Bible, Biblical Languages, & Theology

Searchable Bible Texts

Crosswalk.com:   Search 23 versions, including TEV.

Bible Gateway: 18 versions available for searching, some with audio

International Bible Society Bible Gateway — 38 non-English translations in addition to English NIV, TNIV, and NIrV.

Download e-Sword Bible study software

ARTFL Project: Multi-lingual Bibles: King James English, Luther German, Louis Segond French, Latin Vulgate

Biblos.com multilingual text, over 100 translations, some in interlinear

Old Paths: includes the King James, American Standard, and the Old Paths Versions, and a Russian version

Webster's Bible Translation

Bible Study and Teaching

The Bible Professor, Dr. James E. Smith

Commentaries by Dr. Smith on Isaiah, Jeremiah (in part), Lamentations, Ezekiel, Luke, Galatians, and Ephesians

Harmony of the Four Gospels, in a Microsoft Word document, edited by Dr. Smith. The expanded electronic version of The Fourfold Gospel by J. W. McGarvey and Philip Y. Pendleton, transcribed from a copy of the 1914 Standard Publishing edition.

Holy Spirit

College Press' Bible Study Textbook Series: Full text of many volumes in this series other than Dr. Smith's.

Bible and Commentary Browser at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)

The New Testament Gateway: A comprehensive, up-to-date web directory of internet resources related to the New Testament, maintained by Dr. Mark Goodacre.

The Old Testament Gateway: A comprehensive, annotated, academic directory of internet sites on the Old Testament.

iTanakh includes texts, archaeology, and related subjects

Bible and theology full-text periodicals provided by Regent University
Bible Resource Center: Provided by the American Bible Society, this site offers basic Bible study helps, including Bible dictionaries, charts and graphs.

Bible Sources from St. Ambrose University O'Keefe Library

Bibles.net: Several different translations, online concordances, cross-references and commentaries, original Greek and Hebrew; download complete Bibles and reference material

Blue Letter Bible: Bibles, commentaries, and study tools

Children's Bible: 9 translations of the Book of Mark, picture stories, coloring book and quizzes

NetBible a new translation; Bibles in text and MP3; the Biblical Studies Foundation publishes Bible study aids to accompany NetBible.

Bible Study Tools

Biblical Chronology - Jack Finegan, E. Jerry Vardaman

CrossWalk.com Bible Study Tools: Crosswalk.com's Bible Study Tools ® are designed to facilitate in-depth study and exploration of God's Word.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

World Wide Study Bible at the CCEL

Bible History Online - a comprehensive site

The Genesis Files - educational resources that promote the Bible as the Word of God, God's message to us, including maps, satellite imagery, and graphics to aid in understanding the Scriptures.
The History of the English Bible: A concise history with a detailed timeline, portraits, and historical information. This page is on a dealer's commercial site that includes extensive information on early Bibles and illustrations of pages from early translations.

How We Got Our Bible, downloadable study course; the fee entitles you to make multiple copies for your church.

Bible Societies

American Bible Society
International Bible Society: The purpose of International Bible Society (IBS) is to faithfully translate and reach out with God's Word so that people around the world may become disciples of Jesus Christ and members of His Body.

Text of: Bible, Babel and Babble: The Foundations of Bible Translations by Dr. Scott Munger.

A daily Bible verse: Daily Manna From the Net.

United Bible Society A resource page dedicated to the global Bible translation. Includes abstracts of all issues of The Bible Translator for 1950-2000, and text of selected articles since that time.

Bible Atlases

A Bible Atlas at The Genesis Files

Bible Maps: links to selected maps from the Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd (New York: Henry Holt, 1923), online at the Historical Maps Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.

Bible maps and other study tools.

Bible maps and charts - Some web resources; additional material is available for purchase.

Geography of the Bible - Biblical and historical maps for Bible study

Maps and commentary from Daily Bible Study

Free Bible maps; includes an imaginative diagram of Armageddon

Historic Bibles

Gutenberg Bible Images, at the Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

Gutenberg Bibles at the British Library.

Book of Kells images; Information : The book of Kells is held in the Long Room, the Old Library, at Trinity College, Dublin.

Lindisfarne Gospels in the British Library; pages.

Tyndale Bible at the British Library.

Rare Bible leaves illustrated at a commercial site.

Facsimiles at the same commercial site: an 1841 English Hexapla Parallel New Testament facsimile; and a Geneva facsimile page; Tyndale facsimile page; Wycliffe, John 1:1 facsimile

"Turning the Pages" online gallery at the British Library: Bibles and other rare manuscripts. (Requires AcitiveX, may be blocked by FCC firewall). Alternative versions include the Lindisfarne Gospels and a lavishly illustrated 14th century Hebrew manuscript of the Golden Haggadah. An  Armenian Gospel page showing John 1:1.

