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BIBLES and COMMENTARIES ONLINE

Online Bible texts

• Interlinear Bibles

• The Interlinear NRSV-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English. A. Marshall, trans. Zondervan, 1993;

• The Interlinear NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: The Nestle Greek Text with a Literal English Translation. A. Marshall, trans. Zondervan, 1999.

• The Interlinear NASB-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: Parallel New Testament in Greek and English. A. Marshall, trans. Zondervan, 1993.

• The Interlinear NASB-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: Parallel New Testament in Greek and English. A. Marshall, trans. Zondervan, 1993.

• Interlinear KJV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: Based on the Textus Receptus with Lexicon and Synonyms. George Ricker Berry, trans. Zondervan, 1993.

• The New Greek-English interlinear New Testament: a new interlinear translation of the Greek New Testament, United Bible Societies` fourth, corrected edition with the New Revised Standard Version, New Testament. R.K. Brown, et al., trans. Fourth ed. Tyndale House, 1993 (also copy).

• Interlinear KJV-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: New Testament in Greek and English. A. Marshall, trans. Zondervan, 1992.

• Other online Bibles

• Bible Gateway

• NRSV On-line Bible

• Blue Letter Bible

• Overview of English Bible Translations

• Greek New Testament (with textual variants)

• Hebrew/Greek Bibles

• New Testament Gateway

• Synoptic Gospels Primer: Parallel Texts

Single-Volume Bible Commentaries

• Collegeville Bible Commentary: Based on the New American Bible. Robert J. Karris, Dianne Bergant, eds. Liturgical Press, 1992 (also copy 1 and copy 2).

• IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. Craig S. Keener, ed. InterVarsity, 1993.

• IVP New Testament Commentaries -Online

• Life Application New Testament Commentary. B.B. Barton, ed. Tyndale House, 2001.

• Tyndale Concise Bible Commentary. R.B. Hughes and J.C. Laney, eds. Tyndale House, 2001.

New Testament Commentaries

• Alford’s ‘New Testament for English Readers’ — The New Testament for English Readers: Containing the Authorized Version, with Marginal Corrections of Readings and Renderings, Marginal References, and a Critical and Explanatory Commentary, by Henry Alford, D.D., Dean of Canterbury (London: Rivingtons, 1866; 2nd ed. 1868): Matthew, Mark, Luke (1868, John, Acts (1863); Epistles of Paul (1865); Hebrews, Catholic Epistles, and Revelation (1866).

• Ante-Nicene Fathers: e-Catena. By Peter Kirby. References to the New Testament culled from the writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers—good for understanding how the text was interpreted in ancient times.

• Barnes' Notes on the New Testament. A conservative commentary on the New Testament by an American Presbyterian, Albert Barnes (1832).

• Expository Notes. By Thomas L. Constable, Senior Professor of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary. This contains .pdf files for each book of the Bible.

• IVP New Testament Commentaries at Bible Gateway. A collection of brief and casual commentaries from a moderately conservative perspective, recently published by InterVarsity Press. Currently available online are: Matthew (Craig S. Keener); Luke (Darrell L. Bock); John (Rodney A. Whitacre); Acts (William J. Larkin); 2 Cor (Linda L. Belleville); Galatians (G. Walter Hansen); Philippians (Gordon D. Fee); Colossains (Robert W. Wall); 1 Tim (Philip H. Towner); Philemon (Robert W. Wall); Titus (Philip H. Towner); James (George M. Stulac); 1,2,3 John (Marianne Meye Thompson); and Revelation (J. Ramsey Michaels).

• John Lightfoot's Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica. Notices many parallels in early Jewish writings that help to explain the New Testament.

• John Wesley's Notes on the Bible provide a concise commentary from an Arminian perspective, though the doctrines peculiar to Arminianism are not emphasized. The notes for the New Testament were originally published as part of Wesley's New Testament.

