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BIBLE
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| Bible
Gateway |
| A free service
for reading and researching scripture online providing advanced
searching capabilities based on keywords or scripture references.
Offers advanced searches in nineteen different languages,
study resources, links to Biblical studies sites, commentaries
on the Old and New Testament by InterVarsity Press, a Bible
discussion forum, links to lexicons and dictionaries. |
| Institutional
Affiliation |
Gospel Communications
International |
| Language(s) |
Arabic, Czech,
Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish,
Romanian, Norsk, Nederland, Plautdietsch, Portuguese, Russian,
Slovak, Swedish, and Tagalog |
| Level |
A level, BA, MA |
Updated |
Weekly |
Multimedia |
Audio |
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Address |
http://bible.gospelcom.net/ |
| Comments |
For
students and teachers. A
useful tool for sourcing Bible extracts. |
| Bible
Study Tools |
| Features an
online Bible search engine, interlinear and parallel Bible
study options for students studying a foreign language,
links to several Bible concordances, a condensed Biblical
encyclopaedia, lexicons of Old Testament Hebrew and New
Testament Greek, a short examination of Old Testament
Apocryphal writings, a collection of Creeds, Confessions
and Catechisms used by various churches, an archive of
Sunday sermons from Voicings Publications, a history of
the Moravian Church, a guide to Bible study, Robertson's
Word Pictures of the New Testament, forum and chat room
options. Primary Sources: The Writings of Flavius
Josephus (translated by William Whiston), Fox’s Book
of Martyrs (edited by William Byron Forbush), Writings
of the Early Church Fathers, 1599 Geneva Study Bible,
commentary by Matthew Henry Secondary Sources:
Sketches of Church History by Rev. J. C Robertson, a chronology
of the life of Christ by J. W. McGarvey and Philip Y.
Pendleton. |
| Institutional
Affiliation |
Crosswalk.com |
| Language(s) |
English, Hebrew,
Greek |
| Level |
A level |
Updated |
Weekly |
Multimedia |
None |
|
Address |
http://bible.crosswalk.com/ |
| Comments |
For students
and teachers of RE. A comprehensive aid to Bible study,
with subsections, but not specifically Jewish in approach.
Includes Christian-based approaches, e.g. ‘The message
of faith through suffering'. |
| Gnostic
Society Library |
| Site contains a vast collection of primary
documents relating to the Gnostic tradition as well as a selection of audio
lectures and brief archive notes, and Nag Hammadi Library catalogue. Primary
Sources: Gnostic scriptures and fragments, Patristic Polemical Works Against
the Gnostics, Christian Apocrypha and Early Christian Literature, and the
Corpus Hermeticum, Manichaean writings, Mandaean scriptures and fragments,
Cathar Texts, Alchemical writings, the Jung Codex Secondary (Nag Hammadi Library),
and modern Gnostic texts from the Gnostic Society archives Secondary Sources:
Articles by Stephan A. Hoeller on Genesis and the Ecclesia Gnostica, Commentaries
on Gnostic text in Real Player format. |
| Institutional
Affiliation |
Gnostic Society |
| Language(s) |
English |
| Level |
BA,
MA, PhD, Scholarly |
Updated |
Monthly |
Multimedia |
Audio |
| Address
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http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/library.html |
| Comments |
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| Journal
of Hebrew Scriptures |
| An electronic
journal with articles and reviews related to the
Hebrew Scriptures with a focus on gender issues.
Features the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
archive from 1996 to 2002, full text reviews, bibliographies
related to Gender Studies and the Ancient Near East,
the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, Apocrypha
and Psuedepigrapha, Rabbinic and Mishnaic Judaism,
the New Testament, Classical Studies, and Church
History. |
| Institutional
Affiliation |
University
of Alberta |
| Language(s) |
English |
| Level |
BA,
MA, PhD, Scholarly |
Updated |
Quarterly |
Multimedia |
None |
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Address |
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/ |
| Comments |
A journal and library. |
| Orion
Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| A very good
starting point for researchers of the Dead Sea
Scrolls. Site features include a guide for beginning
researchers, a list of recent publications related
to the Dead Sea Scrolls, a bibliography, an electronic
bulletin board listing conferences and seminars
on the Dead Sea Scrolls, an overview of courses
at the Hebrew University, links to Museums in
Israel, a virtual tour of the Qumram Cave and
related research articles. |
| Institutional
Affiliation |
Hebrew University |
| Language(s) |
English |
| Level |
BA,
MA |
Updated |
Weekly |
Multimedia |
Audio |
|
Address |
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/ |
| Comments |
Interested
teachers could use this,as well as students. Excellent
source, pictorial and Historical but few school
pupils would use it. A valuable introduction to
the subject. |
| ETANA |
| The ETANA (Electronic Tools and
Ancient Near Eastern Archives) site contains original core text and links
to sites dedicated to the study of the Ancient Near East. Site includes core
texts available in PDF format, description of ETANA project and funding, and
ABZU bibliographic database with links to articles in HTML and PDF format.
Primary Sources include: Breasted's Egyptian texts, Cuneiform Texts
from the British Museum, Gilgamesh Epic, Babylonian contracts. Secondary
Sources include: A
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic
literature by Marcus Jastrow, "Hebräische Archäologie"
by Immanuel Benzinger, "Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: first
series, the fundamental institutions" by William Robertson Smith,
etc. An enormous, searchable archive of the earlier, published materials. |
| Institutional
Affiliation |
American Schools
of Oriental Research, Case Western University, Cobb Institute of Archaeology
at Mississippi State, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
Society of Biblical Literature, Sonia and Marco Institute of Archaeology
of Tel Aviv University, Vanderbilt University |
| Language(s) |
English |
| Level |
BA,
MA, PhD, Scholarly |
Updated |
Unknown |
Multimedia |
None |
| Address
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http://www.etana.org |
| Comments |
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Centre
for Jewish Studies, Department of Religions & Theology
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Web www.mucjs.org Tel 0161 2753614
Email cjs@man.ac.uk
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