This page is dedicated to offering various websites that work to further the study of the Bible, ancient languages and cultures. I hope you find it of use to you. In the event that I have overlooked a site that you have found helpful, please leave me a comment so that I might add it. Thus, updates will be forthcoming. I would like to add that in the Biblical Studies section, included is an open course offered by Yale University in Hebrew Bible.
ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN RESOURCES
A guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web.
Bible and ancient Near East: A blog emphasizing teaching & research; causing reflection; and moving the field forward.
Albright School of Biblical Archeology: Totally Free Online Courses in Archaeology and Biblical Archeology.
Oxford University.
A project of the University of Oxford comprising over 400 compositions from the late third and early second millennia BCE.
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives
An interactive study of Egypt using the latest interactive technologies, high-resolution imagery, animations, virtual environments, remote cameras, three-dimensional models and more.
Museum at Cario which contains over 120,000 artifacts dating from pre-historic times until the Graeco-Roman period.
A website by the Newton Institute in the University of Cambridge to provide a World Wide Web resource for Egyptological information.
Information about and translations of compositions of the Hittites.
A Networked Database of Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions Project Overview. By Bruce Zuckerman, et. al.
The page is a gem, containing a searchable catalogue of the museum’s vast collection of artifacts.
Articles on ancient history. See especially the Mesopotamia subcategory for Babylonian entries.
Resources provide by Georgetown University.
Internet resources of Mesopotamia’s history, religion, and languages. Includes a translation of the Old Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish and Gilgamesh.
Assyrian State Archives at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
An internationally recognized pioneer in the archaeology, philology, and history of early Near Eastern civilizations.
Conducted the first scientific excavations of the Holy Land.
Visit the digs in the Aegean, Anatolia, Balkans, Iranian Plateau, Levant, and Mesopotamia.
Virtual tours of Syro-Palestinian archeological sites.
ANCIENT LANGUAGES
Charles Grebe of Saskatchewan, Canada has compiled a wonderful site of biblical Hebrew aids. It contains everything from comics to songs to flashcards and charts to video lectures.
John Heise’s review of the cuneiform writing system.
This site is for Bible students who are looking for detailed information on the
history of the canon, texts, textual criticism, and versions of Scripture. A great site for researching Bible translation.
The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time.
Daily readings from Biblical Hebrew supplemented with vocabulary and syntax.
A dynamic illustrated vocabulary resource from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Pages collected by Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann. Research Unit on Ancient Hebrew and Epigraphy. Includes Aramaic, Ugaritic, and Phoenician. Some sites are in German.
Writing systems and Languages of the World.
A full two semester online course in Bill Mounce’s (Biblical) Koine Greek for Beginners.
BIBLICAL & JUDAIC STUDIES
Free PDF downloads of overviews/introductions of various books of the Bible provided by Virginia Theological Seminary.
Informative website devoted to teaching the Bible and the discipline of Biblical Studies
Passage, Keyword, and Topical search through various versions and translations of the Bible.
This site is for Bible students who are looking for detailed information on the
history of the canon, texts, textual criticism, and versions of Scripture. A great site for researching Bible translation.
Luther Productions helps you tackle general knowledge of the Bible.
An internet resource for studying the Bible.
Research tools for the study of the Bible.
An Aggregate of Blogs Geared toward Biblical Studies.
Yale Divinity Library.
A website for the Academic study of the Bible and Theology.
A useful biblical studies glossary.
A digital library of Jewish writings from the Tanakh, Deuterocanon/Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo of Alexandria, Flavius Josephus, and the Talmud.
Official Site of the History Channel’s 2-hour documentary on the Exodus.
Professor Ronald L. Troxel of University of Wisconsin has compiled a helpful glossary of terms for those that wish to tackle the study of the Hebrew Bible.
As a part of Yale University’s Open Course program, Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies, Christine Hayes, delivers an university-level Introduction to the Hebrew Bible. It includes (24) 50-minute class lectures.
