Study of Religions: Electronic Publications
Selection of links to original texts, translations and historical commentaries from all religions of the world.
Aleppo Codex Online
The website features a digitized copy of the oldest existent manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, dating from about 930. The online copy contains all the surviving pages of the Codex and is both browsable and searchable.
There are also linked articles about the history and significance of the Codex from the 10th century to the present day.
The website is hosted by the Ben Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish Communities in the East (Jerusalem)
Cambridge Histories Online
Provides access to the complete Cambridge Histories Online, containing over 270 volumes published since 1960, covering over 15 different academic subjects.
As well as regional histories, the set includes The Cambridge History of Christianity, The Cambridge History of Islam, The New Cambridge History of Islam, The Cambridge History of Judaism and The Cambridge History of the Bible.
http://bit.ly/CHOnline [Off-campus]
Codex Sinaiticus
The website gives access to a digitized manuscript of the Christian Bible, dating from the 4th century. It is handwritten in Greek. The New Testament is in the original vernacular (koine) and the Old Testament is the early Septuagint version. Both documents are heavily annotated by early commentators.
Click on the "see the manuscript" tab to view the pages and transcription of the Greek text, and to browse and search the document. Background material on the history of the manuscript is also included.
This project was the result of international collaboration to reunite the previously scattered pages of the manuscript.
Concordance of the Sahidic New Testament
Published in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium series, this is "an invaluable resource for the study of Coptic literature" (linked from Alin Suciu's blog for "Research on Patristics, Apocrypha, Coptic literature and manuscripts)
Coptic publications of Oscar von Lemm
The Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow has made available a range of publications by the distinguished Russian Coptologist and Egyptologist, Oscar von Lemm (1856-1918).
The collection includes 35 documents (Koptische Miscellen and other Coptic studies) appearing in the Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg between 1898 and 1915. Click on the links to view PDFs of the articles.
Goussen Library (Universität Bonn)
The Goussen Library on Oriental church history was collected by Heinrich Goussen (d.1927) and has been the subject of a digitisation project by the Universität Bonn since 2007.
This open access collection comprises over 1,000 digitised documents and books dating from the 16th – 20th centuries in Western languages, and also in Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian and Georgian, among others.
Heresy and identity in late Antiquity (ed. by Holger Zellentin & Eduard Iricinschi; Mohr Siebeck, 2008)
Available in full-text from GoogleBooks, this monograph explores "the ways in which late antique groups defined their own socio-political borders and created secure in-group identities by means of discourses on "heresy" and "heretics"'
This book will be of interest to people studying Orthodox Christianity, early Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations in late antiquity
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Collection of sacred and religious materials from most major eastern and western traditions.
IPL2: Religion and Theology
Links to a variety of religious texts. Christian emphasis.
Religious Scriptures Online
Selected scriptures. Hosted by the Constitution Society (U.S.)
Resources for Syriac Studies
Compiled at Dumbarton Oaks (a research institute of Harvard University), this database brings together "an annotated collection of free and open-source books, journals, and more related to the study of Syriac." It includes histories, dictionaries, grammars, journals and works of historic scholarship dating back to the 16th century.
Theological Commons
Princeton Theological Seminary has made available the digital and non-digital material in its Library in an open-access, searchable database. Content dates from circa 975 to the 20th century. As well as Christianity, mission studies and theology, the collection includes works on the Eastern Church, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism.
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