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RS 730: Topics in the Relationship of Judaism and Christianity:
Jewish-Christianity
- RS-744; McMaster University, Term II, 2005 – Wednesdays, 10 am, UH B115
Annette Y. Reed (Dept. of Religious Studies; UH 110; 905-525-9140 ext. 24597)
ON-LINE RESOURCES
(* marks resources available only from McMaster and other subscribing institutions)
- Introductions, guides, and bibliographies on-line
- Bibliography from J. Carleton Paget's course on Jewish Christianity
- G. Strecker, "On the Problem of Jewish Christiainity" (UPenn)
- Jewish Encyclopedia - This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906.
- Jim Davila's OT Pseudepigrapha Website - Many resources and on-line essays of relevances.
- NT Gateway - An extensive collection of links compiled and annotated by Mark Goodacre (University of Birmingham), covering all aspects of NT and its broader context.
- Catholic Encyclopedia - Good introductons to Church History & Patristic authors
- Ecole Initiative - Hypertext encyclopaedia of early Church history.
- On-line texts
ICLNet Guide to early Church documents - Short decriptions of and links to primary texts.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Early Church Fathers v. 2.0 - English translations for free downloading in text files (+ some pdfs), one
file for each volume. Includes Ante-Nicene Fathers (10 volumes: from
Clement of Rome to Ireneaus), Nicene and Post-Nicene Series I (8
Augustine volumes; 6 Chrysostom volumes), and Nicene and Post-Nicene Series II
(14 volumes; includes Eusebius, Jerome).
- More Church Fathers - Additional translations of Patristic texts.
- Early Christian Writings: NT Apocrypha
- Mecho Mamre - Features on-line Hebrew texts of Mishneh,
Bavli, Yerushalmi,
Tosefta, as well as Rambam's Mishneh Torah (full
Hebrew, partial English
and parallel Hebrew and English)
and offline resources for free downloading.
- Ancient Texts On-line - Extensive list on Jim Davila's Paleo-Judaica site
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature
- On-line journals, books, and electronic archives
- *Journal of Early Christian Studies
- *Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods
- *Marc Hirshman, A Rivalry of Genius: Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation in Late Antiquity (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996)
- Louis Ginzberg, The legends of the Jews, translated from the German manuscript by Henrietta Szold. 7 vols. (Philadelphia: Jewish publication society of America, 1909-38).
- RAMBI: Index of Articles in Jewish Studies - This is an invaluable tool for research in Rabbinics and Jewish Studies, a searchable databases of articles (from journals as well as collected volumes) in these and cognate fields. Some links to on-line texts of articles are also included, although less so than ATLAS and JSTOR (on which see below).
- *ATLAS (ATLA religion database with ATLASerial) - Searchable database of articles, books, and reviews in the field of Religious studies.
- *JSTOR - A vast database of on-line articles in the Humanities. Although there is no category explicitly dedicated to Jewish Studies quite yet, relevant sources can be found by searching with boxes checked for "History," "Language and Literature," and "Middle Eastern Studies."
- Marcus Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic literature. Volume 1 - Aleph to Caf and VOLUME 2 - Lamed to Tet (London, 1903)