This site is designed to advance research in matters of religion. As a global forum that may be accessed instantaneously anywhere, the internet promises to surpass the impact of the printing press on the study of religion. Gutenberg made possible the family Bible. The WWW puts a global library of free information on the desk of anyone with a computer & telephone line.

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e.g. Judaic Studies: http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/judaic.html, subtopics: General Resources, Hebrew Bible, Judean Commonwealth, Tannaitic Period, Talmud, Jewish Diaspora, Mysticism (Kabbalah), Modern Judaism

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The social world of Philo|| Online texts of Philo of Alexandria || Electronically published articles on Philo || Electronically published reviews of works on Philo || Home-Pages to scholars writing on Philo || and some sites about Ancient Egypt.

Proslogium; Monologium; An Appendix in Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilon; and Cur Deus Homo

NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin, with a Sketch of his Life and Work

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Commentary on the Whole Bible Unabridged and carefully proofread (Matthew Henry)

Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume I. The History of Creeds. (Philip Schaff)

Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume II. The History of Creeds. (Philip Schaff)

Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. (Henry Wace)

ReligiousResources.org is a directory of Internet resources for all major religions, listing 4945 resources, organized into 328 categories.

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Wesley Center Online, Wesley Center for Applied Theology, Northwest Nazarene University

John Wesley’s Christian Library, These "Extracts from and Abridgments of the Choicest Pieces of Practical Divinity Which Have Been Published in the English Tongue," as Wesley subtitled them, were first published in 50 volumes in 1750. The present digital collection was scanned from the 1821 edition of these classics, published in 30 volumes.

Noncanonical Literature - To understand the Bible, it is helpful to know contemporary literature.

Parables Studies - Exegetical notes on all of Jesus' best loved stories. Eighty new studies added in December, 2002.

Early English translations of the Bible (added October, 2002, thanks to Sergej A. Fedosov

John Wycliffe (1384): First English translation of the entire Bible (based on the Latin Vulgate).

Peacemakers International, Inc - Website containing a selection of valuable theological resources.

Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas.

Texts (454 displayed); Secondary Sources (88 displayed); Images (56855 in collection); Museum Photography (31 displayed); Site Photography (36 displayed); Miscellaneous Pictures (6 displayed)

Texts include most of the Greek and Latin classical authors, Aristophanes, Cicero, Demosthenese, etc., and many secondary sources

Texts include Josephus, the Vulgate Bible, the English Bible, the Greek New Testament (Westcott-Hort)

Subtopics include the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) with separate links to each book, Deuterocanon (OT Apocrypha), Pseudepigrapha (some not Jewish), Dead Sea Scrolls (See Open Scrolls Project–most texts not available online), Philo of Alexandria, Flavius Josephus, Talmud

· Ancient Greek Tutorials - project of Donald Mastronarde and the Berkeley Language Center offering pronunciation and accentuation modules, vocabulary drills, paradigms, and more.

· Classical Language Instruction Project - features samples of Greek and Latin prose and poetry texts read by various scholars and in different styles.

· *David Sansone: Course Handouts for Greek - printable references including Greek sentence patterns, moods of verbs, conditions, and temporal clauses.

· *Differences between Classical and Hellenistic Greek - describes changes in orthography, accidence, and syntax as Attic Greek evolved into Koine Greek.

· Greek Alphabet - table listing all of the letters, upper-case and lower-case, with their names and pronunciations, and emphasis on their use in mathematics.

· *Greek Grammar for Colleges - text by Herbert Weir Smyth.

· *Greek Grammar on the Web - directory of sites devoted to the study of Ancient Greek.

· *Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway - resources for the study of Ancient Greek and linguistics.

· Greek Numbers and Arithmetic - briefly describes Attic and Ionian enumeration, how the ancient Greeks expressed large numbers and fractions, and basic calculation.

· Greek, Ancient - review of Classical Greek including its origins, dialects, phonology, morphology, syntax, related languages, and contacts with other languages.

· Greek-Ancient Greek-English Dictionary - translation dictionary for English, Greek, and Ancient Greek.

· Intelligent Person's Guide to Greek - William Harris's condensed manual which descriptively introduces students to the elements of Greek grammar.

· Lexicon of Greek Personal Names - aims to collect and publish all known Ancient Greek personal names, drawn from all available sources, within the period from the earliest Greek written records to approximately the sixth century AD.

· *Little Greek - tips and resources for learning New Testament Greek, plus dictionaries and fonts in the Greek alphabet.

· Monachos.net: Classical Greek Resources - features tools for the study of Classical and Ecclesiastical Greek.

· *Nifty Greek Handouts - Dr. Helma Dik's collection of reference sheets in PDF format. Includes verb endings and stems, nouns and pronouns, and breathings and accents.

· *Overview of Greek Syntax - text by Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox.

· Textkit - free downloadable Greek and Latin grammar learning tools.

· Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) - research center at the University of California, Irvine dedicated to creating a digital library of the entire corpus of Greek literature from Homer to the present era.

Westar Institute, An advocate for literacy in bible and religion, Home of the Jesus Seminar

Excerpt on canonical and noncanonical gospels from the introduction to The Complete Gospels: www.westarinstitute.org/Polebridge/Title/Complete/IntroComplete/introcomplete.html

Robert W. Funk, Jesus as Precursor, Polebridge, 1994, http://www.weststarinstitute.org/Polebridge/Title/Precursor/precursor.html

The Gospel According to the Jesus Seminar, Birger A. Pierson (3. Methodology of the JS)

The Gospel According to the Jesus Seminar, Birger A. Pierson (2. Quests of the Historical Jesus)

The Gospel According to the Jesus Seminar, Birger A. Pierson (1. The Jesus Seminar)

Hyper-Synopsis (Mt. Mk. Lk.) Synoptic Gospel Outline #1 religion.rutgers.edu/nt/primer/backgrnd.html –NOTE: This has charts of the gospels similar to some of the professor’s handouts.

William R. Farmer, The Present State of the Synoptic Problem, www.bham.ac.uk/theology/synoptic-l/farmer.htm (24 pp. as printed out) –NOTE: Farmer is critical of the Two-Source Theory (Mark & Q) accepted by many. He offers a variation on the view of St. Augustine that Matthew was the first gospel written. His basis is in form criticism.