Databases for Religious Studies
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Key Databases
- Accordance Software for Biblical Studies
- Judaica Electronic Research Center ONLY
- Contains grammatically-tagged versions of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Septuagint, allowing complex grammatical and statistical searches. See also Anchor Bible Dictionary
- Anchor Bible Dictionary
- Judaica Electronic Research Center ONLY
- Most comprehensive Biblical encyclopedia currently available, with excellent search capabilities. See also Accordance Software for Biblical Studies
- ATLA Religion Database
- Indexes journal articles, books and dissertations on all aspects of world religions, 1949 to present
- BibleWorks
- Judaica Electronic Research Center ONLY
- A Bible concordance and morphological analysis program, including the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Vulgate, the New Testament, and many translations.
- Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina
- Available at Goldfarb Reserve Desk - Use in Goldfarb Cluster Only
- Database of approximately 500 complete Latin literary texts spanning eight centuries (c. 300 BCE to c. 500 CE), complementing the CETEDOC database of Christian Latin texts
- The Dead Sea Scrolls
- Available at Goldfarb Reserve Desk - Use in Goldfarb Cluster Only
- Database of non-biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, both in Hebrew and English translation, including digitized images of scroll fragments
- École biblique et archéologique française Bibliothèque Catalog
- Judaica Electronic Research Center ONLY
- Comprehensive bibliographic and subject information relating to the Bible and the Ancient Near East
- Encyclopaedia Judaica
- Full text of the 2007 2nd edition
- Encyclopaedia of Islam
- Judaica Electronic Research Center ONLY
- Covers all Islamic countries and all periods, including Muslim culture, religion, history and politics
- Old Testament Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts international journals and books on the Old Testament, 1978 to present
- RAMBI Web Catalog
- To search for articles written in Hebrew, you must use Internet Explorer.
- Indexes scholarly articles on Jewish studies and Israel, 1966 to present
- Records on Islam
- Available at Goldfarb Reserve Desk - Use in Goldfarb Cluster Only
- Provides access to official documents relating to political events in the Muslim world, 1873 to 1926
- Soncino Classics Collection
- Judaica Electronic Research Center ONLY
- Full text searchable database of Bible, Midrash, Talmud and Zohar in English translation
