• Biblical Archaeology Society Slide Sets - Maintained by the University of Notre Dame Theology Department; access restricted to campus users.
• Bible Analysis for Scholars (Harry Hahne) - A wonderful resource for Bible search software, fonts, scholarly essages, internet courses and resources.
• Bible Helps - Apex Software's electronic Bible-study application for the Macintosh, appropriate for pastoral work.
• Bridgestone Bibleware - Freeware, shareware, and a CD-ROM with resources like Bible Baseball and crossword puzzles, for K 12.
• Computereinsatz in der Exegese - A multilingual resource from Franz Böhmisch.
• Resource Pages for Biblical Studies (T. Seland) - Bible translations, related texts, linguistic resources, libraries, list archives, searchable databases, Mediterranean social world.
• Syriac Computing Institute

Hebrew Bible

Texts

• Biblical Hebrew List Digest - An archive of past discussions.
• Cairo Genizah - The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit's site presenting materials on the 140,000 fragments of Hebrew and Jewish literature and documents ranging from biblical to 19th century texts.
• Guide to Early Church Documents - UPenn site with resources on the formation of the Old Testament canon.
• Near Eastern Collections in the UC Berkeley Libraries - Islamica and Judaica/Hebraica.

Tools

• Hebrew Bible Bibliography - Maintained at Vanderbilt.

Context

• Ancient Near East (Evansville) - Part of the series, "Exploring Ancient World Cultures," maintained by A. F. Beavers at the University of Evansville.
• ASOR Digs - Find out about summer dig opportunities in Syria, Jordan, Israel, Cypress, and Tunisia.
• Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Archaeological Excavations Provides information about current digs as well as online access to those digs that have web sites.

 
• Ancient Jerusalem Mosaic - Maintained at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Virtual Tour of Jerusalem - A contemporary tour, but with a lot of ancient sites
• The Later Seleucids - Brief biographical notes on these kings, including Antiochus IV Epiphanes (or Epimanes, as the author of Daniel might have known him!)
• Material Culture of the Ancient Canaanites, Israelites and Related Peoples - An information database from excavations developed for an intro to Biblical archaeology class at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Petra, Jordan: Brown University's Excavations of the Southern Temple
• Petra: The Drama of History - A touristic photographic essay off the main page for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

LXX

Texts

• Biblical Greek List Digest - An archive of past discussions.

Tools

• Hellenistic Greek Linguistics Pages - A guide to resources in this language, online and soon-to-be online.
• Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon - A searchable database offered as part of the Perseus Project.

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OT Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

Texts

• OT Apocrypha - Maintained at the Wesley Center for Applied Theology, Northwest Nazarene College, Nampa, Idaho.
• OT Pseudepigrapha - Also maintained by the Wesley Center.

Tools

• Hellenistic Greek Linguistics Pages - A guide to resources in this language, online and soon-to-be online.
• Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon - A searchable database offered as part of the Perseus Project.

Context

• Roman Near East - An index of internet resources on Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Judea, and Arabia; part of Romarch.

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Dead Sea Scrolls

Texts

• Library of Congress DSS Exhibit
• Orion Institute for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• The Shrine of the Book, Jerusalem

Tools

• University of Arizona Carbon-14 tests of select DSS

Context

• Bajot DSS Page
• Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Archaeological Excavations Provides information about current digs as well as online access to those digs that have web sites.
• Roman Near East - An index of internet resources on Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Judea, and Arabia; part of Romarch.
• Satellite Image of the Dead Sea

Josephus & Philo

Tools

• Philo Concordance Project - Out of the University of Trondheim.

Context

• Alexandria - A contemporary site, but it has some links to antiquity.
• The Decline of the Library and Museum of Alexandria, by Ellen Brundige
• Masada - A picture and discussion of the history from the Israel National Parks Authority.
• Philo Page (T. Seland) - Web resources on Alexandria, Egyptology, and online articles on Philo.

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Greek NT

Texts

• Biblical Greek List Digest - An archive of past discussions.

