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Articles: Journals or Newspapers (4)

• ATLA Religion Database

  Indexes and abstracts journal articles, essays in multi-author books, and book reviews, covering nearly all areas of international religious research. Coverage: 1949-.

• Old Testament Abstracts

  Topics include antiquities, archaeology, Biblical theology, and philology. Coverage: 1978-.

• Philosopher's Index

  "Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals published in the U.S. and the Western World. Covers philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields." Coverage: 1940-.

• ProQuest Religion

  Full text coverage of religious affairs and theology. Coverage: 1986-.

Encyclopedias, Reference (3)

• Abingdon Dictionary of Theology

  Covers past and current Christian theological themes, terms, and theologians. Theological movements and trends, such as liberation theology, feminist theology, and black theology, and theological concepts such as resurrection, miracles, and incarnation, are combined with biographies and beliefs of prominent theologians.

• Anchor Bible Dictionary on CD-ROM

  Anchor Bible Dictionary on CD-ROM contains everything from the complete and unabridged six volume, 7,200 page print edition, with illustrations. It features over 6,000 entries from 800 international scholars. Entries cover every proper name, major words, each book of the Bible, apocryphal texts, Dead Sea scrolls, and Nag Hammadi codices. Coverage: 1997 edition.

• Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion

  Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Religion. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.

Literary Texts (2)

• Bible in English (990-1970)

  Contains twenty different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament. Coverage: 990-1970.

• King James Bible - 'Authorized' Version

  The standard English edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries, drawing heavily on previous editions and providing the principal influence for many subsequent versions. It is arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies in general. Coverage: 1611 edition.

Primary Sources--Documents & Manuscripts (7)

• Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina

  Intended to provide a database comprising all the Latin texts which have appeared in the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana since its foundation. Coverage: c. 300 B.C.E. to c. 500 A.D./C.E..

• Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts

  Covers the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. Includes the full text of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors. Supported in part by the Paschal Library Endowment and by the Weatherspoon Library Endowment. Coverage: 1500-1700.

• Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

  Includes papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, Biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works. Coverage: 1500-1700.

• Early English Books Online - EEBO

  Full text of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England or in English between 1475 and 1700. Includes many of the items indexed in the English Short Title Catalogue. Corresponds to the Pollard and Redgrave, and Wing Short-Title Catalogues, as well as Thomason Tracts. Coverage: 1473-1700.

• Packard Humanities Institute

  "PHI CD ROM #5.3 from the Packard Humanities Institute contains Latin literature from earliest beginnings to 200 AD, plus Justinian's Digest, Servius' Commentaries on Virgil, Porphyry's Commentary on Horace, and the following Bible versions: Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, Greek New Testament, Coptic New Testament, Latin Vulgate, King James Version, Revised Standard Version, and Milton's Paradise Lost." Coverage: Beginnings to 200 AD.

• Patrologia Latina

  The Patrologia Latina Database is the full-text electronic version of the Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus, indexes, and illustrations. Covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian around 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. Covers most major and minor Latin authors, and contains the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature. Coverage: 200 A.D. to 1216 A.D..

• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

  The TLG represents the first effort in the Humanities to produce a large digital corpus of literary texts. Since its inception the project has collected and digitized most texts written in Greek from Homer (8 c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453 and beyond. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. Users may create a User Profile to set preferences, save searches, etc. Coverage: 8th century B.C. to 1453.