Internet Resources for the
Study of Judaism and Christianity

Introduction

This page lists a number of sites on the Internet that are useful for the study of Judaism and Christianity. The list is necessarily partial, provisional, and even parochial. A casual glance will show how Penn-centered it is.

It is amazing that this much relevant information already exists on the Internet. Some of this material is brilliant, and much of it is useful. One should realize, however, that most original research must still begin in a good library. The Internet is a good place for discussing research, for testing out approaches, and for sharing the fruits of scholarship. Most of the original material currently available on the Internet is written on the level of an introductory encyclopedia or undergraduate course, but primary sources and scholarly articles and journals are coming on line at an increasing pace. If you cannot find the material you are looking for, check back in a month or two — or else take the initiative to put it on line yourself. We all benefit from well-crafted presentations of useful material.

Robert Harris had made available some useful guidelines for "Evaluating Internet Research Sources."

Important Links to Links

• New Testament Gateway (Mark Goodacre)
• All-in-One Biblical Resources Search (Mark Goodacre)
• Virtual Religion Network (Mahlon H. Smith)
• Research Guides in Religious Studies (University of Pennsylvania Library)
• Religious Studies: Selected Web Resources (University of Pennsylvania Library)
• Early Christianity (Ramsey Library Research Guides)
• Electronic New Testament Educational Resources (Felix Just)
• Shamash: The Jewish Network
• Internet Christian Library
• The Ecole Initiative: Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History (Anthony F. Beavers)
• Theological Resources on the Web, from Woodstock Theological Center
• Not Just Bibles: A Guide to Christian Resources on the Internet
• Biblical Resources from Torrey Seland
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Index of Internet Resources
• WWW Sites Relating to the Ancient Mediterranean (K. C. Hanson)
• Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell'Antichità Classica (Alessandro Cristofori)
• The Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory
• Bible-Links Page (Wieland Willker)
• Best of History Web Sites (rated for accuracy and usefulness)
• ZNT Online (Zeitschrift für Neues Testament)
• Pages from the World Wide Web, selected links
• Jewish-Christian-Islamic Virtual Media Library (Seton Hall)

Reference

• Glossary for Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of History (with old maps of Jerusalem) from the University of Southern Maine
• Jewish Encyclopedia
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Wikipedia (public-domain, general-purpose encyclopedia)
• Hypertext Bible Dictionary (Tim Bulkeley)
• Book Reviews in Religion
• Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
• Post-Modern Bible (Tim Bulkeley)
• Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Institutions and Social Conflicts (K. C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman)
• English Literature and Religion: A Bibliography in Progress (William S. Peterson)
• Public Domain Maps
• New Testament Bibliography (Mark Goodacre)
• Eikon: Image Database for Biblical Studies (Yale Divinity School)
• Introduction to the Old Testament (Tim Bulkeley)

Texts and Translations

• Religious Texts on the web from CCAT
• Electronic Texts -- Religion
• Bible Gateway from Calvin College
• NRSV (at Oremus.org)
• Bible Study Tools: translations from Crosswalk.com
• Jewish Publication Society Bible (1917)
• Christian Classics Electronic Library
• Early Christian Writings (Peter Kirby)
• Directory of Electronic Text Centers
• Oxford Text Archive
• Gospel of Thomas Home Page
  
• Noncanonical Literature (Early Jewish and Christian Texts)
• The Early Church Fathers Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (CCEL)
• Some ancient Jewish accounts of Jesus (Toledoth Yeshu, Josephus)
• Gnostic Society Library
• Josephus in Whiston's translation (CCEL)
• The Life of Adam and Eve (Gary A. Anderson, Michael E. Stone)
• World Wide Study Bible (CCEL)
• BibleKeeper.com (many translations online)
• New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS) electronic edition
• Brenton's English Translation of the Septuagint (CCEL)
• Tertullian Home Page (Roger Pearse)
• Blue Letter Bible
• Open Text (a resource network and data repository for "the next generation" of study of Hellenistic Greek)
• More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Richard Bauckham and James R. Davila)
• Apocrypha
• Greek Biblos
• New Testament Transcripts Prototype (Universität Münster)
• Aleppo Codex
• Unbound Bible
• COS/ANET Index (an index of texts in Context of Scripture and Pritchard's ANET)
• Appolonius of Tyana, translated by F. C. Conybeare (Chrestos.com)

Language

• Human Languages
• Viewing Hebrew On the Web
• Mikhtav, a mailing list allowing e-mail in Hebrew characters
• Shtetl: Yiddish Language and Culture Home Page
• Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway (Micheal W. Palmer)
• Hellenistic Greek Linguistics
• Home of the Greek Word (Elpenor)
• Differences Between Classical and Hellenistic Greek
• Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
• Levels of Greek and Latin Literary Activity
• Brown-Driver-Briggs
• Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley

Papyrology, Palaeography, and Textual Criticism

• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
• Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS)
• University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
• Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papryi
• Duke Papyrus Archive
• Papyrology Home Page (John D. Muccigrosso)
• Manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology from Labyrinth
• Taylor Schechter Genizah Research Unity, Cambridge University Library
• An Online Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism (Rich Elliot)
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri

