical Manuscripts Project
An international, scholarly, volunteer effort to make images
and transcriptions of New Testament manuscripts available freely on the
Internet.
- New Testament Manuscripts - from islamic-awareness.org
The purpose of the site is "to educate the Muslims about the Bible of the
Christians, concerning mainly with its compilation and textual reliability."
The site is a very good reference for information regarding New Testament
manuscripts.
- Papyrology
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible - Ronald L. Ecker
Electronic Edition. From the Preface: "The purpose of And Adam Knew Eve
is to inform as well as hopefully to entertain, by gathering from
the biblical text all sexually related stories, concepts, and laws, and
presenting them, concisely but
with attention to context, in convenient dictionary form.
- Ecole Glossary
- Ecole Initiative
Contains short, but signed, essays on Christian early Church history.
Textual Criticism
Image Resources
- EIKON: Image Database for Biblical Studies -
Yale Divinity School
A faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital
resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies. Images
in the EIKON database are a subset of the Yale Divinity School Digital Library.
Some images in the EIKON database are restricted to Yale use, due to copyright
agreements.
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