Religion, Theology, and Missions Resources
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Religion, Theology, and Missions Resources
INFORMATION SOURCES RELIGION, THEOLOGY, MISSIONS, PHILOSOPHY AND RELATED SUBJECTS FREE ONLINE DATABASES, DIRECTORIES, SEARCH ENGINES, ETC. Compiled by Evangel University Library Staff Please see Credits at the End September 2013 Table of Contents Databases and Aids: Large Databases and Search Engines: Subject Specific Abbreviations Africa Ancient Versions Ancient World Anthropology Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Apologetics Aramaic Language and Lexicon Archaeology Archives Archives, Denominational Art Asian Religious Texts Assemblies of God Ministries and Resources Bahai’i Bible Backgrounds and History Bible Dictionaries (See Dictionaries, and, Reference Works Online) Bible Lands in Pictures Bible Texts in Hymns Bibles Bibles, Latin Vulgate Biblical Studies / Study Aids Bibliographies Biography (Biblical People) Books and eBooks, Catholic Books and eBooks, Evangelical Books and eBooks, Judaic Books and eBooks, Other than Above Buddhism Business Administration, Church Campus Ministries Cao Dai (Vietnam) Child Evangelism China Christian Education (See Religious Education) Christianity Church and Culture Church Denominations Church Fathers Church History Church History, Irish Church History, Medieval Church History, Primitive and Early Church Ministries Codices Coins of the Mediterranean Basin Commentaries (Mostly Historic) Concordances Counseling and Pastoral Counseling Counseling Associations Creeds Cross-Cultural Studies (See Missions) Cults Dead Sea Scrolls Dictionaries: Bible (See Also Reference Works Online) Directories ( See Also Reference Works Online) Directories: Business and People Directories: Christian, General Dissertations (See Theses and Dissertations) Egypt, Ancient Encyclopedias (See Reference Works Online) Ethics Evangelism (See Ministry and Evangelism) Exegesis Gnostic Government Sites (for Statistical Researchers) Greece, Ancient Greek Language and Lexicons Greek Language, Classical Greek Orthodox Church Hebrew Language Lexicons / Early Jewish Literature Hinduism History of Christianity (See Church History) Hymns Interlinears Islam Jainism Jewish Studies (See Judaism) Josephus Journals Judaism Latin, Classical Lectionaries Lexicons, General (See Also: ARAMAIC LANGUAGE AND LEXICONS See Also: GREEK LANGUAGE AND LEXICONS See Also: HEBREW LANGUAGE, LEXICONS / EARLY JEWISH LITERATURE) Maps Medieval History Mesopotamia Middle East Ministry and Evangelism Mishnah Missions Missions (Societies and Boards) Missouri State Government Sites Mormon Church Myths New Testament Research Old Testament Research Papyrus / Papyrology Pastoring and Sermon Preparation Patristics Pentecostalism and Pentecostal Theology Philosophy Postmodernism Preaching (See Ministry and Evangelism) Proverbs, General Psychology of Religion Reference Reference Works Online Reformation and Post-Reformation Religion Religious Education Reviews Rome, Ancient Sacred Texts Saints Science and Christianity Septuagint Sermon Archives Shinto Sikhism Sociology Spanish Language Bible and Religion Resources Spirituality, Non-Christian Statistics Syriac Tables of Contents of Journals Talmud Tanakh (See Books and eBooks, Judaic) Taoism Targum Theology Theosophy Theses and Dissertations Torah (See Books and eBooks, Judaic) Worship Youth Ministries Zen Buddhism (See Buddhism) Zoroastrianism Credits DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES: LARGE Anthropological Index Online (British Museum) http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/ Arminian / Arminianism http://www.classicalarminian.com/p/resources-arminian.html and, Arminian Resources / Books http://www.squidoo.com/arminianresources BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) (Bielefend University Library) http://www.base-search.net/ (Very large database) Biblical Bibliography of Lausanne (BiBIL) (University of Lausanne) http://www3.unil.ch/bibil/public/default.action?replay=true Languages available: Français, English, Deutsch. It offers Simple, Advanced and Categories Search . Biblindex http://www.biblindex.mom.fr/ (User must register.) “A corpus of about 400,000 biblical references is available on this site.” “Data from the published volumes of Biblia Patristica, Index des citations et allusions bibliques dans la littérature patristique, Editions du CNRS (ca. 270,000 biblical references, with updates on 5,000 references), prepared by the Centre for Patristics Analysis and Documentation (CADP).” “The ultimate goal of BIBLINDEX is to permit the identification of biblical quotations in all Jewish and Christian literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.” [Besides Church Fathers, includes Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages] Bibliography on Christianity in Palestine / Eretz Israel (Center for the Study of Christianity of the ` Hebrew University of Jerusalem) http://www.csc.org.il/db/db.aspx?db=Holy.Land “…comprehensive bibliography on Christianity in Palestine …” (Work in progress.) Bibliothèque St Étienne de Jérusalem - École Biblique et Archéologique Française http://biblio.ebaf.info/ Languages available: English and French. It is a finding list/database of sources available. See its chart (in French) of subjects covered: http://www.ebaf.info/wp-content/uploads/biblio/fr-classement.pdf . Its catalog may be accessed at: http://www.ebaf.edu/?page_id=1107&lang=en Tyndale House states: “The Ecole Biblique … has been cataloguing all the articles printed in journals for decades … and they are free.” BIBP: Base d’Information Bibliographique en Patristique http://www4.bibl.ulaval.ca/bd/bibp/english.html “The Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics is a documentary system highly specialized in patristics … the BIBP touches on all disciplines studying patristic Christianity.” “Presently, the database can be searched only in French. By way of French, all records can be searched. If you want to search from English or other languages, please use the E-mail address [email protected] or write to Laboratoire BIBP, Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses, Université Laval. Québec. Qc. Canada. G1K 7P4. The BIBP works implicitely on patristic nomenclature.” Calvinism Resources Database (H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies) http://www.calvin.edu/library/database/card/ “ … articles, essays, and lectures produced from the 16th century to the present which deal with John Calvin and 16th century Calvinism.” Center for Research Libraries http://catalog.crl.edu/search~S1 Languages available: English & Français. Check its Services list for information about using any of its resources. About CRL states: “CRL supports advanced research … CRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other resources from a global network of sources… Mostly … outside the United States including Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.” Christian Reformed Church Periodical Index (Calvin College Seminary) http://www.calvin.edu/library/database/crcpi/ Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity http://www.csc.org.il/db/db.aspx?db=SB Dating from “… the sixteenth century in Renaissance Europe…, Syriac studies … [in] scholarly publications … related to the history, culture and religious life of Syriac-speaking Christians has only increased.” Digi20 http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/search-simple/static.html Languages available: English & German. “ It concentrates on literature not in public domain, … in the field of humanities and social sciences with an emphasis on monographs … up to a defined ‘Moving Wall’ of three to five years to the current year of publication. “ Ephemerides Theologica Lovanienses (ETL): Louvain Journal of Theology and Canon Law http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=journal.php&code=ETL Langauges available: English, French & German. “Each volume totals ca. 1300 pages. Issues 1 (April) and 4 (December) contain articles, book reviews and chronicles in various languages (English, French, German). Issue 2-3 (September) represents the annual Elenchus Bibliographicus, an extensive bibliography of books and articles that appeared during the preceding year. The bibliography (ca. 15,000 entries) covers the entire field of Theology and Canon Law: History of Theology, History of Religions, Old and New Testament, Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology, Sacramentology and Liturgy, Ascetic and Mystical Theology, Moral and Pastoral Theology, and Canon Law.” Scroll down to see the years available. Global Digital Library on Ethics http://www.globethics.net/web/ge/library/libraries-home Users must register. Includes “ … free electronic access to … full-text documents on ethics and related disciplines.” (Not limited to Christianity.) Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism http://www.globethics.net/gtl This “…is a multilingual online library offering access free of charge … full-text articles, books, and other resources. Its focus is on theology, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, ethics, and ecumenism in World Christianity.” Google Books http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp and Google Books: Spanish Language http://books.google.es/ ; Google Books: French language http://books.google.fr/ ( see also the digitized books offered by the French National Library, www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html) ; Google Books: German http://books.google.de/ (See also its competitor, Libreka.de http://www.libreka.de/ ); Google Books: Russian http://books.google.ru/ (see also one of its many competitors, Lib.ru); you should now be noting the patterm – you can pick a language and search for Googe Books: (desired language) and by this time so many others are digitizing books you can make searches for “digital books” and (desired language) or ebooks and (desired language). WARNING: these broad based efforts include all types of books and while they may include religious books they have not limited themselves to any type of book. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ Researchers seeking “seminal articles” should note and click the “Cited By” entry to see a list of all papers or books citing this source. For style manual bibliographic information, click Cite. Click More and Library to locate the book using WorldCat.org. CAUTION, be sure the ZIP CODE used in the final search is the local one where you are. To locate a Local Library which has the book or journal, use WorldCat.org http://worldcat.org or its WorldCat Local which can be limited (at the bottom of the search pages) to Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, or Spanish. WorldCat Local tutorials are located at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/worldcat-local/training.en.html . HathiTrust Digital Library www.hathitrust.org Research libraries provide over 3 million digitized public access volumes from their own collections. Limit searches to Full View. Hebrew Roots of Christianity Global Network http://www.hebroots.com/ Hispana http://hispana.mcu.es/en/consulta/busqueda.cmd “Hispana … digital collections of archives, libraries and museums … for Spanish university digital repositories and digital libraries of Autonomous Communities … with a Spanish bibliographic heritage.” Spanish language access: http://hispana.mcu.es/es/estaticos/contenido.cmd?pagina=estaticos/presentacion Index theologicus (IxTheo) (Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst Theologie der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen) http://www.ixtheo.de/cgi-bin/ixtheo/maskeeng.pl?db=ixtheo “This allegro database contains … more than 600 periodicals and … Festschriften and congress publications. It is updated every night and represents the state of the preceding work day.” NOTE: it has a “Scripture references” limiter for Expert Search. Ingenta: Home of Scholarly Research www.ingentaconnect.com Index to academic journals. Researchers may sign up to get articles but Evangel University Libraries users should always use the free Interlibrary Loan service rather than pay $30 or more per article. Internet Archive http://archive.org/index.php “attempting to archive everything on the Internet.” Click Text and search. Jonathan Edwards Center (Yale Univ.) http://edwards.yale.edu/ Lutheranism: Project Wittenburg : home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. http://www.projectwittenberg.org/ National Library of Israel http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/Pages/default.aspx OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ “The Directory of [Academic]Open Access Repositories” It provides searching for repositories or their contents. [Compare with Registry of Open Access Repositories below.] OpenLibrary http://openlibrary.org/ “An initiative of the Internet Archive,” It has free ebooks and bibliographic records. Population Index on the Web (Princeton University) http://popindex.princeton.edu/ “ … abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.” Princeton Digital Collections http://diglib.ptsem.edu/ “… digitized library resources accessible to researchers worldwide… ” Note the limiters on the left. Princeton Theological Commons http://commons.ptsem.edu/ “ … a digital library of … books and journals on theology and religion, including … volumes from the Princeton Theological Seminary Library.” Note the limiters on the left. Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Writings of the church fathers and early religious authors up through the church ages. See also its Partners, Affiliates and Other Resources http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Partners%2C_Affiliates_and_Resources Registry of Open Access Repositories http://roar.eprints.org/ Locates subject collections or repositories of information. [Compare with OpenDOAR above.] Restoration Serials Index (Churches of Christ Online) http://cconline.faithsite.com/content.asp?CID=28092 Scirus http://www.scirus.com/ (Very large search engine) STEP: Scripture Tools for Every Person, from Tyndale House, Cambridge http://www.stepbible.org/ Now in Beta (7/13) Theological Resources on the Internet (Oral Roberts University) http://webapps.oru.edu/new_php/library/Elites/theologicalresources.html A Portal. Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/ (National Library of Australia) … millions of items including dissertations. Universal Digital Library http://www.ulib.org/index.html … scans of over 1 million books. Vick Library index (Baptist Bible College) http://library.gobbc.edu/vli/ “Baptist and fundamentalist literature.” Virtual Religion Index http://virtualreligion.net/vri/ “It analyzes & highlights important content of religion-related websites to speed research. … Our purpose is … to cut down the time spent on surfing & sorting of automated searches.” Wesleyan Studies (from Seattle Pacific University) http://www.spu.edu/depts/library/reference/theology/wesleyan_studies.htm A Portal. WorldCat (Open) www.worldcat.org This has millions of book and journal title records from libraries worldwide. To locate theses or dissertations, limit search to “Thesis/Dissertations” in the Advanced Search. Please use the free Interlibrary Loan Service of the Evangel University Libraries to request copies. WorldCat Local can be limited (at the bottom of the search pages) to Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, or Spanish. Its tutorials are located at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/worldcat-local/training.en.html Top DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES: SUBJECT SPECIFIC ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviations in Theology and Biblical Studies http://www.ecumenism.net/docu/abbrev.htm Abbreviations for use in Biblical Studies Essays: SBL Standard Abbreviations http://people.ucalgary.ca/~eslinger/genrels/SBLStandAbbrevs.html Top AFRICA (SEE ALSO THE EU/AGTS LIBRARY COLLECTION FOR MORE THAN 1,300 BOOKS AND THE EBOOK COLLECTION WITH OVER 4,200 EBOOKS) Africa (Best of History Websites) (7 Websites plus 10 Websites for teachers) http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ancient-biblical-history/africa A Portal Africabib http://www.africabib.org/ The site consists of bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database) and African Women's literature (African Women Bibliographic Database). There is also a large bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa Bibliographic Database. Also: Islam in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. African Philosophy Sources (Bruce B. Janz) http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/afphil/ A portal. Dictionary of African Christian Biography (Christians in Africa) www.dacb.org/ Top ANCIENT VERSIONS Ancient Versions (gathered by the Bible Researcher) http://www.bible-researcher.com/links14.html Aramaic (Targums); Syriac; Coptic; Greek; Latin; Vulgate Texts Online; Books and Articles on the Latin Versions; Latin Language Helps Top ANCIENT WORLD (SEE ALSO NAMES OF COUNTRIES) Ancient World Digital Library (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University) http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/about Ancient World Mapping Center http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/ Top ANTHROPOLOGY American Anthropological Association www.aaanet.org/ Anthropology Index Online (UK) (Royal Anthropological Institute in cooperation with the Centre for Anthropology, British Museum) http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aiosearch/ Anthropology Resources on the Internet www.anthropology-resources.net/Contents/contents.html Best of the Web: Anthropology http://botw.org/top/Science/Social_Sciences/Anthropology/ Top APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA Apocrypha (Early Christian Writings) http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/apocrypha.html Gospel of Thomas http://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl_thomas.htm Noncanonical Literature: Old Testament Apocrypha (Wesley Center Online) http://wesley.nnu.edu/sermons-essays-books/noncanonical-literature/noncanonical-literature-ot-apocrypha Online Critical Pseudepigrapha http://ocp.tyndale.ca/ Float cursor over Select a Document and make choice. Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha, and Sacred Writings http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/ A Portal. World Wide Study Bible http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/ Includes the Apocrypha. Top APOLOGETICS Apologetics (Wabash Center) http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=656 Classic Works of Apologetics http://www.classicapologetics.com/ “… Christian apologetics literature both past and present.” Alvin Plantinga: The Analytical Theist (Homepage) www.homestead.com/philofreligion/Plantingapage.html Apologetics (Ralph Dettwiler) www.behindthebadge.net/apologetics ChristianAnswers.net www.christiananswers.net/ ChristianAnswers.net: Bible and Theology Answers www.christiananswers.net/menu-at1.html Does God Exist? www.doesgodexist.org/ Future Church www.futurechurch.net/ Leadership University (Current Issues Apologetics) www.leaderu.com Ravi Zacharias International Ministries www.rzim.com/ Tekton Apologetics Ministries www.tektonics.org/ Top ARAMAIC LANGUAGE AND LEXICON Aramaic (Omniglot) http://www.omniglot.com/writing/aramaic.htm Includes links to related languages and scripts. Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (Hebrew Union College) http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/ (In progress) Top ARCHAEOLOGY Biblical Archaeology http://www.bibarch.com/. FRANTIQ (Fédération et Ressources sur A’Antiquite) http://tinyurl.com/lk8qr9y “FRANTIQ est une fédération de bibliothèques et de centres de documentation en archéologie. « Glass from Graeco-Roman Antiquity http://web.mae.u-paris10.fr/verre/indexverre_eng.php Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Richard Stillwell, et al.) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006 Find more specific articles by searching for “Archaeology” and “Name of place or country.” Top ARCHIVES Billy Graham Center Archives (Wheaton) http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/archhp1.html Spurgeon Archives http://www.spurgeon.org/mainpage.htm ARDA (Association of Data Archives) under Statistics below. For online access to archives, make a search for “archives” or “historical records” and the name of the faith community. For a printed list of Church Archives and Historical Records Collections, see the most recent edition of Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches. It may be located towards the end of the section titled: Directories. Ref BR 513 .Y4 Top ARCHIVES (DENOMINATIONAL) Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center http://www.ifphc.org/ See information above in Archives for methods useful in locating specific archival collections. Top ART Art in the Christian Tradition (Vanderbilt Divinity Library) http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-search.pl “Designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators, all of the images may be used for educational and/or religious non-profit purposes … The visual images in the ACT database represent … Christianity from the 1st century A.D. to the present.” Asian Art Gallery: Buddhist Art http://www.asianart-gallery.de/ ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative https://www2.atla.com/digitalresources/ “… digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.” Buddhist Art in India (IGNCA) http://ignca.nic.in/budh0002.htm Catholic Sacred Art http://www.catholic-sacredart.com/ Contemporary art. Ecclesiastical Art: Catholic http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05248a.htm EIKON (EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies) (Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library.) http://divdl.library.yale.edu/dl/index.aspx?qc=Eikon Gallery: Byzantine Images (Fordham University) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/images.asp Index of Christian Art (Princeton University) http://ica.princeton.edu/ Islamic Art (LACMA) http://www.lacma.org/islamic_art/intro.htm Islamic Arts and Architecture http://islamicart.com/ L’Art Byzantin http://www.memo.fr/article.asp?ID=MOY_BYZ_008 (French) Religious Art: The Definitive Collection http://www.religious-art.org/ Top ASIAN RELIGIOUS TEXTS (SEE ALSO NAME OF SPECIFIC RELIGION BELOW) Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Has a very detailed index. Sacred Texts and Religion: Asian Classic Texts (non-Christian) http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: MINISTRIES AND RESOURCES Assemblies of God Home Page ag.org/top/ Assemblies of God Colleges and Universities colleges.ag.org/ Chaplaincy Ministries chaplaincy.ag.org/ Chi Alpha Campus Ministries www.chialpha.com/ Children's Ministries Agency 4kids.ag.org/ Church Directory ag.org/top/church_directory/ Church Multiplication Network churchmultiplicationnetwork.ag.org/ Convoy of Hope (Affiliated Ministry) www.convoyofhope.org/ Discipleship Ministries discipleship.ag.org/index.cfm Doctrines (iValue) ivalue.ag.org/ Enrichment enrichmentjournal.ag.org/index.cfm Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center ifphc.org/ Girl's Ministries ngm.ag.org/ Men's Ministries men.ag.org/ Worship Resource & Consulting music.ag.org/ On Course (Youth) oncourse.ag.org/ Prayer & Spiritual Care prayer.ag.org/ Royal Rangers royalrangers.ag.org/ Senior Adult Ministries sam.ag.org/ Single Adult Ministries singles.ag.org/ Teen Challenge USA teenchallengeusa.com/ U.S. Missions usmissions.ag.org/ Women's Ministries (For Every Woman) womensministries.ag.org/ World Missions worldmissions.ag.org/ Worship Resource & Consulting music.ag.org/ Young Adult Ministries youngadults.ag.org/ Youth Ministries youth.ag.org/ Top BAHA’I Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Sacred Texts and Religion: Baha’i http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top BIBLE BACKGROUNDS AND HISTORY ABR (Associates for Biblical Research) Website http://www.biblearchaeology.org/ Ancient World on the Web: Ancient World Resources (K.C. Hanson’s Homepage) http://www.kchanson.com/ Background Bible Study: Ancient Manners and Customs, Daily Life, Cultures, Bible Lands http://www.bible-history.com/biblestudy/ Note “Categories” on the left. Bible History http://www.bible-history.com/biblehistoryonline_fallenempires.php Bible History Daily http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/biblehistorydaily/ Bible History Online http://www.bible-history.com/biblehistoryonline_aboutbho.php Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (Fordham) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.asp Into His Own: perspectives on the world of Jesus http://virtualreligion.net/iho/ “… a tool for the historical study of Christian scriptures.” “… [mostly] excerpted from works written by Jewish authors…” Jewish Roman World of Jesus (James D. Tabor) http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/james-tabor/ Okeanos: Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Scott B. Noegel) (University of Washington) http://faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/okeanos.html Virtual Religion Index: Ancient Near East (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/aneast.html A Portal. Virtual Religion Index: Greco-Roman Studies (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/grk_rom.html A Portal. Top BIBLE LANDS IN PICTURES Bible Land Pictures http://biblelandpictures.com/ BiblePlaces.com http://www.bibleplaces.com/ “…features photographs and descriptions of sites in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Greece with an emphasis on biblical archaeology, geography and history.” Top BIBLE TEXTS IN HYMNS Hymnary.org www.hymnary.org To locate hymns based on Biblical texts, click the Texts tab and enter the Biblical passage either spelled out or abbreviated. To display the scripture reference column, click the ADD/REMORE COLUMNS link and select SCRIPTURE. Top BIBLES (SEE ALSO INTERLINEARS BELOW, AS WELL AS BY LANGUAGE) All-in-One: Bible Versions & Translations http://www.markgoodacre.org/multibib/bible.htm Blue Letter Bible http://www.blueletterbible.org/ Links to several versions. Holman Christian Standard Bible (Beta) http://www.mystudybible.com/ Interactive Bible http://www.bible.ca/ Text and commentary from varied sources. Interlinear Bible http://www.biblestudytools.net/InterlinearBible Linked Word Project http://bible.worthwhile.com/bible.php?b=gen&c=1&v=0&d=1&w=0 “Select a book and chapter.” Nave’s Topical Bible http://www.biblestudytools.com/concordances/naves-topical-bible/ Verses of the King James Bible arranged under 20,000+ topics. “As part of the Bible Study Tools Study Library, Nave's Topical Bible is linked to Baker's Evangelical Dictionary, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Hitchcock's Bible Names, Smith's Bible Dictionary, and Torrey's Topical Textbook.” New International Version Bible www.biblica.com/niv/ Parallel Study Bible http://www.biblestudytools.com/parallel-bible Sacred Texts and Religion: Christianity: Bible Versions and Translations http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Unbound Bible http://unbound.biola.edu/ “…allows users either to retrieve specific passages or do Boolean/keyword searching limited by book, chapter and/or verse in 10 English versions, 11 ancient language versions, and 42 non-English modern languages of the Christian.” World Wide Study Bible http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/ Includes the Apocrypha. YouVersion www.youversion.com/ Top BIBLES: LATIN VULGATE Latin Vulgate http://www.latinvulgate.com/ Parallel text: Douay-Rheims and King James Authorized Index to Latin Vulgate Bible http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/public/bibles/vulgate.search.html (University of Chicago) Sacred Texts and Religion: Christianity: Latin http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top BIBLICAL STUDIES / STUDY AIDS (SEE ALSO EXEGESIS BELOW) 2LetterLookup http://www.2letterlookup.com/ (Lexicons for Biblical study) Locating Greek and Hebrew words using the first two letters. ABR (Associates for Biblical Research) www.biblearchaeology.org/ Baker’s Bible Study Tools http://www.biblestudytools.com/library/ It contains: “Bible Versions and Translations; Apocrypha Books; Commentaries; Concordances; Dictionaries; Encyclopedias; History; Lexicons; Maps & Guides; Classics, Sermons, Hymns, and Authors” Bible Gateway http://www.biblegateway.com/ Keyword and chapter searches. Bible Research: Internet Resources for Students of Scripture (Contents copyright © 2001-2011 by Michael D. Marlowe.) http://www.bible-researcher.com/ Bible Study.org: You have Questions, the Bible has Answers http://www.biblestudy.org/ Biblia.com http://biblia.com/ Bible Study Online Biblical Resources (Tyndale House) http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/index.php?page=online-resources (Online resources: Unicode Fonts; Hebrew & Greek Bibles; Bible studies & theology Websites; Bibliography databases & catalogs; Bible software; Quck-click dictionary of Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Latin, Aramaic, Hittite, Sumerian, etc.) Biblical Studies: Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/bible.html A Portal. Biblical Studies on the Web http://www.bsw.org/ Biblical Studies.org http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/ “Making Biblical Studies Accessible” Biblical Weblinks (Tyndale House) http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/index.php?page=frame&add=https://sites.google.com/site/biblicalweblinks/tyndalehouse Modern & Ancient Bibles; Ancient Languages & Fonts; Backgrounds for: Greek & Roman, Jewish & Rabbinic, Egyptian & Coptic, Babylonian & Other Ancient Cultures; Bible Software; Early Christian Works; Church History; Biblical Theology; Qur’an & Arabic Tools. Biblos.com http://biblos.com/ Includes: Bible study tools, Original Language Tools (Interlinear, Lexicon, GNT Concordance, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, Multilingual), and Reference Materials (Apocrypha, Measures, Reference Bible, Thesaurus, & Visuals) Christian Bible Study Aids and Bible Studies: I Lift My Eyes Web Ministries: Bible Study and Devotional Resources http://psalm121.ca/bible.html http://www.christianbookstore.net/christian-bible-study-aids-references/3000/storepage.html Codex: Resources for Biblical, Theological, and Religious Studies (Tyler F. Williams) http://biblical-studies.ca/index.php Crosswalk Bible Study Tools www.biblestudytools.net/ Deeper Study (Steven Singleton) http://deeperstudy.com/link/aboutus.html Bible study aids and Pictures, from space, of archaeological sites of Biblical lands and countries in the Mediterranean Basin. General Biblical Studies (Andrew T. Dolan) (Dated) http://lasalle.edu/~dolan/biblical.htm GloBible http://globible.com Interactive Bible and study tools. It has tutorials. Irish Theological Association http://www.theology.ie/ links arranged by broad subjects. NetBible http://bible.org/netbible/index.htm Bible study tools. Online Bible Study Tools: Search Gateway to Resources http://www.biblestudytools.com/ A Portal. “ Web's largest library of online Bible study resources. “ Resource Pages for Biblical Studies (Terry Seland, Professor of New Testament Studies, School of Mission and Theology, Misjonsmarka 12. 4024 Stavanger. Norway.) http://torreys.org/bible/ Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/robertsons-word-pictures Silva Rhetoricae: Forest of Rhetoric http://rhetoric.byu.edu “…helps understanding the message.” Spiritrestoration.org, the premier, ecumenical Christian website http://www.spiritrestoration.org/Church/Research%20History%20and%20Great%20Links/Bible%20Resea rch%20OnLine_1.htm TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/lhs98o Tyndale University, College and Seminary Library LibGuide. Open Access (free) resources http://libguides.tyndale.ca/content.php?pid=180470&sid=1603626 StudyLight.org StudyLight.org. Web Directory of Biblical Studies http://www.bible-researcher.com/links.html “Links compiled and annotated by Michael Marlowe.” Top BIBLIOGRAPHIES Bibliographies on the Net: Religious Studies Web Guide (Saundra Lipton. University of Calgary) http://people.