Archaeology

• ABZU, Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet
• ArchNet: Virtual Library of Archaeology
• The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago
• Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Library of Congress Exhibit
• Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture, a Library of Congress Exhibit
• Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, Haifa University
• Diocletian's Palace at Split by Michael Greenhalgh
• Traditions of Magic in Late Antiquity (Gideon Bohak)
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures (Bill Hemminger)
• Index of Christian Art

Jewish History and Literature

• The Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory
• Shamash: Serving the Jewish Internet
• Jewish Studies Web
• Judaism and Jewish Resources by Andy Tannenbaum (Shamash)
• The Jewish History Resource Center (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• The Jerusalem Mosaic (wonderful pictures)
• Jewish Studies Judaica eJournal (with Academic Jewish Studies Resources)
• Jewish Studies Resources (Princeton University Library)
• Ioudaios: Scholarly Discussion of Judaism in Greco-Roman period
• Josephus (York)
• Josephus Desktop (Steve Taverner)
• Lilith (Alan Humm)
• Shtetl: Yiddish Language and Culture
• Orion Center for the Study of Dead Sea Scrolls, (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Center for Jewish History
• The Jewish and Civil Calendar by Alan Corré
• Eliezer Segal's Home Page (A Page of Talmud, The Ten Sefirot, Varieties of Orthodox Judaism, and a (virtual) Ascent to the Merkavah)
• Jewish Links from David Ferleger
• Talmud and Its Shape (a specimen page)
• Benedict de Spinoza with electronic texts (Joseph B. Yesselman)
• Aseneth Home Page (Mark Goodacre)
• Jewish Language Research Website
• PaleoJudaica.com: A weblog on ancient Judaism and its context
• Jewish Library (classic Jewish texts in English translation from Chabad Lubavitch)

Christian History and Literature

• Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus (Mahlon H. Smith)
• A Synoptic Gospels Primer (Mahlon H. Smith)
• The Five Gospels Parallels (John W. Marshall)
• The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting
• Guide to Early Church Documents
• Gregorian Chant (and more)
• The Orthodox Page in America
• Jim O'Donnell's Web with extensive materials on Augustine, Boethius, Late Antiquity, and much more.
• Labyrinth: Medieval Resources
• The Ecole Initiative: Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History (Anthony F. Beavers)
• Society of Bollandists (Christian Hagiography)
• Internet Mailing Lists Relating to early Church History
• The Synoptic Problem (Stephen Carlson)
• The Gnostic Society Library
• Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism (Andrei Orlov and James Miller)
• Le labyrinthe médiéval (Jacques Hébert)
• Apocalpytic: A Pictorial Chronology
• Orthodox Christianity: A Directory of Orthodox Internet Resources

Islamic Literature and History

• Al-Khazina: The Treasury
• Web Resources for Islam and Islamic History (B. R. von Schlegell)
• Islamic Studies, Arabic, and Religion Web Page (Alan Godlas).
• Islam for Today

Course Materials

• AAR Syllabi Project
• Glossary for Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• Science and the Sacred, Billy Grassie, University of Pennsylvania, Spring, 1996
• Religions of the West, Eddy Breuer, Ken Banner, and Others, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
• Religions of the West, University of Pennsylvania
• Introduction to Christianity, Kenneth Banner, University of Pennsylvania
• Introduction to the New Testament, Felix Just
• Topics in the Gospels: John, Felix Just
• Other NT Courses by Felix Just
• Biblical Archaeology, Jack Abercrombie, Brandeis University
• Christian Origins, Bob Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
• Dead Sea Scrolls, Bob Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
• Jewish Rituals and Local Traditions: Material Culture of Central European Jewry, Jirina Sedinova, Penn-In-Prague Program
• Life and Letters of Paul, Bob Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
• Varieties of Early Judaism, Bob Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
• Varieties of Early Christianity, Bob Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
• Seminar on Early Judaism and Early Christianity, Bob Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
• Boethius, Jim O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania
• Augustine, Jim O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania
• Cultures of the Book, Jim O'Donnell, University of Washington
• Worlds of Late Antiquity, Jim O'Donnell, University of Washington
• Sex, Women, & Violence in Medieval Culture, Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania
• Literature of the Holocaust Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania

Libraries

• Library of Congress
• University of Pennsylvania
• Virtual Libraries

Journals, Newsletters, Series

• Scholarly Journals Distributed on the Web
• Serials in Cyberspace
• New Jour: New Electronic Journals and Newsletters
• The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
• Electronic Journals -- Religion (Van Pelt Library)
• Jewish & Christian Perspectives (Bar-Ilan University and Catholic Theological University of Utrecht)
• Themes in Biblical Narrative Series (University of Groningen and the Manchester University)
• Modern Jewish Studies
• Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal
• Compact Memory (archive of German-Jewish periodicals from 1800 onwards)

Software

• The Perseus Project
• Thesaurus Linguae Gracae
• The Gramcord Institute
• Silver Mountain Software
• Accordance
• Logos
• Bible Works
• Linguist's Software
• Bible Software Review (Rubén Gómez)
• Bible Analysis and Related Software
• Biblical Fonts (from SBL)