Resources
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Bibles
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Bible.Crosswalk: Research website features over 20 translations of the Bible that can be viewed directly on the internet. Other helps include interlinear Bible, parallel Bible, commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, encylopedias, lexicons, history, etc.
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Blue Letter Bible: This site has 10 versions of the Bible and a host of other research tools including audio/video commentaries, maps, and search.
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Bible Gateway:
Read and research Scripture in more than a dozen languages. Additional resources are
audio Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, and eBooks.
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NET Internet Bible:
This translation includes 60,932 translator's notes in addition to a modern translation of the original texts. The notes bring the reader in on the different options available to the translator. Explanations are given for why the original language was translated as they did and competing viewpoints are often mentioned and evaluated.
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Septuagint (LXX):
The Septuagint was often quoted from in the New Testament (Greek Scriptures). This site contains the entire English translation of the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament & Apocrypha) and it will even read it to you out loud using online mp3s.
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Online Bible: a free downloadable Bible software program. Great for searching for a phrase or looking up definitions of words.
- E-Sword: a free downloadable Bible software program. Great for comparing translations and looking at maps, charts, etc.
Historical Research Tools
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Early Jewish Writings:
Resources include the Dueterocanon (Apocrypha), Pseudepigrapha, Philo's writings, and Josephus' writings. The site also has links to the Dead Sea Scrolls (Open Scrolls Project) and sites which contain the Talmud.
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Early Christian Writings: Excellent free historical resource for reading early Christian writings from New Testament times up until AD 300. The web page is useful in learning the cultural backdrop and thought world in which very early post-biblical Christianity developed.
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Scripture index of allusions made by Ante-Nicene Fathers: This is a great resource to see what the early Christian Fathers believed about specific verses in the New Testament.
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Josephus: The complete works of Flavius Josephus (translated by William Whiston). Josephus was a Jewish historian who lived from AD 37 to AD 101. His works are useful in reconstructing what life was like in the time of the earliest Christians as well as the Jewish perspective of world history.
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Church Ecumenical Councils: Site has the text of 21 ecumenical councils of the Catholic church. Useful for understanding the development of critical doctrines as well as other historical research purposes.
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The Early Church Fathers: The complete text of the Ante-Nicene Fathers (Christian writings before AD 325). Great resource to see how the early Christians interpreted Scripture and lived Christianity even in the midst of a corrupt Roman Empire.
- Center for Socinian Studies: Marian Hillar has researched the Socinian (unitarian) movement thouroughly and presents his findings in this informational website.
Other Research Tools
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Table of Old Testament quotes in the New Testament: Good resource to find where New Testament Scriptures are quoting from. Both Septuagint and Masoretic versions of the Old Testament are listed.
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Table of Greek Manuscripts: Where are all of those Greek Manuscripts? This resources gives the name, approximate date, location, and contents of all of the Greek Manuscripts (codices, papyri, etc.)
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Judaism 101: JewFAQ.org has tons of articles about Judaism including: "What do Jews believe?" "The Nature of God," "Moshiach: The Messiah." Get a new perspective on some of these Old Testament truths.
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Navigating the Bible:
A Jewish website including the their own translation of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy), the Scripture readings for each of the Jewish holy days, a biblical/cultural dictionary of people, places, plants, and animals, and it has a resource to teach how to sing the Scripture.
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Babylonian Talmud: A resource for understanding Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures. Approximately 8,050 pages (out of 12,800) are on this site and are free to view.
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