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Bible Study Resources
.Search Resources by CategoryBible Reading Plans and Popular Sites
- ESV One Year Bible This is the daily reading in written and audio form of the popular ESV One Year Bible.
- The following are popular sites to study the Bible on the Web:
- Classic Bible Commentaries. This site includes commentaries from Calvin, Darby, the Geneva Study Bible, Gill, Jamieson, Faussett and Brown, Matthew Henry, and Wesley.
- Biblegateway.com. BibleGateway.com is a free service for reading and researching Scripture online--all in several languages and translations. Biblegateway provides advanced tools to search the Bible by keywords or verse, as well as other tools. This site includes the IVP New Testament Commentaries.
- Crosswalk. This includes the above commentaries plus Scofield Reference notes, the Fourfold Gospel and the Treasury of David. It includes Ashley Johnson's Condensed Biblical Encyclopedia. The main page is a multi-channel site with blogs, devotional helps and other sites of interest to Christians.
- Blueletterbible. This includes some of the above commentaries and a few more like J. B. Lightfoot on Romans and Martin Luther on Galatians. There are maps and images, and the old ISBE.
- E-Sword. This site allows you to download Barnes, Clarke, Darby, the Geneva Bible Notes, John Gill, Keil and Delitzsch among others. This also allows you to download the Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge.
- Studylight. This site includes Clarke, Abbott and Abbott, James Burton Coffman, Barnes's Notes, David Guzik, John Lightfoot, among others.
- Biblos. A very good site with commentaries, interlinears, encyclopediae, Atlases among other things.
Biblical Theology Site
- Beginning with Moses. This is an excellent site to begin to look at connections in Scripture.
Internet Toolbar
- Tyndale House Cambridge's Internet Toolbar This is a resource to aid in translation of Biblical languages and research languages together with Bibliographic aids to find current books and articles about topics and passages in the Bible.
Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia This is one of the best older Encyclopedia sets. It is written from an evangelical perspective.
- A Catholic Encyclopedia This is a Catholic website with an Encyclopedia. It is particularly helpful in the history of interpretation of ideas with many quotations and references to the early church fathers.
- Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Theology This is a modern evangelical dictionary of major theological terms and historical ideas.
- Holman Bible Dictionary This is a recent Baptist Bible dictionary.
- Dictionary of Bible Names This site is an older dictionary giving the possible meanings of all the names in the Bible.
- Collected Older Dictionaries This site has many of the older standards as well as the ISBE and newer ones as well.
Study Bibles
- Worldwide Study Bible (CCEL) This site includes the "Worldwide Study Bible." The WWSB is a collection organized by chapter and verse of the Bible with links to ancient, medieval and modern commentaries on the given passage. Also, this site includes the ability to search with "AND, OR, NOT" the entire collection of major Christian writings through the Reformation. E.g., type in "Jesus AND Adam AND naked AND tree" and you will pull up many discussions of Jesus and Adam and how redemption recapitulates the fall.
- NET Bible This is a free study Bible by many people associated with Dallas Seminary. It is a good translation, but the study notes are very, very, very good. They are up to date and give reasons behind the translators' choices.
- Augustine on the Psalms. This is Augustine's complete work on the Psalms.
- Aquinas on the Psalms. This is a translation project dedicated to Aquinas's work on the Psalms.
- Spurgeon on the Psalms. This is a good site for Spurgeon's work on the Psalms.
- Jerome's Commentaries on the Bible. This is Jerome's summaries about the Books of the Bible. It also includes other works of the Church Fathers.
Research Assistance
- Textweek.com This text is like having a personal research assistant on any given passage. It includes links to scholarly articles on the passage as well as artwork and even movie clips to illustrate a given passage's point. This resource is from an Anglican perspective and includes how non-evangelicals think of Bible passages.
