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GENERAL RESOURCES

  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Extensive collection of on-line texts
  • Catholic Encyclopedia
  • 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.
  • Ecole Initiative - Hypertext encyclopaedia of early Church history; an extensive site with many resources. Includes an Image Index of Western art w/NT themes
  • Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity - UPenn.
  • EarlyChurch.org.uk
  • Mappamundi - Princeton Medieval Studies site.
  • Basic Timeline of Christian History - Handout from my course at Rutgers on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • Jewish Virtual Library - Christian-Jewish Relations
  • Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
  • Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean - Blog by Phil Harland; see also his On-line Resources for Christian Apocrypha and "Gnosticism"
  • Apocryphicity - Blog by Tony Chartrand-Burke; see also his NT Apocrypha Resource Page

    JESUS & NEW TESTAMENT

  • From Jesus to Christ - Companion to the PBS special.
  • Jesus Seminar Homepage
  • Into His Own: Perspective on the Life of Jesus - A site developed by Mahlon Smith of Rutgers University, as a tool for the historical study of Christian scriptures, providing helpful introductions to the social, cultural, historical, and political issues of his time. Includes selections, arranged thematically, from the primary sources.
  • The Jewish Roman World of Jesus
  • Jesus of Nazereth in Early Christian Gospels
  • Greek New Testament
  • A Synoptic Gospels Primer - Introduction to the "Synoptic Problem."
  • The Synoptic Problem - Includes color-coded tables of parallels in Greek and English translation. Also a helpful bibliography
  • Five Gospels Parallel - By John Marshall; Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and Thomas compared in various combinations.
  • Dating the Oldest NT Manuscripts - An article by Peter van Minnen.
  • Catalogue of NT Papyri and Codices; 2nd - 10th centuries - Helpful charts compiled by K. C. Hanson.
  • Electronic New Testament Manuscript Project - A project to make images and transcriptions of New Testament manuscripts available freely on the Internet.
  • Encyclopaedia of NT Text Criticism
  • The Development of the Canon of the NT- A well-designed site with a good introduction to the issues, with key selections from many primary texts, as well as links to complete e-texts thereof.

    EARLY & LATE ANTIQUE CHRISTIANS

  • Apostolic Fathers from CCATS - In english translation. Includes Clement, Ignatius, Hermas. Searchable.
  • Apocryphal Acts Homepage
  • Apocicon - Database of art paralleled in early Christian apocrypha and in other extra-canonical literature
  • SBL Christian Apocrypha Section
  • Association pour l'étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC)
  • Early Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition - Stephen Shoemaker
  • Gospel of Judas - See also Elaine Pagels' comments on the text
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Early Church Fathers - 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). See also More Fathers
  • ICLNet Guide to early Church documents - Short decriptions of and links to primary texts.
  • The Tertullian Project - See also Roger Pearse's many other helpful pages
  • James O'Donnell's Augustine Page
  • The St. Pachomius Library - Contains many English translations of the Church Fathers, the acts of the Christian martyrs, the proceedings of the Councils, the lives of the early saints, etc. Includes a massive and very handy Global Index of all available (or, at least, known) patristic electronic texts.
  • Christian Acts, Lives, and Martyrdoms - Links to electronic texs, mostly in english translation.
  • Hugoye: Journal Of Syriac Studies
  • Syriac Library - Selected texts

    "GNOSTICS"

  • Gnostic Society Library: Nag Hammadi English translations; searchable.
  • Noncanonical Literature - Including some NHL texts and Christian apocrypha
  • Gospel of Thomas Homepage
  • Christian Gospels - Links to electronic texts, mostly in english translation, of non-canonical Christian "gospels."
  • Walter Bauer's Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity - Annotated by Bob Kraft

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