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Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
"The Israel Museum welcomes you to the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project,
allowing users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts
from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before possible.
Developed in partnership with Google, the new website gives users access
to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as
well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts
and their history. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known
biblical manuscripts in existence, offer critical insight into Jewish
society in the Land of Israel during the Second Temple Period, the time
of the birth of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Five complete scrolls
from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project at this
stage and are now accessible online."
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
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Duke Papyrus Archive
"The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt." This excellent site is one of the leading examples of how artifacts from the ancient world can be brought onto the "information superhighway."
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
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Jerusalem Archaeological Park
"The Jerusalem Archaeological Park, Israel’s most important antiquity site, reaches the Temple Mount on the north, the slope of the Mount of Olives and the Kidron Valley on the east, and the Valley of Hinnom on the west and the south. This exceptional area which has captivated the world’s imagination throughout history, has been designated as an archaeological park and open museum."
http://www.davidsoncenter.co.il/index.asp
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Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries
"In much of North America and Europe, the younger generations have little knowledge of the central figure in the formation of Western culture. They know little of the way Jesus, his person and teaching, and the way he has been understood, has shaped and reshaped so many key developments in art, science, politics, ideas, society, and culture. Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries offers a modest opportunity to glimpse and consider this tap-root of culture and civilization." This site is an online exhibit of images of Jesus, related to Jaroslav Pelikan's works on changing historical perceptions of Christ. Maintained by the Provincial Museum of Alberta.
http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/Search.do?ex=on&R=VE_33
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Taoism and the Arts of China
Over 25 works of Chinese art "from the Warring States period to the Qing dynasty [that] demonstrate the development of Taoism and Taoist art." Accompanying text explores themes of tradition (Laozi, cosmology), church (priests, rituals), and renaissance (goddesses, Zhenwu, Inner Alchemy, landscape). Includes diagrams of the Chinese zodiac, Taji, and Trigrams; a map of China; a timeline; classroom lesson plans; a glossary; a list of related books; and links. From the Art Institute of Chicago.
http://www.artic.edu/taoism/
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William Blake Archive
"A free site on the World Wide Web since 1996, the Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility. The Archive contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of copies of Blake's illuminated works in the context of full, up-to-date bibliographic information about each image, scrupulous 'diplomatic' transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies."
http://www.blakearchive.org/
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Huntington Archive
"The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Related Art contains nearly 300,000 original color slides and black and white and color photographs of art and architecture throughout Asia. Countries covered in the collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), China, and Japan. The Archive documents the art and architecture of these countries in situ, as well as works of art found in most major Asian, European, and American museums."
http://huntingtonarchive.osu.edu/
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Vatican Museums
"The Vatican Museums are one of the most famous and renowned cultural institutions of the Holy See. They are known everywhere because of the masterpieces which the Roman Pontiffs have commissioned, collected and preserved during the ages. Together with the immense heritage of movable works of art, sculptures and paintings, which are displayed in the galleries, the itineraries of the Vatican Museums include the most important and artistically significant rooms of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, such as the 'Cappella Niccolina' with paintings by Beato Angelico, the 'Appartamento Borgia' with decorations by Pinturicchio, the 'Stanze' painted by Raphael and, of course, the Sistine Chapel with frescoes by Michelangelo as well as the most important 15th century masters from Umbria and Tuscany."
http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html
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Greek New Testament (Perseus Digital Library)
This site, well known for classical texts, provides the Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament. It offers lexical aids for students of Greek, drawing on the Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0155:book=Matthew
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Gutenberg Digital
The Gottingen State and University Library has made available images of all 1,282 pages of its editions of the Gutenberg Bible. The site also includes a wealth of information on Gutenberg's age and the invention of the printing press.
http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm
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Text This Week, The
"This site features a wide variety of resources for study and liturgy based on the 3-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle. I am intentionally including a diverse variety of resources for scripture study, reflection and liturgy, and purposefully not restricting the resources to any particular theological/ideological position, including my own." Maintained by Jenee Woodard.
http://www.textweek.com/
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Early Modern Texts
"Here are versions of some classics of early modern philosophy, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought." This site includes texts by: Berkeley, Descartes, Edwards, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, Mill, Spinoza, and others. Maintained by Jonathan F. Bennett.