Codex Sinaiticus: BBC news report on the progress of digitization of the Codex, to be displayed on the British Library website.

A "new historic" Bible: the St. John's Bible

Hebrew

Ancient Hebrew Research Center: Teaching the Ancient Hebrew Language of the Bible Through the Study of the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet, Culture and Thought: resources for the study of the ancient Hebrew language and culture.
Biblia Hebraica: Thirty-one interactive lessons containing notes and quizzes; Most lessons include a Hebrew to English/English to Hebrew vocabulary quiz. The quizzes are multiple choice and advance by themselves when the correct answer is selected.

SIL Fonts in Cyberspace

Amos. "Postmodern Bible" English and Hebrew text of Amos with study aids.

Bible and Mishneh Torah text; links to Hebrew text and parallel texts. Hebrew Bible (Tana"kh) and the RaMBaM's Complete Restatement of the Oral Law (Mishneh Torah)

Tanak information and thefreedictionary.com Tanak entry.

Biblical Hebrew and Modern Hebrew: a collection of links
The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jewish National and University Library

Index to the Jewish Bible Quarterly: An Index to 24 years of the Jewish Bible Quarterly Magazine.

Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit

Virtual Geula - source for Jewish books

Greek

The New Testament Gateway A comprehensive, up-to-date web directory of internet resources related to the New Testament, maintained by Dr. Mark Goodacre. Includes Translations and editions and Gospels among many other excellent resources.

Biblical Studies & Theology - Bible, New Testament, Languages, Other Christian Resources

Fonts in Cyberspace (SIL)

Learn New Testament Greek

Manuscripts of the Gospels. Tables of manuscripts and the portion of biblical texts included in them.

TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism - an electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Jewish and Christian biblical texts.

Classical Greek

Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway for classical Greek
Classical Greek: Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek.
Internet Classics Archive
The Perseus Project

Resources for learning ancient and modern Greek

Texts, Manuscripts, and Paleography includes links to various data banks of papyri, including the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri.

Thesaurae Linguae Graecae. TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. It includes texts and inscriptions, with the goal to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era, updated quarterly. Available online by subscription only. Information about the authors and works included in the TLG Library is stored in the Canon of Greek Authors and Works. The full Canon is open to the public and can be searched on this site.

Theology and Religion

The Internet Christian Library : A large archive of "classical" Christian materials

Institute for Christian Literature : literature related to "Classical Christianity"

Theology Website : Created by the historical theology department of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Trinity International University, the Theology Website is a comprehensive collection of theology information and resources including articles from the Quodlibet Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, web links, church history study helps, and electronic texts.

Abbreviations in theology & Biblical studies - standard abbreviations and acronyms for theological journals and Biblical commentaries found in academic literature in many languages.

Anabaptist original sources

Bible Resources from the churches of Christ

Boston University Theology page: "a hub for locating serious Christian theological activity on the Internet."

Christian theology pages by tradition ; Periodicals links.

Catholic Encyclopedia: the 1908 edition.  This page includes links to texts of Summa Theologica and Fathers of the Church

Contributors to Theological and Philosophical Thought from the Enlightenment to the Present compiled by Norman Elliott Anderson

Creeds of Christendom : A comprehensive collection of the full text of Christian creeds and other statements of faith. In addition, such statements as the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and the Lausanne Covenant are included.

Doorway Papers by Arthur Custance.

ECOLE Initiative- a hypertext encyclopedia of early church history

Gramcord Institute multi-language Bible software site

Dr.Hardin's Biblical Studies links and Spiritual Formation links

Into His Own - Perspectives on the world of Jesus

The Jesus Seminar critiqued: The Gospel According to the Jesus Seminar, by Birger A. Pearson.

Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906 edition.

Lutheran resource: Project Wittenberg - home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans

Medieval scripts

On Religion by Terry Mattingly: A weekly syndicated newspaper column.

Orthodox Christian Church weblinks: a collection of Eastern & Western Orthodox links, websites and online resources
Quotations: Christian quote-of-the-day; links to Christian biography and devotional literature

Religious Worlds (Religions, Theology, Philosophy), links for study and interpretation of religions

Research Institute for the Humanities dictionaries and thesauri for 25  languages

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies - a resource for scholarly studies of the early Christian writings and their social world.

The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge by Philip Schaff
Theology periodicals available in full-text, links provided by Regent University.

Trinity Review, from the Trinity Foundation

Virtual Religion Index : Christianity and world religions

Virtual Israel Bible Museum

Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion: Christianity and world religions

Teaching and learning resources

Wesleyan: Wesley Center for Applied Theology

What's So Special About Jesus. Edwin M. Yamauchi.

World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)
Yale Divinity School Library Research Guide for Christianity; additional links to online resources

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