Bible Study Websites:
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Archaeology
This division of Bible History Online offers the entire Smith’s Bible Dictionary for free. Like other online Bible dictionaries, this one is formatted in the convenient alphabetical order so that you simply
have to click on the letter that your topic of study begins with and you can read any available articles on your topic.
This section of the Cross Walk website offers a great launching pad to a small section of bible dictionaries. While the selection may not be overwhelming, what is offered on this webpage is
overwhelming. You can search Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hitchcock’s Bible Name Dictionary, Smith’s Bible Dictionary, and more. These tools are not easy to track down
for free on the internet, but you get them all here at Cross Walk.
No, this is no mistake. This website offers the entire Easton’s Bible Dictionary online for free. Listed in alphabetical order, the dictionary is literally on one click away. You can access any and all of
the articles that are available through Easton’s Bible Dictionary for your research needs.
The key advantage of this website is the search engine feature. Instead of going through alphabetical lists of the articles found in Easton’s Bible Dictionary, this website allows you to simply type in a
word, phrase, or passage, and all of the articles where you request is found will come up in a Google-like format. This makes your research much more comprehensive with less effort.
This link connects you to a hub of bible dictionaries that are linked to places where you can access the half dozen dictionaries listed. You can investigate the American Tract Society Bible Dictionary,
the Easton’s Bible Dictionary, the Holman Bible Dictionary, the Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary, the King James Dictionary, and the Smith’s Bible Dictionary. This link is a part of a much larger
website, studylight.org, which is full of great resources as well.
This is the Web Bible Encyclopedia. The site boasts over 4,100 articles and definitions for biblical study, once again organized in convenient alphabetical order. A strength and weakness of this site is
the fact that it is constantly being updated with new and revised definitions and articles. This is a plus because you get up-to-date information, but this is a negative because you may want to pay
attention to the credentials of the people updating. Nevertheless, this is a great site for probing deeper in your biblical study.
This link connects you to the entire International Standard Bible Encyclopedia online for free. This resource is normally four thick volumes in hardback book, but here it is all online accessible in
alphabetical order. You will find the depth of these articles to be extremely useful for more in-depth study than most Bible dictionaries offer.
This website offers free downloads of multiple versions of the bible for free. There are links that connect you to various websites where the downloads are available for free. You can then listen to the
Bible through your computer, burn them to CD, or even put them on your iPod for your convenience. Immersing yourself in the word of God has never been easier.
This link takes you to a section of bible.org website, which is a site dedicated to connecting interested students to various resources and tools for theological study and training. The specific section of
bible.org that this address takes you to is a place where you can download the NET Bible for free in a number of different formats.
This link offers free biblical software that you can download for your computer or even your palm pilot. You can download Bibles, books, and many other resources for free from this site. Also, this site
functions as a hub to a multitude of other computer
resources that you can download for free or purchase, depending on the
particular item located.
This website is in the blog format that gives you access to various articles, links, and even videos from experts focusing specifically on biblical archaeology. The extreme upside of this website is the
consistent updating of the information on the website as more archaeological information is discovered. Furthermore, they have their blog entries archived on the left hand side of the page based on
topic for more convenient searches.
The Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) sponsor this website as their base of operations. The BAS are dedicated to examining, reporting, and utilizing the most up-to-date archaeological evidence to
help re-create the biblical world for our interpretative endeavors. The BAS puts out the Biblical Archaeology Review, which is a magazine totally dedicated to archaeological finds that are pertinent to
biblical study. This website will give you access to various articles, resources, and opportunities in biblical archaeology.
This website offers another interesting, unique tool for biblical study that revolves around specific articles written on specific topics within specific books. The way you search the particular site is by
book, which will then lead you to a section that contains various articles pertinent to the study of that particular book. You can find things from articles on theological issues to coins from the city of
interest. This site spans both the Old and the New Testament.
