Bible Helps and Bible Programs
Bible.Org - Biblical Studies Foundation - Home of Net Bible
Bible Gateway- Bible translations, concordance, topical Bible
Bible Hub - Bibles and Bible study tools
Olive Tree Bible – free downloadable Bible software app
Bible Study Tools – Free online Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, etc.
E-Sword – free downloadable bible software. Bibles, concordance, dictionaries, commentaries
Complete Bible Genealogies - Bible Genealogies People in the Bible, Kings of Israel, Judah, and Jesus Ancient
Study Light.Org – Free Bibles and Bible study tools. Commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, encyclopedias,
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Jewish Virtual Library - Includes a Jewish encyclopedia, and covers other topics i.e. Anti-Semitism, Biography, History, Holocaust, Israel, Israel Education, Myths & Facts, Politics, Religion, Travel, US & Israel, Vital Stats, Women
Easton's Bible Dictionary - (formerly known as the Illustrated Bible Dictionary) is a classic source for Bible scholars. It was published in 1897. Read online or download
The Catholic Encyclopedia online - also has Roman Catholic Doctrinal Beliefs, Documents and Fathers
Customs and Culture and Backgrounds
The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim – Commentary on fours Gospels with emphasis on the Jewish customs and culture in the passage.
Sketches of Jewish Social Life by Alfred Edersheim – A look at the Jewish social life during the time of Christ
The Temple: Its Ministry and Services by Alfred Edersheim – A look at the Temple and its workings in Jerusalem at the time of Christ.
Association of Christian Librarians (ACL) LibGuides on Bible and Theology
Biblical and Theological Studies LibGuide from the Bible Core Section (BCS) of the Association of Christian Librarians (ACL). This guide is an on-going project of BCS and will introduce you to resources and research skills related to Biblical and Theological Studies. Includes Facts Checker Links and Citation Helps on this page. The guide focuses on facilitating access to resources that are completely and freely available.
Biblical & Theological Studies: General Resources – Databases and Search Engines, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Bible Background and History, Apologetics, Archaeology
Biblical & Theological Studies: New Testament – New Testament Commentaries, Dictionaries and Lexicons, New Testament Texts, Bible Translations, Images, Open Access Journals, Early Church and Patristics, Comparative Tools, Ancient World, Archaeology
Biblical & Theological Studies: Old Testament – Old Testament Text, Bible Translations, Web Resources, Dictionaries, Lexicons and Encyclopedias, Archaeology, Commentaries, Images, Open Access Journals, Ancient World, Ancient Near East, Comparative Tools, Open Access Journals
Extra-Biblical Writings
Early Jewish Writings -Writings of the Tanakh (Old Testament), Deuterocanon, Pseudepigapha, Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus
Talmud – discussions and commentary on Jewish history, law (especially its practical application to life),
customs and culture.
Mishnah (by Herbert Danby) - The Mishnah or Mishna is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions known as the Oral Torah. It has six divisions, they are: Zeraim ("Seeds"), dealing with prayer and blessings, tithes and agricultural laws (11 tractates) Moed ("Festival"), pertaining to the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals (12 tractates) Nashim ("Women"), concerning marriage and divorce, some forms of oaths and the laws of the nazirite (7 tractates) Nezikin ("Damages"), dealing with civil and criminal law, the functioning of the courts and oaths (10 tractates) Kodashim ("Holy things"), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws (11 tractates) and Tohorot ("Purities"), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity, including the impurity of the dead, the laws of food purity and bodily purity (12 tractates).
Apocrypha (Old Testament) - The Old Testament Apocrypha consist of Jewish documents that were not accepted into the Old Testament.
Early Christian Writings - Writings of the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers, Jewish and Pagan writings, etc.
Apocrypha (New Testament) - The New Testament Apocrypha are those writings that were written by ancient Christians that were not accepted into the New Testament.
Encyclopedia Mythica - Extensive collection of mythology and folklore
History and Historians
Flavius Josephus – Joseph Ben Matthias (b. AD 37/38,-d. AD 100), Jewish priest, scholar, and historian who wrote on the Jewish revolt of 66–70 and on earlier Jewish history. His major books are History of the Jewish War (75–79), The Antiquities of the Jews (93), and Against Apion. Writing of Jewish history from creation to the destruction of Jerusalem by Romans
Philo of Alexandria – Jewish Philosopher (c. 20 BC – d. AD 50) was a Jewish-Egyptian philosopher of the Hellenistic period, and one of the most important Jewish Philosophers of ancient times.
The Church Fathers – The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers of the early Church
Diodorus Siculus - The Library of History - Diodorus of Sicily, (1st cen. BC) a Greek historian is known for writing universal history Bibliotheca historica, in three parts. First covers mythic history up to the destruction of Troy, arranged geographically, describing regions around the world from Egypt, India and Arabia to Greece and Europe. Second covers the Trojan War to the death of Alexander the Great. The third covers the period to about 60 BC. (Records fall of Nineveh)
Eusebius, The Church History of also called Eusebius Pamphili (b. AD 260 - d. AD 340) bishop of Caesarea, exegete, polemicist, and historian of the first centuries of Christianity, in his Ecclesiastical History.
