Bible Resources
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Texts and translations // Linguistics resources // Lexica // Libraries // Publishers
 
Translations
Multi-language Sites
  1. Goshen Online Study BibleVarious english translations and various dictionaries.
  2. Blue Letter Bible; Interlinear Hebrew and Greek for every verse! The Blueletter Bible now has over 1,100,000 links from the Word of God to over 85,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries and commentaries.
  3. Various translations; including Darby, RSV, KJV, KJV w/Strong's numbers, KJV w. Strong's definitions, ASV NT, Youngs NT, Wey NT; even includes Greek text editions.
  4. The Bible Gateway. The WWW Bible Gateway provides access to Bible translations in English (RSV,KJV, Darby, YLT), German (Elberfelder), French (LSG), Latin (Vulgate) and Swedish (SV1917). Searchable for passages or words.
  5. A Bible Browser; with 8 different translations, set up by Richard L. Goerwitz. The Advanced version even has the possibility to view texts in columns. In addition, the Bible Browser offers regular ex- pressions and full Boolean and/or/and-not operators. It also allows users to restrict searches to various parts of the corpus. And it permits refinement of already-generated queries from a special "further operations" menu that appears at the end of search result lists.

  6. Have also a look at his The Bible Browser Connector Form , a way to spice up your own Web pages by turning drab biblical references into hypertext connections to the Bible Browser.
Bible translations and related text
  1. Greek New Testament. Browsable and parsed UBS Greek New Testament text.
  2. Compressed Greek New Testament texts
  3. Greek New Testament Editions; various editions, various formats.
  4. Search the Greek texts at www.thechristian.org.

