This page is dedicated to the student of the Bible and provides links to the vast resources of the Internet; whether it be archaeology, Greek, history, Bible software, textual criticism, early church writings, ancient texts or research tools, you can find it here.

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It was last revised Wednesday, 02/27/08.

My son, do not forget my teaching, but guard my commands in your heart; for long life and years in plenty will they bring you, and prosperity as well. Proverbs 3:1,2

American Schools of Oriental Research
The official home page of ASOR, the organization that promotes and supports research into the history, languages, cultures, etc. of the Near East
The WWWorld of Archaeology
A good reference page to point you in the right direction, put together by the American Archaeological Association.
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Links to archeological sites of interest to Old Testament students.
The Sistine Chapel
Pictures of the Sistine chapel. Many large image files, so load and then go get a cup of coffee. When you come back, enjoy the beautiful shots of the recently restored artwork.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem
An analysis of the Temple Mount by the former chief architect of the Temple excavations. Numerous pictures of the temple mount, slides which can be bought, and a reconstruction of the Temple in Herod's time.
Semitic Museum
The Semitic Museum, founded in 1889, is home to Harvard's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and to the University's collections of Near Eastern archaeological artifacts. These collections comprise over 40,000 items, including pottery, cylinder seals, sculpture, coins and cuneiform tablets. Most are from museum-sponsored excavations in Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Cyprus and Tunisia. The Museum is dedicated to the use of these collections for teaching, research and publication of Near Eastern archaeology, history and culture.
The Louvre
The Louvre site, with links to their archeological collections and exhibitions; many beautiful pictures of antiquities. The next best thing to being there.
The Johannine Archeology Page
This is just one area of the site. The main site is the Johannine Literature Web Site. It's an impressive collection of articles, information and links to materials focusing on the Fourth Gospel.
Hermeneutika
Possibly the very best Bible search software on the market for the Windows platform. Greek, Hebrew, parsing, morphological and syntactical analysis tools, fonts, tons of ancilliary helps (like lexicons and concordances), and so many Bible versions you can't count them all. Not for the light of pocket, but well worth the expense if you're a Bible freak like me.
Accordance Bible Software
Bible search software for the MAC. This one also has Greek, Hebrew, parsing, morphological and syntactical analysis tools, fonts, tons of ancilliary helps (like lexicons and concordances), and so forth. Accordance is considered by many scholars to be the best Bible software there is, especially for the MAC.
Greek Fonts
SIL International (formerly the Summer Institute of Linquistics) makes these fonts available free of charge, for both MACs and Windows. You might also want to browse their software catalog, as they have a number of other software packages (and fonts) available for Unix as well as MACs and Windows.
Silver Mountain Software
Silver Mountain offers search software for both the TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) and the PHI (Packard Humanities Institute) CD ROMs. They also have shareware fonts available, and they offer the Bible Windows CD ROM, which contains the Bible in the original languages, dictionaries, the Silver Ancient Library and more. Bible Windows has been favorably reviewed by scholarly journals and is consider by some to be on a par with Hermeneutika.
Logos Research Systems
Perhaps you're familiar with Logos Bible Study Software, but did you know they have much more? They have electronic books for sale, covering a wide range of Biblical topics.
BibleSoft Direct
Makers of BibleSoft PC Study Bible, they also offer other items, such as reference works, encyclopedias, etc.
SwordSearcher Windows Bible Software
You can download this software and try it out for free, and if you decide to keep it, it's only $35.00! Includes Strong's Greek and Hebrew Lexicons, concordances and other study helps.
The Sword Project
This is Bible software being developed under the GNU license, which means it is free to anyone that wants it. If you can program, they would appreciate your involvement in the project.
e-Sword
Completely free and downloadable. There's a lot of material here, including concordances, commentaries and many different versions of the Bible. It would take quite some time to download it all. You can send a donation to "Equipping Ministries Foundation" and get a CD with all the materials on it.
Olive Tree Bible Software
Bible software for the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) including Palm OS, Windows CE and Pocket PC. You can also get a vocabulary practice program from Southpaw Solutions.
Greek Font for MACs and PCs
Dr. William Mounce has produced a nice, free Greek font for use on Macintosh and Windows computers.
Greek and Hebrew Fonts
Dr. Rodney Decker has Greek and Hebrew fonts available for both MACs and PCs.
Greek and Hebrew Vocabulary Software
This would be good for exercising and increasing your vocabulary so you can more easily read texts.
HeadThirst Software
Another source for vocabulary software along with some other interesting freeware.
Learn Hebrew Verbs
An interesting site where you can enter any english verb (from a dropdown list) and see the corresponding Hebrew words, in all the tenses and genders. The Hebrew is displayed in images, so it doesn't require any "translation" by your web browser
CreationScience.com
Read the details of Dr. Walt Brown's "hydroplate theory". A fascinating study of the anomalies that science has been unable to explain, all of which fit nicely with Dr. Brown's hydroplate theory of the flood. He also explains how Carbon-14 dating is based upon an assumption which, if his hydroplate theory is correct, is completely false. In fact, the earth is much younger than scientists claim it is, because their dating is based upon that false assumption. Dr. Brown is a Ph.D graduate of MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
The Institute for Creation Research
A Graduate School teaching the sciences within a creationist framework. ICR includes Ph.D scientists in Hydraulic Engineering, Biochemistry, Geological Engineering, Biology, Geology, Neuroscience, Atmospheric Science, Nuclear Chemistry, Geophysics and Space Physics, Microbiology, Astronomy, Combustion Theory, History and Philosophy of Science, Kinesiology, Archeology and Ancient History, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, and others.
The Origins Page
An interesting site that has a lot of material from scholars who debunk the theory of evolution. Of particular interest is Philip Johnson's page, with several papers that attack the "religion of scientific materialism" head-on.
The Origin of Species
An online copy of Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species", the work which gave the evolutionary movement it's momentum.
Creation Research Society
A group of scientists banded together to form a society to research scientific creation in 1963. This is their web site, with links to many books on evolution and creation, a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal, a newsletter, and more.
Mike's Creation Resource Page
Dr. Michael Brown, a Ph.D microbiologist, is doing research in pseudogene origins. Like Dr. Walt Brown, Dr. Michael Brown shows how Carbon-14 dating is based upon an entirely false assumption, namely that Carbon-14 has always been present in our atmosphere at the same levels it is now. As Walt Brown points out, this has been proven false through experimentation, destroying any credibility Carbon-14 has as a dating mechanism.
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library
A huge collection of electronic publications dating from 80AD to the present century including the complete collection of the "Early Church Fathers" (downloadable), and a large collection of hymns, including midi files.
The Apostolic Fathers
A growing collection of early church writings, including Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp and others.
The Ecole Initiative
An ever-growing collection of early church writings and history, with an emphasis on theology.
Peter Kirby's Early Christian Writings Page.
A very comprehensive links page to early Christian writings on the web. This is more than just links to other pages. Each link takes you to another web page that has complete listings of all resources for each writing, including papers, studies and other material that discuss the texts, as well as additional comments from Peter in some cases.
Greek New Testament Editions
This web site has several machine readable editions of the Greek New Testament; Stephanus (1550), Scrivener's (1894), Westcott-Hort and Nestle-Aland 26th/27th, just to mention a few.
Notes on the Septuagint
A wonderful page of the Greek LXX (Septuagint) that compares passages in the LXX to quotes in the New Testament and extratestamental writings.
Jonathan Robie's "Little Greek" page
Tips on learning Greek, links to resources like Greek fonts, and lots of other useful information about Greek.
The Transmission of the Greek New Testament
A discussion of textual transmission and development.
Mark Goodacre's Greek New Testament Gateway
If you don't go anywhere else, see Mark's pages. An incredible amount of work has gone into his site, and he updates it regularly. He doesn't appear to have missed anything or left anything out.
Tony Fisher's Greek New Testament
An online, searchable GNT that doesn't even require you to have Greek fonts installed.
Greek/Latin New Testament Audio Readings
You can purchase tapes or CDs of audio readings of the Greek or Latin New Testament here.
Wieland Willker's GNT site
A complete listing of all GNT papyri, legible jpegs of P66 and Egerton 2, plus much more having to do with texts, variants and errata. He also has a large links page.
Myriobiblos
The E-Text Library of The Church of Greece. Patristics, patrology, church history, church documents, this site is loaded with materials for the Greek student.
Ancient Greek web materials
There's pages here for pronunciation, accentuation and principle parts. A good resource for some basics in Ancient Greek.
GNT Idioms
Wayne Leman has begun a project to list all the Greek idioms he can find.
Learn Greek
This site has links to Greek Grammars for beginning, intermediate and advanced Greek students for Classical Greek as well as Koine. And so does this one.
Online Greek Course
An online Greek course, complete with audio so you can hear the sounds of the Greek language! You can also purchase a CD of the course.
Suggested Summer Reading
Carl Conrad's list of suggested readings to maintain your Greek skills. Carl is one of the moderators of the B-Greek list as well as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Carl's Home Page
Carl Conrad's new home page - an extensive collection of links to classical resources. Of special interest is Carl's own writings, some of which don't seem to be linked in his home page. The URL for those is the Docs/ directory off his home page. There is one interesting study that isn't even listed there. Its URL is here
Advanced Study of the Language
A web site for the advanced study of the Greek language from a classicist's point of view, there are many links to interesting sites on the web addressing advanced topics in Greek.