This particular section of markmoore.org offers an assortment of the articles from Kenny Boles (Greek professor at Ozark Christian College in Joplin, MO) written on specific words in the New
Testament. Each article is concise in its presentation, but each article is packed with enlightening presentations of New Testament words that can aid you in your study of a particular book or
passage.
This link takes you to a webpage that connects you to a significant number of articles that focus on particular topics regarding certain cultural and historical issues you might encounter in biblical study.
The topical articles are categorized under four sections: general, Old Testament, Intertestamental Period, and New Testament. While specific research on a particular topic may be difficult from this
website, you can get a good feel for some of the pressing cultural/historical issues that contribute to biblical study.
This website is dedicated to research regarding biblical customs and culture. There are lengthy articles on various topics including: biblical measurements, eating, clothing, transportation, farming,
holidays, money, animals, and even plants/trees. You can get a wealth of information that allows you to piece together the everyday life of a typical person of the Bible.
This website offers a decent selection of online commentaries that you can use in your study free of charge. You can tap into a variety of works, including: J.W. McGarvey’s Harmony of the Four
Gospels, the Geneva Study Bible, and even A.T. Robertson’s Word Studies on the Greek New Testament. This source gives you a wide selection of commentary resources for your study.
This webpage is a section of Blue Letter Bible. Specifically, this section of the website offers the textual commentaries of about 23 different authors, which include: John Calvin, Alfred Edersheim,
Matthew Henry, J.B. Lightfoot, Martin Luther, and Charles Spurgeon. This is a great way to get a wide array of perspectives from different periods of time on a particular text.
Using this tool, you can search for a topic or a passage in Bible commentary tools, specific commentary sets, and even sermons by people like Charles Spurgeon. The powerful search engine with the
multiple tools gives this site obvious advantages to the careful researcher.
This website gives you access to Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary…for free. This small commentary written by Henry in 17-18th centuries has blessed the church with exegetical insights for
centuries. Each book of the Bible has comments on it by Henry on this website.
This website gives you access to Nave’s Topical Bible free of charge. The benefit of such a tool is specifically word studies, in that you can search the entire resource by typing a word into the search
engine. The results present all of the references in the entire Bible in which that particular word is found. With a simple click, you can then read each of the contexts in which your word appears.
This website functions as a hub for powerful search engines that can help you in your biblical studies. The page has multiple areas for you to type in your topic or passage, in which the particular area
utilizes a different search tool. For example, there are search tools for: Strong’s concordance, Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, Encarta Encyclopedia, or simply a search
tool for the whole internet. This could be a powerful tool that allows you to study multiple avenues from the same webpage.
This section of mybibletools.com is dedicated to offering a wide array of tools for biblical word studies. You can search for your particular word in multiple bible translations simultaneously, the entire
internet, sermons, Bible dictionaries, Bible encyclopedias, and even a Webster’s thesaurus. In doing biblical word studies, you will not need much more than this website has to offer.
This powerful tool enables you to search for particular words in the entire bible, in just a book of the bible, or even in a verse of the bible. The search results give you a broken down presentation of
each verse that your word appears in, and the option to go further in defining the word with multiple help links for your study. This can be accomplished in English, Greek, and Hebrew. This is an
incredible, free tool for Bible word studies.
This website, also referred to as crosswalk.com, is a great place for general bible study in multiple areas of interest. The website offers a variety of avenues for study including: interlinear Bibles,
commentaries, concordances, Bible dictionaries, sermon illustrations, and many other options from which to choose. It is a great place to start your research since there are so many elements offered
in one place and at one time.
This website has the potential to be an amazing site for biblical study. At the time of the writing of this book, a lot of the features for this site were still under construction, but the future possibility of
what this will have to offer is astounding. There are portals for: free online encyclopedia with over 2,000 articles, ancient text library, online bible with cross-references, free software downloads, daily
bible studies, and even a forum that offers an interactive community. Keep your eye on this site for future functionality, because this will be an incredible tool.