• New Testament commentary for English readers, by various writers, edited by Charles J. Ellicott, 3 vols. (London: Cassell, 1884): vol. 1 (Gospels); vol. 2 (Acts, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians); vol. 3 (Ephesians to Revelation).

• Notes on the Greek New Testament. By Peter Misselbrook. Brief commentary on all the books of the New Testament designed for students who have some Greek. Consists mostly of quotations drawn from recent commentaries by conservative scholars.

• The People's New Testament. A commentary by the Disciples of Christ scholar Barton W. Johnson, first published in 1891. Contains Arminian interpretations, in line with the theology of the American "restoration movement," but otherwise very helpful, with introductions and appendixes.

• Word Studies in the New Testament by Marvin Vincent. A very useful resource for teachers. Vincent goes through the entire New Testament briefly noting interesting details about words and phrases. First published in 1886.

• Word Pictures in the New Testament by A.T. Robertson. Similar to Vincent's earlier work, but more up to date in scholarship and more technical. First published in 1933.

Commentaries on the Whole Bible

• Calvin's Commentaries. English translation of the famous reformer's commentaries.

• Matthew Henry's Commentary. An excellent resource for traditional Protestant interpretation and application.

• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary. A good concise commentary, much less full than Calvin's or Henry's, but more recent.

• John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Especially helpful for theological exposition.

• Classic Bible Commentaries, courtesy of E-Word Today. Includes commentaries of Gill, Jamieson-Faussett-Brown, John Lightfoot, Ben Johnson, Matthew Henry, McGarvey and Pendleton, and Luther (Galatians). Also the notes of Darby, Wesley, and the Geneva Bible.

• Coffman's Commentaries. Conservative and devotional commentary on the whole Bible by a Church of Christ scholar, James Burton Coffman.

• Adam Clarke's Commentaries. Conservative and Arminian in doctrinal view.

Lexicons

• Liddell-Scott Jones Greek-English Lexicon

The University of California (Irving) has made available a new (free) online version of the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon (commonly abbreviated LSJ). The LSJ is *the* standard classical Greek lexicon, and it is extremely valuable to anyone studying the New Testament. Although online versions of the LSJ have been in existence for some time, this new electronic edition has a few major advantages. All of the lexicon entries have been broken down so that each word has its own entry (in the print edition, many sub-entry words were listed under a single head word entry, making navigation of the lexicon somewhat difficult). One can navigate to any of these Greek ‘headwords’ using the left menu, or by typing in the Latin alphabet equivalent of Greek letters in the search box (the Greek search text shows up in a pop-up below the search box as you type, so that you can see if you are typing the correct letters).

Bible Commentaries

Bible Researcher

Commentaries available through BibleStudyTools

Free Bible Commentary

Tyndale Seminary’s Reading Room

Bible Dictionaries

Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology

Bible Gateway’s dictionary

Easton's Bible Dictionary from

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Holman Illustrated Pocket Bible Dictionary

LARGE RELIGION WEBSITES

Finding God in Cyberspace

This guide provides a selective listing of the best Internet resources of interest to religious studies scholars and students of religion. Rather than attempt a comprehensive listing of religious information on the Internet, this guide selectively points to the best gateways to specific types of religious information. This guide is especially designed to provide both novice and advanced Internet researchers with a helpful starting point for online religious research. The guide has its origins in a presentation given by Dr. John Gresham at a regional conference of Religious Studies Scholars in Dallas, Texas in 1994.

Internet Christian Library

A guide to online indexes related to Christian missions, Christian resources, Christian literature, and early church documents.

Research Guide for Christianity

A site maintained by Yale Divinity School Library. Resources organized by these subject areas: Bible, Church/Denominational/Ecumenical, Church History, Ethics and Social Issues, Missions & World Christianity, Systematic/Doctrinal theology, Practical Theology, and Religion and the Arts.