  5. Navigating the Bible. Jewish site containing the Torah, Atlas, Haftarot, and some Jewish "How to" instructions.
Other english Bible sites
  1. The Five Gospels Parallels. Edited by John W. Marshall. 1996, 1997, 1998. Ph.D., Princeton University, Department of Religion
  2. The Holy Bible; Translated from the Latin Vulgate, his source for this edition is The Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version. Baltimore. John Murphy Cº 1899: Imprimatur, James Cardinal Gibbons.
  3. Polyglot Bible (The Gospel of St. Luke) Old English / Middle English / Early Modern English / Present Day English. Maintained by Mark Davies Department of Foreign Languages Illinois State University Normal, Illinois
European Translations (minus English)
  1. Bibelen 1930 Norwegian Bible, revised version from 1930. Searchable for verses and passages. Links can be made to verses and passages too, and this web pages provide access to several translations and even some dictionaries.
  2. To Bibel oversettelser; The 1930 edition from The Norwegian Bible Society (Det norske Bibelselskap) and King James Version.
  3. Czech Bible of Kralice The first translation from original languages by Unitas Fratrum (later known as Moravian Church) 1579-1593. This document is available in Czech language only.
  4. Die Elberfelder Bibel.®1985 R. Brockhaus Verlag.
  5. Deutsch; Die Bibel nach der Übersetzung Martin Luthers, in der revidierten Fassung von 1984. Copyright 1985 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart.
  6. Finnish Bibel editions
  7. Hungarian Bible
  8. The Bible in Italian.
  9. Polish Bible; Pismo Świête Starego i Nowego Testamentu
  10. Hyper-Bibla. Hyper-Biblia is a Russian-language hypertext Bible that runs on the Web under Netscape 2.0, Internet Explorer 3.0, (or higher) or any compatible Web browser that uses "frames". Needs Cyrillic fonts.
  11. Russian Bible
  12. The Hypertext Spanish Bible
East-Asian translations
  1. Indonesian Bible
  2. Korean Study Bible
  3. The Holy Bible, Chinese Union Version
  4. Korean Bible Gateway
Experimental Sites
  1. Audio Bible. The King James Version narrated by Alexander Scourby. Listen in on your PC; needs Real Audio, but that's downloadable for free.
  2. The Net Bible, demo of the new Net Bible, with three sets of notes. Very interesting and promising.
  3. Post Modern Bible."This site is a project - don't expect a finished product, currently we are working on Amos. The dream is to deal also with other biblical books, but that needs other biblical scholars to join the party.".
  4. Consultation en ligne de la Bible de Jérusalem.
Related Texts:
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha:
  1. Christian Apocrypha. A page dedicated to the scholarly investigation of Christian Apocrypha in association with the Christian Apocrypha Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.
  2. A collection of the non-canonical texts, associated with the OT Apocrypha (transl: Revised Standard Version); Pseudepigrapha (transl. Charles); New Testament Apocrypha (transl. James); Apostolic Fathers (transl. Lightfoot).
  3. David Cook's translation of Joseph and Aseneth.
  4. Ethiopian texts, impressive site containing, inter alia, The Book of Enoch, Acension of Isaiah, Wisdom of Salomon, and others. English texts are being prepared.
  5. CCAT Gopher Archive of Religious texts.The CCAT Gopher Archive of Religious texts (University of Pennsylvania).
Qumran
  1. Fragments of the Book of Enoch from Qumran Cave 7
Josephus
  1. The Works of Josephus; The old Whiston translation.
  2. The Josephus Homepage
  3. The Josephus Project. Announcing the first comprehensive commentary in English to the works of Josephus, with a new English translation. The commentary will strive for a balance between historical/ archaeological and philological concerns.
Gnostica:
  1. The Nag Hammadi Library. Search the text of all files in The Nag Hammadi Library section of the Gnostic Society Library for keywords or phrases of interest.
  2. The Gnosis Archive.
  3. Gospel of ThomasA Gospel of Thomas Homepage, by Stevan Davies. It also contains several Thomas related web links.
  4. Old and modern Gnosticism: A somewhat "curious" collection of information about both old and modern gnosticism.
"Classical" texts:
  1. Ancient Greek texts.Containing texts of Aesop, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Herodotus, Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides (most of them i zipped packages).
  2. Apuleius, Apology. This web site is a part of an experiment in philology, pedagogy, and scholarly discourse. The text at hand is the Apologia of Apuleius.
  3. Cicero Homepage
  4. Perseus: Latin texts
  5. Marcus Tullius Cicero Homepage
  6. The Cicero Homepage The new Perseus site on Julius Caesar.
  7. Plutarch Homepage
  8. Plinius et alia im Internet
  9. The Discources, by Epictetus; Gopher access.
  10. The History of Herodotus by Herodotus. Written 440 B.C. Translated By George Rawlinson.
  11. Texts at the Perseus site.Perseus contains several texts in Greek and in English translation. In addition there are several other items available as Liddell-Scott Lexicon, word search and morphological analysis.
  12. The Internet Classics Archive; collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary.
  13. The Romulus Project: An Electronic Library of Latin Literature with Virtual Commentary.
  14. Plutarch Lives. Very large file! From the Gutenberg Etext Project.
  15. Tacitus, The Histories.
  16. Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War.
  17. Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation.
  18. Loeb Classical Library of classical works.
Rabbinica:
  1. International Organization for Targumic Studies
  2. The Hypertext Halacha: The Hypertext Halacha is a translation of the Shulchan Aruch and Mishna Berurah as distributed by Project Genesis over the halacha-yomi list, coordinated by Rabbi Yaakov Menken ([email protected]). The translation is done by a team of volunteers; each is credited at the end of the chapter or the following one.
  3. Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Works. Supposed to contain the basic works of Jewish scholarship; the Bible, Mishna, Tosefta, and the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. All in their original Hebrew and Aramaic texts. Hence you need to have Hebrew fonts installed to read them.
  4. The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at the University of Cambridge.
Church Fathers:
  1. Guide to Early Church Documents
  2. The Early Church Fathers. These files are 1.5 to 3.5 MB each. Because of this and because the text paragraphs are not wrapped, you will probably have to download them to your system and read them with a word processor. A windows-based word processor is preferable because some special characters from the Windows character set are used.
Papyrological info:
  1. K.C. Hanson, Catalogue of New Testament Papyri & Codices 2nd—10th Centuries
  2. Michael L. Satlow, Inscriptions from the Land of Israel; This project seeks to collect and make available all the inscriptions from the Land of Israel that date from the Hellenistic period (c. 330 BCE) through the Persian conquest (614 C.E.)
  3. Papyrological Resources in Perseus ; The Perseus Project is pleased to host the WWW version of the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP), an electronic edition of nearly 500 papyrus volumes.
  4. The Saskatoon Repository of The International Papyrological Photographic Archive, compiled by Lewis Stiles, University of Saskatchewan.
  5. Papyrology info : Some service pages for professional papyrologists as well as other interested people.
  6. Duke Papyrus ArchiveThe papyrus home page of the Special Collections Library at Duke University.
  7. Archive of Papers and Watermarks in Greek manuscripts. I include this here as it may be of interest to some even though it is most related to studies in Patristics. It is connected to the The Mount Athos Greek Manuscripts Catalog: The Philotheou Monastery Project, © Robert W. Allison, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, U.S.A. and The Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  8. Scriptorium; Center for Christian Antiquities
  9. Oxyrhynchus Papyri
  10. Un papiro revolucionario: 7Q5 ; Entrevista al experto papirólogo español P. José O'Callaghan, S.J. sobre un pequeño fragmento de papiro hallado en las cuevas de Qumrán, datado a más tardar como del año 50 d.C. correspondiente al Evangelio de Marcos.