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/biblio.html A Portal. Arranged by faith communities. Top BIOGRAPHY (BIBLICAL PEOPLE) Bible Biographies http://www.biblestudyplanet.com/bios.htm Biblical People http://www.crcbermuda.com/bible/biblical-people/ Christian History and Biography (Christianity Today) http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/ Browse by period, topic, or issue. People of the Bible http://www.bibletutor.com/level1/program/start/people/menu.htm Top BOOKS AND EBOOKS, CATHOLIC Catholic Books Online http://www.catholic-saints.net/catholic-books/ Catholic Books Online (Catholic Apologetics) http://www.catholicapologetics.info/library/onlinelibrary/index.htm Catholic Church Documents (Latin text) http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/ (Last updated 2006) Free Catholic Books Online http://www.freecatholicebooks.com/ Sacred Texts and Religion: Catholic http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top BOOKS AND EBOOKS, EVANGELICAL Christian Classics Ethereal Library www.ccel.org Digitised Revival Library http://www.revival-library.org/library/libraries.html Histories of revivals and outpourings of grace. Evangelical Christian Library www.ccel.us Contains Wesleyan Arminian books. Global Christians www.globalchristians.org/ebooks Internet Evangelism www.internetevangelismday.com/free-christian-ebook-downloads.php Online Christian Library of Virtual Theological Sources (Christian Online Referral Services Library Project) (Northwestern Theological Seminary and Northwestern Christian University) http://www.ntslibrary.com/Christian-PDF-Books.htm Puritan Library: Sacred Texts and Religion http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Reformation and Puritan Resources www.swrb.com/newslett/freebook/evancath.htm Reformed Church titles http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/free-ebooks.html Restoration movement titles: Bible Study Textbook Series (1960-70s) (College Press) (Churches of Christ) http://www.collegepress.com/storefront/node/238 Dr James E. Smith’s books in the same series as above are here: http://www.bibleprofessor.com/index.php?page=Commentaries Restoration Movement (Hans Rollman) (Abilene Christian University) https://webfiles.acu.edu/departments/Library/HR/restmov_nov11/www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/ Wesleyan Holiness Digital Library http://www.whdl.org/ Downloading materials: http://www.whdl.org/content/help About Us: http://www.whdl.org/content/about-us (Includes Badges/Icons for Linking to WHDL) Guide to WHDL: http://www.whdl.org/content/guide-whdl EU students should go to the EU Library Webpage http://web.evangel.edu/library/ and click on A to Z: Search eJournals and eBooks. Restrict the search to Books and make a search. This search may be made by title or by subject (if the subject is included in the book title). Also on the same page, look for link to eBooks (EBSCO). eBooks (EBSCO) has search capabilities. Top BOOKS AND EBOOKS, JUDAIC Sacred Texts and Religion: Judaism http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Use this link for detailed explanations of the texts/books available. Hebrew Bible or Tanakh “roughly equivalent to the Christian Old Testament”, … contains: The Torah, in the narrow sense (the Written Torah) is the Pentateuch The Nevi'im are the Prophets - Samuel, Kings, isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets. The Ketuvim is the Writings, including Psalms and Proverbs, Esther and Ecclesiastes, Daniel, Chronicles, Ruth, and the love poetry of Song of Songs. Text versions of the Torah, Nevi'im & Ketuvim are available in English with some useful further information at: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Tanakh.html” “Tanakh (also spelled as Tenach). www.breslov.com/bible/ “ “The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh and the Oral Law (Mishneh Torah) in several editions. A Torah encyclopedia as well, in a single ZIP in English, and other Torah resources, are all from: www.mechon-mamre.org” “Jewish Torah Audio. www.613.org” “Divrei Torah - Commentaries. www.shamash.org/tanach/dvar.shtml#shamash “ “Seforim e-books. (Hebrew books by rabbis) www.hebrewbooks.org” “SeforimOnline.org distributes old and out of print Hebrew books and has an informative blog www.seforimonline.org “ Top BOOKS AND EBOOKS, OTHER THAN ABOVE Free eBooks.net: Religious Worldwide (including some evangelical) Variety of viewpoints. http://www.free-ebooks.net/category/religious Sacred Texts and Religion http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm This offers the sacred books from many religions. Top BUDDHISM Buddhist Digital Library & Museum buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/BDLM/front.htm Buddhist Studies: WWW Virtual Library www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Sacred Texts and Religion: Buddhism and Zen Buddhism http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm View on Buddhism (Buddhist history, philosophy, & practice from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective) buddhism.kalachakranet.org/ Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University): Buddhist Studies virtualreligion.net/vri/buddha.html A Portal. Top BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: CHURCHES Church LawandTax.com www.churchlawandtax.com/ Leadership Network www.leadnet.org/ National Association of Church Business Administration www.nacba.net/ Top CAMPUS MINISTRIES Campus Crusade for Christ www.campuscrusadeforchrist.com/ Campus Crusade for Christ International www.ccci.org/ Chi Alpha www.chialpha.com/ Intervarsity Christian Fellowship www.intervarsity.org/ Top CAO DAI (VIETNAM) Sacred Texts and Religion: Cao Dai http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top CHILD EVANGELISM Acts 1:8 Challenge - Missions resources for children (Christopher Preston) Child Evangelism Fellowship http://www.cefonline.com/ Note the Resources and Ministries links in the top ribbon. Effective Evangelism Training http://www.effective-evangelism-training.org/child_evangelism.html Ministry to Children http://ministry-to-children.com/evangelizing-children/ Resource Materials by Daniel Morris: Let the Little Children Come : Child Evangelism Fellowship ; Dare to be a Daniel ; Wycliffe Resources for Parents & Teachers ; Wycliffe Canada's Children's Ministry ; Royal Ambassadors ; North American Missions Board: SnackPack Missions ; North American Missions Board: Backpack Missions ; North American Missions Board: Christmas in August ; North American Missions Board: Mission Education Projects ; Ruth's Attic Online Store (Billy Grahm Evangelical Association) . Resource Materials by Tyler Nylen: Missions ; Missions Connecting Site; Missions Projects and Activities ; Missions ideas; Children's Missions; Caleb Project Missions; Resource List; Missions Agency Top CHINA (SEE ALSO THE EU/AGTS CATALOG FOR OVER 700 BOOKS AND THE EBOOK COLLECTION WITH MORE THAN 4,700 EBOOKS) Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity http://www.bdcconline.net/en/ Top CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (SEE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION BELOW) CHRISTIANITY Christianity (Best of History Websites) (16 Websites plus 4 Websites for teachers) http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ancient-biblical-history/christianity A Portal. Top CHURCH AND CULTURE Association of Religion Data Archives: ARDA (Data Sets & Surveys) under Statistics below. Gospel and Our Culture Network www.gocn.org/ Hollywood Jesus www.hollywoodjesus.com/ jordoncooper.com www.jordoncooper.com Next Wave www.next-wave.org The Ooze www.theooze.com/ Top CHURCH DENOMINATIONS ARDA: Association of Religious Data Archives under Statistics below. Christian Denominations and Sects (Yahoo!) http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion_and_Spirituality/Faiths_and_Practices/ Christianity/Denominations_and_Sects/ Fast Facts about American Religion (Hartford Institute for Religion Institute) http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/fastfacts/fast_facts.html Top CHURCH FATHERS (SEE ALSO PATRISTICS BELOW) Apostolic Fathers http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html#fathers Bibliothek de Kirkenvatter (Griechische Patristik und orientalische Sprachen – Miséricorde) http://www.unifr.ch/bkv/awerk.htm (German) Church Fathers (Writings of) http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and PostNicene. Church history; e-texts, systematic theology study helps; Quodlibet Journal (Their comments on Bible passages have now been collected into Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture Ref BS 491.2 A52x) Creeds and Canons: Guide to Early Church Documents http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html#creeds Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graeca . ( Jacques Paul Migne.) http://graeca.patristica.net/ Greek and Latin text. Indexes at bottom right. Top CHURCH HISTORY AdHoc (AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity) (Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library.) http://divdl.library.yale.edu/dl/index.aspx?qc=AdHoc American Society of Church History http://www.churchhistory.org/ Anglican Church – Church History http://www.ccel.org/h/hutton/moravian/ Assemblies of God – current information and history http://ag.org/top/ For archived information go to the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center http://ifphc.org/ Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/byzantium/index.asp Christian Classics Ethereal Library www.ccel.org A Portal. Christian History and Biography http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/ Browse by Period, Topic, or by issue of the journal. Christianity in Its Global Context, 1970–2020: Society, Religion, and Mission, (2013 report) Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary http://www.gordonconwell.edu/resources//Global-Context-of-Christianity.cfm Church History (Theopedia) http://www.theopedia.com/Church_history “online evangelical encyclopedia of biblical Christianity” Church History: Denomination Family Tree (Truth for Saints) http://truthforsaints.com/denomination_history/denomination_history.html Church History on the Web http://www.ritchies.net/links.htm A Portal. Church History Study Helps http://www.theologywebsite.com/history/ Church History Timeline (Jeremy Tredway) http://www.historytimeline.org/ Church of God (Cleveland, TN): Dixon Pentecostal Research Center http://www.cogheritage.org/ Collection of Early Church Fathers’ Writings (CCEL) http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html “Ante-Nicene Fathers, Writings down to 325 A.D.; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Early Church Fathers; Additional Texts “ http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pearse/morefathers/files/morefathers.html . Early Manuscripts Electronic Library: creating digital access to cultural history http://www.emelibrary.org/index.htm Ecole Initiative: Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World Wide Net http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/ No longer maintained; but, if a link is broken, use the name of the page/topic as a Google.com or a Bing.com search to locate the URL. Edgar J. Goodspeed Manuscript Collection http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/ “…5th to the 19th centuries” Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History (New Advent) http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2501.htm (10 books) Fourth Century Christianity (Wisconsin Lutheran College) http://www.fourthcentury.com/ Guide to Early Church Documents (ICL) http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html Contains “…canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history.” Hall of Church History: Theology from a Bunch of Dead Guys http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil//hall.htm Historical Maps of Europe and the Middle East (Perry-Castañeda Library) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html A Portal. **[History of Christianity in Asia, by Samuel Hugh Moffett AGTS: BR1065 .M63 This print edition is highly regarded. No Kindle version found.] **[History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: a Documentary Source Book, by Klaus Koschorke, et al. AGTS BR145.3 .H57 A Kindle edition of this is available from Amazon.com] History of the Christian Church (Schaff) http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/About.htm **[History of the Church in Africa / Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed AGTS BR1360 .S86 2000 Print copy. No Kindle version found.] History of the Moravian Church (Hutton) http://www.ccel.org/h/hutton/moravian/ Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (Wheaton) http://www.wheaton.edu/isae Orthodox Christianity: Monachos.net http://www.monachos.net/ “…a web site dedicated to the study of Orthodox Christianity through its patristic, monastic and liturgical heritage.” Pre-Pentecostalist History and Time-line http://www.spirithome.com/pentecostalist-history.html Project Wittenberg (Lutherans) http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html Seventh Day Adventist Periodical Index http://www.andrews.edu/library/car/sdapiindex.html Sketches of Church History (2 volume online book) (Reverend J. C. Robertson) http://www.biblestudytools.com/history/sketches-of-church-history/ Vol. 1: 33-604 A.D.; Vol. 2: 589-1517 Spurgeon Archive http://www.spurgeon.org/mainpage.htm St. Pachomius Library: A First Draft for a Living Encyclopædia of Orthodox Christianity http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html Study of Denominations http://www.astudyofdenominations.com/overview/ Time Line of Church History (St. Ignatius Orthodox Church, Antiochian Diocese, Madison, WI) http://saintignatiuschurch.org/timeline/ Virtual Religion Index: Christian Tradition (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/xnity.html A Portal. Top CHURCH HISTORY, IRISH Corpus of Electronic Texts: CELT http://www.ucc.ie/celt/ “Irish history, literature, and politics.” Top CHURCH HISTORY, MEDIEVAL Augustine of Hippo (James J. O’Donnell) http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/augustine/ Corpus Thomisticum (Thomas Aquinas Research Resources in Latin) http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/ Labrynth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University) http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/ Online Medieval and Classical Library (Douglas B. Killings and Roy Tennant) http://omacl.org/ Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/aquinas/summa/index.htm Works of Augustine (CCEL) (Tim Perrine CCEL Staff Writer) http://www.ccel.org/ccel/augustine?show=worksBy Top CHURCH HISTORY, PRIMATIVE AND EARLY CHURCH Church History 101 (Dr. R. A. Baker) http://www.churchhistory101.com/ Note the centuries in the top ribbon. Use of Scripture in Early Judaism and the New Testament (Roy C. Ciampa, Ph.D., Godon-Conwell) http://www.viceregency.com/Scripture.htm Top CHURCH MINISTRIES, GROWTH AND HEALTH Barna Group www.barna.org/ Changing Church www.changingchurch.org/index.html Church Growth Institute www.churchgrowth.org/ Elmer Towns Online Library elmertowns.com/ Enrichment (Minister Resources - A/G) enrichmentjournal.ag.org/index.cfm EQUIP (John Maxwell) www.iequip.org/ INJOY Interactive (John Maxwell) www.injoy.com/ Internet Resources for Ministry (AGTS Website) www.agts.edu/resources/using_internet.html Leonard Sweet www.leonardsweet.com/ Next-Wave Resources Page www.next-wave.org/linx.html Publications & Resources (AGTS Website) www.agts.edu/resources/index.html Today's Parish www.todaysparish.com/ Top CODICES Aleppo Codex: the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible http://www.aleppocodex.org/ Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-NN-00002-00041/ Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus