Tyndale Tech (David Instone-Brewer)

The Tyndale Tech blog is a highly useful site for finding out about electronic resources for biblical studies. At the time of writing it features posts on:

maps and geography in biblical studies (incl. interactive maps, PowerPoint maps, photos of places and archaeology;
the Tyndale Toolbar for Bibles, languages, bibliography and news, which works in Firefox [...]

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Tehillim (Richard Sherratt)

The particular strength of this useful blog, entitled ‘Tehillim’, lies in its unwavering focus on the Psalms. Most of the posts introduce readers to books, articles and sermons on the Psalms, many of which are available online (links are provided). Occasionally, Richard Sherratt, who has published a short article on ‘The Psalms in Anglican [...]

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The Blue Cord Bible Dictionary

One of the most important tools for beginning students is a reliable, up-to-date Bible dictionary. Finding one in print is no problem, but the online Bible dictionaries currently available are all extremely dated. The Blue Cord Bible Dictionary (at http://www.bluecord.org/biblewiki/index.php) is aiming to change that by providing a Bible wiki, i.e. a Wikipedia-style Bible dictionary. [...]

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Biblical eSources (by Ted Hildebrandt)

The Biblical eSources site, maintained by Ted Hildebrandt of Gordon College in Wenham (MA), lists electronic books, articles and bibliographies on the Old and New Testament as well as on New Testament Greek. Some areas of biblical studies are well covered, while others (such as most of the minor prophets) don’t feature at all.
There is [...]

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BibleTutor (by Luther Productions)

The BibleTutor by Luther Productions, which describes itself as the multimedia arm of Luther Seminary in St Paul (Minnesota), offers some basic information on biblical books and periods as well as places and people in the Bible. There is also some information on festivals, foreign deities, and places and objects for worship.

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Read biblical studies classics online

Mega-search engine Google is in the process of scanning entire library collections to create an online library of millions of searchable volumes. Google already offers a sizeable collection of older biblical studies works that are in the public domain, including works by Hermann Gunkel, S. R. Driver, Julius Wellhausen and Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, [...]

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