Linguistics resources

Conference Site
  1. B-Greek Home Page B-Greek is an electronic conference designed to foster communication concerning the scholarly study of the Greek Bible. Anyone interested in studying the Greek New Testament text is invited to subscribe, but the list will assume at least a working knowledge of Biblical Greek. The archives can be found here.
General Linguistics
  1. On Bible translation; some explanations of aspects of Bible translations.
  2. Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web.The main focus of this web is on the process used to study the ancient manuscripts upon which the New Testament is based. While the language discussed is Greek, almost everything is explained with transliterations into English and, where applicable, translations from standard English Bibles.
  3. Thesaurus Lingua Graecae: The TLG data bank now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.E.) and 600 C.E., plus historiographical, lexicographical, and scholiastic texts deriving from the period between 600 and 1453. To get more information, click here to got to the Thesaurus Gopher.
  4. The Electronic New Testament Manuscripts Project, info page by James K. Tauber.
  5. Hellenistic Greek Linguistics. A page written by James K. Tauber containing info about Reference Grammar Project, Greek-Grammar mailing list, Electronic Archive of papers, Bibliographies, and CCAT 's tagged Greek New Testament
  6. Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database: A project that will concentrate on the language of all texts in Ancient Hebrew: the Hebrew Bible, the Ancient Hebrew inscriptions, the Hebrew text of Ben Sira and the Hebrew Qumran texts.
  7. Biblical Institute of Fribourg University, including reference to the the new edition of the Biblia Hebraica, iconography and the Bible, the corpus of stamp seals from Israel/Palestine (Neolithic to Persian period), and "Orte und Landschaften der Bibel."
  8. Bible Translation page
Textual Criticism
  1. The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism. Conceived by Rich Elliot of Simon Greenleaf University. The Encyclopedia attempts to cover all aspects of New Testament Textual Criticism in an orderly and fair fashion.
  2. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism; check this announcement.
Learning Greek on the Web
  1. A simple introduction to Learning New Testament Greek ; A simple primer of New Testament Greek. Go here for the framebased version.
  2. Java and Ancient Greek. This web page presents some preliminary efforts towards using Java to produce a learning environment for Greek students.
  3. Greek Accent Quiz Applet. Learn how to place the accents.
  4. Online Hellenistic Greek Grammar A promising Project, but still in its early stages.
  5. Introduction to Attic Greek: An Electronic Workbook ; only Macintosh machines.
  6. Enchiridion; A User friendly Guide for reading Ancient Greek.
  7. Modern Greek through the Internet
  8. Hebrew, a living language.
  9. Bill Freeman, Learning New Testament Greek