Tischendorf, C. v. (1843). Codex Ephraemi Syri rescriptus, sive Fragmenta Novi Testamenti. Lipsiae. (Cited in Wikipedia) Tischendorf, C. v. (1845). Codex Ephraemi Syri rescriptus, sive Fragmenta Veteris Testamenti. Lipsiae. (Cited in Wikipedia) Lyon, R. W. A Re-Examination of Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, New Testament Studies (1959), 5, pp. 260–272. (Cited in Wikipedia) Codex Gigas (Latin) http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/ Codex Sinaiticus. H. T. Anderson translation. http://www.sinaiticus.com/ Codex Vaticanus http://www.biblefacts.org/church/pdf/Codex%20Vaticanus.pdf In Koine Greek. Codex Alexandrinus http://www.archive.org/details/codexalexandrin02unknuoft (Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir, 1863-1952” In LXX Greek (Genesis-Ruth) (Photocopy) “Some connect this with an English/Greek translation done by Sir Lancelot C.L. Brenton (1851) http://www.ccel.org/bible/brenton/ “ Gothic (Wulfila) http://www.wulfila.be/gothic/browse/ Interlinear Greek supplied is from the “Nestle-Aland, th th 26 /27 edition.” Leningrad Codex, or Leningradensis https://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/biblical_manuscripts/LeningradCodex.shtml Nag Hammadi Archive (Claremont Colleges Digital Library) http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/nha Westminster Leningrad Codex: Tanach: from the electronic version of the Leningrad Codex maintained by the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research (Hebrew) http://tanach.us/Tanach.xml#Home Top CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS (SEE MORMON CHURCH BELOW) COINS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN American Numismatic Society Collection Database http://numismatics.org/search/ “The ANS collections database contains information on more than 600,000 objects in the Society’s collections. These include, coins, paper money, tokens, ‘primitive’ money, medals and decorations, from all parts of the world, and all periods in which such objects have been produced.” Top COMMENTARIES (MOSTLY HISTORIC) (ADDITIONAL HISTORIC COMMENTARIES MAY BE FOUND AT ARCHIVE.ORG >TEXTS AND MAKE SEARCH FOR “BIBLE COMMENTARY,” “OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY,” “NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY.” “PSALMS COMMENTARY,” “PROPHETS COMMENTARY,” OR A SPECIFIC BOOK, ETC. Abingdon commentary series: http://www.ministrymatters.com/library/ Asbury Bible Commentary http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/asbury-bible-commentary/toc/ one-volume Wesleyan commentary on the entire Bible. Best Commentaries: Reviews and ratings of Biblical, theological, and practical Christian works http://bestcommentaries.com/ Classic Bible Commentaries: History’s most renowned Commentary Writers http://www.ewordtoday.com/comments/ Commentaries (Bible Study Tools) http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/ 16 older commentaries. Commentaries (StudyLight.org) http://www.studylight.org/com/ 36 older commentaries. International Critical Commentary (ICC) Briggs, Driver, and Plummer http://archive.org/details/InternationalCriticalCommentaryHolyScripturesOldNewTestamentsCecEd IVP New Testament Commentary Series (BibleGateway.com) http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/asbury-bible-commentary/toc/ Keil, Carl Friedrich. Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament http://archive.org/search.php?query=biblical%20commentary%20on%20the%20old%20testament%20A ND%20collection%3Aamericana , or, TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/lc3tal8 Library of Commentaries (John Schultz) http://bible-commentaries.com/?page_id=7 Commentaries written by John Schultz, Christian and Missionary Alliance missionary 37 years in Irian Jaya, New Guinea. Constable,Thomas (Dallas Theological Seminary) (study notes/commentaries) www.soniclight.com Schaff, Philip. International Revision Commentary on the New Testament http://archive.org/details/internationalre00schagoog Top CONCORDANCES Cruden’s Concordance of the Bible http://www.archive.org/stream/crudensconcordan00crudrich#page/n3/mode/2up Nave’s Topical Bible http://www.biblestudytools.com/concordances/naves-topical-bible/ Online Bible Concordance http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword Strong's Concordance with Greek and Hebrew Lexicon http://www.tencommandments.org/concord.html Torrey, R. A. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge http://www.biblestudytools.com/concordances/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/ Torrey’s New Topical Textbook http://www.biblestudytools.com/concordances/torreys-topical-textbook/ Young’s Electronic Analytical Bible Concordance (KJV) http://www.softwaregeek.com/kjv-youngs-electronic-analytical-bible-concordance/freeware/p1.html and Seventh edition: http://www.archive.org/stream/analyticalconcor00younuoft#page/n5/mode/2up Top COUNSELING AND PASTORAL COUNSELING Association for Psychological Science-Homepage www.psychologicalscience.org/ Birth Psychology www.birthpsychology.com/ BUROS Center for Testing www.unl.edu/buros/ Child Welfare Information Gateway https://www.childwelfare.gov/ Children, Youth and Family Consortium (University of Minnesota Extension) http://www1.extension.umn.edu/family/cyfc/ Christian Recovery International http://www.christianrecovery.com/ Classics in the History of Psychology psychclassics.yorku.ca/ Counseling or Psychology Links http://otgateway.com/counselling-or-psychology-links-page-1-a-c.html ; http://otgateway.com/counselling-and-psychology-page-2-d-l.html ; http://otgateway.com/counselling-or-psychology-page-3-m-r.html ; http://otgateway.com/counselling-or-psychology-page-4-s-z.html (Designed and maintained by Roy and Sue Nicholson) Current Topics in Psychology www.fenichel.com/current.shtml Encyclopedia of Psychology (Virtual Library of Resources) www.psychology.org/ Great Ideas in Personality www.personalityresearch.org/ History & Philosophy of Psychology www.psych.yorku.ca/orgs/resource.htm Internet Mental Health www.mentalhealth.com/ Mental Health Matters mental-health-matters.com/ Mental Help Net mentalhelp.net/ Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/ Narrative Psychology: Internet and Resource Guide web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/narpsych.html Neurosciences on the Internet www.neuroguide.com/ Online Psychology Career Center www.socialpsychology.org/career.htm Pastoral Counseling (Wabash Center) http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=694 Personality Project www.personality-project.org/ Psych Central www.psychcentral.com/ Psychology Information Online www.psychologyinfo.com/ Psychology Help Center (APA) http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/index.aspx Psychology of Cyberspace www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html Psychology of Religion Pages www.psywww.com/psyrelig/ PsychScholar http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/ “A Collection of Web Resources for Psychological Scholars and Budding Psychological Scholars” Psychology Virtual Library www.vl-site.org/psychology/index.html PsychWeb www.psywww.com PsycPort (APA News) www.psycport.com/ PubMed www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ Social Psychology Network www.socialpsychology.org/ Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University): Psychology of Religion A Portal. Web of Addictions: Resources www.well.com/user/woa/aodsites.htm Top COUNSELING ASSOCIATIONS American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy www.aamft.org American Association of Christian Counselors www.aacc.net/ American Association of Pastoral Counselors www.aapc.org/ American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists www.aasect.org American Counseling Association www.counseling.org American Psychological Association www.apa.org National Board for Certified Counselors www.nbcc.org National Institute of Mental Health www.nimh.nih.gov/ Top CREEDS NOTE: to search creeds for content tied to Scripture texts, use the index in the print volumes of Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition, by Jaroslav Pelikan and Valerie Hotchkiss. 3 vol. Ref BT 990 .C64. Creeds and Canons http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html#creeds Creeds, Confessions and Catechisms http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/creeds.htm Creeds of Christendom http://www.creeds.net/ It includes ancient creeds as well as modern Denominational creeds. Important Creeds and Councils of the Christian Church (Charles R. Bigg) (A Study) http://www.aplacefortruth.org/creeds.htm Top CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES (SEE MISSIONS BELOW) CULTS Cults, Sects, and New Religions http://people.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/links/newlks.html A Portal. Top DEAD SEA SCROLLS Dead Sea Scrolls http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/ Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/ Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship (Library of Congress site) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/ Top DICTIONARIES: BIBLE (SEE ALSO REFERENCE WORKS ONLINE) Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/ Dictionaries http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/dictionaries/ Six older Bible dictionaries Dictionary of Bible Themes http://topicalbible.org/dictionary_of_bible_themes.htm King James Bible Dictionary http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/king-james-dictionary/ Nave’s Topical Bible Dictionary http://www.bible-history.com/naves/ Topical Bible http://topicalbible.org/ Three topical Bibles. Top DIRECTORIES (SEE ALSO REFERENCE WORKS ONLINE BELOW) Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org/ Useful for handpicked directories on almost any topic. Top DIRECTORIES: BUSINESS AND PEOPLE SuperPages.com www.superpages.com/ Switchboard.com www.switchboard.com/ Ultimate White Pages www.theultimates.com/white/ Ultimate Yellow Pages www.theultimates.com/yellow/ Yellowpages.com www.yellowpages.com/ Top DIRERCTORIES: CHRISTIAN, GENERAL ACTS Christian Search and Directory www.actschristian.com/a/ Christian Website.com www.christianwebsite.com/ Church 2000 church2000.org CrossDaily.com www.crossdaily.com/ crossguide.com www.crossguide.com/ Omnilist of Christian Links GOLD www.arthursfamily.com/omnilist/ Oneplace.com www.oneplace.com/ Religious Resources www.religiousresources.org/ Top EGYPT, ANCIENT Egypt (Best of History Websites) (Approximately 40 Websites plus over 20 Websites for teachers) http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ancient-biblical-history/egypt A Portal. Sacred Texts and Religion: Egyptian Pantheon Names, Book of the Dead, Myths of Creation http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top ENCYCLOPEDIAS (SEE REFERENCE WORKS ONLINE BELOW) ETHICS Business and Human Rights Resources Centre (UK) http://www.business-humanrights.org/ Center for Ethical Leadership Washington http://ethicalleadership.org/about-us/philosophies-definitions/ethical-leadership Texas (UT – Austin) http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/research/leadership/ Christian Ethics Today (journal) http://www.christianethicstoday.com/wp/ Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Ethics and Policy integration Centre (UK) http://www.ethicaledge.com Ethics Resource Center (ERC) http://www.ethics.org/ Ethics Updates http://ethics.sandiego.edu/ A Portal. “…provides resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.” Fact Checkers ReligionFact.com http://www.religionfacts.com/ Snopes.com http://snopes.com/ FactCheck.org: A Project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center http://www.factcheck.org/ TruthorFiction.com www.truthorfiction.com Merriam-Webster, an Encyclopedia Britannica Company http://www.merriam-webster.com/ Good for basic facts and spelling. Holocaust Encyclopedia http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/ Institute for Ethical Leadership http://www.ethicalleadership.com/index.html Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (Santa Clara University) http://www.scu.edu/ethics/ Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (Stanford) http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/ National Security Archive (George Washington University) http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torture_archive/index.htm Includes the Torture Archive. Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research http://www.onlineethics.org/ Regions Demographic Profiles (Pew Forum) http://www.pewforum.org/Regions/ Arranged in 5 broad groups. Includes religion, politics, and society. Theoretical Ethics http://www.bu.edu/wcp/MainTEth.htm (Conference papers) Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces “…information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.” VIA Institute on Character (VIA Institute) http://www.viacharacter.org/www/ Virtual Religion Index: Ethics and Moral Values http://virtualreligion.net/vri/ethics.html A Portal. World’s Values Survey: The World’s most Comprehensive Investigation of Political and Sociocultural Change http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/ Yad Vashem: Digital Collections http://www.yadvashem.org/ Holocaust research. Top EVANGELISM (SEE MINISTRY AND EVANGELISM BELOW) EXEGESIS (SEE ALSO BIBLICAL STUDIES ABOVE) BibleArc: Graphical Exegesis www.biblearc.com (John Piper) Hover the mouse over a word to see it parsed, etc . Exegetical Links (Institute of Biblical Greek) http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/exegesis.php#Lexical%20Aids Resources for New Testament Exegesis (Roy C. Ciampa, Ph.D., Godon-Conwell) http://www.viceregency.com Top GNOSTIC Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Sacred Texts and Religion: Gnostic http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top GOVERNMENT SITES (FOR STATISTICAL RESEARCHERS) Census Bureau www.census.gov. GPO Access http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/ Government Printing Office. Note its Browse Collections link for access to informational reports and statistical resources. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/Forms-&-Pubs USA.gov (Official U. S. Government Web Portal) www.usa.gov/ White House www.whitehouse.gov/ World Factbook (CIA) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html Top GREECE, ANCIENT Greece (Best of History Websites) (35 Websites plus over 30 Websites for teachers) http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ancient-biblical-history/greece A Portal. Library of Ancient Texts Online https://sites.google.com/site/ancienttexts/ A Portal. Perseus Digital Library http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ Top GREEK LANGUAGE AND LEXICONS Biblical Words Pronunciation Guide http://netministries.org/Bbasics/bwords.htm Exegetical Links (Institute of Biblical Greek) http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/exegesis.php#Lexical%20Aids Greek New Testament online www.sblgnt.com Use this to download all or parts of the electronic edition. Use www.sbl-site.org/educational/BiblicalFonts_SBLGreek.aspx to use SBL Greek fonts. Greek New Testament Texts ( New Testament Gateway: Dr. Mark Goodacre, Duke University) http://www.ntgateway.com/greek-ntgateway/greek-new-testament-texts/ Library of Ancient Texts Online https://sites.google.com/site/ancienttexts/ A Portal. Liddell/Scott - A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Version) http://tinyurl.com/yaj5p7w A paper copy is shelved at Ref PA 445 .E5 L6. (AGTS uses L637) New Testament Gateway http://www.ntgateway.com/ “ … web directory of internet resources on the New Testament.” New Testament Greek Lexicon http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek “The New Testament Greek lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." Also included are pronunciations of each word with alternate pronunciations if available.” Online Greek Bible (26th edition of the Nestle-Aland Text) http://www.greekbible.com Resources for Learning New Testament Greek www.ntgreek.org Resources for Studying Greek www.cranfordville.com/Gk-links.htm Searchable Greek Inscriptions http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/ Septuagint (English/Greek LXX translation) (3 sources but different aids) http://www.ccel.org/bible/brenton/ ; http://spindleworks.com/septuagint/septuagint.htm ; http://www.kalvesmaki.com/LXX/ SIL Greek Fonts http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=GalatiaSIL Society for Biblical Literature Greek New Testament http://sblgnt.com/ Textual Criticism of the Greek New Testament (Dr. Michael D. Marlowe) www.bible-researcher.com/title.html Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) http://www.tlg.uci.edu/ FREE version may be accessed by clicking Abridged Online TLG . “Founded in 1972 the TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.” Top GREEK LANGUAGE, CLASSICAL Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation http://www.tlg.uci.edu/index/resources.html Liddell/Scott - A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Version) http://tinyurl.com/yaj5p7w A paper copy is shelved at Ref PA 445 .E5 L6. (AGTS uses L637) Top GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH Sacred Texts and Religion: Myriobiblos: Greek Church http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top HEBREW LANGUAGE, LEXICONS / EARLY JEWISH LITERATURE (SEE ALSO TALMUD AND TARGUM BELOW) Biblical Words Pronunciation Guide http://netministries.org/Bbasics/bwords.htm Brown, Driver, and Briggs Gesenius Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/ “… this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." Early Jewish Literature: Links to Primary Sources http://www.viceregency.com/STJudaismatAmazon.htm Early Jewish Writings http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/ Tanakh; Deuterocanon: Pseudepigrapha : Philo of Alexandria; Flavius Josephus; Talmud My Hebrew Dictionary www.dictionary.co.il See List of Tools on left. iTanakh http://www.itanakh.org/index.htm A Portal with links to many online resources useful in studying Hebrew language and Jewish literature. Jewish Texts (Bialystoker Synagogue) http://www.bialystoker.org/talmud.htm SIL Hebrew Font http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=EzraSIL_Home ” Ezra SIL Hebrew Unicode Font” Textual Criticism of the Old Testament (Dr. Michael D. Marlowe) www.bible-researcher.com/hebrewtext.html Top HINDUISM Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Hinduism: a Christian Perspective http://www.probe.org/site/c.fdKEIMNsEoG/b.4217707/k.2B95/Hinduism_A_Christian_Perspective.htm Hinduismnet.com http://www.hinduismnet.com/ Virtual Religion Index: Hindu Studies (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/hindu.html A Portal. Sacred Texts and Religion: Hinduism http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY (SEE CHURCH HISTORY ABOVE) HYMNS Cantus: A database of Latin ecclesiastical chant http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/ More recently updated at http://cantusdatabase.org/ (University of Waterloo). Hymn Resources on the Internet (N. Douglas Anderson) http://www.marietta.edu/~nda001//hymnody/ Hymn Tune Index: all hymn tunes printed anywhere in the world with English-language texts up to 1820, and their publication history up to that date. http://hymntune.library.uiuc.edu/ Hymnal.net http://www.hymnal.net/home.php Hymnary.org: a comprehensive index of hymns and hymnals (Hymn Society of the United States and Canada) http://www.hymnary.org/ Hymns and Spiritual Songs http://hymns.net/ Hymn Site.com http://www.hymnsite.com/ Name that Hymn.com(Hymn Lyrics Search Forum) http://www.namethathymn.com/ Net Hymnal: Thousands of Hymns, Hymn Authors and Composer Bios http://cyberhymnal.org/ Top INTERLINEARS Biblos.com http://biblos.com/ Online study aids which include a number of Bible study tools, Original Language Tools (Interlinear, Lexicon, GNT Concordance, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, Multilingual) , and Reference Materials ( Apocrypha, Measures, Reference Bible, Thesaurus, & Visuals) Top ISLAM Al-Islam.org (Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project) http://www.al-islam.org/ Answering Islam: Christian Web Sites interacting with Islam http://www.answering-islam.org/L_c-on-i.html Arabic Papyrology Database http://orientw.uzh.ch:8080/apd/project.jsp Books and Articles by Samuel Zwemer http://www.answering-islam.org/Books/Zwemer/ Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Global Initiative: Reaching Muslim Peoples http://globalinitiativeinfo.com/ Good Reading on Islam (World Magazine) http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/good_reading_on_islam A bibliography. Islam and Islamic Studies Resources http://islam.uga.edu/ Islamic eBooks http://islamic-e-books.com/Islamicebooks “Main categories: Islamic History . Fiqh . Reference Books . Biographies . Islamic Architecture . Dawah . Sufism . Islamic Travel . Emaan . Aqeeda . Salaat . Hadith . Tafsir . Day of Judgement . Ibaada . Arabic . Ribaa . Hajj . Adhaab . Marriage. Quran . Fasting . Zakat . Ramadan. Seerah IslamaCity www.islamicity.com/ Islamic texts, teaching, and news. Sacred Texts and Religion: Islam http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Samarqand & Topkapi Qurans http://inthenameofallah.org/Samarqand%20&%20Topkapi%20Qurans.html Shi’apedia (Centre for Islamic Shi’a Studies) http://shiastudies.org/shiapedia Virtual Religion Index: Islamic Studies (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/islam.html A Portal. World Evangelical Alliance http://www.worldevangelicals.org/resources/ Search for Islam. World of Islam [a commercial database which may be purchased] ( A GMI Product in cooperation with Fuller Seminary and the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization ) http://www.gmi.org/products/cd-roms/the-world-of-islam/ NOTE: Other collections may be located by searching online for: Islam eBooks. Top JAINISM Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Sacred Texts and Religion: Jainism http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top JEWISH STUDIES (SEE JUDAISM BELOW) JOSEPHUS (WORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS) Works of Flavius Josephus http://www.biblestudytools.com/history/flavius-josephus/ Top JOURNALS AVAILABLE TO EU STUDENTS EU students should go to the EU Library Webpage http://web.evangel.edu/library and click A to Z: Search Online eJournals and eBooks and limit the search to Journals to locate freely available and paid access resources for journals. Also, go to the EU Library Databases link and click Theology and Religion to use the search engines for the commercial databases. Also, they may go to the University of Regensburg Library collection of journals and note those with a Green button http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/fl.phtml?bibid=UBR&colors=7&lang=en. Most of these freely available journals will be non-English titles. Top JUDAISM (SEE ALSO BOOKS AND EBOOKS, JUDAIC ABOVE) Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971) http://www.bjeindy.org/resources/library/encyclopediajudaica/ Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Internet Jewish History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.asp “Ancient; Medieval; Modern.”\ Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906) http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/ Jewish History Resource Center (Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Dinur Center) http://jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/ Jewish Virtual Library (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ Judaica Collection (Yale University) http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/ Judaism (Best of History Websites) (10 Websites plus 10 Websites for teachers) http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ancient-biblical-history/judaism A Portal. Judaism 101 (Frequently Asked Questions) http://www.jewfaq.org/index.shtml Judaism and Jewish Resources http://www.shamash.org/trb/judaism.html A Portal. My Jewish Learning http://www.myjewishlearning.com/ What it means to be a Jew and be immersed in the culture. RAMBI: The index of articles on Jewish Studies ) (Jewish National and University Library) http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi/ Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. Electronic version available for purchase http://www.publishersrow.com/ebookshuk/cart/shopproductdetail.asp?id=2600&1374123600000 Virtual Religion Index: Jewish Studies (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/judaic.html A Portal. Web sites for Jewish Studies (Princeton University Library) http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/jewsub.htm A Portal. Top LATIN, CLASSICAL ) Classical Latin Texts (Packard Humanities Institute http://latin.packhum.org/index Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/ A Portal. “…a digital library of Latin literature, spanning from the earliest epigraphic remains to the Neo-Latinists of the eighteenth century.” Loeb Classical Library Books Online (Edwin F. Donnelly) http://www.edonnelly.com/loebs.html Patrologia Latina (Migne) http://tinyurl.com/kd5e6d9 Perseus Digital Library http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ Vetus Latina: Resources for the Study of the Old Latin Bible http://www.vetuslatina.org/ Top LECTIONARIES Lectionaries Old and New http://www.bombaxo.com/lectionaries.html A Portal. Revised Common Lectionary (Vanderbilt Divinity Library) http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index.html Top LEXICONS, GENERAL See Also: ARAMAIC LANGAUGE AND LEXICONS See Also: GREEK LANGUAGE AND LEXICONS See Also: HEBREW LANGUAGE, LEXICONS / EARLY JEWISH LITERATURE 2LetterLookup http://www.2letterlookup.com/ (Lexicons for Biblical study) Locating Greek and Hebrew words using the first two letters. Baker’s Bible Study Tools http://www.biblestudytools.com/library/ It contains: “Bible Versions and Translations; Apocrypha Books; Commentaries; Concordances; Dictionaries; Encyclopedias; History; Lexicons; Maps & Guides; Classics, Sermons, Hymns, and Authors” Biblos.com http://biblos.com/ Online study aids which include a number of Bible study tools, Original Language Tools (Interlinear, Lexicon, GNT Concordance, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, Multilingual) , and Reference Materials ( Apocrypha, Measures, Reference Bible, Thesaurus, & Visuals) Strong's Concordance with Greek and Hebrew Lexicon http://www.tencommandments.org/concord.html Top MAPS: PAPER AND BY SATELLITE Ancient Maps of Jerusalem http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/jer/ (Collected by Jewish National & University Library, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, et al.) Bible Geocoding: The location of every identifiable place mentioned in the Bible. http://www.openbible.info/geo/ NETBible Maps http://bible.org/maps The Holy Land as seen from a satellite with names superimposed. [Additional maps can be found by doing a Google.com www.google.com, or a Bing.com www.bing.com search using the search string: Bible lands maps.] Top MEDIEVAL HISTORY Digital Scriptorium http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscriptorium/ It is an “…image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.” Early and Medieval Christianity (Seattle Pacific University) A Portal. http://www.spu.edu/depts/library/reference/theology/early_and_medieval_christianity.htm Medieval Age Links (Larry Swain) http://www.heroicage.org/halinks.php HEROIC AGE: Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe Medieval & Reformation Theology (Course Readings; Dr. John Thompson, Fuller Theological Seminary) http://documents.fuller.edu/sot/faculty/thompson_john/CH503readings.pdf Medieval Christian Biblical Exegesis in English Translation (c.600-c.1515) (Jonathan Hall, University of Virginia) https://sites.google.com/site/miscelleneatheologica/home/transbib Medieval History (Best of History Websites) (27 Websites plus 13 Websites for teachers) http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/medieval-history A Portal. Top MESOPOTAMIA ABZU: ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives) http://www.etana.org/abzubib “Abzu is a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world.” Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Middle Ages (History Links) http://www.historylink101.com/ancient_mesopotamia.htm It offers Art, Biographies, Daily Life, Maps, Pictures, and Research for each linked area. Ancient Near East: Internet Sacred Text Archive http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/ Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World (University of Chicago Digital Library Projects) http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/dl/proj/neh2/ Benthos: Digital Atlas of Ancient Waters: Mediterranean Basin (in Beta) http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/benthos/ Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World http://www.stoa.org/diotima/ Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Conference Report http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/epanet Noteworthy collection of links to existing dictionaries of Ancient Near Eastern language is inserted language by language. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (Faculty of Oriental Studies. Oxford University) http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index.html Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook03.asp Odyssey Online http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/ Covering People, Mythology, Daily Life, Death & Burial, Writing and Archaeology in Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Africa Oriental Institute Virtual Museum http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/virtual/tours.html Galleries available: Mesopotamian; Assyrian; Syro-Anatolian; Megiddo; Egyptian; Nubian; Persian Top MIDDLE EAST (SEE ALSO: EGYPT, ANCIENT; AND MESOPOTAMIA) Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR) (open access journals) http://amirmideast.blogspot.com/2010/12/alphabetical-list-of-open-access.html Fact Sheets on Middle East Conflict http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/talktoc.html Middle East (History in the News) http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east/ A Portal. Middle East Institute: providing non-partisan expert information and analysis on the Middle East http://www.mideasti.org/ Sacred Texts and Religion: Various Religions, Includes Epic of Gilgamesh (Shin-eqi-unninni) http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top MINISTRY AND EVANGELISM (SEE ALSO CHILD EVANGELISM ABOVE; AND PASTORING AND SERMON PREPARATION BELOW) Alpha USA: explore the meaning of life http://www.alphana.org/Groups/1000065342/Alt_Home_page.aspx American Tract Society (Crossway) http://www.crossway.org/group/ats Billy Graham Center (Wheaton College) http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc Church Marketing Online http://churchmarketingonline.com/ [Users can locate similar sites by using “Church Marketing” as a search string. Evangelism (North American Missions Board) http://www.namb.net/evangelism/ “Find the resources you need to share Christ, whatever the setting.” Evangelism (Wabash Center) http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=682 Outreach: share God’s love http://www.outreach.com/print/default.asp Preaching (Wabash Center) http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=697&pid=650 Pastoral Ministry (Wabash Center) http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=695 Religion Portal.com (Vertical Portals) TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ax2wm9k Master list of Christian ministry and evangelism groups/resources. SCOLER - Sheffield Centre Online Library of Evangelism Research http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/ms/sc/SCOLER/sfc_scoler_home.aspx “This database contains dissertations and evangelism resources.” Web Evangelism Guide / Internet Evangelism http://www.web-evangelism.com/index.php World Council of Churches http://www.oikoumene.org/en World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) http://www.worldea.org/ Top MISHNAH Jewish Texts (Bialystoker Synagogue) http://www.bialystoker.org/talmud.htm Mishnah http://people.