Let's Review Greek
An interesting site with both easy and intermediate readings that you can use to test your knowledge and fluency in Greek. Well designed.
Ancient Greek Tutorials
Classical Attic Greek tutorials, including pronunciation guides, accent guides, vocabulary, paradigms and more
Mark Goodacre's Fonts page
Mark Goodacre's page of links to Greek fonts. It's updated regularly and has a pretty exhaustive list of the fonts available on the web.
Maqhtai; kai; Didavsaloi
A website dedicated to teachers and learners of the Greek language, with many study aids such as vocabularies, grammars and games to help you learn
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Israel's presentation of their history, described by era, including pictures, maps and links to other interesting material.
Ashkelon, Gateway to the Mediterranean
Information on Ashkelon, and its history with information on Philistia, Canaan, Phonecia and the Romans. (Also see the Harvard site on Ashkelon
Greatsite.Com
An amazing site with more old Bibles than you can imagine. You may not be able to afford them, but you'll probably enjoy looking anyway. First editions of Bibles you may not even think still exist. Worth a look for curiosity if nothing else.
The Biblical Arts Museum
Located in Dallas, Texas, the Biblical Arts Center is devoted to the presentation of biblical history in a non-denominational setting for the enjoyment of all faiths. Their website is the next best thing to being there.
National Bible Museum
A traveling Bible exhibit, with a valuable collection of artifacts, including a working 15th century Gutenberg press, which they use for demonstrations!! Among the rare bibles are the so-called "Wicked" Bible (the "not" was left out of the 7th commandment!) and the forty-two pound "Vinegar Bible", which substitutes the word "Vinegar" for "Vineyard"!
Mount Athos
This site lists the 20 monastaries of Mount Athos and provides many interesting facts about its history.
Creeds of Christendom
This site lists every creed of the early church, including the Greek versions, and also has many of the creeds of protestantism. Very interesting site.
Classical Organ Midi Stop!
A huge collection with a lot of variety. Lots of great organ music.
The Lassentech Music Page
A large and ever growing collection of Christian hymns in midi format available for listening or downloading.
The Bread Site
Both classics and contemporary as well as southern gospel music.
Jim's Christian Midi Page
"The mother of all midi pages"

I offer these as resources for study and perhaps challenges to your present beliefs, but without comment. These are books and journals that contain serious scholarship and address specific biblical passages or topics, some of which have been quite controversial throughout church history and remain so today.

An Online Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
New Testament Stemmatics - A Phylogenetic Approach to N.T. Textual Criticism
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood - A Response to Evangelical Feminism
Review of Biblical Literature
TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
What Does the Text Actually Say?
The Bible Page
A long list of links to interesting sites, including an excellent list of reference sites.
The Divinity Library
Vanderbilt University's library catalog online, including a searchable database and links to many other resources.
The All In One Christian Index
On this page are links to a number of sites, including a search engine which allows you to look in Nave's Topical Bible, Matthew Henry's Commentary and several other good reference works.
BibleNet Library
Links to numerous resources on the web including apologetics, devotionals, reference materials and many other items of interest.
BibleTexts OnLine Bible Commentary
This page has links to many resources that can be used to study the Bible, including a weekly bible study lesson aid and the Online Bible Commentary.
Home of the NET Bible
Lots of resources for studying, plus this is the home of the New English Translation, a new effort to translate the Bible into modern English and make it freely available on the internet. The translation is continuously being updated as new evidence is obtained, and it contains copious footnotes discussing variants and alternate readings.
The Unbound Bible
An interesting site, which you can personalize, that allows you to do comparitive studies between many different versions, and also has many reference works such as Matthew Henry's Commentary
Bible-translation Files
A list of files that have been submitted by members of the Bible Translation discussion list. There's a wide range of topics here, which is growing constantly.
iTanakh
This site has links to many research resources as well as much of its own material. You can get both Greek and Hebrew fonts here and links to some of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Resoure Page for Biblical Studies
Links to hundreds of resources, including Philo of Alexandria. This site is five pages already and growing.
The Bible Translations Page
An interesting site that rates the readability and reading level of various translations and describes their translation philosophy and goals and shows a comparative passage from each translation.
Wordlinks 2.0
Have you ever wanted one of those Bibles that allows side by side comparisons of verses? Well, here's one on the web! Choose from ASV, BDB-Thayers, KJV, Strongs, Nave's Topical Bible, the Web Bible, and much more! You have to know HTML and Javascript to understand how much work has gone in to this site.
