Biblical resources, including textual resources for other traditions' holy books.
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Bibliographies

Hebrew Bible Bibliographies

from Barry L. Bandstra

Christianity: Reference Tools and Bibliographies: Bible

an annotated listing from the Yale University Library

General Works on the New Testament
The Gospels
Paul and the New Testament Letters

from Rev. William Harmless, S.J.

Study Sites, Texts and Libraries:

Electronic Scripture Library

* *  has a large collection of annotated links on scripture and its background

Bible Gateway

**  search many versions of the bible

The New American Bible

[a version missing from above searchable versions]

The On-Line Jewish Library

The New Testament Gateway

* * * an excellent resource from Dr Mark Goodacre, University of Birmingham

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies

* * "Focusing on the early Christian writings and their social world" . Compiled by Prof. Torrey Seland in Norway

World Wide Study Bible

(from the CCEL server at Wheaton)

Academic Info Biblical Studies

An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources

a searchable Greek lexicon

at the Perseus project

Little Greek

help in learning the Greek of the New Testament along with advice and links to many good resources

Bible translation

a site from Wayne Leman that is rich in information and links about the biblical languages and translations

Inscriptions of the Land of Israel

Browsing through maps

The Development of the Canon of the New Testament

collected and organized by Glenn Davis

Electronic New Testament Educational Resources

*** from Prof. Felix Just, S.J. - Loyola Marymount University / offers a large number of topics especially for the beginning student, including helpful documents such as
"The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church" a report of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, April 23, 1993

The Common Lectionary

[There is also a section for web pages treating the lectionaries in the Preaching section]

Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

by Barry L. Bandstra
A nicely presented book available on the web

Special Topics

Second Temple and Talmudic Era,

an excellent resource from the Dinur Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A Synoptic Gospels Primer

from Mahlon H. Smith, Rutgers University who also offers a Hyperglossary for the above.

Into His Own — Perspective on the World of Jesus

Prof. Smith also offers this rich collection of texts from early sources such as Josephus giving the background to the Christian scriptures.

The Synoptic Problem

an excellent resource, maintained by Stephen Carlson

The Search for the Historical Jesus: Past and Present

part of an internet course at the University of Santa Clara, SCTR 011: Origins of Western Religion

New Testament Textual Criticism

an encyclopedia compiled by Robert Waltz

The Qumran Library

an introduction to Qumran on the ibiblio site

The Jewish Roman World of Jesus

a attractive site from Prof. James Tabor at UNC Charlotte

Academic E-lists

a directory of academic discussion lists on topics of interest to biblical scholars as catalogued on the NT Gateway site

The Noncanonical Homepage

from Wesley NCC. "By studying similar literature that precedes and follows the Biblical writings chronologically, students of the Bible are better prepared to discover the intended meaning."

The Nag Hammadi Library

includes many non-canonical texts and background on gnostic material including The Gospel of Thomas

Religious texts

a group of links to sacred texts, from the Bhagavad Gita to Zoroastrian texts, compiled by David Wiley.

Quran Browser

(in English) from the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group, with access to the translations of Pickthall, Yusufali and Shakir

The Book of Mormon

stored at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

The Bahá'í Writings

on the ibiblio site

Electronic Biblical Journals

Online Journals of biblical interest

A list focusing on journals that have articles "of biblical interest that are either published fully on the Web or that have home pages" from Biblical Studies on the Web which also hosts the Biblica journal on-line

Review of Biblical Literature

published by the Society of Biblical Literature has a searchable database for reviews of books about biblical studies **

The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures

Professional Biblical Societies: (also a good source for resource links)

 Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars

 Catholic Biblical Association

The Irish Biblical Association

Society of Biblical Literature