- 1,000 Years of Gospel Interpretation How did people interpret the Gospels for the first 1,000 years of Christianity? Read Thomas's, Catena Aurea ("The Golden Chain"), at this site indexed to each Gospel passage. A similar site is e-Catena a collection by passage of commentaries from the Church Fathers.
- Search 10,000 Books in 5 Seconds This feature searches the entire CCEL website of Bible related material. Type in the words and ideas you are looking for using "AND", "OR" or "NOT" and have this site sift through thousands of religious texts where your words occur in close proximity. Here also is a site for more Church Fathers beyond those in the 38 Volume T. & T. Clarke set. Here is a resource to find any out-of-copyright book on the web: The Online Books Page.
- Jewish Interpretation and the Bible This site is from a Puritan commentator, John Lightfoot whose Commentary on the New Testament (Matthew-Acts) has special reference to how Rabbinic teaching may relate to the Bible..
- Access to Jewish Biblical Interpretation (Primary Documents in English) This is a site hosting the Mishnah, Talmud and other Jewish documents in English translation.
- Great Scholarly Baptist Commentary on all of Scripture This is the site for the Bible commentary of John Gill (1697-1771). Gill was the pastor Spurgeon was afraid to follow because he might not live up to Gill's power in the pulpit. Gill's commentaries excel many because he had a mastery of ancient literature in both history and Rabbinics. Here are other great Baptist resources:
- Desiring God Ministries. This is John Piper's website.
- Sonic Light. This site includes verse by verse interpretation of the whole Bible.
- www.unboundbible.org/. This is Biola's Biblical Studies website.
- Great Scholarly Methodist Commentary on all of Scripture This is the site for the Bible commentary of Adam Clarke (1760-1832) a Methodist polymath. Clarke is particularly good with ancient historical references.
- Great Scholarly Presbyterian Commentary on all of Scripture This is the site for the Bible commentary of Albert Barnes a scholarly Presbyterian Minister. Other Presbyterian sites include the following:
- www.monergism.com. Collection of modern Reformed teachers.
- 3rd Millennium Ministries. This site belongs to Richard Pratt, Th.D. (Harvard) and RTS Professor of Old Testament offers free video resources.
- Reformed Sermons from all of the Bible.
- Covenant Seminary free online classes. Covenant Seminary, the national seminary of the PCA, offers these classes.
- Matthew Poole's Annotations Upon the Holy Bible
- JSTOR. This site houses many academic journal articles on the Bible. Many of these are accessible from the Bryan Dayton Campus website.
- ATLA. This is a site similar to JSTOR with more journals.
- Google Scholar. This is the place to start in scholarly resource. It will give you a good place to start.
- TREN Theological Research Exchange Network, access to current papers from ETS and MA theses.
Ancient Texts
- Religious Texts of Ancient World Religions This site includes an electronic edition of the Babylonian Talmud as well as other extra-biblical texts.
- Tufts Perseus Classical Greek, Latin Texts and Papyri This site includes many Greek and Latin texts from antiquity in book the original language and in translation.
- Protestant Reformation Sources This is a site with texts from Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin and many of the early reformers of the church.
- Internet Archive of Protestant Reformation Sources This site includes even more of the early reformers as well as helpful links to other reformation studies.
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Material related to the Old Testament or the time of Jesus:
- An Academic Webpage on Material Related to the Bible. This is a non-evangelical, academic site for Biblical Studies.
- Philo, (older translation of Philo). This is a Jewish philosopher and Biblical commentator who was a rough contemporary of Jesus.
- Josephus. This is a Jewish historian a few years after Jesus.
- Dead Sea Scrolls. Jewish cult including commentary on Biblical texts.
- Apocrypha. Jewish additions to the Old Testament canon.
- New Testament Apocrypha. Cultic additions to the New Testament.
- Pseudepigrapha. This site includes ancient Pseudepigrapha as well as modern cult texts.
- Summary of Jewish Interpretation of the OT through the middle ages. This is Louis Ginzberg's, The Legends of the Jews.
