​SEARCHABLE BIBLE TEXTS

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• Crosswalk.com:   Search 23 versions, including TEV.

• Bible Study Tools Online  A comprehensive site, “the Web’s largest library of online Bible study resources.”

• 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

• AUDIO: Faith Comes by Hearing : The world’s largest catalog of Audio Bibles, to hear or download, in 414 languages

• 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

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BIBLE STUDY AND TEACHING

• The Bible Professor, Dr. James E. Smith

• Commentaries by Dr. Smith on Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Luke, Galatians, and Ephesians, and a Harmony of the Four Gospels, in a PDF 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.  This page also includes an article on the 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.

• Bible Commentaries Online  Links to several older commentaries in the public domain for each book of the Bible.

• C. F. Keil. and F. Delitzsch Commentaries

• iTanakh resources include texts, archaeology, and related subjects

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SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLE RESOURCES

• 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  and the  World Wide Study Bible at the CCEL

• Bible History Online – images and resources for Biblical history.  Quotations about the Bible and history.

• 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 1950-2011.

 

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.

• Geography of the Bible – Biblical and historical maps for Bible study

 

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 aGeneva 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 table;  the Luttrell Psalter.
  Codex Sinaiticus: BBC news report on the progress of digitization of the Codex, now displayed on the British Library website.

• 400 Years of the King James Bible, displayed at the Bilical Heritage Gallery, Cedarville University.
  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.

• Hebrew fonts: 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)

• iTanak information and thefreedictionary.com Tanakh entry.

• The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jewish National and University Library

• Index to the Jewish Bible Quarterly: An Index to 28 years of the Jewish Bible Quarterly Magazine.

• Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit

• Virtual Geula – a Jewish book-finding source.

 

HEBREW

• 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) (scroll down to see the list of Greek fonts)

• 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.

 

GREEK

• 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.

• Hebrew fonts: 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)

• iTanak information and thefreedictionary.com Tanakh entry.

• The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jewish National and University Library

• Index to the Jewish Bible Quarterly: An Index to 28 years of the Jewish Bible Quarterly Magazine.

• Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit

• Virtual Geula – a Jewish book-finding source.

 

CLASSICAL GREEK

• Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway for classical Greek

• Internet Classics Archive

• The Perseus Project.  Includes the classical Greek lexicon: Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek.

• Resources for learning ancient and modern Greek

• 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, 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.”

• Includes 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 ChurchChristian Theological Seminary library’s useful links.

• 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  – an archived hypertext encyclopedia of early church history

• Gramcord Institute multi-language Bible software site

• Dr. Les Hardin‘s Biblical Studies links and Spiritual Formation links

• Into His Own – Texts providing perspectives on the world of Jesus

• Jesus Christ.  What’s So Special About Jesus. Edwin M. Yamauchi.

• 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 – a timeline with sample text
  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 devotional thought with links to Christian biography and devotional literature

• 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. (1954)

• Theopedia – an encyclopedia of Biblical Christianity

• Virtual Israel Bible MuseumWabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion: Christianity and world religions

• Teaching and learning resources

• Wesleyan: Wesley Center for Applied Theology

• 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

 

RESOURCES TO HELP YOU IDENTIFY JOURNAL ARTICLES

• https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/format-type/what-journal-article

• https://bowvalleycollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=10229&p=52137

 

WORLD CAT

• OCLC WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of over 10,000 libraries worldwide.

 

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

• This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2897 journals in the directory. Currently 933 journals are searchable at article level.

 

 

OPEN ACCESS DIGITAL THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

• The mission of Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) is to curate high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections. The OADTL uses the world’s most advanced integrated library system (ILS) for cataloging and discovery. This system, OCLC’s WorldShare, makes content easily discoverable and retrievable. The OADTL is staffed by professional librarians and curates content without regard for theological or confessional perspective.

 

RELIGION ONLINE

• More than 6,000 articles and chapters. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education.

   

OER COMMONS

• OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. OER Commons offers you numerous resources for furthering your knowledge concerning our General Education courses.

   

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

• GREAT FOR ARTICLES IN ALL CLASSES (ENTER “.PDF” AT THE END OF YOUR SEARCH TERM)

• Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly articles and literature

GOOGLE BOOKS

• Google Books is the world’s most comprehensive index of full-text books.

BC CAMPUS OPEN ED BOOKS

• BC Campus Open Ed Books is an educational resource for free collegiate level textbooks.

 

ONLINE BIBLE, CHURCH, AND MINISTRY MAGAZINES

• Albert Mohler – The Briefing

• Bible Study Magazine

• CCM Magazine

• Charisma Magazine

• Christian History Magazine

• Christianity Today

• Church Executive Magazine

• Church Production Magazine

• Church Tech Today

• Guideposts Magazine

• Outreach Magazine

• Parabola Christian Magazine

• Point Magazine

• Relevant Magazine

• Sojourners

• Spirituality and Health

• Technologies for Worship Magazine

• The Church Network

• Today’s Christian Woman

• Worship Leader

 

OPENSTAX BOOKS

• OpenStax Books is a free online educational resource for collegiate level textbooks.

