Free Theological Web Resources
- Atla Guide to Websites on Religion
- Bibles and Bible Reference Works
- Christian Churches and Denominations
- Church History
- Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- History
- Interdisciplinary
- Islam
- Judaism & Jewish Resources
- Languages (Dictionaries, Grammars, etc.)
- Missions
- Non-canonical Texts (Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, etc.)
- Other Sacred Texts
- Preaching, Liturgy, and Worship
- Religion
- Religious Art
- Theology
- Theses and Dissertations
Atla Guide to Websites on Religion
Atla Websites on Religion Libguide
An extensive annotated guide to free and open access electronic resources related to the study, practice and teaching of religion; organized by topic.
Bibles and Bible Reference Works
Hebrew Bible
A tool for searching lexicons for Biblical studies, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic etc.
Provides free access to the original Bible texts in Greek and Hebrew, in addition to English, Latin, and German Bible translations.
Includes several interactive tools and video lectures for learning biblical Hebrew, as a List of Digital Facsimiles of Biblical Hebrew Manuscripts on the Web; created and maintained by Charles Grebe, instructor at Briercrest College and Seminary in Saskatchewan.
Online Bible study application with features for studying Greek (SBL) and Hebrew (WLC) developed by Digital Bible Society.
Offers powerful tools, lexica, and a free online reference library to help users gain access to the original Hebrew (based on BHS) .
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
Based on the 1906 edition originally published by Clarendon Press: Oxford.
The Complete Tanakh (Chabad.org)
English translation of the entire Tanakh with Rashi's commentary. This Hebrew Bible was edited by esteemed translator and scholar, Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg.
Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1910)
Based on the 1910 edition originally published by Clarendon Press: Oxford.
An online study program that includes the NET Bible and its thousands of notes, along with the un-pointed Hebrew text (seems to be based on BHS), definitions drawn from BDB, and a word search function based on Strong's numbers.
Online Hebrew Interlinear Bible
Delivered in PDF format.
A free online library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, including the Tanakh, Apocrypha, Mishna, Talmud, and Midrash
STEP - Scripture Tools for Every Person a fairly robust free online Bible study tool from Tyndale House, Cambridge
New Testament
A tool for searching lexicons for Biblical studies, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic etc.
Provides free access to the original Bible texts in Greek and Hebrew, in addition to English, Latin, and German Bible translations.
Online Bible study application with features for studying Greek (SBL) and Hebrew (WLC) developed by Digital Bible Society.
Offers powerful tools, lexica, and a free online reference library to help users gain access to the original Hebrew and Greek.
An open-access database of Latin (Lewis and Short) and Ancient Greek (LSJ) dictionaries
An online study program that includes the NET Bible and its thousands of notes, along with the NET Greek NT (based on Westcott and Hort) with parsing information, word definitions drawn from Thayer's lexicon, and a word search function based on Strong's numbers.
An annotated directory of internet resources on the New Testament and Christian Origins
New Testament Greek: Base Form Dictionary
Offers a general meaning and usage information for every unique base form [lexical form] underlying one or more surface (word) forms [inflected form, as it appears in the text]; maintained by The Linguistics Research Center at UT.
New Testament Greek: English Meaning Index
Lists, in alphabetical order, seemingly significant words used in the "general meaning" glosses of the Base Form Dictionary; maintained by The Linguistics Research Center at UT.
Online Greek Interlinear Bible
Delivered in PDF format.
STEP - Scripture Tools for Every Person a fairly robust free online Bible study tool from Tyndale House, Cambridge
A free, online Greek-English dictionary developed by Dr. William Mounce (author of Basics of Biblical Greek). Each definition includes the word's semantic range, parsing information, and Strong's and GK numbers.
Whole Bible
Includes free Bible study tools in many languages through the Online Parallel Bible Project
Visualize the shape and core themes of every book of the Bible through an illustrated outline.
Online Bible study application with features for studying Greek (SBL) and Hebrew (WLC) developed by Digital Bible Society.
Bible Trivia pages that can be used as tools for Youth Ministry, Bible Study, or at-home learning.
Searches over 100 versions of the Bible by keyword, passage, and topic. Includes IVP scripture commentaries, an audio Bible, and Bibles in many languages
A large collection of open-access journals and books on the Bible and other theological disciplines, mainly from a more conservative, evangelical perspective.
Offers powerful tools, lexica, and a free online reference library to help users gain access to the original Hebrew and Greek.
