bible study tools
Δ A Student’s Guide to New Testament Textual Variants
Δ Lumina NET Bible (HTML version of NET) — includes excellent translator’s notes (tn), study notes (sn), and textual criticism notes (tc) (more info on these notes, here)
Δ STEP Bible (Scripture Tools for Every Person)
Δ Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge (thousands of cross references)
Bible Translations
Δ Many available on Bible Study Tools, Bible Gateway, Study Light
Δ New English Bible (NEB) New Testament
Δ Septuagint (LXX):
chrisitian living
Charity
Δ Charity Commission (UK)
Δ Charity Navigator (a US site)
—Tips For Giving In Times Of Crisis
—Top 10 Best Practices of Savvy Donors
Δ Don’t rush to Nepal to help. Read this first (The Guardian)
Δ Gates Notes (blog)
—6 Tips on Disaster Relief Giving
Δ Safe Giving (Let’s Talk About It) (whilst particularly in relation to the Syrian crisis, the advice is generally useful [also see the FRSB’s Giving Safely and the UK government’s Safer giving advice for Syria])
—Why I Still Give to Oxfam (a helpful balance to over-“effective” giving)
Δ Three Myths About the World’s Poor (Reader’s Digest) (for more detailed information, see the Gates Foundation’s 2014 annual letter)
Δ Top charity giving sites (MoneySavingExpert)
Δ Zidisha (an ‘online microlending community that directly connects lenders and entrepreneurs’)
Misc.
Δ Richard Benson, miscellany (blog [inactive])
Δ Richard Benson, New in Christ (blog [inactive])
Δ The Work of the People >> Visual Liturgy
Including videos of:
- Brian Zahnd
- Greg Boyd
- Howard A. Snyder
- John Goldingay
- N. T. Wright
- Shane Claiborne
- Stanley Hauerwas (particularly recommended)
- Walter Brueggemann
- William H. Willimon
commentaries
Reviews
Δ Keith Mathison, Top Commentaries on Every Book of the Bible
Δ Phil Long, Advice on Biblical Commentaries (inc. recommended commentaries for each book of the Bible)
Δ Tim Challies, Best Commentaries on Each Book of the Bible
Commentaries
Δ Bible Hub — commentary collection (over 50; may duplicate StudyLight, below)
Δ (Older) ICC commentaries
Δ IVP New Testament Commentary Series
Δ John Calvin’s commentaries
Δ Holman New Testament Commentaries on the Gospels
Δ StudyLight — commentary collection (over 100; may duplicate Bible Hub, above)
Δ William Barclay’s Daily Study Bible commentary series
2 Corinthians
Δ Linda L. Belleville’s 2 Corinthians commentary (from the IVP New Testament Commentary Series)
Δ George Lyons’s 2 Corinthians commentary (from the Asbury Bible Commentary)
bible study resources
Δ Academia
Δ Bible Snippets (blog)
Δ Bible Study with Randy (blog)
Δ Biblical Archaeology Society
Δ Biblical Cogitations (blog)
Δ Biblical Studies Online (blog)
Δ BiblicalStudies.org.uk (over 24,000 articles available for free download)
Δ Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
Δ Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)
Δ Christian Origins (blog)
Δ Crux Sola (blog)
Δ Cryptotheology (blog)
Δ Directory of Open Access Journals > Christianity
Δ Directory of Open Access Books > Religion
Δ EThOS (search over 400,000 doctoral theses)
Δ Evangelical Textual Criticism (blog)
Δ Google Theological Journals Search
Δ iTanakh (migrating to a new site)
Δ JSTOR
Δ Mass Readings Archives (blog; videos/podcasts)
Δ Online Journals (list)
Δ Online Reading Rooms: Biblical-Theological Resources (web directory)
Δ Peter J. Leithart’s blog
Δ Phil Long, Reading Acts (blog)
Δ Philip A. Harland, New Testament Course Series (blog posts)
Δ Preston Sprinkle, Theology in the Raw (blog)
Δ Princeton Theological Commons (over 80,000 resources on theology and religion)
Δ Psephizo (blog)
Δ Review of Biblical Literature (reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields)
Δ The Bible Project (videos)
Δ The Case for the Parakeet Driven Shack (blog)
Δ Theophilus (blog)
Δ The Online Books Page (listing of over 1 million free books on the web; browse books by subject heading to find religion and theology links)
Δ Wabash Center > Religion on the Web (annotated web directory)
Δ Web Directory of Biblical Studies
Δ Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary online essay file
Δ Words on the Word (blog)
ancient texts
Δ e-Catena (compiled allusions to the NT in the Ante-Nicene Fathers)
Δ Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Δ Online Critical Pseudepigrapha
Δ Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha and Sacred Writings
Δ Writings of the Early Church Fathers
dictionaries and encyclopedias
Δ 4 Enoch (encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, and Christian and Islamic origins)
Δ Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology
Δ Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
Δ HarperCollins Bible Dictionary
Δ International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Δ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Δ New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Δ Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Religion
Δ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Biblical studies | Christian living | Journalism | Science | Books | |
Δ Abram K-J
Δ Catalyst Δ Ian Paul |
Charity:
—Refugees/migrants: Δ Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) Δ MSF Sea |
Δ Andy Crouch
Δ Relevant |
Δ Ben Goldacre | Δ Christian Books Free |