The Bible Studies Resources Page
Another page with links to many helpful resources for study, including Greek and Hebrew links, links to various online discussion lists and many other resource materials.
The Center for Biblical Semitic Studies
This is a new site that offers a discussion list, links to Aramaic/Peshitta texts, a copy of Matthew in Aramaic, and Hebrew resources.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.09.23
A long review of the "E" CD-ROM of the Theasaurus Linguae Graecae, plus a URL for _free_ software designed by the reviewer, Dr. Peter Heslin. The review includes links to the TLG and information about the licensing and pricing.
Bookreviews.org
If you're interested in building your library, check here for reviews of the books you're considering. Many viewpoints are offered so you can make a reasoned judgment about the value of a book you want.
Resources for New Testament Studies
Rodney Decker's web site, offering links to a number of interesting materials for NT study.
Electronic NewTestament EducationalResources
Professor Felix Just's web site on Greek study. A tremendous amount of material here, including forms criticism, NT Christology, comparative and statistical information and much more.
Ayrton's Biblical Page
This site is devoted to academic study of the Bible. Here you will find Articles about social-scientific approaches of the Scripture, annotated Biblical Bibliography, History of Israel, Biblical Languages, Book Reviews and very useful annotated Links to other biblical resources in the Web.
Textkit
An online book resource with downloadable study helps such as grammars, dictionaries and ancient prose. The site has both Greek and Latin resources and is adding material frequently.
TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
The Online Journal of Textual Criticism, a resource for Biblical scholars who are interested in the field of textual criticism (the study of the evidence that makes up the Bible, manuscripts, papyrii, etc.)
Variations within the Received Text Tradition
A collation of variations within the received text tradition, represented in English. Only the translatable variations are given. There are other collations on this site as well. Just go to the home page and look around.
Rodney Decker's MSS page
A number of images of MSS with text critical information included.
Robert Waltz' page on TC
Robert is a regular contributor to the TC list and here provides a copious amount of material on TC
Wieland Willker's TC links
Wieland Willker has a huge site on the Bible, Greek, the New Testament and Textual Criticism. Included after the above link are links to many papyrus images as well.
Rodney Decker's Textual Criticism page
A wealth of links on TC, including many seminal articles about the discipline.
The TC Ebind Index
"The TC Ebind Index contains digitized works of value to the study of biblical textual criticism. All of the images accessible from this page are freely available for non-commercial use."
The Electronic New Testament Manuscripts Project
A new project to put manuscripts online for public viewing.
The Scriptorium
The home of the Van Kampen collection, one of the largest manuscript collections in the US as well as a large number of untranslated cuneiform tablets,papyri and the famous "Yonan Codex".
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
An excellent site with photos of Hebrew texts, a discussion of textual transmission and links to larger images of the texts. Very graphics heavy, so it takes time to load.
The Duke Papyrus Archive
An interesting site with a large collection of papyri in many different languages.
The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
A fascinating site. You can read about the letters exchanged between a Greek soldier/merchant and his wife in the third or fourth century CE/AD.
The Tufts University Perseus Project
The "mother" of all classics web sites. Greek and Latin fonts, texts galore and more information than you can imagine awaits you here.
Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
A little difficult to navigate at first, but a good primer on textual criticism. Numerous images of some of the most famous Biblical manuscripts, including the famous codexes Bezae, Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus.
OpenText.Org
This one you have to see. It's a new project to put the Bible and other Greek texts in XML and parse them linguistically. The Philemon project is well under way and serves as a fine example of what can be done with this approach.
Greek New Testament Editions
This page has links to many of the GNT editions, in zip format, ready to be downloaded.
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
A collection of over 80 manuscripts, in facsimile form, from the various colleges of Oxford. These manuscripts cover a wide range of topics as well as languages, including such diverse manuscripts as Canterbury Tales, works in Welsh and Cornish and ancient Greek manuscripts including the New Testament.
Greek Manuscripts
The John Rylands University Library, Special Collections Guide, Greek Manuscripts. Included in this collection is an unpublished fragment of the Gospel of John that dates to the early second century CE.
The 'Textual Mechanics' of Early Jewish LXX/OG Papyri and Fragments
Images of many Dead Sea Scroll fragments and papryii, including dimensions and comments on certain charactistics of the fragments.
Biblical Manuscripts Project
If you like looking at or studying old manuscripts this site will make you drool. Among other things they have a complete copy of Tischendorf, Codex Sinaiticus, the Freer codices, Codex Vaticanus and more!
The Schoyen Collection
A collection of nine manuscripts, with online photographs, some of which are in good condition

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