Religious Studies: Electronic Texts

• Current issues of Journal of Early Christian Studies and Modern Judaism, and other Project Muse journals including: American Jewish History, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Yale Journal of Criticism. From Academic Press' Ideal Service, the journal Religion. Also, from Electronic Collections Online, the Heythrop Journal.
  

• Comprehensive back issues of Speculum and William and Mary Quarterly, and other JSTOR journals including: Journal of Philosophy, Renaissance Quarterly, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

• Other Religious Studies Electronic Journals

• Dictionaries & Encyclopedias on the Web include the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia, and selected articles from the print edition of Dictionary of Feminist Theologies.
  
  
• See the list of Sacred and Religious Texts from Penn's Religious Studies Department and CCAT. An anthology of sacred texts is the World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Text, by Dr. Andrew Wilson, containing over 4000 scriptural passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions. It is organized in terms of 164 different themes common to all traditions.

• 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 Aseneth & Joseph.
• The Gnostic Society Virtual 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.

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  Large collection of links to texts in the public domain. Includes the 38 volume set of Early Church Fathers
• Early Church Fathers - Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Series I, and Nicene and Post-Nicene Series II.
• Ecole Initiative
  Includes translations of Judeo-Christian and Islamic primary sources to 1500, a glossary of short essays, longer essays on major topics and figures, links to iconography and religious images on the web, and a timeline with geographical cross-index.
• Fathers of the Church - Wesley Center for Applied Theology
  Some translations by J.B. Lightfoot; others unsigned.
• Guide to Early Church Documents - ICLnet (Institute for Christian Leadership)
  Includes texts of the Apostolic Fathers, Patristic Texts, various Creeds and Canons, The Summa Theologica, and other miscellaneous documents.
• Glossary for Judaism, Christianity, Islam - Bob Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
• Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte - Universität Zürich
• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
  A New Translation, by Henry Beveridge, Esq
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Paul Halsall, editor
  Not to be missed! Primary source material arranged in three main sections:
  • Selected Sources
    An index of selected and excerpted primary texts. Topics include "Christian Late Antiquity" (Persecution of Christians, Dogmatic Disputes, Church Fathers), "Formation of Latin Christendom" (The Roman Church, Monasticism, Conversion of Europe), "Flowering of Latin Christendom" (Western Monasticism after A.D. 900, Crusades, Holy Roman Empire), "Medieval Life and Thought."
  • Full Text Sources
    Full texts of sources in "Selected Sources" and *many* more arranged according to topic.
  • Saints' Lives. Devoted to Ancient, Medieval and Byzantine hagiographical sources.
• Labyrinth - Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart
  Large collection of resources for Medieval Studies including libraries for Philosophy and Theology, and Religious History.
• Patrologia Latina, an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
• Project Wittenberg
  A cross-section of classic and historic texts written by Lutherans, with a primary focus on texts written by Martin Luther,

• Koran - University of Michigan
• Quran Browser Basic Home Page - Brown University, Scholarly Technology Group
  The Quran Browser is a simple, fast World-Wide Web front-end to a full-text Quranic search/retrieval system called pQuran.
• Glossary of Islamic Terms and Concepts - Developed by the Islamic scholars at ISL software.
• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook - Paul Halsall
  Comprehensive collection of primary source material on the web.
• Islamic Texts and Resources Meta Page includes writings about Islam, Islamic thought, language resources, and links to many Qu'ran and Hadith sites under Scriptures and Prophetic Traditions.

• Hypertext Halacha - distributed by Project Genesis
  A translation of the Shulchan Aruch and Mishna Berurah.
• Tanach
  • 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's Transliterated Tanach
• Internet Jewish Sourcebook
  Large collection of texts from other Internet Sourcebooks by Paul Halsall. Contents are: The People of Israel, Emergence of Judaism, Jewish Middle Ages, Jewish Life Since the Enlightenment, Further Resources on Jewish History.

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