ABZU: Guide To Resources For The Study Of The Ancient Near East Available On The Internet

From the formal reports of hieroglyphics to ostraca, ABZU is your gateway to the academic study of the Ancient Near East. Sponsored by the University of Chicago's renowned Oriental Institute, the resources indexed on this site range from email discussion groups to the official websites of archeological digs, from museum resources to dictionaries and word lists. ABZU is a great place for the serious exegete of the Scripture to look for resources to understand the culture of the Biblical world.

From the Sahara Desert to the Cape of Good Hope, Africa is a place that contains many climates, cultures and languages. For almost all of the Church's history, Christians have lived and labored to bring the gospel to all corners of this continent. Yet because most areas of Africa remain poor, it has been difficult to find scholarly information about its peoples. Africabib.org helps to fill this need. Three databases at this site allow a researcher to look for titles, using a powerful search engine. The user may search by keyword, limit by region and nation, and view the results by author, title or date. This site is an excellent tool to begin missiological research on subjects related to Africa.

Dr. Dana Sutton, Professor of Classics at the University of California in Irvine has recently begun compiling this rich resource, "an analytic bibliography of Latin texts written during the Renaissance and later freely available to the general public on the Web (access-restricted sites are not included)." ¹ Here you will find a descriptive catalog of the original latin texts of Luther and other Lutheran writers, a link to the resource and a description of its file format. Ad fontes, amici!

Argus is an electronic bibliography of bibliographies. Before you quip: "A resource only a librarian would love," visit the site. Here you can find links to resource guides arranged by subject. It isn't the usual haphazard collection of sites gathered by search engine and pasted on the page. These guides are evaluated by librarians for how well they describe the resources they list. This is a great place to start looking for websites when you don't have a clue where to find it.

Information technology has finally found its way to the quiet world of academic journals. One by one, even journals written for the disciplines of theology have begun to move their texts to the World Wide Web. Biblical Studies on the Web, an exegetical journal that appears only in electronic form, has provided this helpful guide to online versions of journals that publish articles on Biblical exegesis. A table contains the journal title, what has been placed on the web and what information is freely accessible. The titles are linked to the home pages of the respective periodical. Visit here to read your research from the comforts of your own computer.

This website has a new, more user-friendly interface to the Cumulative Bibliography of The International Review of Missions, brought to us by our friends at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh.

You've read plenty of interpretations of history. Have you ever wondered if they were telling you the truth? Did you ever what to know the whole story? Now you can! The Internet Modern History Sourcebook catalogs primary sources of historic significance. This Sourcebook contains texts from the Reformation era. Paul Halsall at Fordham University has designed this resource as a place for college professors and students to locate the key texts in history. Each entry is briefly annotated. So you're looking for something a wee bit more ancient? Visit the Fordham sourcebooks for other periods, places and subjects.

From Hinduism to Islam, from Judaism to the Watchtower society, religions have taken to the internet to support believers and to present their faith to others. Christianity is no exception. Nearly every denomination, sect or tradition has a website. How do you decide which websites will help you study theology and learn to witness to those ready to hear the gospel? This site by librarian John Gresham provides "a selective listing of the best Internet resources of interest to religious studies scholars and students of religion." Here you will find a wide variety of links to sites that provide the best information available on the internet. Begin your search of the web at this site.

This annotated guide to theological resources on the Internet is a gateway to many resources useful to students of theology. Developed by a Catholic University for its community, this well-stocked list provides a wealth of resources which might be hard to find in any other way. Confessional Lutherans will find especially interesting the rich, well-stocked page on liturgical resources. An excellent place to look for specialized information, especially on topics related to the Early Church, Medieval Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

Finding primary sources on the Middle Ages can often be more difficult than finding a needle in a hay stack -- or a page on the World Wide Web. Labyrinth is designed to be both a storehouse of such texts and a gateway to resources for teaching about the Medieval period. In addition to texts, images and commentaries, this site also provides curricular material to assist professors in teaching about this important age of Church History.

Once a year, the Lutheran Historical Conference compiles a bibliography of articles, chapters in books, books, dissertations, theses and other items related to the history of Lutheranism in America. Arranged by year, this is an online version of the print resource.  

The Mundus Gateway is a web-based guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom. Rosemary Seton of SOAS has been a primary force in the development of this magnificent resource.

You're in the study of your first parish. Preparing for your sermon, you reach over and open a systematics text to prepare your sermon right? Not! You look at the lessons for the week. The Text This Week is an index of worship and study resources designed to work the way you do -- from the text to the meaning of the passage to your sermon. A few warnings, are in order. The site uses the Revised Common Lectionary, not the historic one year or the three year ILCW lections. The commentators and resources tend to express the opinions of liberal theologians. Still, the work is well done. More than a few gems are referenced here. You will likely gain many insights visiting this fine site.