Virginia Theological Seminary.
iTanakh was begun in June 2000 as an effort to index internet resources that might be of use in the academic study and teaching of the Hebrew Bible.
The entire original 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, containing over 15,000 articles.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Judaic Studies Program at Princeton University.
The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. The collection contains books such a the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth.
University of Delaware. Compilation of Internet resources for Jewish Studies.
Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies and chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.
Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies and chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.
PBS Series.
Updated and maintained by Patricia Hardesty.
An online publication of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
A wealth of resources at your fingertips.
As put forth by Bruce N. Fisk (following Shaye J. D. Cohen)
Electronic Resources for the Study of the Septuagint and the Old Greek Versions.
Jewish Lectures.
No explanation needed.
Professor of New Testament Studies at Duke University, Dr. Mark Goodacre’s, award winning web directory of internet resources on the New Testament, currently being updated daily.
A website dedicated to the New Perspective on Paul and the scholarly contributions of E.P. Sanders, James D.G. Dunn, and N.T. Wright.
Surveys proposed solutions and provides a clearing-house for materials related to its resolution.
Charles Conroy’s bibliographic works.
GRECO-ROMAN AND EARLY CHRISTIAN ORIGINS
A digital library of hundreds of classic Christian writings from Calvin College.
Dr. James Crossley’s Blog. Lecturer on Christian origins and early Judaism at the University of Sheffield, UK.
- Early Judeo-Christian texts, NT Wrong’s List of
NT Wrong has compiled a seemingly exhaustive list of ancient texts and their approximate dates as represented by scholarly consensus.
Convened in 1985 by Robert W. Funk, the Jesus Seminar has become a lightning rod for international debate about the “historical Jesus.” The Jesus Seminar Forum is an introduction to the research of the Jesus Seminar of the Westar Institute & a bridge to Jesus scholarship on line.
The Gnostic Society Library.
Yale University Divinity School’s reference tools and bibliographies.
Focuses on the early Christian writings and their social world.
A website dedicated to the New Perspective on Paul and the scholarly contributions of E.P. Sanders, James D.G. Dunn, and N.T. Wright.
Surveys proposed solutions and provides a clearing-house for materials related to its resolution.
THEOLOGY
Bryan Stone’s, of Boston University, theology web page.
A website sponsored by the Irish Theological Association. It contains works and biographies of major theologians, ethicists, and spiritualists. It also explores ecumenism and religion and society.
An internet resource for studying Christian Theology.
As made available by Vanderbilt Divinity Library. Includes Years A, B, and C.
A noteworthy compilation of internet resources:
Phil Harland’s Online Resources for the Study of Ancient Religions and Cultures
Professor at York University, Toronto, CA.
Mark Hoffman, an Associate Professor of Biblical Studies, has mentioned a noteworthy list of books related to the Biblical Studies field that can be downloaded free of charge compiled by Bob Buller and Danny Zacharias in his Dec. 10 2008 post. The website may be accessed here.
Non-Virtual Study Tools
I would recommend the Interpretation Commentary Set for aiding in teaching or preaching within a church setting. The series provides wonderful theological insights and ways of bringing the texts alive, while upholding its integrity.
For research in Biblical Studies I cannot recommend The Anchor Bible Dictionary enough as being an invaluable tool necessary for educated and academic study, along with its commentary and reference series published by Yale.
If your needs illicit an academic style of commentary for study, I would recommend the The New Interpreter’s Bible Commentary Set.
My Bibles of choice: The New Interpreter’s Study Bible New Revised Standard Version w/Apocrypha or Michael D. Coogan’s The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, NRSV. Also a good JPS version is essential. An esteemed translation of the Torah is Everett Fox’s The Five Books of Moses.
To see more about the New Revised Standard Version and its scholarly formation, I direct you to this page provided by The National Council of Churches.
