Religious Studies: Biblical Studies

• 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.
  
  

• 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

• 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.

• 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
  • From Papyri to King James: The Transmission of the English Bible
    Selected documents from the University of Michigan's Papyrus and Rare Book collections, available on the CD-ROM The evolution of the English Bible: from papyri to King James (Van Pelt Library Information Desk BS445 .E86 1997).
  • Religious Texts on Papyri - Duke University Papyrus Archive

• 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.

• Catalogue of New Testament Papyri & codices 2nd-10th Centuries - K.C. Hanson
  Each entry includes papyrus number and papyrus collection; approximate date; contents (books and chapters only); text family; and city, museum, and inventory number.
• A Site Inspired By The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism - Rich Elliot, Simon Greenleaf University
  
• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web - Timothy W. Seid, Brown University
• Manuscripts of the Gospels - Robert B. Waltz
  Attemps to summarize textual critics' assessments of primary manuscripts. Tables of papyri, uncials, minuscules.
• Synoptic Problem - Stephen C. Carlson
  Detailed page on theories and hypotheses concerning the synoptic gospels. Contains a list of parallels by passage and a Greek synopsis in three columns.
• Table of Greek Manuscripts - Timothy W. Seid
• TC: Other Sites Dealing with Textual Criticism
  Web links from Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism

• 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.

• Resource Guide for AMES 550
• Hebrew Bible Bibliography - prepared by Julye Bidmead, Divinity Library, Vanderbilt University
  Lengthy list of resources for all aspects of the study of the Hebrew Bible.
• New Testament Bibliography - Revelation E. Velunta, Divinity Library, Vanderbilt University
  Similar bibliography to that of the Hebrew Bible listed above.

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