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudMap/Mishnah.html Sample text and explanation. Mishnah (Encyclppaedia Judaica) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0014_0_13999.html Described. Structured Mishnah (English and Hebrew versions) http://chaver.com/Mishnah/TheMishnah.htm Top MISSIONS Acts in Africa Initiative (Assemblies of God in Africa) http://www.actsinafrica.org/ Assemblies of God U.S. Missions http://usmissions.ag.org/ Assemblies of God World Missions http://worldmissions.ag.org/ BRIGADA: Resources, trends, and motivation to fulfill the Great Commission http://www.brigada.org/ “…collection of web- and email-based resources … Brigada Today is a web journal offering resources, strategy tips, tools & “hacks” to Great Commission Christians. … Identify & promote helpful resources, conferences, websites, agencies, individuals, etc.” Center for the Study of Global Christianity (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) http://www.gordonconwell.edu/resources/Center-for-the-Study-of-Global-Christianity.cfm Christian Volunteering http://www.christianvolunteering.org/ Guide to those who use Christian volunteers and those who want to volunteer. Digital South Asia Library (Center for Research Library & University of Chicago) http://dsal.uchicago.edu/ Global Mapping International: Strategic Mission Research and Mapping http://www.gmi.org/ “Research, mapping and training of cross -cultural workers to better understand their environment and constituents, and better plan opportunities and develop plans.” “Our mission is to produce and present world-class research that fuels emerging mission movements and leaders.” Global Research: IMB (International Missions Board) Interacting http://public.imb.org/globalresearch/Pages/default.aspx “We gather, analyze, systematize, preserve and disseminate strategic information for the multiplying of churches among all peoples.” History of Missiology (Boston University Theology Library and the Center for Global Christianity and Mission) http://digilib.bu.edu/mission/ International Mission Photography Archive http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15799coll123 (Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States). Internet Research Resources for Missions (Bruce Terry) http://ovc.edu/missions/research.htm A Portal. Joshua Project http://www.joshuaproject.net/index.php “Bringing Definition to the Unfinished Task “ “Joshua Project is a research initiative seeking to highlight the ethnic people groups with the fewest followers of Jesus Christ.” Lausanne Movement: the whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole world http://www.lausanne.org/en/ Ministry Resource Center: For Everything Congregations Care About (Yale University Library) http://www.library.yale.edu/div/mrc/resourcesMRC.html MisLinks: Connecting you with Missions Resources http://www.mislinks.org/ A Portal. Mission Finder http://www.missionfinder.org/ “…the world’s leading gathering place for locating Christian mission trips. Search through hundreds of short term, medical, domestic and international mission trips including orphanages.” Missionary Resources.org http://www.missionaryresources.org/ “…is a website provided by Emercy as a resource for missionaries to find articles, links, books, videos, and discussions for a wide variety of missions resources. Missions (Wabash Center) http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=691 A Portal. Missions and World Christianity (Yale Divinity) http://www.library.yale.edu/div/missgde.htm Missions Atlas Project http://worldmap.org/ 237 country profiles now available online” Includes maps, tabular data sets, and written descriptions, as well as missions progress worldwide. Mundus - Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK http://www.mundus.ac.uk/index.html “Mundus is a web-based guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom. These materials, comprising the archives of British missionary societies, collections of personal papers, printed matter, photographs, other visual materials and artefacts, are held institutions in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.” NationMaster.com http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php This is “a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. [ It] … can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.” Network for Strategic Missions http://strategicnetwork.org/ One World – Nations Online: Nations Online Project: Get in Touch with the World http://www.nationsonline.org/. “A Portal to the Countries of the World.” “Made to improve cross-cultural understanding.”” This site is a portal of gateways to the countries, cultures and nations in the world, a reference directory and a destination guide.” Operation World: GMI Strategic Mission Research and Mapping http://www.gmi.org/ Operation World project. It has” library of valuable mission information resources, including maps, graphs, presentations, documents, images, audio, and video - most are free. Plus, “custom mapping services” for a fee. “You can now download the Operation World 7th Edition as an eBook (available in PDF, ePUB and Mobipocket). Orality Strategies https://www.oralitystrategies.org/strategies.cfm?id=1 “Chronological Bible Storying involves telling biblical stories in the order in which they happened as part of the connected narrative of Scripture. Usually this means beginning with creation and moving sequentially through at least the resurrection of Jesus.” The pages on the right provide access to a wealth of other resources. OSCAR: the UK information service for world mission http://www.oscar.org.uk/service/ “The Service zone includes information on a whole array of resources for missionaries and overseas workers.” Researching World Christianity: Doctoral Dissertations on Mission since 1900 (International Bulletin of Missionary Research) http://resources.library.yale.edu/dissertations/ Society for Cross-Cultural Research http://www.sccr.org/links.html Cross-cultural Weblinks. U.S. Center for World Mission https://www.uscwm.org/ “Publishing; Education and Training; Research; Innovation; Media.” “Accelerating breakthrough among the Unreached.” “Bringing definition to the unfinished task.” World Bank http://data.worldbank.org/ It has “ a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe.” World Christian Resource Directory: resources for missionaries and Christians worldwide http://www.missionresources.com/ Top MISSIONS (SOCIETIES AND BOARDS) Agencies http://www.mislinks.org/gathering/agencies/ Associations http://www.mislinks.org/gathering/associations/ Mission Societies http://www.mislinks.org/gathering/mission-societies/ Top MISSOURI STATE GOVERNMENT SITES Missouri Attorney General https://www.ago.mo.gov/ Missouri Census Data Center mcdc.missouri.edu/ Missouri Department of Revenue www.dor.mo.gov/ Missouri Disability Portal www.disabilityinfo.mo.gov/ Missouri Online Library List (MOLLi) www.sos.mo .gov/library/libdir.asp?id=web Missouri State Government www.mo.gov/ Official Manual (Blue Book) www.sos.mo.gov/bluebook/default.asp Secretary of State Home Page www.sos.mo.gov/ Top MORMON CHURCH Sacred Texts and Religion: Mormon Church sacred texts: Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenant, Pearl of Great Price http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top MYTHS Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Myths and Legends http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/myth.html Sacred Texts and Religion: Myths and Legends http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top NEW TESTAMENT RESEARCH Bible Links Page (Wieland Willker) http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/bibel.html Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers www.earlychristianwritings.com/ Five Gospel Parallels (John W. Marshall. University of Toronto) http://www.utoronto.ca/religion/synopsis/ Johannine Literature Web: Resources for the Study of the Fourth Gospel and the Letters of John http://catholic-resources.org/John/ New Testament Gateway http://www.ntgateway.com/ “ … web directory of internet resources on the New Testament.” A Portal. NT Resources (Dr. Donald D. Binder) http://www.pohick.org/sts/resources.html N.T. Wright Page http://www.ntwrightpage.com Paul Page (New Perspective on Paul) http://www.thepaulpage.com Reference Charts for Textual Criticism http://www.viceregency.com/TextCritCharts.pdf Resources for New Testament Exegesis (Roy C. Ciampa, Ph.D., Godon-Conwell) http://www.viceregency.com Synoptic Gospels Primer: Parallel Texts in Matthew, Mark & Luke http://virtualreligion.net/primer/ Synoptic Problem Website http://www.hypotyposeis.org/synoptic-problem/ Textual Criticism of the Greek New Testament (Dr. Michael D. Marlowe) www.bible-researcher.com/title.html Use of Scripture in Early Judaism and the New Testament http://www.viceregency.com/Scripture.htm Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words http://www2.mf.no/bibel/vines.html Top OLD TESTAMENT RESEARCH (SEE ALSO JEWISH STUDIES ABOVE, AND HEBREW STUDIES) Old Testament Gateway (Designed and maintained by Roy and Sue Nicholson of Manly West Queensland Australia) http://otgateway.com/ A Portal. Second Temple Synagogues (Donald B. Binder) http://www.pohick.org/sts/ Textual Criticism of the Old Testament (Dr. Michael D. Marlowe) www.bible-researcher.com/hebrewtext.html Top PAPYRUS/PAPYROLOGY Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/ “…information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc.)...” Papyri.info http://www.papyri.info/ “Offers links to papyrological resources, a customized search engine (called the Papyrological Navigator), and an editing application, the Papyrological Editor.” Top PASTORING AND SERMON PREPARATION. (SEE ALSO MINISTRY AND EVANGELISM ABOVE) BibleGateway.com http://www.biblegateway.com/ Bible.org www.bible.org/ Crosswalk www.crosswalk.com Famous Quotes and Authors http://virtualreligion.net/vri/phil.html Internet Resources for Ministry (AGTS Website) http://www.agts.edu/resources/using_internet.html Ministry Health: Support and Resources For Pastors and Christian Ministry Professionals (Thomas F. Fischer) http://www.ministryhealth.net/ Pastors.com (Saddleback Church. Rick Warren) http://pastors.com/ Preacher’s Study http://ww2.preacherstudy.com/ Preaching Today (Christianity Today) http://www.preachingtoday.com/ Publications and Resources (AGTS Website) http://www.agts.edu/resources/index.html Sermon Central: Resources for Preaching and Teaching http://www.sermoncentral.com/ Sermon Illustrations.com http://www.sermonillustrations.com/ Sermon Index http://www.sermonindex.net/ Study Light http://www.studylight.org/ Today’s Preacher: for communicators in a modern world http://todayspreacher.faithsite.com/ Top PATRISTICS (René-Michel Roberge) http://www4.bibl.ulaval.ca/bd/bibp/english.html Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.asp North American Patristics Society http://patristics.org/ Click “Resources” to see a wide variety of online resources. It includes: Encyclopedias; Early Christian Texts; Early Christian Authors; Oriental Christianity; Societies and Institutes; Other Resources and Guides; Teaching Early Christian Studies. ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (College of Staten Island, City University of New York) http://www.the-orb.net/ “The ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students.” Patristic Texts http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html#patristic Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics (BIBP) Patristic Theology (Post-Reformation Digital Library. Hekman Library) http://libguides.calvin.edu/content.php?pid=46750&sid=345707 Patristica.net http://patristica.net/ Top PENTECOSTALISM AND PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGY The following sources were compiled by Russ Langford, Global University. “Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies (Asia Pacific Theological Seminary) 1998-date. Assessing the Roots of American Pentecostalism: a Historiographic Essay / by Randall J. Stephens Includes bibliography. Cyberjournal for Pentecostal-Charismatic Research Available online: Directory of Open Access Journals and ATLA Religion Database, 1997Dixon Pentecostal Research Center - Church of God (Cleveland, TN) Archives.” Includes Pentecostal and Charismatic documents, records, and other media.” European Pentecostal-Charismatic Research Association – “Fosters dialogue in various fields and disciplines relevant to Pentecostal / Charismatic history, theology and church life. Has links to worldwide Pentecostal associations, news, and full-text conference papers back to 1989.” European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism – “Active research about Pentecostal and Charismatic movements worldwide, with a special focus on Africa, Asia, and Latin America. (GloPent) is an interdisciplinary academic initiative coordinated by Pentecostalism experts at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the University of Birmingham, the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Uppsala. Bibliographies located under "Study Resources" on the left-hand menu are extensive, academic, and global covering Latin America, Africa, India, Asia, and Europe.” Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center – “Focuses mainly on the history of the Assemblies of God. Collections include headquarters (U.S. Assemblies of God) documents, correspondence, published and unpublished histories, books, periodicals, news clips, personal papers, diaries, photographs, audiovisual materials (including oral histories), memorabilia, and materials from other Pentecostal groups.” Pentecostal-Charismatic Theological Inquiry International – “Online newsletters and publications, links to seminaries worldwide, academic societies, and scholarly research.” PentecoStudies – “An interdisciplinary journal for research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.” Pneuma Foundation – “Resources for Spirit-empowered ministry.” World Directory of Pentecostal Publications http://www.pentecostalworldfellowship.org/pub/pub.htm Journal of Pentecostal Theology (Use the A to Z eJournals, Christian Periodical Index link, 1992-date) Pentecostal Foundations: Annotated Bibliography (Dr. Martin Mittelstadt) (Compiled by: Jessica Farmer) http://www2.wheaton.edu/isae/Pentecostalism/Articles/Mittelstadt.pdf “A work in progress.” Additional online sources may be located for specific countries by making searches using Google.com or Bing.com. The search (made on Google.com or Bing.com) should include the needed word(s) limited to the country by adding the limiter, site:ca (limits search to Canada, site:au (limits the search to Australia) and site:de (limits search to Germany). To locate all the two-letter country specific domains, search for: NORID domain registry. This should yield the master list of domains registered for all nations and protectorates http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html . Additional print sources may be located by making searches on the EU/AGTS libraries’ Online Public Access Catalog system using terms such as: Pentecostal, Pentecostals, Pentecostalism, Holy Spirit, or the name of a denomination/faith community. Top PHILOSOPHY African Philosophy Sources (Bruce B. Janz) http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/afphil/ A portal. