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Old Testament & Hebrew Resources
Below are some print and on-line resources to aid you in your Hebrew and Old Testament Studies. This site is not meant to be comprehensive, but merely a tool. The print resources may be found in the John T. Christian Library.
Print Resources
- Analytical Key to the Old Testament (Owens)
- Apocrypha and Pseudopigrapha of the Old Testament
- Bibliographies for Biblical Research: Old Testament Series
- Bibliography for Old Testament Exegesis and Exposition
- Computer Bible (critical and key word in context concordances)
- Dead Sea Scrolls Catalogue
- Dictionary of Classical Hebrew
- Dictionary of Old Testament Words
- Encyclopedia Judaica
- Englishman’s Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon
- Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language
- Gesenius Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon
- Guide to Selecting and Using Bible Commentaries
- Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament
- Hebrew - English Concordance to the Old Testament
- Index to English Periodic Literature of the Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
- Index to the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon
- Mishnah
- Nelson’s Expository Dictionary of the Old Testament
- New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-Aramaic Lexicon
- New Concordance of the Bible
- New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis
- New Wilson’s Old Testament Word Studies
- The Old Testament: A Bibliography
- Old Testament Commentary Survey
- Old Testament Pseudopigrapha
- Old Testament Theology
- Reader’s Hebrew - English Lexicon of the Old Testament
- Talmud
- Talmud of Babylonia
- Talmud of the Land of Israel
- Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament
- Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament
- Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
- Vocabulary of the Old Testament
Listservs and Discussion Groups
To subscribe to listservs, use the e-mail address provided and type in the body of your e-mail "subscribe"
- AIBI-L: listserv@listserv.uottawa.ca -- issues related to computerized-analysis of biblical and related texts
- ANE: majordomo@oi.uchicago.edu - topics related to the Ancient Near East
- B-ARAMAIC: majordomo@nazarene.net - focuses on study of the Aramaic Bible and related texts
- B-HEBREW: majordomo@virginia.edu - conference for the study of the Hebrew Bible
- HEBLANG: listproc@shamash.org - discussion on development of Hebrew language; some biblical Hebrew
- IOUDAIOS-L: listproc@lehigh.edu - for exploration of Early Judaism and Christian origins
- J-SEMINAR: listproc@shamash.org - Judaic seminar where Tanach discussed on advanced level
- MIQRA - discussion list for academic study of Hebrew Bible (under auspices of SBL -- you will need to go to this link to find out how to subscribe)
- PESHITTA: listserv@nic.surfnet.nl - (Leiden Peshitta Institute) topics relating to the Peshitta
- SAMARITAN: listserv@mail1.gannon.edu - discussion on all aspects of Samaritan history, culture, etc.
- SSREL-L: listserv@utkvm.utk.edu - Scientific Study of Religion
- TC-LIST: majordomo@shemesh.scholar.emory.edu - discussion for matters relating to biblical textual criticism
Internet Resources
- Ancient Near East Map Series - seeks to be definitive ANE map collection on the WWW
- Ancient World Web: The Ultimate Index
- Bibelwissenschaft - European site for biblical studies and related areas
- Biblical Studies on the Web - focus on the study of Jewish and Christian biblical theology
- Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT) - variety of guides, tools, texts, and software; e-text resources include morphologically analyzed Septuagint text, along with the parallel aligned Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Jewish Scriptures and more
- CenturyOne Bookstore - books and electronic publications of interest to biblical scholars; also links
- Collection of Ancient Documents - links to variety of images of ancient documents on the WWW
- Evangelical Theological Society
- Journal of Hebrew Scriptures - academic e-journal focusing on Hebrew Scriptures
- K. C. Hansen's Homepage - sites devoted to ancient Mediterranean
- Morphologically Analyzed Septuagint - by Computer-Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies
- Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies - bibliographic info, libraries, list of scholars
- Noncanonical Homepage - site devoted to apocryphal and pseudepigraphal literature and its relationship to biblical interpretation
- Resouce Pages for Biblical Studies
- SELA Journals Project - e-journal format of : Journal of the American Academy of religion, Semeia, Biblical Archaeologist, and Critical Review of books in Religion
- Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database - database of ancient Hebrew; also references to secondary literature
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Tanach Directory from Shamash - Hebrew text of the Tanach and links to known Divrei Torah on WWW
- TC: A Journal of Biblical textual Criticism
- Vulgate - search text of Vulgate, morphologically analyzed Hebrew Bible, Septuagint
- Web Torah Library - access available to Tanach, Babylonian and Palestinian talmud, Mishna, and others
- WWW Sites Relating to the Ancient Mediterranean