Blue-letter Bible is an amazing tool for biblical studies…for free. This website is amazing in its power and results. You can start off by simply typing a passage, topic, or phrase, and then Blue-letter
Bible guides you to a wealth of information including: parallel passages, Greek/English concordance, selected commentaries, related hymns or images, maps, and dictionary aids. Another important
feature is the ability to have about 13 different translations listed in parallel form for any verse or passage of your choice. The possibilities of this tool for biblical studies are virtually endless and
invaluable.
This is the website for the most powerful computer digital library that is in existence. Logos (or the Libronix Digital Library) offers many different packages to purchase that contain the tools to do any
study that is referenced in this book. While the prices may seem extravagant, you can literally have entire commentary series, word study tools (Greek, Hebrew, and English), any number of books,
and powerful search tools at your finger tips and everywhere you go. There is no more important computer tool for biblical study than the Logos system.
This website offers a number of biblical study opportunities. While it offers searches through Bibles, Bible dictionaries, Topical Bibles, Bible concordances, and many other study tools, it also offers the
possibility of downloading these programs to your computer for use offline at a reasonable price. In addition, you can download “speaking Bibles”, which allow you to hear the Bible in multiple
languages aloud. There is also a section of free Bible software downloads with an assortment of options.
This web page is a general overview of the purpose, tools, process, and further readings intricate to the interpretative process. This information is presented by Andrew S. Kulikovsky in a user-friendly
manner that could serve as an important quick-reference for some of the hermeneutical principles expounded upon in this book.
In this website, Dr. Roy E. Ciampa gives a wealth of important resources for serious hermeneutic students. Ranging from links on writing exegesis papers to abbreviations of ancient literature to
extensive bibliographies to original source access, Dr. Ciampa offers a virtual hub to an endless amount of resources and information. This is a great place to get connected to the deeper needs of
biblical interpretation and study.
This link connects you to Mark Moore’s website, which you can explore to find other resources and opportunities to partner with Mark in biblical studies. This particular link takes you to the principles
of interpretation section of his website. From this location, you can view the college syllabus used for the class offered that communicates this book on a college level. Furthermore, there are links on
this page to helpful PowerPoint presentations, word studies by Kenny Boles, and even a list of essential readings for further hermeneutics study.
This link offers a map of the entire Chronology of the Nation of Israel, presented by Wil Pounds. In timeline form, the website presents the scripture references, Kings, time period, prophets, and
foreign powers. This is a great visual presentation of this potentially confusing arrangement of people, times, and places in the Old Testament.
This website offers free high resolution maps. The site is somewhat limited in that it offers only about 26 different maps, but the quality of these maps is great. There is a section of the webpage that
offers various other links to other places for some resources that may prove to be of some help to you in your various studies.
This is a great website flooded with dozens of maps focusing on key cities, locations, and even time periods that impact biblical interpretation. The only downside of this website is the organization of
the maps could be a little more user-friendly, but they are not lacking in their options. In addition, there are links on the side of the webpage that connect you with various other resources for further
study.
This website offers biblical maps with a twist. There is a great interface at this link where you can type in any biblical reference (book and chapter), and then, the map will go to a Google earth location
that matches with the reference you inserted. This is a great tool to see where the biblical locations are found in today’s world.
This link will take you to an amazing hub for biblical maps. You will find maps dedicated to the apostle Paul’s missionary journeys, various bible timelines, Old Testament maps, New Testament maps,
Ancient Roman Empire maps, general world maps, and even biblical genealogy maps. If you are looking for ways to bring the bible to life, exploring this website of important biblical maps will help you
immensely.
Google Earth is an amazing tool for modern-day map study. This program is literally satellite photographs of the entire earth that is updated continually. You can literally type in an address and zoom
in so close that you can see cars parked in driveways. This is a great tool for comparative studies of the terrain of the ancient world compared to the development of the same terrain in today’s
society. Can you find your house?