 

ONLINE REFERENCE WORKS

• Easton’s Bible Dictionary, M. G. Easton

• Torrey’s New Topical Textbook, R. A. Torrey

• Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith

• Derickson’s Notes on Theology, Stanley R. Direckson

• Nave’s Topical Bible, Orville J. Nave

• Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Bible, Matthew Henry

• Wesley’s Notes on the Bible, John Wesley

• Barnes’ New Testament Notes

• Calvin’s Commentaries

• https://www.blueletterbible.org/

 

GREAT ACADEMIC ARTICLES FOR ANY DISCIPLINE

• http://www.jurn.org/#gsc.tab=0

• https://scholar.google.com

 

BUSINESS JOURNALS

• https://cbfa-cbar.org/index.php/cbar/search

• https://hbu.edu/center-for-christianity-in-business/the-christian-business-review/read-the-journal/

• https://ethix.org/archives

• http://www.ecommerce-digest.com/online-academic-journals.html

• https://www.universitybusiness.com/issue-archives

• https://via.library.depaul.edu/jrbe/

 

CHURCH MINISTRY

• http://www.relevantmagazine.com/

• http://www.christianitytoday.com/

• http://www.ctlibrary.com/

• http://christianstandard.com/

• https://www.ministrymagazine.org/

• https://lookoutmag.com/

 

COUNSELING

• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=biblical+counseling&btnG=

• https://www.ccef.org/journal-of-biblical-counseling/

 

EVANGELISM

• A Study In Personal Evangelism, Gene Taylor

• How to Book on Personal Evangelism, R. Larry Moyer

• Evangelism Made Personal, Mark A. Copeland

 

HISTORY

• http://www.jurn.org/#gsc.tab=0

• American libraries – https://archive.org/details/americana

• https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine

GENERAL EDUCATION TOPICS

• http://www.weblens.org/scholar.html

• https://scholar.google.com/

 

WORSHIP/MUSIC

• https://worshipleader.com/ (search bar on right side)

• EUNOMIOS: An Open Journal for Theory, Analysis and Semiotics of Music

• Music Theory Online: A Journal of Criticism, Commentary, Research and Scholarship [peer-reviewed]

• https://guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=515223&p=3520595

• https://humanitiesjournals.fandom.com/wiki/Musicology_and_Music_Theory_Journals

 

YOUTH MINISTRY

• http://youthministry.com/group-magazine/ (search bar on right side)

• https://www.youthandchildrens.work/

• https://www.youthworker.com/articles/category/magazine/ (search bar on top right side)

 

WEBSITES WITH FREE E-BOOKS

• https://www.globalchristians.org/ebooks/

• 125+ Free Christian E-Books

• Open Libra

• Library Genesis

 

THEOLOGICAL JOURNALS

• Acta Patristica et Byzantina

• Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology

• Alliance for Vulnerable Mission Bulletin

• Anvil

• Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies

• Ashland Theological Journal

• Australian Biblical Review

• Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology

• The Baptist Ministers’ Journal

• Baptist Quarterly

• BACUP Papers

• Bible Translator

• Bibliotheca Sacra

• Bulletin for Biblical Research

• Bulletin of the British Theological And Philosophical Libraries (ABTAPL)

• Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society

• Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

• Calvary Baptist Theological Journal

• The Campbell Morgan Memorial Bible Lectures

• Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity

• Canadian Journal of Theology

• Caribbean Journal of Evangelical Theology

• Catholic Biblical Quarterly

• Christian Brethren Research Fellowship Journal

• Christian Brethren Review

• Churchman

• Congregational History Circle Magazine

• Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal

• Downside Review

• East Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology

• Ecclesia Reformanda

• Elim Evangel

• Eternity – the Magazine of Christian Truth

• The Ethel M. Wood Lectures

• European Journal of Theology

• Eusebeia

• Evangel – the British Evangelical Review

• The Evangelical Quarterly

• Evangelical Review of Theology

• The Expositor (1875-1914)

• Faith and Thought

• Fides et Humilitas

• Foundations

• The Fraternal

• Gospel Perspectives series

• Grace Journal

• Grace Theological Journal

• Haddington House Journal

• Indian Journal of Theology

• Irish Biblical Studies

• Inter-Varsity Magazine

• Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry

• Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

• Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament

• Journal of Biblical Literature

• Journal of Early Christian History

• Journal of Early Christian Studies

• Journal of Korean American Ministries & Theology

• Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

• Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics

• Journal of the Irish Christian Study Centre

• Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute

• Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society

• Journal of Theological Studies

• Kairos: Evangelical Journal of Theology

• McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry

• Mainstream – Baptists for Life & Growth

• Maranatha Baptist Theological Journal

• Melanesian Journal of Theology

• Midwestern Journal of Theology

• Neotestamentica

• The Pacific Journal of Baptist Research

• Palestine Exploration Quarterly

• The Pentecostal Educator

• PneumAfrica

• The Princeton Theological Review

• Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society

• Refleks

• Reformed Baptist Theological Review

• Reformation & Revival

• The Reformed Theological Review

• Religion in Communist Lands

• Religion, State and Society

• Religious & Theological Students Fellowship (RTSF) Monographs & Booklets

• Review & Expositor

• Second Century: A Journal of Early Christian Studies

• Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology

• Science and Christian Belief

• Scripture (Catholic Biblical Association [UK]

• Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology

• Southern Baptist Journal of Theology

• Stimulus

• Themelios

• Theological Review

• Theological Students Fellowship (TSF) Bulletin

• Theological Students Fellowship (TSF) Bulletin (US)

• Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society

• Trinity Journal

• Tyndale Bulletin

• Tyndale Press Monographs

• Vetus Testamentum

• Vigilae Christianae

• Vox Evangelica

• Westminster Theological Journal

• Whitley Lectures

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