What follows is a short preliminary listing. Later it is hoped to expand this section of the site considerably, to take account of the impressive amount of good material relating to biblical studies available on the web at present. Only sites useful for serious biblical study are included. Other sorts of biblical pages (devotional and so on), even though excellent for their own purposes, are not noted here.
When this page is printed, the full URL (internet address) of the various sites will appear automatically in the printed version.
The page is divided into three sections as follows:
BIBIL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Bibliographie biblique informatisée de Lausanne (Institut romand des sciences bibliques [IRSB])
The bibliographies can be accessed in two ways:
a) Go to the IRSB homepage [http://www.unil.ch/irsb]: and from the main menu choose BiBIL
b) Or by direct access [http://www.bibil.net]. One can choose between English, French and German interfaces.
A fairly recent browser is necessary since the site uses Unicode to display Greek and Hebrew and other special characters: for details see the "Configuration nécessaire" link on the BiBIL homepage (and its equivalents in English and German).
BILDI (Innsbruck, Austria) [recommended starting point for your search]
Bibelwissenschaftliche Literaturdokumentation Innsbruck (Documentation for Biblical Literature Innsbruck)
Complete listing of relevant articles in the area of biblical and biblical-archaeological studies in many journals since 1985 (and gradual extension to preceding years); also papers in collective works and a good number of books. In recent years BILDI collaborates with Tübingen University Library, Germany (especially for lists of new books), and with the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome (especially for data about book-reviews from its invaluable Elenchus of Biblica).
One can go first to the homepage [http://www.uibk.ac.at/bildi/index.html] but there is also direct access to the search-page [http://www.uibk.ac.at/bildi/bildi/search/index.html]. One can choose between an English and a German interface.
The online Help is well worth studying in order to make full use of the power of the BILDI search capabilities. It is important to note that the abbreviations for biblical books are those used in the Einheitsübersetzung; see here for a list.
RAMBI (Jerusalem, Israel)
Index of Articles on Jewish Studies = רשימת מאמרים במדעי היהדות
This service began in 1966 under the auspices of the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem. It lists articles in journals and in collective works (but not books by individual authors), written in Modern Hebrew (Ivrit: עברית), Yiddish, and the main European languages.
The bibliographical service can be accessed in two ways:
a) Go to the homepage [http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi/]
b) Or go directly to the search-page for articles on Biblical and Jewish Studies. [http://libnet.ac.il/~libnet/rmb/rmb_direct.htm]
COPAC
Combined catalogue for around 50 British research and university libraries and special collections, including the British Library, various Cambridge libraries, Manchester (including the John Rylands Library), and various Oxford libraries. Outside the UK, the library of Trinity College, Dublin, is included too. Currently Copac has about 32 million records. The homepage [http://copac.ac.uk/] gives access to various search possibilities.
Ecole biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem
The splendid catalogue of the Library of the Ecole Biblique is online [http://62.90.78.118:8080/] since summer 2008. One can choose between a French and an English interface. In addition see here [http://www.ebaf.info/] for much information about this historic and prestigious school.
IRIS
The Consortium of Irish University and Research Libraries
The homepage [http://www.iris.ie/] gives access to the collective library catalogues of Dublin City University, NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin and the University of Limerick. At present over 3.5 million bibliographic records from Irish collections are available. In addition, over 20 million records from major international collections such as COPAC (the catalogue of the UK based Consortium of University and Research libraries), the Monographs and Serials databases of the British Library and the Library of Congress collection may also be selected and included in your search.
Library of Congress, Washington DC
The largest library in the world (homepage [http://www.loc.gov/index.html]), with millions of books and other information resources in its holdings. The catalogue homepage [http://catalog.loc.gov/] offers various types of searches.
Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome
One of the largest specialized libraries for biblical studies in the world with good holdings in Ancient Near Eastern studies too.
One can go first to the library homepage [http://biblioteca.biblico.it]
or go directly to the catalogue search [http://librivision.biblico.it/LVPIBbin/LibriVision/]. One can choose between an Italian and an English interface.
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
Large holdings (currently almost 900,000 volumes) in theology (including biblical studies), philosophy and other disciplines of particular ecclesiastical relevance. Further information is available through the library homepage [http://www.unigre.it/newbiblio/], or one can go directly to the catalogue search [http://librivision.unigre.it/LVPUGbin/LibriVision/]. It is possible to execute a combined search across the catalogues of many other Roman ecclesiastical libraries too. One can choose between an Italian and an English interface.
Tübingen University Library
One of the most important German university libraries in the area of biblical studies and theology, since it is a nationally designated library centre for specialization in the areas of "Religionswissenschaft, Theologie, und Alter Orient". General information is available through the library homepage [http://www.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/]. One can also go directly to the search page [http://swb2.bsz-bw.de/DB=2.312/SET=10/TTL=3/START_WELCOME]. Besides the German interface, an English interface can be chosen for the catalogues too.
Also to be noted is the very useful "Index Theologicus" [http://www.ixtheo.de]
service, a searchable database of articles in journals, Festschriften, and congress volumes. There is also a "Current Awareness" [http://www.ixtheo.de/zid-curr/index.html] page, which offers a table-of-contents listing of those publications, as soon as they are received in the Tübingen library.
Abzu, Oriental Institute, Chicago
A web directory or portal, Abzu [http://www.etana.org/abzu/] is a guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world on the Web. It gives links to an enormous number of scholarly sites and pages.
Biblical Studies on the Web
Among other services available from the homepage [http://www.bsw.org], note in particular this link [http://www.bsw.org/project/biblica/] to the online edition of Biblica.
ETANA
The acronym of the site [http://www.etana.org/] stands for "Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives". Excellent quality materials.
ISATEX
The acronym of this German-language academic site [http://www.isatex.de] stands for "Informations-Stelle für Alt-Testamentliche EXegese". It offers many links to sites that are of interest for scholarly study of the OT.
New Testament Gateway
The NT Gateway [http://www.ntgateway.com/] was created by Dr Mark Goodacre, formerly of the University of Birmingham, UK, now in the Dept. of Religion, Duke University, Raleigh NC. It is an excellent web directory of internet resources on the New Testament, currently being updated daily.
Old Testament Gateway
The goal of the OT Gateway [http://www.otgateway.com/] is to become a comprehensive, annotated, academic directory of internet sites on the Old Testament. It has made a good start but there is still a long way to go before it reaches the qualitative level of the "The New Testament Gateway".
WiBiLex: Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet
This is a project of the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (German Bible Society), which began in 2007. The WiBiLex [http://www.wibilex.de] is a high-quality online Bible lexicon or encyclopedia written by well-known mainstream German biblical scholars; the main editors for the OT part are M. Bauks and K. Koenen, while S. Alkier is the main editor for the NT articles. 850 articles are already available (May 2010), most of them on OT topics but the first articles in the NT part are now online. On completion, the work will have some 3000 articles. While the articles can be read by any visitor to the site, full access to the search and printing facilities needs a simple free registration procedure.