Religious Studies: Electronic Texts
General Texts
| Bibles
| Noncanonical Texts
| Christian Texts
| Islamic Texts
| Jewish Texts
Main Religious Studies Page
General 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.
Bibles
- 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
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 Texts
- 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,
Islamic Texts
Jewish Texts
- Hypertext Halacha - distributed by Project Genesis
A translation of the Shulchan Aruch and Mishna Berurah.
- 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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