Showing posts with label Bible Resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bible Resources. Show all posts

Monday, January 01, 2007

Biblical Studies website worth having a look at

http://biblicalstudiesorguk.blogspot.com/index.html

I was pretty impressed by what I saw here. There are a lot of nice full text articles here that may be of interest to you. Rob Bradshaw is adding a full text of Howard Marshall's New Testament Interpretation among many other things.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

New Sidebar - Online Sermons

I am adding a new sidebar of links to sermons online. These are all digital audio. If you know of any other good links feel free to comment on them.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Great resource

Thank you Philip for bringing this site to my attention.

Textweek

This is a site for those who preach from the lectionary. It takes the text for the week and gives lots of background information and alternate translations to aid in Bible study, & lesson/sermon preparation.

I know an extremely small % of those who read at this site use the lectionary. I may do a post on here before long on the + & - of the lectionary before long. I have done quite a bit of looking into it but don't use it myself. The major plus is that you preach a text that isn't your pet-project text/your favorite. It forces you to think about texts that you would not normally preach and that is a good thing. Two big negatives: 1) Context 2)Canon within a canon - by only preaching lectionary texts you are limiting yourself to a small percentage of the canon. But, most people do that on their own any way so that may not be that big of a problem. Many people want to say there are agendas in the lectionary - feminism, for example. That is not totally accurate as texts that are more conservative on women's roles are covered in the Revised Common Lectionary.

Anyway, lectionary or not have a look and enjoy the resources they have compiled. Thank you Philip, it will certainly help.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Bible Resources - updated

Updated - with more updates to come.

Full Text:
The Universal Library by Carnegie Mellon University. This is a database of full text works that are no longer under copywrite law (normally based on date). That does mean these works are VERY dated but also can provide some really good resources or harder to find older resources all for free. Type in the word "commentary" and have a look at the 51 matches.

Perseus Project - This site has tons of ancient material including Classics in several ancient languages, papyri texts and ostraca.

Jewish Encyclopedia - This is the full text of the 12 volume (1901-1906) Jewish encyclopedia. There are over 15,000 articles.

New Advent - This site has all things related to the church fathers. There is a link to the Catholic encyclopedia (11,000+ articles). If you need the full text of something from a church father go here.

IVP New Testament Commentaries provides links to the full text commentaries.

Biblical Studies on the Web has a variety of full text resources/journal articles and links to many more resources.

PACE - Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement has everything from bibliographies to dissertations on subjects pertaining to the ancient world.

New Testament Gateway
This site by Mark Goodacre has an excellent variety of resources as you will see on the main page.

The Septuagint Online has all sorts of resources and texts.

Restoration Movement Texts - Just about any restoration author you can think of with full texts.

Languages:
Greek Handouts - by University of Chicago professor Helma Dik

Zac Hubert - (Greek) I can't believe I forgot to put this one in. It is one of the best tools out there. You can chart the occurance of words, get the full parse and literal definitions, and much more.

Greek Concordance - Zac Hubert's Greek Concordance

Gospels:
Synopsis of the Gospels by Stephen Carlson shows the four gospels side by side in Greek and is color coded.

Translations:
History of English Versions - This website has some decent information regarding the dates of various translations and some articles/reviews about those translations.

For a plethora of additional web resources see Dr. Allen Black of Harding University Graduate School of Religion's compilation of internet resources. This will have a variety of websites that most of you will want to bookmark broken down into the following categories:
  • Annotated Guides
  • English Versions and Search Engines
  • Greek NT online (NA 26)
  • Hebrew OT
  • Early Jewish and Christian Texts
  • Commentaries and Dictionaries
  • Read Sections of Books Online
  • Maps
  • Images
  • Biblioblogs
  • Miscellaneous
I have tried not to duplicate what he has done and so you will find a lot of good things on his site.

Which websites do you use for Bible study and Bible resources?
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