Herodotus, Books by – Historian writing of multiple ancient cultures and their histories. Free read writings online or download to your device and read
Pliny the Younger - governor of Pontus and Bithynia from 111-113 AD. He exchanged letters with the emperor Trajan. Two letters are the most famous, in which He encounters Christianity for the first time For Pliny the Younger complete Letters click link here.
Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch Also known as "Parallel Lives", written in Greek ~100 A.D. Includes 50 biographies, 23 Greek, 23 Roman, 2 others.
Strabo, The Geography of – Vols. 1-3, (b.64 or 63 BC – d. c. 24 AD) was a Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Free read online or download to your device and read
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia – links to Mesopotamian historical records by the Fordham University Contents • Ancient Near East •Sumeria (c. 3100-c. 2000 BCE) ◦The Epic of Gilgamesh •Akkadia (c.2350-2200 BCE) •Babylonia (c.2000-1600 BCE) ◦Code of Hammarabi ◦ Kassites and Hittites (c.1600-717 BCE) ◦ Kassites ◦Hittites ◦ Assyria (c.1350- 612 BCE) • Chaldea/Neo-Babylonia (612-539 BCE) •Syrian Cities: Ebla, Ugarit, Emar •Phoenicia 950 BCE on •Carthage: The Punic Empire •ANE Arts and Architecture •ANE Mathematics and Astronomy •Gender and Sexuality • Mesopotamian/ Egyptian/ Hebrew /Greek History
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Persia - links to Persian historical records by the Fordham University Contents •Persia: General •The Persian State: Acheamenids (560-330 BCE) •The Persian State: Parthia and Arcsacids (247 BCE-226 CE) •The Persian State: Sassanids (224-636 CE) •Persian Religions •Art and Architecture •Modern Perspectives on Ancient Iran
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Egypt - links to Egyptian historical records by the Fordham University • Contents General ◦Maps ◦Chronologies ◦Modern Egyptology •The Old Kingdom (2705-2213 BCE) [Dynasties 3-8] •The Middle Kingdom (1991-1668 BCE) [Dynasties 12-13] •The New Kingdom (1570-1070 BCE) [Dynasties 18-20] •Akhnaten [Amenhotep IV] (r. 1363-1347 BCE) •Post Imperial Egypt (1070-332 BCE) [Dynasties 21-31] •Religion ◦Origin Myths ◦The Memphite Theology ◦Gods and Goddesses ◦Isis and Osiris ◦Death and Resurrection •Art and Architecture •Literature •Music •Everyday Life •Mathematics •Gender and Sexuality •Nubia •Libya and Western North Africa •Modern Perspectives on Egypt ◦Black Athena Debate
Internet History Sourcebook: Israel - links to Israeli historical records by the Fordham University. Contents •People of Israel •Pre-Israelite Canaan/Palestine/Syria •The Bible as a Source ◦The Documentary Hypothesis •Ethnogenesis ◦Later Stories •Moses and Monotheism •Conquest of the Land (1250-1000 BCE?) ◦The Judges (c.1200-1050 BCE) •The National Monarchy (c.1020-586 BCE) ◦David (1000-961 BCE) •The Exile (587-538 BCE) •The Prophets (750-550 BCE) •Mythological •Hellenistic Judaisms: Diasporas ◦The Macabbees and After ◦Jews in the Diaspora◦Conflict with Rome• Hellenistic Judaism: Religious Development ◦The Emergence of Judaism ◾The Invention of the Synagogue ◾ Samaritans ◦Editing of the Bible◦ The Septuagint (?made under Ptolemy II r. 283-246 BCE) ◦Philo Judaeus (c.30 BCE-45 CE):◦Pharisees ◦Sadducees ◦Zealots ◦Essenes ◦The Qumran Sect ◾The Dead Sea Scrolls ◦Proselytism •Rabbinic Judaism ◦The Talmud •Gender and Judaism•Modern Perspectives on Ancient Israel
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece - links to Greek historical records by the Fordham University. Contents •General •Greece: Major Historians: Complete Texts ◦Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE) ◦Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE) ◦Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE) ◦Aristotle (384-323 BCE) ◦Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE) ◦Pausanias (fl.c.160 CE) •Crete •Mycenae •Archaic Greece ◦Homer (c.8th Cent. BCE) ◦Hesiod (c.700 BCE) ◦Later Historians ◦Greek Colonization •The Persian Wars (449-479 BCE) •The Rise of the Polis •The Age of Tyranny •Athenian Democracy •Sparta •The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) and After •The Fourth Century: Competing Hegemonies •Philip II of Macedon (r. 339-336 BCE) •Religion and Myth ◦The Olympian Religion◦Chthonic and Mystery Cults ◦Greek Conceptions of Death and Immortality •Philosophy ◦PreSocratics – Materialists -◾Pythagoreanism ◾Eleatic School ◾Sophists ◾Atomists ◦Socrates (469-399 BCE) ◦Plato (427-347 BCE)◦Aristotle (384-323 BCE) •Literature •Literature: Theatre ◦Theatre Practice ◦Drama Theory ◦Aeschylus (525-456 BCE) ◦Sophocles (496-405/6 BCE) ◦Euripides (c.485-406 BCE) ◦Aristophanes (c.445-c.385 BCE) ◦Menander (342/1-293/89 BCE) •Art •Music •Education •Economic Life •Slavery •Greek Law •Everyday Life •Gender and Sexuality ◦Women: ◦Homosexuality: •Modern Perspectives on Ancient Greece ◦Homer and War ◦Greece and Anthropology ◦Slavery
