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Palimpsest manuscript on vellum in Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Greek and Syriac from Codex Climaci Rescriptus, (4th-9th century)<\/p><\/div>\n

The list below outlines free online resources for Biblical Studies that can assist students and scholars with their work and research.<\/p>\n

For a list of free online resources regarding Biblical Hebrew, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a list of free online resources in Jewish-Christian studies, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ARTEFACTS, GEOCODING & ARCHAEOLOGY<\/h1>\n

Artefacts of Ancient Judaism Manuscript Collections
\n<\/a><\/strong>This allows users to browse scholarly commentary, bibliographies and images from ancient manuscripts.<\/p>\n

Bible Geocoding<\/a><\/strong>
\nPart of the OpenBible.info website, this page\u00a0locates every identifiable place mentioned in the Bible by\u00a0using Google Earth (KMZ).<\/p>\n

Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land (DAAHL)<\/a><\/strong>
\nDAAHL has brought together experts in information technology and the archaeology of the Holy Land to create a digital atlas.<\/p>\n

ART & IMAGERY<\/h1>\n

Ancient World<\/strong> Image Bank\u00a0(AWIB)<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe AWIB is a collaborative effort to distribute and encourage the sharing of free digital imagery for the study of the ancient world.<\/p>\n

Art and the Bible<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis site offers background information on famous paintings and Biblical themes. The collection includes hundreds of pictures of paintings and links them to their corresponding passage in the Bible.<\/p>\n

Biblical Art on the WWW<\/a><\/strong>
\nNorwegian theologian and school teacher, Rolf E. St\u00e6rk, has created a helpful assistant to search for Biblical art on the Internet. The main content of his site is a database accompanied by a collection of thumbnail pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (CDRI)<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, coins, maps, sermons and much more.<\/p>\n

JOURNALS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES & NOTES<\/h1>\n

Biblical Studies on the WEB (BSW)<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/a>This\u00a0site publishes the\u00a0electronic version of Biblica<\/a><\/em>, The Pontifical Biblical Institute Journal<\/em>, and Filolog\u00eda<\/em> Neotestamentaria.<\/em><\/a> The latter is a collection of journals put by the the University of C\u00f3rdoba.<\/p>\n

Gershom Scholem’s Milon HaZohar Card Index<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe catalogue contains personal notes that Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) took in anticipation of the future writing of a Zohar lexicon.<\/p>\n

Index Theologicus (IxTheo)<\/strong>
\n<\/a>This site is a comprehensive bibliography for theology and religious studies.<\/p>\n

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (JHS)<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal established in 1996. It fosters scholarly research on the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Israel\u2019s History and cognate fields of studies.<\/p>\n

Scripture Bulletin<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Scripture Bulletin<\/em> is a peer-reviewed journal published twice yearly by the Catholic Biblical Society of Great Britain.<\/p>\n

TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/em>This is a peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Jewish and Christian Biblical texts.<\/p>\n

ONLINE BIBLES, TALMUDIC STUDIES & RABBINIC COMMENTARY<\/h1>\n

academic-bible.com – The Scholarly Bible Portal of the German Bible Society<\/a><\/strong>
\nThese online Bibles are the official Internet editions of individual academic Biblical texts. Here you will find the Biblia Hebraica, Septuagint, Vulgate and many others.<\/p>\n

Bialystoker Synagogue Online Library<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis library contains links to a large variety of Jewish texts. They include the Tanakh, Rashi\u2019s classic commentary, Talmudic manuscripts, the Mishnah Torah and much more.<\/p>\n

Mechon Mamre<\/strong><\/a>
\nUsers can access\u00a0the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the RaMBaM’s Complete Restatement of the Oral Law (Mishneh Torah).<\/p>\n

PAPYRI & CODICES<\/h1>\n

Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM)<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis online resource provides images of various papyri manuscripts, including the Chester Beatty Papyri.<\/p>\n

Codex Gigas<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe National Library in Stockholm’s website contains a digitized version of every page of the Codex Gigas manuscript. You can also read commentaries on its history, texts, script, initials and decoration.<\/p>\n

Codex Sinaiticus<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis website features all extant pages of the Codex Sinaiticus. This contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament.<\/p>\n

Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG)<\/strong> <\/a>
\nCESG provides access to medieval codices and selected early modern manuscripts in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen.<\/p>\n

Duke Papyrus Archive<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n

DEAD SEA SCROLLS & CAIRO GENIZAH<\/h1>\n

Cambridge Digital Library<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis library has a large collection of digitized manuscripts, including the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection and various Hebrew manuscripts.<\/p>\n

Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project<\/strong><\/a>
\nUsers can access the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll and the War Scroll.<\/p>\n

Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society (FJMS)<\/a><\/strong>
\nFJMS has digitized documents primarily relating to the Genizah fragments, manuscripts and early printings.<\/p>\n

Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis site has published the entire Dead Sea Scrolls collection online.<\/p>\n

SYRIAC STUDIES<\/h1>\n

Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis digital library promotes the study and preservation of the Syriac heritage and language.<\/p>\n

Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts\u00a0(CPART)<\/a><\/strong>
\nCPART is devoted to the recovery, study, preservation and publication of Syriac literature and other ancient texts. It focuses on advancing the study of the Bible and its context, early Christianity and the Christian East.<\/p>\n

