Review of Biblical Literature
The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL), founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields. Appearing in this digital form and in print, RBL is comprehensive, international, and timely.
Texts of the Bible and Related Writings
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Bible Gateway
Texts and translations of the Bible in many languages; over 100 in all.
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Biblia.comBiblia provides free access to a collection of Bibles (in several languages) and Bible reference works, with an easy user interface and powerful search engine.
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Biblical Studies Digital LibraryLarge collection of full-text articles and books.
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Codex SinaiticusThe oldest fairly complete manuscript of the Bible; includes about half of the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, all of the New Testament, and more. Originally at the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, part of the physical manuscript have long been scattered at several sites in Europe. This website brings together the various parts online, and includes images of the manuscript, a transcription of its contents, and translations into English, German, and Russian.
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Digital Dead Sea ScrollsHigh-resolution images of some of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history.
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EIKON Image Database for Biblical StudiesImages categorized by Biblical book, location, type of object and topic.
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Net BibleAn online edition of a new Bible translation (released in 2005), featuring over 60,000 translators' notes. Access is also provided to Greek and Hebrew versions of the text (fonts are available to download), to the King James Version text annotated with Strong's Bible numbers and links to concordance entries, and to an extensive list of biblical cross references.
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A New English Translation of the SeptuagintContains the masters of the second printing of A New English Translation of the Septuagint, as published by Oxford University Press in 2009, including corrections and emendations.
Bible Commentaries
Listed below are three sets of commentaries on various books of both the Old and New Testaments. The links take you to the Library Search Catalog records for these series.
In addition, you can find more secondary publications on the books of the Old Testament by starting with the link to the Subject Search in the Library Search Catalog for Bible. O.T. The search results contain the books of the Old Testament in alphabetical order; just browse until you find the book you need.
For a much wider selection of books, be sure to use the OhioLINK Search.
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Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament.A 29-volume series of compilations of early Christian commentaries on both the Old and New Testaments.