This link offers an extremely helpful chart that lines out every king reigning in each area of the divided kingdom along with the corresponding prophets set out on a timeline. In addition, the ruling
empire is mapped out on the bottom of the page so that you can see what king reigned and what prophet spoke during the reign of the Assyrians, Babylonians, or the Persians. This is a great tool to
use for Old Testament studies.
Similar to Google Earth, this website is a catalogue of satellite photographs taken from NASA themselves. While this is not as interactive as Google Earth, it is still extremely useful for still frame
research to show the comparative development of the terrain from the ancient times to the present condition of it.
While this website is another one that offers access to original texts of church history, the organization of the material is quite unique. You are able to search the church historians based on modern
day explosive issues like: non-violence, adultery, divorce, pornography, and even men/women issues. When you click on one of the topics, you will get biblical passages and church history selections
that pertain to the topic you selected.
This incredibly powerful tool connects you with the writings of virtually every church father that we have writings from. This particular link offers the writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, St. Augustine,
St. Chrysostom, and the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. To have all of these writings for free and at your fingertips is truly amazing.
This link takes you to the complete writings of Philo. This important source for biblical study gives you a prominent Jewish philosopher’s perspective on many Jewish texts and issues. Furthermore,
when you click on any of the sources you are also given a short commentary and introduction to each section, which is quite convenient to help guide you through what you are reading.
The Jewish Talmud is found in its entirety on this website. Each section is initiated with a short introduction to the Talmudic material to find. This is great material that gives you insight into the Jewish
perspectives and minds of the ancient world. This is an important document in the Jewish tradition, and likewise for Christians this resource can be great for biblical background study.
This link connects you to two key original sources for biblical studies: Polybius and Flavius Josephus. When you click on one of the links for their works, you are guided to another page that shows the
desired text in its original Greek with the parallel English translation right next to it. This convenience of reading the original sources even in their original languages is vital for biblical background
study.
This link connects you with the most powerful online resource for original source research. Perseus gives you access to virtually every piece of literature in the ancient world and their original
languages. This is the first place that you should look when you are doing any sort of original source research. It is a very powerful tool for study.
This link will connect you to a page called “Tales and Maxims from the Midrash”. This page gives you access to the part of the Talmud that is referred to as the Midrash. In essence this is a Jewish
commentary on various books of the Old Testament that was taken from oral tradition and put into written form. This will include a lot of “this rabbi said” and “this rabbi said” about the particular text
being commented on.
This website gives you access to two important targum families: Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and Targum Onkelos. The translations of all of the material are based on the J.W. Etheridge’s 1862
published work. The Targums both cover the Pentateuch in their comments and reflection.
This is a part of an entire website that is dedicated to original sources including works of John Wesley, Charles Wesley, and various others. In particular, this link will take you to the section of the
website dedicated to Old Testament Apocryphal literature. In addition to the text of the Apocryphal literature, the website provides an introduction and a summary for each of the works.
Once again, this is a part of an entire website that is dedicated to original sources including works of John Wesley, Charles Wesley, and various others. This link, however, will take you to the section
of the website dedicated to the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. In addition to the text of the Pseudepigraphical literature, the website provides an introduction and a summary for almost all of the
works. In addition, some of the works are given multiple versions for your convenience.
This website provides a whole slew of photographs that you can use to visualize some of the key elements in biblical background studies. The categories included in this website of stock photos
include pictures of: animals, Christian related sites, Egypt, Israel, the Near East, plants, Rome, weather, and even various scenery photographs.
This website is entitled “Virtual Jerusalem Tour.” As the title betrays, this website is full of modern photographs of significant sites and locations in Jerusalem. This is a great way to point to the exact
locations in which various events probably occurred as recorded in the New Testament. This allows you to put a visual image in place of a nebulous reference to a particular region or place in the city
of Jerusalem found in the Bible.