Digital Syriac Corpus<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Digital Syriac Corpus is an online repository for digitized editions of Syriac texts.<\/p>\n

e-GEDSH<\/a><\/strong>
\ne-GEDSH is an electronic version of the 2011 edition of the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n

syri.ac \u2013 University of Oklahoma<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis website is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of open-access resources related to the study of Syriac.<\/p>\n

Syriaca.org<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis collaborative research project publishes reference works about the culture, history and literature of ancient and present Syriac communities.<\/p>\n

MANUCRIPTS & TEXTS<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Hebrew<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

BenSira.Org<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe website focuses on the ancient and medieval Hebrew manuscripts of the Book of Ben Sira<\/em>.<\/p>\n

British Library’s Digitized Hebrew Collection<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe collection features Hebrew and Yiddish digitized manuscripts, many of which are illuminated.<\/p>\n

National Library of Israel (NLI)<\/a><\/strong>
\nNLI’s online catalogue includes records to digitized Hebrew manuscripts online (post-dating the Dead Sea Scrolls).<\/p>\n

Princeton University Sefer Hasidim<\/em> Database (PUSHD)<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe PUSHD database includes fourteen\u00a0manuscripts containing different versions of the\u00a0Sefer Hasidim <\/i>(Book of the Pious<\/i>) and its fragments.\u00a0Access to these manuscripts\u00a0is free but requires one\u00a0to\u00a0register.<\/p>\n

Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Online Critical Pseudepigrapha<\/a><\/strong>
\nHere you will find electronic editions of the best critical texts of the “Old Testament” Pseudepigrapha and related literature.<\/p>\n

Wesley Center Online<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis site has a Noncanonical Literature page, which has a collection of sacred ancient texts. They include the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and other literature such as the writings of Josephus and Philo of Alexandria.<\/p>\n

Patristics<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Early Christian Writings<\/a><\/strong>
\nEarly Christian Writings has the most complete collection of Christian texts before the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.<\/p>\n

Fathers of the Church<\/a><\/strong>
\nNew Advent has published the English translations of the writings of the Church Fathers on their site. The Liturgies of James, Mark and the Blessed Apostles and writings, such as documents from the Councils, are also available.<\/p>\n

Patristic Text Archive<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis archive of ancient Christian texts also has translations of Patristic texts in all modern languages.<\/p>\n

Medieval<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Corpus Corporum – University of Zurich<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis site is a Latin text repository of Medieval Latin texts. It includes the entire Patrologia Latina, the Vulgate and other medieval and Neo-Latin collections.<\/p>\n

Digital Newberry<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Newberry’s digital collection includes two collections of interest:\u00a0<\/em>Polyglots: The Bible in Multiple Tongues, 1502-1657<\/em> and\u00a0The Bible in Print<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis virtual library has medieval and early modern manuscripts from public and church-owned and private collections.<\/p>\n

Gutenberg Digital<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis site published digitized versions of the G\u00f6ttingen Gutenberg Bible, the G\u00f6ttingen Model Book and the Helmasperger Notarial Instrument.<\/p>\n

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)<\/strong><\/a>
\nHMML holds works of art and rare printed books from the Middle Ages to the present. It is home to The Saint John’s Bible<\/em>, the first handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by Benedictine Abbey. <\/span><\/p>\n

Parker Library on the Web<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe online manuscript collection includes such books as the sixth-century St. Augustine Gospels, the Bury Bible and the autographed copy of Matthew Paris\u2019 Chronica maiora<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sinai Palimpsests Project<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis website provides access to high-quality images and descriptive metadata created by the Sinai Palimpsests Project. This project is recovering the erased layers of writing in palimpsest manuscripts kept by the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery.<\/p>\n

Vatican Library of Digitized Manuscripts<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis is the Vatican Library\u2019s digitized collections of manuscripts and incunabula, mostly from the Middle Age and Humanistic period.<\/p>\n

OTHER RESOURCES<\/span><\/h1>\n
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4 Enoch<\/strong><\/a>
\nA comprehensive and authoritative introduction to scholarship and fiction in Second Temple Judaism.<\/p>\n

Al HaTorah<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis study resource helps the learner appreciate the breadth and depth of the Biblical text and its commentaries. It does this through texts, techniques and reference tools. The site provides access to Ancient Near Eastern documents; medieval commentaries; and modern art and literature.<\/p>\n

Catholic Resources for Bible, Liturgy, Art, and Theology<\/a><\/strong>
\nFather Felix Just has created an extensive and impressive website that contains a variety of materials, mostly related to Biblical and liturgical studies.<\/p>\n

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis site is a platform for interdisciplinary and computational research in texts in the Coptic language, particularly the Sahidic dialect.<\/p>\n

Jewish Roots of Eastern Mysticism<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis contains the ongoing research seminar of graduate students at the department of theology of Marquette University and other participants from various scholarly communities.<\/p>\n

Oriental Institute Publication Program<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Oriental Institute has published scientific and popular reports on the results of the Institute\u2019s research and activities in the Near East.<\/p>\n

Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL)<\/strong><\/a>
\nA select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy from the late 15th to 18th centuries.<\/p>\n

Sephardic Studies Collection at the University of Washington<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis is a repository of source materials pertaining to the Sephardic Jewish experience.<\/p>\n

TheTorah.com<\/strong><\/a>
\nTheTorah.com solicits original works of scholarship from noted academics, intellectuals and rabbis from across the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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