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts http://infomotions.com/alex/ It includes over 4,000 Western philosophy books. AskPhilosophers http://www.askphilosophers.org/ Online access to philosophers who will answer questions. Basics of Philosophy: a huge subject broken down into manageable chunks http://www.philosophybasics.com/ “By movement or school; General; By Branch or Doctrine; By Historical Period; By Individual Philosopher.” Boethius (c.480-c.525 CE) (James J. O’Donnell) http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/ Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names (Garth Kemerling) http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/ Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind https://sites.google.com/site/minddict/ Early Modern Philosophy Texts http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/index.html “… versions of some classics of early modern philosophy, and a few from the 19th century, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought.” Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy http://www.epicurus.net/ Epicurean texts and Epicureanism. Epistemelinks: Philosophy Resources on the Internet http://www.epistemelinks.com/index.aspx Exploring Plato’s Dialogues https://notendur.hi.is//~kb/index_files/plato.evansville.htm Internet Websites on Plato presented in an easy-to-navigate hierarchical index. Film Philosophy http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p Film Philosophy Electronic Salon http://www.filmmaker.com/node/16934 Gnosis Archive http://gnosis.org/welcome.html Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Peter Suber, Earlham College) http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/philinks.htm HIPPIAS: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet (Now See Noesis below) History of Philosophy Timelines http://www.wadsworth.com/philosophy_d/special_features/timeline/timeline.html# Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/ Intute: Philosophy http://www.intute.ac.uk/philosophy/ Intute closed to new entries July 2011 however this British academic site is still worthy of consideration Lapidarium Notes: Timeline of Major Western Philosophers and some Related Persons and Events (Amira Skomorowska) http://aminotes.tumblr.com/page/15 Noesis: Philosophical Research On-line http://hippias.evansville.edu/ Open Library: Philosophy http://openlibrary.org/subjects/philosophy Over 68,000 works. See the list of Limiters in the lower section of the page to help focus searches. Philosophy (Voice of the Shuttle, Alan Liu) http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2724 A portal Philosophy around the Web http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil_index.html A portal. If a link is broken, use the name of the Website as a Google.com or Bing.com search string to locate the new URL. Philosophy Bites: Podcasts of Top Philosophers Interviewed on Bite-Sized Topics http://philosophybites.com/ Philosophy Documentation Center http://www.pdcnet.org/ Philosophy in Cyberspace (Dey Alesander) (Australia) http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/ Philosophy Pages (Garth Kemerling) http://www.philosophypages.com/ “…helpful information for students of the Western philosophical tradition.” (Dictionary; History; Timeline; Discussion of Major Philosophers; Logic; Study Guide; Other Links. Philosophy Papers: Online Research about Philosophy http://philpapers.org/ “PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophical articles and books by academic philosophers.” Philosophy: Philosophy of the EServer (Carnegie Mellon University) http://philosophy.eserver.org/ Primary texts. Philosophy Research Base (ErraticImpact) www.erraticimpact.com/ “…is categorized by history, subject and author. Integrating text resources with the best online resources…” A Portal. Use its Featured Webs on left. Philosophy Resources on the Internet (Episteme Links) http://epistemelinks.com/ Philosophy Resources Online http://www.westvalley.edu/ph/resourc.html A portal Philosophy Sites, Other Links to (Garth Kemerling) http://www.philosophypages.com/links.htm Additional links liked by Garth Kemerling. Project Gutenbert: Philosophy (Bookshelf) http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Philosophy_(Bookshelf) “Philosophical works in Project Gutenberg's catalog are listed … in roughly chronological order by subject.” Sacred Texts and Religion: Desiderata http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Society for Philosophical Inquiry/Socrates Café/Philosopher’s Club http://www.philosopher.org/Home.html Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/ Timeline of Western Philosophers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Western_philosophers Virtual Religion Index: Philosophy and Theology (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/phil.html A Portal. Women Philosophers Index http://www.women-philosophers.com/Women-Philosophers-Index.html Arranged by first names. WWW Philosophy Virtual Library (University of Bristol) http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/resources/virtual.html A portal. Top POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism (Open Directory Project) http://www.dmoz.org/search?q=Postmodernism Handpicked directories of relevant information. Postmodernism: Research resources for Christianity's relevancy in today's culture http://www.apologeticsindex.org/p02.html A Portal. Toward a Theological Understanding of Postmodernism (Daniel J. Adams. CrossCurrents) www.crosscurrents.org/adams.htm Top PREACHING (SEE MINISTRY AND EVANGELISM ABOVE) PROVERBS, GENERAL Sacred Texts and Religion: Proverbs http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION Virtual Religion Index: Psychology of Religion (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/psych.html A Portal. Top REFERENCE AllExperts.com http://www.allexperts.com/ “More than 2 million questions answered! Allexperts.com is the oldest & largest free Q&A service on the Internet.” Encyclopedia.com: search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries http://www.encyclopedia.com/ Internet Public Library: Information you can Trust www.ipl.org/ Handpicked subject specific Websites. LookLex Encyclopedia http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm RefDesk: Fact Checker for the Internet: Virtual Reference www.refdesk.com/ WWW Virtual Library www.vlib.org/ Each topic is overseen by one or more subject specialists. Top REFERENCE WORKS ONLINE Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/cad/ “ Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/ Biblical Words Pronunciation Guide http://netministries.org/Bbasics/bwords.htm Catholic Encyclopedia (1914) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/ The EU Library has print editions for 1907, 1929, 1967, 1987, 2003; CBC Library has editions for 1914, 1922, 1965, 1987, 2002; AGTS has print editions for1967, 1976, 1991, 2002. Centennial Encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (African American) http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/wright/menu.html Christian Cyclopedia (Leuker) (Lutheran) http://cyclopedia.lcms.org/ Concise Dictionary of Religion (Hexham) www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/books/concise/ Dictionary of African Christian Biography (Christians in Africa) www.dacb.org/ Dictionary of Orthodox Terminology (Fotios K. Litsas) (Eastern Orthodox) www.goarch.org/ourfaith8049 Dictionary of Philosophy http://carm.org/dictionary-philosophy.intro Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Online Books Page. University of Pennsylvania Library) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp31715 Dictionary of Theology www.carm.org/a Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography http://www25.uua/uuhs/duub/ Easton’s Bible Dictionary http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/eastons-bible-dictionary/ Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971) http://www.bjeindy.org/resources/library/encyclopediajudaica/ (See also Jewish Encyclopedia below) Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia University) http://www.iranicaonline.org/ “ study of Iranian in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.” Encyclopedia of Mythica www.pantheon.org/ Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, by James Hastings. 1908-1922-1926. Volumes may be read or downloaded at Archive.org (search in Texts) www.archive.org Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (Swatos, Jr.) http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/index.html Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (Annabaptist / Mennonite) www.gameo.org/ Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/hitchcocks-bible-names/ Holman Bible Dictionary http://www.studylight.org/dic/hbd Hypertext Bible Dictionary www.bible.gen.nz/dictionary.htm International Standard Bible Encyclopedia http://www.studylight.org/enc/isb/ Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science (Roman Catholic) www.disf.org/en/default.asp Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906) http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp (See also Encyclopaedia Judaica above) New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc01.html Online Language Dictionaries: WorldReference.com http://wordreference.com/ 17 langauges Perseus Encyclopedia http://perseus.uchicago.edu/Reference/perseusencyclopedia.html Greco-Roman World; Greek and Latin texts Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Richard Stillwell, et al.) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006 Reference Works (Wabash Center) http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=3928 Shi’ite Encyclopedia www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/ Smith’s Bible Dictionary http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/smiths-bible-dictionary/ Tibetan-English Online Dictionary (Nitartha International / Rangjung Yeshe Publications) (Buddhism) www.nitartha.org/dictionary.html Vedic Encyclopedia (Hindu) www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encylopedia/index.htm Top REFORMATION AND POST-REFORMATION Counter Reformation (History Learning Site) (CUS - UK) http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-counter-reformation.htm English Reformation Pages (Hanover College Department of History . Hanover Historical Texts Project) http://history.hanover.edu/texts/ENGref/links.html Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research (Calvin Theological Seminary) http://www.juniusinstitute.org/ Post-Reformation Digital Library (H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.) http://www.prdl.org/ It offers “… theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included.” Protestant Reformation Texts (Hanover College Department of History. Hanover Historical Texts Project) http://history.hanover.edu/link-lists/prot.html (This is no longer undated but still useful.) Reformation http://www.mun.ca/rels/reform/index.html A Portal. For full text books on Reformation and Counter-Reformation, go to www.hathitrust.org and make searches. Researchers may also search and download full text books covering the subjects at www.archive.org >Texts and then search. Top RELIGION Academic Info: Religion Gateway www.academicinfo.net/religindex.html A Portal. Academic info: Religious Studies: Societies, Centers & Associations www.academicinfo.net/Religionsoc.html American Academy of Religion www.aaweb.org/ American Methodism Project (Archive.org) http://www.archive.org/details/americanmethodism ART: CAMIO: OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online http://camio.oclc.org/ Baptist Studies Online http://baptiststudiesonline.com/ BASE . http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/en/index.php “... is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources.” Bible Maps http://carm.org/bible-maps Biblical Bibliography of Lausanne (BiBIL) http://www3.unil.ch/bibil/public/default.action?request_locale=en BILDI (Documentation for Biblical Literature Innsbruck) http://www.uibk.ac.at/bildi/bildi/search/index.html.en Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity http://www.bdcconline.net/en/ Bioethics Resources on the Web (National Institutes of Health) http://bioethics.od.nih.gov/ BUBL Link: Catalogue of Internet Resources: Religion (British Academic Website) http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=2595 Categorized Internet Resources for Theological Studies (Websites) (Fuller Theological Seminary Library) http://library.fuller.edu/library/Internet_resources.asp Subjects included: Biblical Studies; Theology, Ethics, and Religion; General Christianity and Ecumenics; Church History; Missions & Practical Theology; Religion and Cultures; Psychology & Religion; Religious Statistics Digital Quaker Collection (Earlham School of Religion) http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/ It contains “…full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries.” EThOs - British Library Electronic Theses Online http://ethos.bl.uk/ Free Journal Resources: Religious Studies (The Master’s Seminary Library) http://www.tms.edu/LibraryFreeJournals.aspx Hartford Institute for Religious Research http://hirr.hartsem.edu HathiTrust Digital Library http://www.hathitrust.org/ Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections (UC – Riverside) http://infomine.ucr.edu/ (Please use the Social Science and Religion link.) Ingenta http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ “World’s largest resource for scholarly publications.” Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity (Jay C. Treat, University of Pennsylvania) http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ejtreat/rs/resources.html Intute: helping you find the best websites for study and research (UK Academic network) http://www.intute.ac.uk/religion/ While it is now closed, it is still respected. Paths: The Way of the Soul http://www.snark.ca/ano.htm A portal to religion and religious thinking across the spectrum. Religion: Denominations / Church Affiliations http://netministries.org/denomlst.htm Official and unofficial refer to the page / site status with respect to the denomination Religion Facts: Just the facts on religion http://www.religionfacts.com/ Especially note its Comparison Charts comparing two or more religions. Religion: Fathers of the Church http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/ Religion-Online.org: Full texts by recognized religious scholars http://www.religion-online.org/ “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.” Religion Web Sites http://ejw.i8.com/relweb.htm May be dated but has hundreds of sites for specific religions on the Internet. Note its Dead Link directory and its directions for locating broken links. Researchers may also use the name of the Weblink as a Google.com or Bing.com search to see if there is a new address. Religious Movements Homepage Project (University of Virginia) (Jeff Haddon & Douglas E. Cowan) http://web.archive.org/web/20060907005952/http:/etext.lib.virginia.edu/relmove/ “…detailed profiles of more than two hundred different religious groups and movements.” Religious Studies (“Voice of the Shuttle” – (UC at Santa Barbara) http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2730 Religious Studies Web Guide (Saundra Lipton (University of Calgary Library) and Cheryl Adams (Library of Congress)) http://people.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/index.html Religious Tolerance.org: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance http://www.religioustolerance.org/ Religious Worlds http://www.religiousworlds.com/index.html “...is an information source about religions and religious studies for scholars and students.” Resources for American Christianity: projects funded by the Eli Lilly Foundation http://www.resourcingchristianity.org/ UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology http://escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee Wabash Center Internet Guide to Religion http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/guide_headings.aspx Top RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Assemblies of God Christian Education ministries Children’s Ministries http://4kids.ag.org/ Discipleship Ministries http://discipleship.ag.org/index.cfm National Youth Ministries http://youth.ag.org/ Senior Adult Ministries http://sam.ag.org/ Single Adult Ministries http://singles.ag.org/ Young Adult Ministries http://youngadults.ag.org Colleges and Universities http://colleges.ag.org/ Group: Life-Changing Ideas for Churches http://www.grouppublishing.com Open Library: Christian Education http://openlibrary.org/subjects/christian_education Over 2,300 works. See Limiters listed below to help focus searches. Religious Education (Wabash Center) http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=697&pid=650 Sunday School Help.com (Pennsylvania Sunday School Association) http://www.sundayschoolhelp.com/ Sunday Software (Neil MacQueen) http://sundaysoftware.com/site/ Top REVIEWS Review of Biblical Literature (Society of Biblical Literature) http://www.bookreviews.org/ Also see: Most of the online religious and theological databases on the EU Website. Top ROME, ANCIENT Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization(DARMC) (Michael McCormick, et al) (Harvard) http://medievalmap.