Biblical Studies
Resources
This is a very selective listing. Please send
suggestions to Eileen Saner.
Bible Study Tools
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Bible Works Software
Help
- An illustrated user guide
developed by the staff at Yale Divinity School Library.
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Bible Search Engine
- Search for words and phrases in several modern
language versions of the Bible (including the Revised Standard Version) as
well as the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Bible.
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Hitchcock's Bible Names
Dictionary
- More than 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper
names and their meanings.
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Bible Study Tools at
crosswalk.com
- A commercial site with a word search tool for
various versions of the Bible as well as commentaries, concordances,
dictionaries and lexicons.
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The Bible Gateway
- In addition to searchable English language
Bibles, this site includes the Bible in about 30 foreign languages including
French, Spanish and German.
- New
Testament Gateway
- A web directory of internet resources related
to the New Testament.
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Abbreviations of biblical terms &
resources used by BibleTexts.com
- A comprehensive
online listing of standard abbreviations for biblical study.
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- Bible Study Resources in
netLibrary
- You must create a user account (directions)
at a computer on the AMBS campus in order to read these online books from
off campus. Search by publisher name to identify the books in these
series.
- Believer's Church Bible Commentary, Herald
Press
Fathers of the Church, Catholic University Press of America
(Commentaries and sermons on books of the Bible.)
- Interpretation, Westminister John Knox
- Westminster Bible Companion, Westminister John
Knox
Westminster Guide to the Books of the Bible
Texts and Images
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Cooperative Digital
Resources Initiative
- A repository of digital resources contributed
by libraries of the American Theological Library Association. Phase One of
the Initiative has focused on visual materials, including digital images of
woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, and manuscripts. Phase
Two and Phase Three will add text and sound files.
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The Goodspeed New
Testament Manuscript Collection
- Digitized images of an
illuminated 13th century manuscript of the New Testament and a miniature
Gospel of Mark. A project of the University of Chicago Library.
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Treasures
in the British Library
- Digitized images of the Gutenberg Bible, the
Tyndale Bible and the Lindisfarne Gospels.
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Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit
- Extensive full text and images prepared by the
Library of Congress.
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From Jesus
to Christ: The First Christians
- Multimedia site based on the PBS special.
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Anno Domini:
Jesus Through the Centuries
- A rich collection of images of Jesus to
illustrate eighteen different themes.
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Ecole Initiative:
Index of Images
- Links to images of characters from the Bible
and church history.
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Ancient Maps of
Jerusalem
- Reproductions of over 200 historic maps
created between 1486 and 1930 including Byzantine, early Islamic, Crusader
and medieval.
Guides to Background Resources
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Perseus Project
- An evolving digital library for the study of
the ancient world and beyond. Includes encyclopedia, texts, images, and
classical languages tools.
- ABZU
- Guide to resources for the study of the
Ancient Near East available on the Internet. Links to a wide variety of
materials including maps.
Book Reviews
- Review
of Biblical Literature published by the Society of Biblical Literature
- Reviews of recently published (1996- )
biblical studies materials including multi-author volumes, reference works,
commentaries, dictionaries and classroom resources.