Virtual Religion Index

This site provides links that may be of interest to anyone doing advanced research in matters of religion. Site categories include Academic Sites, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archaeology & Religious Art, Buddhist Studies, Comparative Study of Religion, East Asian Studies, Ethics & Moral Values, Greco-Roman Studies, Islamic Studies, Philosophy & Theology, American Studies, Anthropology & Sociology, Biblical Studies, Christian Tradition, Confessional Agencies, Hindu Studies, Jewish Studies, and Psychology of Religion.

Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, web sites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The purpose of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation of electronic resources into teaching.

FREE OPEN ACCESS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

Apologetics

Christian Apologetics Journal  

 

Archaeology

American Journal of Archaeology

Internet Archaeology

Near Eastern Archaeology

 

Biblical Studies

American Journal of Biblical Theology

Bible and Interpretation

Bible Translation Resources

Biblica

Catholic Biblical Quarterly

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

Journal of Biblical Literature

Journal of Biblical Studies

Journal of Textual Reasoning

Review of Biblical Literature

SBL: Seminar Papers

TC: A Journal of Textual Criticism

 

Charismatic / Pentecostal Topics

Charisma and Christian Life

Cyberjournal for Pentecostal-Charismatic Research

Encounter – Journal for Pentecostal Ministry

PentecoStudies

 

Christian Education

Christian Education Journal  

Christian Higher Education

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Religious Education

 

Church & Church Administration

CellChurch

Verbum et Ecclesia

Word and World

 

Church History

Baptist History and Heritage

Christian History and Biography

Christian Perspectives in Education

Church History   

Journal of Religious History

 

Colleges’ and Seminaries’ Publications

Concordia Journal

Covenant Magazine

Denver Seminary Journal

Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal

Harvard Divinity Bulletin

Masters Seminary Journal

McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry

Princeton Seminary Bulletin

Southern Seminary Magazine

Trinity Journal

Tyndale Bulletin

 

Culture, Society & Politics

Affirmation & Critique

Antithesis

Christian Century

Christian Ethics Today

Christian Research Journal

Christian Scholar’s Review

Christianity Today

Church & State

Citizen [Focus on the Family]

Commentary

Cross Currents

First Things

Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

Journal of Biblical Ethics in Medicine

Journal of Church and State

Journal of Men, Masculinities, and Sexuality

Journal of Religion and Film

Journal of Religion and Popular Culture    

Journal of Religion and Society

Journal of Religion and Theatre

Journal of Southern Religion

Review of Faith & International Affairs

WORLD

 

Denominational Publications

Adventist Today

Anglican Journal

Anglican and Episcopal History

Anglican Theological Review

Baptist History and Heritage

Canadian Journal of Orthodox Christianity

Catholic Biblical Quarterly

Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum

Founders Journal

Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry

Mennonite Life

Mennonite Quarterly Review

Methodist Review

Presbyterian Record

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal

Quaker Theology

Semper Reformanda – (Lutheran Reformation)

Southern Baptist Journal of Theology

Stone-Campbell Journal

Studies in Reformed Theology

Wesleyan Theological Journal

 

Evangelism & Discipleship; Leadership

Decision Magazine

Inner Resources for Leaders

Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership

Leadership

Xenos Online Journal

 

 

Missions

American Missionary, the   [1878-1901]

Currents in Theology and Mission

International Journal of Frontier Missions

Journal of Applied Missiology

Mission Frontiers

Missionalia

On Mission

World Vision

 

Music

Hymn, The

 

Pastoring

Creator

Inner Resources for Leaders

Journal of Pastoral Counseling

Leadership

 

Preaching

African American Pulpit, The

Homiletic : a Review of Publications in Religious Communication

Homiletic and Pastoral Review

Kerux

 

Religions, non-Christian & Philosophy

Al-Tawhid. A Quarterly Journal of Islamic Thought & Culture

Hinduism Today

Jewish Studies

Journal for the Study of Religions And Ideologies

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Journal of Philosophy and Scripture 