Lexica

  1. A Web of On-line Dictionaries. Now linked to more than 800 dictionaries in 160 different languages (by March -99).
  2. Greek Lexicon; from the Goshen Site
  3. Hebrew Lexicon; from the Goshen Site.
  4. An Index of On-line Dictionaries; very comprehensive.
  5. Greek and Hebrew dictionary index
  6. Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek (from Perseus site)
  7. Liddell & Scott Intermediate Lexicon of Classical Greek (from Perseus)
  8. Latin - English Dictionary.
  9. Morphological Analysis, from the Perseus database.
  10. Frequencies of Greek Words, also from the Perseus 2.0 database.
  11. A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with examples.
  12. Rhetoric and Composition: This Web page is intended to list a variety of resources useful to rhetoricians.
  13. According to my info these are -for the time being- not available. Hopefully they will be back soon. 
  14. The Anchor Bible Dictionary Index: This index to the entries in the ABD was compiled as a component of the catalog of the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute of Chicago. There are 6221 entries in the database. These include entries for each article in the ADB. If an article was devided into sections authored by different persons it is given an entry for each author/subheading. In addition there are entries for headings which simply supply cross-reference(s). The data was processed using Pro-Cite for the Macintosh and using the CuneiformOriental font. The index are available in 3 versions which all are downloadable by ftp from oi.uchicago.edu, directory path: /pub/oi/resarch/. Or try to click on the relevant underlined text below.

  15. You may want the Ascii version. Nota Bene Ibid users will of course want this version: Nota Bene Ibid version The Nota Bene version is LHArc self-extracting archives. It works very fine in my setup. 
    There is also a Macintosch version. You may try to get it directly from here, Macintosh version. This is a Macintosh self expanding archive of the ascii text file. The archive was created with CompactPro. "If you're downloading using Fetch, make sure you've selected the binary option and Compact Pro Archive as the File Type and Creator. If you're not using Fetch, you may have problems trying to download this sea."
     
    Lexica from Perseus
    Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
    Liddell & Scott Intermediate Lexicon of Classical Greek
    Both from the Perseus collection of texts and tools.

Libraries

  1. ATLA: American Theological Library Association
  2. BIBSYS The main Norwegian University Library
  3. Nasjonale bibliotekstjenester. A list of Norwegian and other European library databases, even including articles in journals. Also some picture databases.
  4. Library of Congress WWW Home Page
  5. The University Library at Utrecht
  6. Melvyl; University of California system
  7. ATLA: American Theological Library Association

Publishers and Booksellers

  1. Acses. The place to go to check out prices, availability, shipping times and shipping costs of your wanted book at over 20 online stores!
  2. To get at the TELA/Scholars Press Info page, click here. It also contains pointers to organizations as Americal Academy of Religion, American Schools of Oriental Research, Society of Biblical Literature and others.
  3. The Association of American University Presses
  4. Click here to get a page listing a lot of publishers around the world.
  5. AcqWeb, sister publication of ACQNET, the gathering places for those interested in acquisitions (of books, that is, not corporations) and collection development.
  6. Dove Booksellers; Biblical & Ancient Studies.
  7. The Christian Bookshop; "Welcome to the Christian Bookshop, maintained by Perfect Electronic Publishing in association with Amazon.com. We have the largest selection of Christian books available on the net."
  8. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Darmtstadt, Germany.
  9. The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America For those looking for a book out of print, this page may bring some info about where to search for it.
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