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Edited by James Fieser (University of Tennessee at Martin), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a growing collection of articles on many figures and topics; it seeks contributions from professional philosophers.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Edited by Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University), the Stanford Encyclopedia is a 'dynamic' encyclopedia of philosophy that is responsive to new research -- authors have ftp access to their entries to keep them up-to-date and a select Board of Editors monitors and referees all entries and updates.
http://plato.stanford.edu/
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Confessions of Augustine: An Electronic Edition
This site offers the text of the Confessions in Latin, with extensive critical commentary by Prof. James O'Donnell. For advanced students.
http://www.stoa.org/hippo/
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Wesley Center for Applied Theology
Maintained at Northwest Nazarene College. Includes electronic versions of many works by John Wesley and other Holiness Tradition authors.
http://wesley.nnu.edu/
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Papal Encyclicals Online
"Your guide to online Papal and other official documents of the Catholic Church." This site offers a very extensive collection of links to texts published by Roman Catholic Popes and Church Councils.
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/
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Religion Online
A collection of essays and books on a wide variety of topics in theology and religious studies, by reputable scholars. Headings: The Bible; Local Church; Communication; Theology; Practical Theology; Theologians; Culture; Social Issues; Religious Sociology; Education; History of Religion; Ethics; Missions; Churches and Society. Also provided are indexes by author and subject, and a search feature. A superb resource. Maintained by William F. Fore.
http://www.religion-online.org/
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Ethics Updates
Maintained by Lawrence M. Hinman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. An extensive gathering of links in various theoretical and applied categories.
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/index.asp
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Interdisciplinary Encyclopaedia of Religion and Science
"This Interdisciplinary Encyclopaedia is intended to provide new scholarly articles in the rapidly-growing international field of Religion and Science. These articles were written primarily by European authors and are available here for the first time in English translation. They offer a unique window into the approaches and perspectives of the European community towards what has become a field of immense cultural significance throughout the world. Each article provides a very readable and comprehensive summary of what is currently being discussed in religion and science on a specific topic as well as how these topics were discussed historically." The articles are written primarily from a Roman Catholic point of view.
http://www.disf.org/en/default.asp
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Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
This is the online version of the print reference work, edited by William Swatos, Jr.
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/index.html
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Making of America
"Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts." Maintained at the University of Michigan.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
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Association of Religion Data Archives
"The ARDA allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports. Over 400 data files are available for online preview and most can be downloaded for additional research." From the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue University.
http://www.thearda.com/
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North American Religion Atlas
"The North American Religion Atlas (NARA) provides access to resources for the study and teaching of North American religious history within a geographical and multimedia framework. Using mapping technology, users can view data on religion at national, state or county levels. Text, image, and multimedia formats are also available and contribute to greater understanding of the story of North American religion." Funded by the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), with support from Lilly Endowment Inc.
http://www.religionatlas.org/
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Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
An exhibit organized by the Library of Congress, which tells the story of religion in America from the time of the first white settlers to c. 1840.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/
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Internet Sacred Text Archive
"This site is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language. This site has no particular agenda other than promoting religious tolerance and scholarship." Here you will find texts relating to the major world religions, as well as many lesser known topics.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
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Early Christian Writings
"Early Christian Writings is the most complete collection of documents from the first two centuries with translations and commentary. Includes the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Church Fathers."
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
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Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library
"The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library was founded on March 1, 2000 in conjunction with the University of Virginia Library and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. It provides an integrated environment for digital publication of many diverse projects whose separate administrations remain decentralized and autonomous. As such, the Library overall is run by an international team of scholars, and reflects a consortium of many different universities and private organizations across the world."
http://www.thlib.org/
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Documenting the American South
"Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs." It includes texts on The Church in the Southern Black Community.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
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Bible Gateway
"The Bible Gateway is a tool for reading and researching scripture online -- all in the language or translation of your choice! It provides advanced searching capabilities, which allow readers to find and compare particular passages in scripture based on keywords, phrases, or scripture reference." Allows searching of the Bible in various English translations (AMP, ASV, CEV, Darby, ESV, KJV, KJ21, NASB, NIV, NKJV, NLT, YLT, etc.) as well as more than 45 other languages, including: French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Tagalog.
http://www.biblegateway.com/
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
"The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) seeks to build up the church by making classic Christian literature widely available and promoting its use for edification and study by interested Christians, seekers and scholars. The CCEL accomplishes this by selecting, collecting, distributing, and promoting valuable literature through the World Wide Web and other media." An excellent resource for electronic texts: the Bible, commentaries, hymns, sermons, Early Church Fathers (38 vols.), and many texts from the history of Christianity.
http://www.ccel.org/
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Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
"The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography." Many different seminaries contributed items to this joint project, which is organized under: Architecture, Art, Iconography; Ancient Near East; Manuscripts, Texts, Sermons; Missions, World Religion.
