Internet Resources for the Study of Religion

These resources are organized in categories corresponding to the major divisions of the study of religion represented in the Religion program at Bates, as follows:

General Resources for the Study of Religion
Comparative Studies in Religion
Asian Religions
Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Ancient Israelite & Near Eastern Religion
Early & Medieval Christianity
Early & Medieval Judaism
Scriptural Resources of Judaism, Christianity & Islam
Professional Connections & Communication; Conferences & Events

Please feel free to advise us of other resources or ways to improve this service by contacting us at the address at the end of this list.

General Resources for the Study of Religion

• Stanford University's Yahoo guide to the Internet for Religion A SUPER catalog of links to Internet resources organized by religions and/or subjects in a general alphabetical sequence and frequently updated
  
• The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet, the index of religion
provided by the Radcliffe Science Library of Oxford University
• Argos, Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet "Argos is the first peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on the World-Wide Web. It has been designed to cover the ancient and medieval worlds. Quality is controlled by a system of hyperlinked internet indices which are managed by qualified professionals who serve as the Associate Editors of the project." (from About Argos)

Comparative Studies in Religion

• Mythtext
Bibliographies on mythology, mythological texts on line, FAQs on mythology, Gods of File and Heroes on File (Mark de la Hey's on-line who's who of mythology, copyright 1994), current list of E-Mail listservs, Newsgroups etc., pointers to FTP sites & archives on mythology on the Internet

Asian Religions

• Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
This site is the umbrrella for a number of associated archives and other resources for the study of Buddhism. Notable among them are The ELECTRONIC BUDDHIST ARCHIVES a gopher library (Coombspapers) the Coombs Computing FTP server of the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Ancient Mediterranean Religions

• Argos, Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet "Argos is the first peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on the World-Wide Web. It has been designed to cover the ancient and medieval worlds. Quality is controlled by a system of hyperlinked internet indices which are managed by qualified professionals who serve as the Associate Editors of the project." (from About Argos)
• The Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page A major World Wide Webb finding aid for ancient Mediterranean and ancient Near Eastern history and cultures. WWW resources organized as Texts, Exhibits, field Projects, Courses, Museums, Atlases & Geographic Information, News Groups and Mail Lists, Topical Gophers & FTP Servers, and related materials.
• Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Greece
• Aegean Prehistory: Section 11 The First Palaces of the Aegean by Jeremy Rutter.
Concise, well-written summaries of criical historical issues of Aegean Prehistory by Jeremy Rutter can be read or downloaded here.

Ancient Israelite and Near Eastern Religion

• ABZU. Guide To Resources Fof the Study of The Ancient Near East Available on the Internet Abzu, a projectof the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, is a comprehensive indexing system and guide to "the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East"
• The Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page This WWW source, described under Ancient Mediterranean Religion above, includes many resources for Egyptian and ancient Near Eastern studies.
• Material Culture of the Ancient Canaanites, Israelites and Related Peoples: An Information DataBase from Excavations A rich collection of images and texts for the study of the Ancient Near Eastern context of the Hebrew Bible. This page combines a syllabus and lecture notes prepared by Prof. Jack Abercrombie (U. Pennsylvania) for his course on Biblical Archaeology with primary texts (mostly reprinted from Pritchard's Ancient Near Eastern Texts) and an archive for study purposes of color images of archaeological artifacts from the U. Penn. museum and elsewhere
• Ancient Egyptian Collection of the Carlos Museum at Emory University
• The Egyptian Galleries of the Louvre
• The Book of the Dead English translation by E. A. Wallis Budge from the Papyrus of Ani
• The Oriental Galleries of the Louvre

Early & Medieval Christianity

• Guide to Early Christian Literature on the Internet A centralized tool for locating on the Internet texts of early Christian literature (both original language and translations) which can be downloaded and copied. One of the major archives is the University of Pennsylvania gopher archive, The Worlds of Late Antiquity, which includes an interactive index to the literature of early Christianity and late antiquity enabling you to look up key words in the texts.
• Labyrinth: Medieval Studies Infoserver Good source for bibliographies and a variety of medieval resources on the Internet.
• Augustine Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania
• Egeria's description of the ancient Constantinopolitan liturgy
• Coptic Christianity
• St. Pachomius Library An on-line library (small but growing) of early Christian literature in translation, currently emphasizing Syriac writers and saints' lives. See also "Orthodox Reading" for additional medieval (Byzantine) Christian literature in translation.

Early & Medieval Judaism

• The Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition
The Library of Congress exhibition, SCROLLS FROM THE DEAD SEA: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship, hypermedia edition by Jeff Barry.
• The Shamash Project
A WWW server devoted to Jewish cultural and religious resources, including pointers to the "on line Introduction to Judaism" from the Univ. of California at Davis, the Hebrew College Gopher (Brookline, MA), gophers of The American Jewish Conress, Hillel, and other Jewish organizations, and archives of resources for the Hebrew Bible, and current Divrei Torah from various sources.

Scriptural Resources of Judaism, Christianity & Islam

• Internet Resources for Biblical Studies A very comprehensive and up to date resource list from Volda University College, Volda, Norway.
• Internet Theology Resources: Scripture An useful list of resources available on the internet for study of the Bible maintained by the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University
• The WWW Bible Gateway A search tool for the KJV, Darby, and YLT versions of the Bible (requires forms, if your client doesn't support forms, click here).
• The King James' translation of the Bible The Bible with the deuterocanonical (apocryphal) books
• Septuagint (LXX) and Hebrew Bible LXX and Hebrew, both in parallel forms and fully morphologically analyzed
• The Koran Scanned version of M.H. Shakir's translation of the Holy Qur'an, as published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc. with searchable index.

Professional Connections & Communication; Conferences & Events

• The American Academy of Religion AAA directory & handbook, employment, announcements, grants & fellowships, bulletin board, conferences, publications.
  
• TELA -- The Electronically Linked Academy "TELA, The Electronically Linked Academy, is the official World Wide Web site of Scholars Press and of many of our sponsoring societies, which include the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, the American Philological Association, the American Schools of Oriental Research, and the American Society of Papyrologists."

  This site also offers:

  • searches of its database of Book ReviewsJournal of Biblical Literature. Bulletin of the American Academy of Religion, Bulletin of the American Society of Oriental Research, and others
  • Information on displaying foreign alphabets on the WWW and on obtaining and using downloadable fonts provided by TELA's FTP archive.

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