Tools

• Differences between Classical and Hellenistic Greek - A UPenn resource.
• Hellenistic Greek Linguistics Pages - A guide to resources in this language, online and soon-to-be online.
• Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon - A searchable database offered as part of the Perseus Project.

Context

• Historical Jesus - The text of Time Magazine's cover story 18 December 18, 1995, "The New Testament's Unsolved Mysteries," by John Elson.
• Roman Near East - An index of internet resources on Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Judea, and Arabia; part of Romarch.

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Christian Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, & Gnostic Texts

Texts

• Apocryphal Gospels - Maintained at the Wesley Center for Applied Theology, Northwest Nazarene College, Nampa, Idaho.
• Apocryphal Acts - Maintained at the Wesley Center.
• Apocalypses - Maintained at the Wesley Center.
• Christian Pseudepigrapha - Maintained at the Wesley Center.
• The Corpus Hermeticum - Introduction and texts.
• Early Christian Texts - Collected by Harry Attridge, University of Notre Dame.
• Gospel of Thomas - Excellent information concerning the study of documents related to Thomas the Apostle.
• Kraft Home Page - Robert Kraft's home page at Upenn, with a copy of Bauer, course outlines, summaries of lost books of early Christianity.
• Library of Ethiopic Texts - Several texts plus a wealth of introductory material.
• Mandaean Materials - From the Gnostic Society Library.
• Manichaean Materials - From the Gnostic Society Library.
• Nag Hammadi Texts - A site with many of the gnostic texts online.
• Patristic Literature - We have listed these sites at both the Electronic Bibles site and the Late Antiquity site.
• Polemical Works against the Gnostics - By the early church fathers; from the Gnostic Society Library.
• Refrigerium - Links to Orthodox Christianity, Gnosticism, the Book of Q, and the origins of Christianity.
• St. Pachomius Library - Early Christian texts from this eastern othodox library and from other sites.

Tools

• Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon - A searchable database offered as part of the Perseus Project.

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Rabbinic Literature

Texts

• Cairo Genizah - The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit's site presenting materials on the 140,000 fragments of Hebrew and Jewish literature and documents ranging from biblical to 19th century texts.
• Near Eastern Collections in the UC Berkeley Libraries - Islamica and Judaica/Hebraica.
• Some Early Jewish Accounts of Jesus - A UPenn collection including the so-called Testimonium Flavianum and the Toledoth Yeshu.

Critical Methods

• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts - A site maintained at Brown University with sections on paleography, manuscript transmission, textual criticism, a glossary and index, a table of Greek MSS, and an exercise in textual criticism.

Professional Societies

• American Academy of Religion (AAR)
• Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
• American Philological Association (APA)
• American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
• American Society of Papyrologists (ASP)
• Catholic Biblical Association (CBA)
• Jewish Bible Association, Jerusalem

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Journals

• Arachnion - A journal of ancient literature and history on the web.
• Archaeology - The official publication of the Archaeological Institute of America.
• Biblical Archaeologist - A publication of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
• Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists - Includes guidelines for submissions, a cumulative index, a list of books received for review, and abstracts of forthcoming articles.
• Ioudaios Review - A review of articles submitted to the Second Temple Judaism listserver.
• Jewish Bible Quarterly - Includes an index of articles.
• Jewish Studies Judaica Electronic Journal - A monthly electronic journal devoted to on-going research and current events in academic Jewish studies.
• Journal of Field Archaeology - Managed at Boston University.
• Journal of Hebrew Scriptures - An academic, refereed electronic journal devoted to the critical study of the Hebrew scriptures.
• Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages - Managed at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• Journal of Roman Archaeology
• Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society
• Levant - A refereed annual published by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History.
• Liber Annuus - Abstracts published by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem.
• Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies - Bibliographic publication covering Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic, and related areas.
• TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism - A journal dedicated to the study of the Jewish and Christian biblical texts; managed at the TELA site of Scholars Press.

For Fun

• Charlton Heston's Voyage Through the Bible

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