- Targums. Jewish interpretive translations of the OT.
Graphics
- bibleplaces.com Have you ever wondered what "Shechem" looks like, or what the Jordan River looks like at the Abel-Shittim crossing? Here's the site for you.
- biblepicturegallery.com This is a scholarly clip art site. This site has pictures from scholarly dictionaries and lexica on subjects related to the Bible and antiquity. It also has a great artwork collection related to the Bible.
- New Testament Art Index, Old Testament Art Index. These sites collect artwork representing various Biblical passages and organize each passage's artwork by date of painting.
Maps and Timelines
- BibleMap.org organizes maps according to Book of the Bible and uses Google Earth maps.
- Bible Altas contains Google Earth maps and photos of each place mentioned in the Bible. The entries are in alphabetical order.
- Other resources:
- Bible Maps, Pictures, and Timelines
- Simple Bible Maps and Timelines
- Collection of Many Bible Maps
Creative Bible Teaching Tools
- wingclips.com/cart.php Are you teaching the Bible and wish you had a movie clip to illustrate your point. Check this website out.
- www.textweek.com/movies/movies.htm This is from the Textweek site mentioned above. It is a movie index of illustrations for ideas in the Bible.
- hollywoodjesus.com How Christianity and Pop Culture relate. This site offers ways of using elements of contemporary culture as a springboard to interact with other worldviews particularly postmoderns.
- www.crosswalk.com/news This is a Christian website with ideas and issues from contemporary culture. There is good discussion of how these relate to a Christian worldview.
Specialty Study Pages for Greek and Hebrew
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. This site defines the meaning of ancient Greek names.
- Hebrew MT. Here is an electronic version of the Hebrew Masoretic text.
- Diogenes. Diogenes comes equipped with morphological analysis of Greek and Latin as well as Greek and Latin dictionaries.
- www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ This is a page with the Greek text from one of the most important manuscripts in the world.
- www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/gnt/home.html Listen to the Greek New Testament read aloud in MP3 format.
- www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/ptmp3prq.htm Listen to the Hebrew Bible read aloud in MP3 format. An easier access to these files occurs here MP3 Hebrew.
- Hebrew Language Specialty Tools. This site has a collection of all the websites related to the study of the Hebrew text.
Pastoring Your Own Heart
- John Piper's Resource Library These are tools Piper finds helpful.
- IPOD Augustine
- IPOD John Calvin
- IPOD John Owen
- IPOD Jonathan Edwards
- IPOD Charles Hodge
- IPOD Spurgeon
- IPOD John Piper
- IPOD Beale, Carson, Packer, Frame, Poythress, etc
- IPOD Everything Old (LibriVox)
- IPOD Church History This is the Faith by Hearing website.
- Creeds, Councils, Controversies
Additional Resources for Students at Bryan College under E-student Coursework Applications
Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible 3.0 Site License
- Nestle Aland 27th Novum Testamentum with Critical Apparatus
- Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with Critical Apparatus
- Biblia Hebraica Quinta with Critical Apparatus and Notes
- Ralhfs/Hanhart Septuaginta with Critical Apparatus
Resources on Sages Coursework Applications Server
- Babylonian Talmud, translation and commentary by Jacob Neusner
Resources on Bibleworks 8.0 Site License
- Morphologically Tagged Texts
- Greek New Testament
- Hebrew Old Testament
- Greek Pseudepigrapha
- Hebrew and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls
- Hebrew Mishnah
- Greek Philo
- Greek Josephus
- Greek Early Church Fathers
- 37 Volume Church Fathers
- English Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls
MACS Electronic Textbooks
Logos 4.0 Platinum Edition (almost $19,000 worth of books if purchased in print version). Logos has discounted this product for our students since we are requiring the program as the textbooks for the entire Master of Arts in Christian Studies (MACS) program. This is a small, scholarly pastor's library on your laptop with easy searches of all these materials.


