
Electronic
Texts
- AVAILABLE IN THE SML
CD-ROM CENTER OR ONLINE
- The Bible in English (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey,
1996)
- Online
- The Chadwyck-Healey The Bible in English Database
CD-ROM contains 21 different versions of the English Bible. In addition to 13
complete Bibles, there are 5 texts that comprise New Testament only, two that
contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch,
Jonah and New Testament.
- CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts
(Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1994)
- Based primarily on the Corpus Christianorum:
Series Latina and Continuatio Mediaevalis, the CETEDOC Library of
Christian Latin Texts CD-ROM strives to offer the best critical texts of Patristic
and Medieval Latin Christian authors. The second release includes the complete
works of Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome, as well as the text of the
Vulgate.
- Encyclopedia of Judaism & dictionary of
Jewish biography Chicago: Davka Corporation, 1996.
- The Encyclopedia... is an English-language,
one-volume encyclopedia of Judaism. Authorities have contributed over 1000 articles,
covering a variety of topics, from biographical entries on heroic rabbis to
the customs and traditions of Jewish communities. The Dictionary... includes
about 1000 biographies of Jewish individuals. It includes figures from various
fields: writer, philosophers, politicians, Nobel prize winners. It covers 5000
years of history extending from Biblical times to the present day.
- Judaic Classics Library. Chicago: Institute
for Computers in Jewish Life, Davka Corporation, 1993.
- A complement to the Responsa Project, the Library
includes the Talmud Yerushalmi, the Zohar, Midrash Rabbah, and the Mishnah Berurah.
Full annotation
of the contents of this source
- Logos Bible software (Logos Research Systems)
Also available over the Divinity Library local network
- Connect
to the Logos Bible help file
- A flexible and versatile computerized Bible study
sytem. It includes 15 Bible texts and translations, 4 commentaries, 2 dictionaries,
Greek & Hebrew lexicons, maps, etc., which can be retrieved, displayed,
simultaneously searched, copied, exported, and printed through a single common
interface. Provides two levels of Hebrew and Greek tools, for the fluent and
non-fluent. It offers cross-version search features, such as linking the New
American Standard Bible with the Nestle-Aland Greek text so that clicking on
a word in the English text accesses the underlying Greek word.
- New Bible library (Oklahoma City, OK: Ellis
Enterprises, 1993)
- This CD-ROM offers scholars a range of approaches
to Biblical studies, including over a dozen versions of the Bible itself, as
well as maps, dictionaries, and commentaries, in an interlinked format.
- Past Masters (Clayton, GA: InteLex Corp.,
1992)
- Connect
to Past Masters on the Web
- Classic texts in the humanities, including the
complete works of Plato (Greek and English), the complete works of Aristotle,
the collected works of Aquinas, the collected works of British philosophy from
1600-1900, and the published works of Wittgenstein.
- Patrologiae Graecae database (The Religion
and Technology Center, Inc.)
- Online
- The Patrologia Graecae Database (PG) will be a
comprehensive electronic version of the Greek portion of Jacques-Paul Migne's
massive Patrologiae Cursus Completus, including notes, glosses and indexes.
PG contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations)
relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings
through the Council of Florence in 1439.
- Patrologia Latina database (Alexandria,
VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1992- .)
- Online
- The Patrologia Latina Database (PLD) will be a
comprehensive electronic version of the Latin portion of Jacques-Paul Migne's
massive Patrologiae Cursus Completus, including notes, glosses and indexes.
The Patrologia Latina, though originally published in the 19th century, still
represents the only scholarly edition of many patristic works. One of the most
ambitious electronic publishing efforts in the humanities to date, the current
release contains more than 150 of the 221 original volumes.
- PHI (Packard Humanities Institute) demonstration
databases (Los Altos: Packard Humanities Institute, 1993)
- The experimental databases from the Packard Humanities
Institute (PHI) largely complement the Thesaurus Linguae Grecae database.
The two PHI CD-ROMs currently available contain Latin and Biblical 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.
- Reference Bible, American Bible Society
(New York: American Bible Society, 1991)
- Full-text of modern English, German, and Spanish
Bibles, and related reference works.
- The Responsa project: the global Jewish database
(Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar Ilan University, 1992)
- This database, compiled by Bar Ilan University,
brings together over a thousand years of Jewish scholarship: Tanach, Midrashim,
the Babylonian Talmud, Rashi, Rambam, and 253 books of rabinnical responsa.
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Irvine: Thesaurus
Linguae Graecae, UC Irvine, 1987- )
- Online
- The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG), a work-in-progress,
will produce a data bank of all ancient Greek authors and texts extant from
Homer to 600 C.E., including New Testament authors. TLG contains nearly 2,900
authors and more than 8,000 individual pieces of extant writing in Greek. The
current release is virtually complete through 200 C.E.
- For more information, connect
to the TLG Website.
- AVAILABLE OVER THE INTERNET
-
- Gateway sites
- Alex:
a catalog of electronic texts on the Internet
- Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia The texts available at this site are
arranged by language (English, French, German, Japanese, and Latin) and contain
many titles of religious interest.
- Buddhism
- Comparative
religion: Buddhism texts and documents
- Dharmanet:
Buddhist electronic texts
- Christianity
- Connect
to the Divinity Library's list of electronic texts in Christianity
- Hinduism
- Hindu
Tantric Home Page English translations of many Tantric texts are available
to be read or downloaded via FTP from this site.
- Virtual
E-text archive of Indic texts (from Indology:
Internet resources for Indological scholarship)
- Islam
- Hadith
(University of Edmonton)
- Comparative
religion: Islam texts and documents (University of Washington)
- Holy
Qur'an (University of Edmonton)
- Judaism
- Hebrew
text of the Tanach
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