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome - links to Roman historical records by the Fordham University. Contents •General •Rome: Major Historians: Complete Texts •Etruscans •Roman Foundations •The Growth of Republican Institutions •The War with Carthage •Imperial Expansion under the Republic •Civil Wars and Revolution ◦Cicero (105-43 BCE) •The Principate to 192 CE ◦Augustus ◦The Julio-Claudian Dynasty 14-68 CE ◦69 CE: Year of Three Emperors ◦The Flavian Emperors 69-96 CE ◦The Adoptive Emperors 96-192 CE •Roman Law •The Army •The Empire and Provinces ◦Rome: As Imperial Capital ◦The Empire as a Unity ◦Africa ◦Egypt ◦Syria/Judea ◦Asia ◦Asia Minor ◦Europe ◦Britain •Later Empire (after 192 CE) ◦Elagabulus (r.218-222 CE) •Literature •Art and Architecture •Education •Economic Life ◦Life of the Upper Classes ◦Trade ◦Counting •Slavery •Everyday Life ◦Food ◦Sport and Games◦ Names ◦Language ◦Technology◦ Pompeii •Religion •Gender and Sexuality ◦Women ◦Homosexuality •Modern Perspectives on Ancient Rome
Archaeology and Ancient Photos and Pictorial Aids
American Journal of Archaeology (Open Access Online Only Published Content) - features free access to Book Reviews, Books Received, Review Articles, Necrologies,
CDRI: Digital Resources for the Study of Religion - provides access to 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.
Free Bible Images - You can download free sets of Bible story images for teaching use in PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or JPEG formats. These resources are free for teaching purposes – no strings attached. Images by Bible book, character or theme.
Hebrew and Greek Language
Hebrew
Greek
Elementary New Testament Greek / Joseph R. Dongell - free full text book download
A Concise Exegetical Grammar of New Testament Greek / J. Harold Greenlee - free full text book download
Theological and Religious Helps
Barna Group - Religious research data, survey findings and stats, etc.
CARM (Christian Apologetics Research Ministry) – Theology of Dictionary online
Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) - a virtual library for theology, religious studies, and related
disciplines it contains 198,000+ books, 10 million articles, 6,200+ journals, 85+ databases, 5+ research aids
The Watchman Fellowship – Background articles on various Cults and religions. Jehovah Witness, Mormons, other Christian based cults, and leaders, etc.
Tyndale House's Biblical Weblinks - Online Journals for Theology & Biblical Studies (1,782 titles)
Theological Journals
Biblical Studies.Org.UK – Theological Journals online most free, 40,000 theological articles available
EZ3-Electronic Journals - Journals in areas of Theological and Religious studies, a library of free full text online journals, unless otherwise specified individually
John Jaeger's Free Journals on the Internet - List of free online Theological, Biblical, Religious , etc. with links
"Theological Journals Search" (TJS) - Google custom search engine that searches open access religious periodicals
Journals for Free: Philosophy & Religion - Access to free online journals in the areas of Philosophy and Religion
Open Access Free Databases
Directory of Open Access Journals- List of free open access Journals
Directory of Open Access Books - List of free open access Books
List of Open Access Databases - List of free open access Databases
Library Links
Internet Archive (Library) is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Search the history of over 548 billion web pages on the Internet. Free to sign up for to use or use your existing Google account to login with.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) - making classic Christian literature widely available and promoting its use for edification and study by interested Christians, seekers and scholars.
Project Gutenberg - offers over 61,150+ free ebooks to download or read
Houston Public Library – 31 branch libraries
Harris County Library – 25 branch libraries
Fort Bend County Library – 11 branch libraries
College of Biblical Studies Library – Houston, Tx
Dallas Theological Seminary Library – Turpin Library Dallas, Tx
Houston Baptist University Library – Moody Library
WorldCat Library Catalog - Worldcat.org website will search the catalogs of libraries worldwide if part of system
Internet Public Library – Note website is active but not being updated
Paper Writing Helps
BibMe (Bibliographic Maker) - Free automatic bibliographic maker for downloading into your paper, Turabian, MLA, APA, Chicago styles
EasyBib.com – Free citation guides, bibliographic guides for MLA, APA, Chicago and Turabian
eTurbian – Free guide to create citations in Turabian format for bibliography, reference list and notes
Thesis Generator – Ashford College website for helping you make your thesis statement – https://awc.ashford.edu/writing-tools-thesis-generator.html