Journal of Religion

Mythological Studies Journal

Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy

Philosophy Today

Religions

Studia Judaica

Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations

Women in Judaism

 

Science & Religion

Answers in Genesis

Creation

Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith

 

Theology

Acta Theologica

American Theological Inquiry

Australian E-Journal of Theology

Biblical Theology Bulletin

Chinese Theological Review

Christian Apologetics Journal  

Concordia Theological Quarterly

Conservative Theological Journal

Foundations – A Journal of Evangelical Theology

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

Journal for Christian Theological Research

Journal of Ecumenical Studies

Journal of Theology for Southern Africa

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

Kairos : Evangelical Journal of Theology

Modern Reformation

Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy

Perspectives: a Journal of Reformed Thought

Religious Studies Reviews

Southern Baptist Journal of Theology

Studies in Reformed Theology

Theologia 

Theological News

Theological Studies

Theology Today

Touchstone – a Journal of Mere Christianity

Wesleyan Theological Journal

Westminster Theological Journal

 

Youth Ministry

Campus Life

Youth Worker

 

MAPS of BIBLE LANDS

Ancient World

Ancient World Mapping Center

At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, this center “exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies”.  Many useful, high resolution, well documented reproductions of maps from print resources in the AWMC Map Room including maps of the Expansion of the Empire in the Age of Augustus, Greece, the Aegean and Western Asia Minor and Roman Empire in AD 69.

 

Historical Maps of the Middle East

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin: this comprises reproductions of many old maps.

 

Oriental Institute Map Series — Site Maps

Seven maps of the ancient near east (Egypt, Sudan, The Levant, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran), locating primary archaeological sites, modern cities, and river courses set against a plain background. They are located at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute.

 

Atlases

Bible Geocoding (This uses GoogleEarth to locate every possible place that is mentioned in the Biblical text.) 

Oxford Bible Atlas. (Adrian Curtis)  pub. by Oxford, 2007.

Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible. (Bruce M. Metzger &  Michael D. Coogan, eds. pub. by Oxford, 2004.

The Uttermost Part of the Earth: A Guide to Places in the Bible. (Losch, Richard R.) pub. by Eerdmans, 2005. 

 

 

Israel and Jerusalem – time of Christ

Communities of the Gospels (PBS site)

 

Historic Jesus: Maps

Collection of 17 color maps relevant to 1st Century Israel. Some of these maps are from older, out-of-copyright material; others are more recent. All are in color.

 

Land of Israel

By Mahlon Smith: an excellent, clear map with hyperlinks to information on the places it charts.

 

Palestine in the Time of Christ (B.W. Johnson)

Taken from The People’s New Testament of 1891.

 

Palestine in the time of Christ  (HyperHistory online)

 

Palestine in the Time of Jesus

By K.C. Hanson: this web site (designed to accompany the book of the same name by Hanson and Douglas Oakman) features several old maps includingBethlehem and Nazareth.

 

Holy Lands, Israel in General

Bible Tutor: Biblical Places

A section in the Luther Seminary’s Bible Tutor: visit this site for simple but useful maps hyperlinked to more information on the place names they contain.

 

Jerusalem in Old Maps and Views

A useful site covering some of the same material as in the previous site from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

Jerusalem 3000: Celebrating Three Millennia of History

An interesting collection of different kinds of old maps of Jerusalem, real, imaginary and combinations of the two, located at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine.

 

 

Jewish Diaspora

Jewish Diaspora  (PBS site)

 

 

Paul the Apostle

Paul:  maps related to his life and ministry

Done by Nancy A Carter, this contains annotated color maps in different sizes of The Roman Empire, The Journeys of Paul, The Mediterranean World during the Time of Paul, and Greece.

 

Paul’s Missionary Journeys (B.W. Johnson)

Taken from The People’s New Testament of 1891.

 

 

Roman Empire

Roman Empire

An interactive map of “the Roman Empire at its Greatest Extent” from the 1907Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography, adapted for the Internet by J. Vanderspoel.

