Web Resources for Students
Librarian’s Web Picks Beyond the Library: Full-text Sites, Indices & Study Tools
Please note: these sites have been compiled for the benefit of the library users of CRTS. Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement or verification for accuracy.
- Biblical Studies – a UK site hosting or linking to numerous digitized journals
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) – via Text Creation Partnership
- Eighteenth Century Collections – via Text Creation Partnership
- Eikon: a Journal for Biblical Anthropology – from the Coucil of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
- Evangelical Quarterly – volumes 1-89, although not every article is included
- Evangelical Review of Theology – from volume 1 to current
- Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament – all issues are full-text and freely available
- JURN – searches across many university full-text repositories, finds articles, books,etc.
- Open Access Digital Theological Library – virtual library for theology, religious studies, and related disciplines
- Princeton’s Theological Commons – more than 80,000 books on theology and religion
- Religious Studies Web Guide
- Reformed Faith & Practice – open access journal from Reformed Theological Seminary
- Theological Journal Search
- Tyndale Bulletin – online access from vol. 17, 1966 and on
- Worldcat OIAster – OAIster includes more than 30 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors.
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials – Requires Authentication & only available for CRTS faculty and students
- Christian Study Library – Reformed articles, many full-text from a variety of publications. A ministry project from South Africa.
- Biblindex – Index of Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Early Christian Literature
- Creation Research Abstracts Database
- Index to Calvin Theological Journal, Outlook, and numerous CRC publications.
- Index theologicus (IxTheo) – 630 international theological journals are indexed and updated nightly! This index is very current and indexes material since 1984.
- Index to Una Sancta, a Free Reformed Church of Australia magazine – created by the librarian at the John Calvin Christian College. Please ask the CRTS librarian for assistance as it requires a login
Bible Tools
- Bible — Original Language editions (e.g. BHS, Septuagint, Greek (NA28), etc.
- Bible Hub via BibleSprout – free online commentaries (e.g. Meyer’s NT; ICC NT, etc.)
- Blue Letter Bible – 14 searchable versions of the Bible, commentaries, lexicons, charts, timelines and over 2700 hymns linked to Bible passages
- Bible Tool – an open source tool by Crosswire Bible Society, SBL, and the American Bible Society
- Commentary ranking at Bestcommentaries.com
- Open Access Bible Commentaries – a Google custom search
- Step Bible – free reliable Bible tools (translations, commentaries, etc.) by Tyndale House
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
- Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology – edited by Walter A. Elwell, 1996.
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia – 1915 edition
- Bavinck – Herman Bavinck’s bibliography – with PDFs
- Biographical Dictionary of Dutch Protestantism – six volume set known as Biografisch Lexicon voor de Geschiedenis van het Nederlandse Protestantisme
- Edwards – Jonathan Edward’s works
- Heidelberg Catechism – History, editions, sermons, etc., sponsored by CRTS
- Kuyper – Abraham Kuyper’s bibliography & archive (with images and/or PDFs)
- Luther Collection
- Medieval Sourcebook
- Migne’s Patrologia Graeca and Latina
- Post-Reformation Digital Library – includes thousands of documents from many authors, including John Calvin
- “Vrijmaking” or Liberation of 1944 in the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (Vrijgemaakt) – 1,700 brochures written during that time
- Works of George Whitefield
- Zwingliana – including full-text journal
- Acts of CRCNA – this site includes an index to CRC synod decisions.
- Reformed Church Polity–A Dutch site, but with international church orders
- ARPA – some of their publications cover ethical topics
- Ethics in Conversation – from the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics
- Globethics.net – Global Digital Ethics Library
- Bible Geocoding
- Bible maps – interactive – click on a place and read the relevant history, etc
- 2LetterLookup – Tyndale House’s Lexicon Lookup Tool
- Institute of Biblical Greek
- Book of Praise: Anglo-Genevan Psalter
- Hymnary.org – index of 5,155 hymnals & 1,098,769 published hymns, with scores, media, etc.
New Testament Studies and Tools
- Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
- e-Catena – Compiled Allusions to the NT in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
- New Testament Exegesis Bibliography – Denver Seminary
- New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room – scholars contribute research to manuscripts – sign in for free for better functionality
- Perseus Digital Library – focus on the written corpus from the Greco-Roman world
Old Testament Studies and Tools
- Annotated Old Testament Bibliography – from Denver Seminary
Dead Sea Scrolls & Early Manuscripts
- ARDA – Association of Religion Data Archive
- Websites on Religion – a list curated by Atla
