Reference Links
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Theological Information Websites
The links below lead to academic websites and serious scholarly sources, indicative of the type of online information that is valuable for theological research. Help in writing correct citations for electronic information using several different style standards can be found HERE.
Aquinas, Corpus Thomisticum online
Aquinas, Summa Theologica online; also here
ArchiveGrid — subset of WorldCat for primary archival source materials
ARDA (American Religion Data Archive)
ATLA Selected Religion Web Sites project (ATSRW)
Babylonian Talmud in Hebrew and English
Baptist digital historical & theological documents
Bear, James : Mission Work of the PCUS in China, online
Best Free Reference Websites (ALA MARS project)
Bible Geocoding — geography of the Bible using Google Earth
Bible History Online (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
Biblia Arabica — the Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia BHS
Biblia Patristica and other texts online (Biblindex)
Bibliaclerus — Bible with exegesis & commentaries from the Church Fathers
Bibliotheca Palatina medieval manuscripts online
Bioethics Research Library — Georgetown University
Bodleian & Vatican libraries digitization project (Polonsky Foundation)
Book of Kells online, Trinity College, Dublin (news story about this project)
BookServer index of e-books online
Brill Reference Works Online — Religious Studies
British Library Gallery of Sacred Texts — including Codex Sinaiticus, medieval Bibles, etc.
Catholic Biblical Association links page
Christian Classics Ethereal Library — early Christianity and patristics,
medieval & Reformation texts and primary sourcesChristian History Institute — publishers of Christian History magazine
Citation Guide (Duke)
Citation Guide for Chicago/Turabian style manual
Citation Guides for Internet Resources
Codices Electronici Sangallenses — CESG virtual medieval library
Codex Sinaiticus online
Congregational Clergy Necrology
Dead Sea Scrolls — full online image of the Great Isaiah Scroll
Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library — Leon Levy, Israel Antiquities Authority
Denominations LibGuide listing 80+ Protestant churches
Dictionaries combined search engine (OneLook)
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
DictSearch multilingual dictionary site
Digital Public Library of America
Digital Vatican Library (DigiVatLib)
DOAJ (Directory of Online Open-Access Journals)
Electronic journals and indexes in religious studies
Estudios Exegético-Homiléticos full-text online journal in Spanish
The European Library — catalogs of 48 research libraries
Europeana digital collections
Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Global Christianity : the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population (Pew Forum report)
Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism — “GlobeTheoLib” WCC resource
Global Digital Theological Library — Open access ebooks, articles, etc.
Global Ethics Network — resources for applied ethics
Global and Urban Ministries links page — Seattle Pacific University
GlobeTheoLib — digital library on theology and ecumenism
Google Scholar (and Advanced Search)
Google Theological Journals Search (necessary to use a gmail account login)
Greek classical lexicon online Liddell-Scott-Jones
Greek Bible Online — source of fonts compatible with MS Word
Greek NT text, Society of Biblical Literature edition for free download
Hall’s Index of American Presbyterian Congregations
The Hardest Question lectionary commentary blog
HathiTrust free digital books online
H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Hymn index and hymnology dictionary (DNAH)
Hymn Society in the US and Canada
Hymnary hymn index
Index Theologicus — International Bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies
Institute for Reformed Theology
Internet Archive — “Wayback Machine”
Jewish Manuscripts (Friedberg Society)
Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Bioethics Research Database — Georgetown University
Latin American Studies Handbook — HLAS (LC)
Latin/English translation site
Latin Inflector and parsing guide
Latin Place Names alphabetical index
Lectionary in Reverse (look of the passage first)
Leith : John Haddon Leith Lectures and Sermons on the IRT website
Leonardo DaVinci’s Codex Arundel digitized manuscript notebook
Librarian’s Index to the Internet
Liddell-Scott-Jones classical Greek lexicon online
LISTA (Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts)
Manuscript Collections — National Union Catalog
Medieval Manuscripts online (British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
Missions and World Christianity Subject Guide
National Council of Churches USA
New Testament Gateway — select academic resources; also NT Blog
New York Public Library digital image collection
ODLIS (Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science)
OneLook dictionaries combined search engine
Open Access Digital Theological Library — ebooks etc.
Open Library of the Humanities
Peace, Unity and Purity of the Church Theological Task Force
Perseus Digital Library of classics texts
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project (Bodleian & Vatican libraries)
Post-Reformation Digital Library
Presbyterian Heritage Center, Montreat
Presbyterian Historical Society
Princeton’s Theological Commons — digital library of books in theology and religion
Project Gutenberg free e-books
Puritan Library of J.I. Packer online (Allison Library, Regent/Carey collection)
RAMBI — index of articles on Jewish studies
Religious Studies Web Guide by Cheryl Adams and Saundra Lipton — extensive free indexes
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies — early Christianity & patristics, apocrypha & pseudepigrapha
Resources for American Christianity
Review of Biblical Literature (SBL book reviews site)
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
RIM (Research in Ministry) Online
SBL journals & series abbreviations list
SBL standard language & editorial abbreviations list
Sermon Content Review — passages, topics, issues and events currently discussed in preaching
Sheffield Manual for Authors and Editors in Biblical Studies (very large PDF file)
Social Science Research Network
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance online
Surman Index online — Presbyterian clergy in England and Wales
Talmud (Babylonian) in Hebrew and English
Talmud / Rabbinic Literature chart
iTanakh — resources on the Hebrew Bible
The Targums (Aramaic versions of the Bible)
Teaching and Learning Resources for professors of religion (Wabash Center)
The Text This Week (Textweek) — Revised Common Lectionary, Scripture Study
and Worship LinksTheological Commons at Princeton — digital library of books in theology and religion
Theological Journals Search — Google search of open-access journals in religion
Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN)
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and Canon of Greek Authors and Works
TLG Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität
Vatican Digital Library (DigiVatLib)
Wabash Center Internet Guide to Resources in Religion
Wesley Center — John and Charles Wesley, Methodist and holiness tradition
World Council of Churches (WCC) Library and Archives
John Howard Yoder Digital Collection
Zwingli Werke — full text documents online