Biblical Studies & Theology Resources

The new IxTheo is a comprehensive bibliography for theology and religious studies. It is now possible to search not only for articles, but also for monographs, databases and relevant Internet links.

The Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) curates high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections.

The Association of Christian Librarians' (ACL) Virtual Theological Library project aims to enrich library collections with freely accessible digital resources, and to help researchers save time by consolidating the best open access resources in one online portal.

Biblical Studies.org.uk is part of a family of websites from Rob Bradshaw that provides materials relating to the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. Besides entries on each of the biblical books you will find material on archaeology, biblical languages, hermeneutics and textual criticism.

Biblical Archaeology.org.uk is part of a family of websites from Rob Bradshaw that contains materials relating to the archaeological background of the lands of the Bible. It features books and articles on nations, cities, artifacts and notable biblical archaeologists.

BibleProject is a nonprofit animation studio that produces short-form, fully animated Bible videos and other Bible resources to make the biblical story accessible to everyone, everywhere. We create 100% free Bible videos, podcasts, and Bible resources to help people experience the story of the Bible.

Bibledex is a project by the University of Nottingham's Department of Theology and Religious Studies that features introductory videos on each book in the Bible as well as some related material. The videos are not comprehensive--rather they're a curious assortment of academic insights into what is probably the most famous collection of books in history.

The Visual Commentary on Scripture (VCS) is a freely accessible online publication that provides theological commentary on the Bible in dialogue with works of art. It helps its users to (re)discover the Bible in new ways through the illuminating interaction of artworks, scriptural texts, and commissioned commentaries.

Bible Odyssey tries to address the literacy gap between the academy and the average Bible reader. On Bible Odyssey, some the world’s leading scholars share the latest historical and literary research on key people, places, and passages of the Bible. This site tends to assume the methods and results of liberal biblical criticism.

The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a free online digitized virtual library of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hundreds of manuscripts made up of thousands of fragments – discovered from 1947 and until the early 1960’s in the Judean Desert along the western shore of the Dead Sea – are now available to the public online. The high resolution images are extremely detailed and can be accessed through various search options on the site.

The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Project allows users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before possible. Developed in partnership with Google, the new website gives users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, offer critical insight into Jewish society in the Land of Israel during the Second Temple Period, the time of the birth of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project at this stage and are now accessible online.

The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) utilizes emerging technologies to preserve and study Greek New Testament manuscripts. The CSNTM has collaborated with more than forty institutions on four continents to produce hundreds of thousands of images of New Testament manuscripts. In the process, CSNTM has discovered dozens of New Testament manuscripts. View these images at CSNTM's digital library.

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity – is of supreme importance for the history of the book.

DigiVatLib is a digital library service. It provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects).