1. Searching by Subject 2. Searching for specific books or sections of the Bible 3. Searching for specific topics, genres or interpretations 4. Searching for works on people in the Bible 5. Searching for specific versions of the Bible 6. Other subject headings for Biblical Studies 
1. Using Databases to Find Articles 2. Quick Search Articles 3. Article Databases for Biblical Studies 4. Print Indexes 5. Biblical Studies Journals: Electronic 6. Biblical Studies Journals: Print 
1. Introduction 2. Databases for Biblical Studies 
1. Searching on the Internet 2. Guides to Resources on the Web 3. Biblical Studies Web Sites 4. Submit a Web Site! 5. Tutorials 6. Biblical Studies Blogs 
1. General Biblical Studies 2. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 3. New Testament 
1. Research guides, handbooks, etc. 2. Dictionaries & Encyclopedias 3. Exegesis Guides 4. Concordances 5. Quick Search Articles 6. Article Databases 7. Web Sites 8. Online Language Resources 
1. Research guides, handbooks, etc. 2. Dictionaries & Encyclopedias 3. Exegesis Guides 4. Gospel Parallels 5. Concordances 6. Quick Search Articles 7. Article Databases 8. Web Sites 9. Online Language Resources 
1. Research Guides, Handbooks, etc. 2. Dictionaries & Encyclopedias 
1. Electronic Concordances 2. Print Concordances 
1. Introduction 2. Research guides, handbooks, companions and bibliographies 3. Research guides, etc.: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 4. Research guides, etc.: New Testament 5. Research guides and bibliographies: special topics 6. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias 7. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 8. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias: New Testament 
1. Online Language Resources 2. Lexicons: Hebrew 3. Lexicons: Greek 4. Lexicons: Aramaic 5. Reference Grammars: Hebrew 6. Reference Grammars: Greek 7. Reference Grammars: Aramaic 8. Other Language Resources 
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Biblical Studies Guide 

A guide to resources available at the Yale Divinity Library for Biblical Studies.
Last update: Aug 14th, 2009 URL: http://guides.divinitylibrary.yale.edu/bible  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Introduction

What is a database? A database is an organized collection of records presented in a standardized format that can be searched on a computer. The Orbis catalog is a database, as is the ATLA Religion Database.

When you search in a database what you are doing is searching through records that represent and describe some other object, such as a book, an article, a collection of facts. When you search in the ORBIS catalog, for example, you are not searching within the books themselves, but instead you are searching through records that have been created to describe the books (and other items) within the collections of the Yale libraries. The record provides you with information about an item, such as its author, what it is about, and where it can be found.

There are various electronic databases that can help you locate articles, statistics, primary texts, and other kinds of information. You can search in a single database, or you can search within multiple databases at the same time (for instructions on searching across multiple databases, see Multi-Database Search). While there are literally hundreds of databases available at Yale, only a certain number of them are specifically geared toward religious studies and theology. However, there are also a number of databases that cover related subject areas, as well as databases that cover more than one subject area, including religion.

All the databases available at Yale are accessible through the Databases & Article Searching page on the library's web site.

For databases to find journal articles in Biblical Studies, see Article Databases for Biblical Studies under Finding Journal Articles.

 
 

Databases for Biblical Studies

  • ATLA Religion Database  
    The most important and comprehensive database for religious studies. Provides citations to journal articles, book reviews, and essays. Approximately 15% of cited journal articles link to full text.
  • Bar Ilan's Judaic Library  
    Contains a wide array of classic Judaic texts, in Hebrew, including the Hebrew Bible, various Bible commentaries, Mishnah, Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds and other texts.
  • The Bible in English  
    21 different versions of the English Bible. In addition to 13 complete Bibles, there are 5 texts that comprise New Testaments only, 2 that contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch.
  • BibleWorks 7.0  
    Bible concordance and morphological analysis program. Includes the Hebrew Bible, the Greek Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate and the Greek New Testament and many translations of the Bible. List of Contents
  • Biblical art on the WWW  
    Searchable database for finding Biblical art on the Internet. Searching can be done by biblical subject, biblical text, artist, and keyword or phrase.
  • Bibliotheca religiosa IntraText  
    Database of online texts, including various texts of the Bible and apocryphal books.
  • Blackwell Reference Online  
    Online reference resources. Click on the link in the database under Subject for Religion to get access to a selection of dictionaries and encyclopedias dealing with religion and Biblical studies.
  • Catholic Periodical & Literature Index  
    Provides citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, as well as papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
  • Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library  
    Makes available for the first time the complete set of photographs of the Dead Sea scrolls as digitized images. All 800 or so texts from the eleven caves of Khirbet Qumran, representing some 2,700 photographs, are digitally captured and published here.
  • EIKON: Image Database for Biblical Studies  
    The EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies is a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies.
  • Elenchus Bibliographicus  
    Searchable database for articles, dissertations and books published between 1998-2002. Coverage includes works on both the Old and New Testament. No full-text.
  • Francis  
    This databases covers multiple disciplines, including Biblical studies. Indexes a wide range of materials, including journal articles. Citations include abstracts but no links to full-text.
  • Index Theologicus  
    Contains more than 170,000 bibliographic records for articles published in theological and religious studies periodicals and festschriften. No links to full-text.
  • The Jewish Roman world of Jesus  
    Provides information on the background to the time of Jesus with the contemporary settings of the Jewish and Roman worlds.
  • Logos Bible Software  
    A flexible and versatile computerized Bible study system that includes many versions of the Bible, language tools, reference works, commentaries, etc.
  • New Testament Abstracts  
    Periodical abstracts and book notices of primarily European and American works dealing with the New Testament. NTA typically abstracts around 2,000 articles chosen from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages.
  • Old Testament Abstracts  
    Old Testament Abstracts features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.
  • Online critical pseudepigrapha  
    Contains texts of the pseudepigrapha in their original (or extant) languages; some with critical apparatus.
  • Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Database  
    The two PHI CD's currently available contain Latin and Bible texts from the Center for the Computer Analysis of Text at the University of Pennsylvania, the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri, and texts in Arabic and Coptic. Available on Workstation E.
  • RAMBI  
    From the Jewish National and University Library, RAMBI allows users to search for scholarly articles in the field of Jewish studies by author, title, or subject.
  • Religion & Philosophy Collection  
    Provides citations to journal articles in more than 300 full text journals in religion and philosophy, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles. Many articles available in full-text. Updated daily.
  • Religious & Theological Abstracts  
    Provides citations with abstracts (summaries) for articles in religion from more than 400 journals. However, full-text of the articles is not available through this database.
  • Stuttgart Electronic Biblical Study Bible  
    Electronic version of the most fundamental documents in Biblical Scholarship – the main texts of the Hebrew and Greek Bible with their critical apparatus. Available on Workstation D (Marvin Pope Seminar Room).
  • Synoptic Gospels primer: parallel texts in Matthew, Mark & Luke  
    Includes a number of tools for the literary analysis of the Synoptic Gospels, including a search engine, a glossary of important terms and key figures, and links to other resources on the issue of the relationship among the three gospels.
  • Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (Unabridged)  
    Covers more than 2,300 theologically significant words, including important prepositions, numbers, and proper names. Available on Workstation B and Workstation D.
  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)  
    The bulk of Classical and Koine Greek literature is available for searching and browsing in this database.
 

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