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Bible, Biblical Languages Subject Guide

Recommended Databases

• ATLA Religion (FirstSearch)
  • A "FirstSearch" database of articles in Religion, Bible, Theology, Philosophy, Ministry, etc., from over 1550 journals, including 60 leading theology journals that provide full-text articles. Produced by the American Theological Library Association. Supports religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Contains thousands of citations from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion. Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Spans over 50 years with selected records going back to 1818.
• CPI
  • Christian Periodical Index is an index to articles (not full-text) from an evangelical perspective. About 150 journals and popular evangelical magazines are indexed. Some of these titles are available full-text online.
• RTA (Religious & Theological Abstracts)
  • RTA provides abstracts from nearly 600 journals in Bible, religion and ministry, many titles of which are available either online or in-print through Miller Library. One of the greatest benefits of RTA is that it covers several journals that are not indexed in ATLA-Religion. 

Interdisciplinary Databases

• eBooks Michigan
  • A collection of almost 25,000 eBooks available to Michigan libraries. The state "owns" 1 copy of each book and the checkout time is 6 hours. You must create a free account before accessing the titles. Especially valuable to our Bible students is the netlibrary access to about 50 Bible commentaries online (see below under "Online reference works").
• Humanities Abstracts (FirstSearch)
  • Abstracts covering diverse subject areas of the humanities
• RefWorks
  • A personal database that allows you to download references from online databases and then formats them for use in bibliographies and research papers. You will need to create an individual account the first time you use this service. Click here for Help Using RefWorks.
• WorldCat (FirstSearch)
  • Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records. Includes records representing 400 languages.

Recommended Websites:

• New Testament studies 
• Book reviews in biblical studies: from SBL Review of Biblical Lit
• New Perspectives on Paul
• Crosswalk.com (basic Bible study tools)
• Orion Center for the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Digital Gutenberg Bible (excellent images)
• Bible maps online
• Authority of the Bible: several articles, full-length books by recognized scholars on biblical authority
• Greek NTGateway
• Logos Bible software help from Yale Divinity School
• Bible Works software help from Yale
• Hebrew-English Bible
• Early Christian Writings
• Fragments of the New Testament
• Tanakh: Extensive resources on the Tanakh--the Hebrew scriptures; with Internet links to Semitic languages and topics
• Pseudepigrapha--Online Critical Pseudepigrapha
• Tyndale House (UK)-Center for Biblical Studies (links for Gr/Heb fonts, etc)
• Tyndale Tech--Blog especially for finding online articles, journals, ebooks
• Yale Divinity School--Biblical Language Center (for Greek, Hebrew fonts, tools)

eJournals that focus on Biblical Studies:

To access many journals that are searchable, “full-text” online, go to the “Journals List;” Browse by subject under “Religion & Philosophy;” find a journal title that interests you, then click on the database that is suggested. You may then need to enter the name of the journal or the subject you wish to search (accessible to CU students/faculty/staff only). In addition, the following journals provide free web-access (not limited to CU community):

• Journal for Christian Theological Research
• Affirmation and Critique
• Denver (Seminary) Journal: Review of Current Bible, Theology Studies

• TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism

Online Reference works:

Abbreviations commonly used in biblical studies

Bible Commentaries in ebook format: we have about 50 commentaries from 4 major series--Herald Press, Routledge, Westminster/John Knox, and Oxford Press. Using the Advanced Search, type in the name of the Bible book and then choose Ebooks for the "Material Type."

Biblical Art and Images:  Yale U Divinity School-- Digital Image Library

"Bible Crosswalk" commentaries online 

Religion-Online: More than 4,500 articles and chapters. Topics include Old and New Testament, theology, and much more.

Apostle Paul: numerous online books. (Only select ones are available to read online.)