http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/
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ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives)
"A guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet." This site offers a searchable guide to Internet resources and an expanding collection of online books.
http://www.etana.org/
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Jewish-Christian Relations
"Welcome! This site is concerned with issues in the on-going Christian-Jewish dialogue. It is not about conversion or Christian-Jewish messianism. Here are articles, bibliographies and other resources, pages of Christian-Jewish organizations, addresses of and links to institutes and groups involved in the dialogue, statements of churches, joint statements, as well as news, events and reports. Many contributions are also available in German."
http://www.jcrelations.net/
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New Testament Gateway
"Welcome to The New Testament Gateway, your comprehensive, up to date, annotated directory of good academic New Testament internet resources. This site updated frequently and is designed to load quickly to encourage easy reference for regular viewing. Enjoy browsing through the site's twenty-seven topically organised pages, or use the site's search facility." This superb site is maintained by Mark Goodacre at the University of Birmingham.
http://www.ntgateway.com/
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Online Books Page
"The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. Major parts of the site include: An index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet; Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts; Special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books; Information on how readers can help support the growth of online books." Maintained at the University of Pennsylvania by John Mark Ockerbloom.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
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Perseus Digital Library
This is one of the best academic resources available on the Internet. It is a major collection of electronic resources relating to the ancient world, comprising scholarly essays, maps, more than 15,000 images, original language texts, translations, and philological tools. The works of more than 40 authors are provided, including Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Cicero, Homer, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Thucydides, Vergil, and Xenophon. As an example of how this resource could be used, one can have the Greek text of a dialogue by Plato in one browser pane, and the English translation in another. The Greek text will have underlined words; when a word is clicked on, a box will pop up giving possible translations, grammatical information, and frequency statistics, with a link to even more information from the Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
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Pluralism Project
"The Pluralism Project was developed by Diana L. Eck at Harvard University to study and document the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities." This site offers: Images of America; On Common Ground CD-ROM; World Religions in Boston On-line Version; Directory of Religious Centers On-line Database; bibliographies, syllabi, links, and other information.
http://www.pluralism.org
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Special Treasures from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
This site makes available images from these works: Prato Haggadah; Esslingen Mahzor; Rothschild Mahzor; Siddur, Italian Rite; Maimonides Fragments; Fragments from the Cairo Genizah. The online presentation is very sophisticated, allowing virtual page turning.
http://www.jtslibrarytreasures.org/
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Digital Quaker Collection
"DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries."
http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/
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D. Anthony Storm's Commentary on Kierkegaard
"This site contains an online Commentary on the writings of the nineteenth century existentialist philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. Information on every published work and article (including many unfinished writings and journal entries) is presented here with publication data, quotes, detailed commentary, and images. There are also supplementary materials to aid in your research." Other resources include a brief biography of his life, a chronology, a bibliography, images, and links. A very well organized and thorough site.
http://sorenkierkegaard.org/
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Vatican, The
The official web site of the Roman Catholic Church. Site is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. It offers information about the Vatican's collections and history, papal encyclicals, the liturgical calendar, etc.
http://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html
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Sacred Contexts
A major exhibition of sacred texts from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam was presented to the public by the British Library in 2007. This site offers the visitor the ability to see some of the texts online and watch video clips about them.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/sacred/homepage.html
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Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus
This site offers a wealth of information about the social, political, and historical context in which Jesus and the early Christians lived. Maintained by Mahlon Smith at Rutgers University.
http://virtualreligion.net/iho/
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Book of Common Prayer
This site provides access to the BCP in several versions: 1979; 1928; 1892; 1789; 1786; 1662; 1559; 1552; 1549. It also provides information about the historical development of the BCP, and links to related BCPs in Canada, New Zealand, etc.
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/
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Synoptic Gospels Primer
"This Synoptic Gospels Primer is designed for students in college level courses on the gospels or anyone else interested in the "Synoptic Problem." It is required reading for undergraduate New Testament courses at Rutgers University (New Brunswick campuses). The English translation used for the sampler is the Revised Standard Version, coded in machine readable format by Robert A. Kraft of the University of Pennsylvania & posted in a searchable SGML edition by the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia." Maintained by Mahlon H. Smith at Rutgers University.
http://virtualreligion.net/primer/
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Codex Sinaiticus
"Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity – is of supreme importance for the history of the book."
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/
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Closer to Truth
"Closer To Truth is the definitive series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God, a global journey in search of the vital ideas of existence. It is the most complete, compelling, and accessible series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God ever produced for television." Hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. Episodes can be watched online.
http://www.closertotruth.com/
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