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40248&pageid=icb.page188865 Rome (Best of History Websites) (25 Websites plus over 35 Websites for teachers) http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ancient-biblical-history/rome A Portal. Top SACRED TEXTS Internet Sacred Text Archive http://www.sacred-texts.com/ “…freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. …” Includes texts ranging from African religions to Zoroastrianism. Top SAINTS BHLms Société des Bollandistes. Index analytique des Catalogues de manuscrits hagiographiques latins publiés par les Bollandistes http://bhlms.fltr.ucl.ac.be/ Top SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY Answers in Genesis http://www.answersingenesis.org/ Counterbalance http://www.counterbalance.org/ “…offering new views on complex issues from science, ethics, philosophy, and religion. ” Institute for Creation Research http://www.icr.org/ Top SEPTUAGINT Resources for the Study of the Septuagint: Resources for the study of the Septuagint and old Greek translations of the Hebrew scriptures (Joel Kalvesmaki) http://www.kalvesmaki.com/lxx/ Septuagint (English/Greek LXX translation) http://www.ccel.org/bible/brenton/ Septuagint (Institute of Biblical Greek) (in progress) http://biblicalgreek.org/links/lxx.php Text in English, Greek, and Aids. Septuagint in Hebrew, Greek, and English text http://www.bayithamashiyach.com/Scriptures.html (In progress) Top SERMON ARCHIVES To locate Sermon Archives, make a search on Google.com, Bing.com, or Duckduckgo.com using the search string: “sermon archives” or “sermon text archives” including the quotation marks. Each will return links for archived collections of sermons. For Assemblies of God/Church of God in Christ/Pentecostal sermons, go to http://ifphc.org/ , the International Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center and make a search for “sermons.” For Church of God, Cleveland, TN sermons, go to http://aca.iii.com/search and make a search for “sermons.” Other faith communities and individual ministers have archives, too. Please make a search for each one by using the name of the faith community/denomination or minister and the words, “Archive ” or “sermon archive.“ Top SHINTO Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Sacred Texts and Religion: Shinto http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top SIKHISM Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Sacred Texts and Religion: Sikhism http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top SOCIOLOGY Child and Family Web-Guide (Tufts University) http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/ “Expert reviewed sites on children and families.” North American Association of Christians in Social Work http://www.nacsw.org/index.shtml Social Gerontology and the Aging Revolution http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/geron.html EU students should note online databases which are especially helpful: ProQuest Research Library (General Databases); SocINDEX (Social Work and Sociology Databases); Academic Search Complete (General Databases) Top SPANISH LANGUAGE BIBLE/RELIGION RESOURCES Biblia Paralela http://bibliaparalela.com/ Online Spanish Bibles Spanish Language online resources: An online source, Libreria Cristiana Teologica Virtual, (An Online Referral Services Library Project Sponsored by Northwestern Theological Seminary.) http://ntslibrary.com/Libreria-Virtual.htm is provided by The NTSLibrary, See also: Manual de Investigación para el Estudiante (St. John’s Seminary Library) http://www.bibliotecas-cra.cl/docs/recursos/Manual_Invest.pdf Spanish Language aids www.biblegateway.com Click “En Español” in the top ribbon to see the aids in Spanish. Top SPIRITUALITY, NON-CHRISTIAN Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Sacred Texts and Religion: Spirituality http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top STATISTICS Adherents.com: National & World Religion Statistics - Church Statistics - World Religions www.adherents.com ARDA: Association of Religious Data Archives http://thearda.com/ Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life http://religions.pewforum.org/ “The Pew Forum conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research on important aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world. It also provides a neutral venue for discussions of timely issues through roundtables and briefings. Religion Statistics by Country (NationMaster) http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/rel-religion Statistics presented by Bar Charts. Religion Statistics by Country (ReligionFacts) http://www.religionfacts.com/religion_statistics/religion_statistics_by_country.htm Top SYRIAC Resources for Syriac Studies (Dunbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. Harvard University) http://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/resources/syriac Syriac Studies Reference Library (Brigham Young and Catholic University of America) http://www.lib.byu.edu/digital//cua/ Syriaca. (Vanderbilt UniversityJ) http://syriaca.org/ Top TABLES OF CONTENTS OF JOURNALS Ingentaconnect.com (Click Browse by Publication) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ JournalTOCs http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/ JournalTOCs is the biggest searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). It contains ,,, over 21,900 journals directly collected from over 1755 publishers. Top TALMUD Soncino English Babylonian Talmud http://halakhah.com/indexrst.html . An index to the Talmud is available at http://webapps.oru.edu/new_php/library/guides/pdfs/talmudAbbrev.pdf Talmud Page http://people.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudPage.html See its link at the bottom of page. Top TANAKH (SEE BOOKS AND EBOOKS, JUDAIC ABOVE) TAOISM Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Sacred Texts and Religion: Taoism http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top TARGUM NTCS: The Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies http://targum.info/targumic-texts/ Click Targumic Texts Subpages on left. Top THEOLOGY Arminius: Works of James Arminius http://wesley.nnu.edu/arminianism/the-works-of-james-arminius/ Assemblies of God Doctrine and Theology Assemblies of God Position Papers http://ag.org/top/Beliefs/Position_Papers/index.cfm I Value: Core Beliefs http://ag.org/top/Beliefs/Our_Core_Doctrines/index.cfm Jamieson, Samuel A. Pillars of Truth. Pulpit and Pew Full Gospel Series. http://www.ifphc.org/index.cfm Nelson, Peter Christopher. Bible Doctines http://www.ifphc.org/index.cfm Statement of Fundamental Truths http://ifphc.org/Uploads/Heritage/2012_08.pdf Williams, Ernest Swing. Systematic Theology http://www.ifphc.org/index.cfm Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/ Calvinism (an introduction) http://carm.org/calvinism Computer-Assisted Theology (Humbul edition) (UK) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/theology/ Includes non-Christian theologies. Index Theologicus (University of Tubingen) http://www.ixtheo.de/cgi-bin/ixtheo/maskeeng.pl?db=ixtheo “This allegro database contains document descriptions from more than 600 periodicals and from Festschriften and congress publications. It is updated every night…” May limit by Scripture Reference. Internet Theology Resources: By School of Theology Major Areas (College of St. Benedicts & St. John’s University) http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/index.html Online Books and Resources for Theology: Well-known online libraries for theology http://www.dennisjowers.com/theology_resources.html It also includes “More Obscure Online Libraries & Databases for Theology” and “Miscellaneous Resources.” Online Christian Library of Virtual Theological Resources: A Leading Worldwide Christian Internet Community Learning Resource http://www.ntslibrary.com/Online-Library-Research-Tools.htm Pentecostal-Charismatic Theological Inquiry international http://www.pctii.org/ ”… global database which is designed for research specialists--graduate students (Th.D. and Ph.D.), professors and independent research scholars with accredited, terminal degrees.” Must join to access full database. Religion Online: Full texts by recognized religious scholars http://www.religion-online.org/ “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.” Society for Biblical Studies: an international community of scholars working within the Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions http://www.sps-usa.org/ Systematic Theology Study Helps http://www.theologywebsite.com/systheo/ Theological Journals Search http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=018443097211386924752%3Aluwi5uy2qbe “A Google custom search engine that searches over 350 open-access theological journals.” Theological Studies (UK) http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/ Theology (Michael Fraser) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/theology/ A Portal. Theology (Steve Perisho. Seattle Pacific University Library Subject Guide. ) http://spu.edu/library/subject-guides/theology A Portal. Virtual Religion Index: Philosophy and Theology (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/phil.html A Portal. Women and Theology (ACRL-ALA) http://www.libr.org/wgss/wgsslinks/theology.html Includes women and feminist theology in all major religions. Yahoo! Directory: Religion and Spirituality http://dir.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/religion_and_spirituality Top THEOSOPHY Sacred Texts and Religion: Theosophy http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top THESES AND DISSERTATIONS (SEE ALSO THE EU LIBRARY DATEBASES HEADING DISSERTATIONS AND THESES) ABES: Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Súperieur abes – agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur http://www.abes.fr/Theses/Mission-nationale The search engine of French doctoral theses. Amicus / National Library of Canada http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus/index-e.html Helps locate unpublished theses and dissertations. Australasian Digital Theses Program http://www.caul.edu.au/caul-programs/australasian-digital-theses Australia and New Zealand theses. Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações http://bdtd.ibict.br/ CRL (Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network) http://catalog.crl.edu/ Helps locate unpublished theses and dissertations. Cybertesis (Chile) http://www.tesis.uchile.cl/ “… full text access to electronic theses published in universities around the world including Latin America, Europe, and North America.” DART - Europe E-theses Portal http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php “…single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations.” Dissertations reported: Center for Research Libraries http://catalog.crl.edu/ (outside US and Canada); OpenThesis http://www.openthesis.org/ . (More country or continent specific masters theses and doctoral dissertations may be located by using a search string: “find dissertations” (or: “find theses”) and country or continent name. In some cases, researchers will need the local word for thesis or dissertation.) EthOS: Electronic Thesis Online Service (UK) “Opening access to UK theses.” User must register. Index to Theses (UK & Ireland) http://www.theses.com/ Theses written since 1716. KERIS RISS database http://www.riss.kr/index.do Korean dissertations and theses from Universities in South Korea, includes some free ones. National Assembly Library http://dl.nanet.go.kr/index.do Korean language database of Korean resources including dissertations and theses. Some are free with registration. National Library of Korea http://www.nl.go.kr/search/web_search/search/search_brief.php?search_mode=0 English available on top ribbon. Click on Dissertation (hagwi nonmun) for searching. Some are freely available. Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations http://www.ndltd.org/ The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization that promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. phdData: Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress http://www.phddata.org/ Theses Canada: Library and Archives of Canada http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html Canadian theses and dissertations Vidyanidhi http://dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in:8080/dspace/ “Vidyanidhi Digital Library, University of Mysore … provides an open online access to 5480 Indian full-text doctoral theses.” Premier site for doctoral research in India. Top TORAH (SEE BOOKS AND EBOOKS, JUDAIC ABOVE) WORSHIP Assemblies of God: Worship Resources and Consulting http://music.ag.org/ New Worship Resources http://www.newworshipresources.com/resources/ (Christian Resource Institute) http://www.cresourcei.org/worship.html Soul Survivor (UK) http://soulsurvivor.com/ Worship Together.com (Worship Resources) http://www.worshipinstitute.com/ Top YOUTH MINISTRIES (SEE ALSO ASSEMBLIES OF GOD MINISTRIES ABOVE) Barna Group Campus Crusade for Christ Center for First Third Ministry Center for Parent Youth Understanding: Understanding Culture to Impact Culture Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence Child Trends ChildStats.gov Children and Worship Fuller Youth Institute Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Life In Student Ministry: Conversations Among Youth Ministers National Study on Youth and Religion Princeton's Institute of Youth Ministry Search Insitute Veritas Forum Young Life Youth for Christ Youth Ministry Youth Ministry Ideas YouthPastor.com Youth Specialties YouthWorker.com Top ZEN BUDDHISM (SEE BUDDHISM ABOVE) ZOROASTRIANISM Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (James Hastings, et al.) http://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaOfReligionAndEthics.Hastings-selbie-gray.13Vols Use its very detailed index for specific articles. Sacred Texts and Religion: Zoroastrianism http://www.e-book.com.au/morefreebooks/freereligiousbooks.htm Top CREDITS Credit for Weblinks shown is given to the libraries of the following colleges and universities: Asbury Theological Seminary Assemblies of God Theological Seminary Beeson Divinity School, Samford University Biola University Brookes Bible Institute Community College of Philadelphia Dallas Theological Seminary Eastern University Evangel University Fuller Theological Seminary Global University (Russ Langford) Goshen College Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Grinnell College Hope University Dr. John Jaeger, Dallas Baptist University Library Graduate Studies Research Librarian Lee University Dr. Martin Mittelstadt, Evangel University, School of Theology and Church Ministries Ohio Valley University Oral Roberts University Point Loma Nazarene University Regent College (Canada) Regent University (Virginia Beach) Seattle Pacific University St. Mary’s University Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Summit Pacific College Ted J. Nesbitt, Librarian on Project-Wombat listserv; Elbin Library, West Liberty State University Tyndale House as recommended by Dr. Dale Bruggeman, STEP Distance Research Coordinator Tyndale University, College & Seminary Valley Forge Christian College Wabash Center Western Theological Seminary William Jessup University Top