Biblical Studies Resources

Bible Reading Plans and Popular Sites        Suggestions for Added Resources

ESV One Year Bible This is the daily reading in written and audio form of the popular ESV One Year Bible.

NIV One Year Bible  This is the daily reading in written form of the popular NIV Daily Bible.

Chronological and Other Reading Plans  Choose your plan from chronological reading or many others as well as choice in translation (NASB, Amplified,  KJV,  NKJV,  NLT etc).

The following are popular sites to study the Bible on the Web:  Classic Bible Commentaries,  Biblegateway.com,  Crosswalk,  Blueletterbible,  Biblestudy, E-Sword,  E-Bible,  Studylight,  Biblos.

Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedia

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,  Aquinas on the Psalms,  Spurgeon on the Psalms.  Jerome's Commentaries on the Bible.

Research Assistance for Biblical Studies

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.

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.  Another great Baptist preacher is John Piper and Desiring God Ministries.  Another great Baptist dispensational site is Sonic Light which includes verse by verse interpretation of the whole Bible.  See too http://www.unboundbible.org/.

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.  Another great Presbyterian site is http://www.monergism.com/.  Richard Pratt,  Th.D. (Harvard) and RTS Professor of Old Testament offers these free video resources from 3rd Millennium Ministries.  Reformed Sermons from all of the Bible.

JSTOR,  ATLA and Google-Scholar.  Three ways to find current articles in Biblical Studies.

ATLA Internet Resources  A list of very good internet resources on a variety of religious subjects.

TREN  Theological Research Exchange Network,  access to current papers from ETS and MA theses.

Collections of 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.

Material related to the Old Testament or the time of Jesus:  An Academic Webpage on Material Related to the Bible,  Philo,  (older translation of Philo),  Josephus,  Dead Sea Scrolls,  Apocrypha,  New Testament Apocrypha,  Pseudepigrapha (this site includes ancient Pseudepigrapha as well as modern cult texts),  Summary of Jewish Interpretation of the OT through the middle ages.  Targums (Jewish interpretive translations of the OT).

Graphics and the Bible

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 artwort by date of painting.

Maps and Timelines for the Bible

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.

http://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.

http://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

The Meaning of a Greek Name.  This site defines the meaning of ancient Greek names.  Lexicon of Greek Personal Names.

Read the Greek New Testament.  This is a morphologically tagged text which will parse and define the words for you.  A similar site is Biblos.com.

Here is an electronic version of the Hebrew MT.

For the Liddell,  Scott and Jones (LSJ),  Greek Lexicon,  Bryan student Stephen Hill found the following Classical Greek search tool.  He writes,  "Here’s the link to Diogenes.  Once you download it, select “Action: Look up a word in the dictionary” to look something up, or “Action: Parse the inflection of a Greek or Latin word” to parse something.  The parsing feature won’t work unless the accents and breathings are accurate.  The download includes the entire Perseus database: dictionaries, parsing engine, and all."

http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/  This is a page with the Greek text from one of the most important manuscripts in the world.

http://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/gnt/home.html  Listen to the Greek New Testament read aloud in MP3 format.

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/ptmp3prq.htm  Listen to the Hebrew Bible read aloud in MP3 format.

Hebrew Language Specialty Tools.  This site has a collection of all the websites related to the study of the Hebrew text.

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