 

Roman Empire

Part of Lacus Curtius, Bill Thayer’s web site on Roman antiquity (University of Chicago). Features several detailed maps made in the 19th Century, including Greece, Asia Minor and Syria.

 

Roman Empire  (PBS site)

 

Roman Empire  (HyperHistory online)

 

 

Spread of Christianity

Spread of Christianity (PBS site)

 

Spread of Christianity

Done by Glenn Davies, this was scanned and adapted from Lightfoot, Harmer & Holmes, and The Apostolic Fathers. Users can click on some points on the map to see more information.

 

Spread of Christianity Down to 180 AD

Adolf Von Harnack’s map, digitized by Jay Treat; you can view the whole or sections of it.

E-BOOKS

Collection of selected classic and current Christian texts

 Alexander, Archibald:  Thoughts on Religious Experience

Augustine:  Well-Known Works

Augustine: Some works

Baxter, Richard:  The Reformed Pastor

Boettner, Lorraine:  Limited Atonement

Bounds, E. M.:  Prayer

Brooks, Thomas:  Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices

Burroughs, Jeremiah:  Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

Calvin, John:  Institutes of the Christian Life

Hodge, Charles:  Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians

                        Systematic Theology Vol.1, 2, & 3

Luther, Martin:  Selected works

Murray, John:  Sovereignty of God

Owen, John   Glory of Christ

                      Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Pink, Arthur W.:  Attributes of God

                        Inspiration of the Scriptures    

Piper, John:  About 80 of his books are available for download from Desiring God

Poythress, Vern:  13 of his books:  Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy; God-Centered; In the Beginning was the Word; Inerrancy and the Gospels; Inerrancy and Worldview; Redeeming Science; Redeeming Sociology; Returning King; Science and Hermeneutics; Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses; Symphonic Theology; Understanding Dispensationalists; and What are Spiritual Gifts? 

Ryle, J.C. :  Holiness

Spurgeon, Charles H.:  Treasury of David

much more of his work available at The Spurgeon Archives

Watson, Thomas:  Body of Divinity

Whitefield, George   Sermons

 

COLLECTIONS ON CHRISTIAN TOPICS

Websites of collections of open access e-books

 

   (Bible study tools in many languages, including Bible versions/translations, an online parallel Bible, and Greek and Hebrew interlinear Bibles)

 

Christian Classics Ethereal Library  (extensive collections of classics in Christian literature)

 

Desiring God (John Piper’s books)

John Piper, a pastor in Minnesota and well-known published author makes the texts of about 80 of his books, and his sermons available for free download from his website.

 

NTS Library [of Christian theological e-books]

This is a free service provided by Northwestern Theological Seminary.  It contains links to the PDF version of many Christian books, which can use or download free of charge.  Topics covered are:

Apologetics (7 titles)

      Bible Studies (14 titles)

      Bible Surveys (4 titles)

      Biographies (13 titles)

      Christian Doctrine (26 titles)

      Christian Living (24 titles)

      Christian Reference (16 titles)

      Christian Counseling (6 books)

      Christian Ethics (2 books)

      Evangelism (4 books)

      Hermeneutics & Homiletics (4 books)

      Holy Bible – foreign language translations (12 books)

      Ministry & Missions (10 books)

      Miscellaneous (4 books)

      Philosophers & Church Fathers (50 books)

      Philosophy (17 books)

      Theology (54 books)

      Worship (3 books)

Puritan Library

This website provides links to many resources and includes a collection of about 100 of the most famous of the Puritan authors’ books in PDF and HTML formats, some of which are downloadable.

 WordSearch

This commercial site, based in Austin, Texas, has been producing software and electronic books for the Christian market since 1987. The company operated as NavPress Software for over 10 years before becoming WORDsearch Corp. in July 2002. WORDsearch offers more than 2,400 volumes of electronic books for Christian pastors, teachers, and laypeople.

 last update: 1 March 2014

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