Find all that the Church Fathers had to say about a particular Scripture verse; texts are taken from the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1939)
"provides detailed information on the language and literature of the Bible world, their cultures and the historical and religious environments of the people of the Bible"
An online study program that includes the NET Bible and its thousands of notes, along with the ESV, HCSB, KJV, ISV, Message, NASB and Hebrew and Greek texts of the OT and NT respectively.
An online Bible oriented toward use in liturgy
STEP - Scripture Tools for Every Person a fairly robust free online Bible study tool from Tyndale House, Cambridge
Commentaries
Expositor's Greek Testament. Edited by W. R. Nicoll et al., 5 vols., 1902-1910.
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on GENESIS, by John Skinner, 1910
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on NUMBERS, by George Buchanan, 1903
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on DEUTERONOMY, by S. R. Driver, 1903
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on JUDGES, by George Foot Moore, 1910
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL, by Henry Preserved Smith, 1902
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE BOOKS OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, by L. W. Batten, 1913
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE BOOK OF ESTHER, by Lewis Bayles Paton, 1908
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE BOOK OF JOB, vol. I, by S. R. Driver and George Buchanan Gray, 1921
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE BOOK OF JOB, vol. II, by S. R. Driver and George Buchanan Gray, 1921
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE BOOK OF PSALMS, vol. I, by Charles A. Briggs and Emilie Grace Briggs, 1906
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE BOOK OF PSALMS, vol. II, by Charles A. Briggs and Emilie Grace Briggs, 1906
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE BOOK OF PROVERBS, by Crawford H. Toy, 1899
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES, by George Aaron Barton, 1908
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah, vol I: ch. I - XXVII, by George Buchanan Gray, 1912
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on AMOS and HOSEA, by William Rainey Harper, 1905
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on MICAH, ZEPHANIAH, NAHUM, HABAKKUK, OBADIAH, AND JOEL, by John Merlin Powis Smith, William Hayes Ward, Julius A. Bewer, 1911
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH, MALACHI, and JONAH, by Hinckley G. Mitchell, John Merlin Powis Smith, and Julius A. Bewer, 1912
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, by Willoughoby C. Allen, 1907
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MARK, by Ezra P. Gould, 1905
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE, by Alfred Plummer, 1903
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN, vol. I, by J. H. Bernard, 1929
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN, vol. II, by J. H. Bernard, 1929
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS, by William Sanday and Arthur C. Headlam, 1905
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS, by Archibald Robertson and Alfred Plummer, 1911
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS, by Alfred Plummer, 1915
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS, by Ernst De Witt Burton, 1928
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE EPISTLES TO THE EPHESIANS AND COLOSSIANS, by T. K. Abbot, 1903
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS, by James Everett Frame, 1912
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES, by James Hardy Ropes, 1916
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE EPISTLES OF ST. PETER AND ST. JUDE, by Charles Bigg, 1905
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE JOHANNINE EPISTLES, by A. E. Brooke, 1912
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN, vol. I, by R. H. Charles, 1920
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN, vol. II, by R. H. Charles, 1920
Christian Churches and Denominations
Short profiles of Christian denominations in the U.S. (Prepared by the EM White Library at Louisville Seminary)
Church History
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
A large library of Christian primary sources online including a complete set of the Church Fathers, the Institutes of Christian Religion by Calvin, Calvin’s Commentaries, etc.
Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity
Presents early evidence for the cult of Christian saints (up to around AD 700), with key texts presented in their original language, all with English translation and brief contextual commentary.
Early Church Fathers - Additional Texts
A collection of writings from Early Church Fathers not included in the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
Pearl Digital Collections (Presbyterian Historical Society)
The digital repository for the Presbyterian Historical Society, featuring searchable collections of photographs, correspondence, sound and video recordings, objects, and manuscript material from their holdings.
Post-Reformation Digital Library
A collection of resources relating to the development of theology during the Post-Reformation / Early Modern era (ca. 16th-18th c.), hosted by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.
Texts by and about Martin Luther.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
The 1913 edition of this encyclopedia.
Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Volume 1 (A-L); Volume 2 (M - Z)
Comprising the history, institutions, and antiquities of the Christian Church, from the time of the apostles to the age of Charlemagne, by Samuel Cheetham and William Smith, London: J. Murray, 1908
This reference work deals with mythology, folklore, and legends.
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
This is an online version of the print reference work edited by William H. Swatos, Jr.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
"The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, also known as the ISBE . . . provides detailed information on the language and literature of the Bible world, their cultures and the historical and religious environments of the people of the Bible"
This reference work provides information on the history and theology of Judaism.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This site is a dynamic philosophy encyclopedia that gives authors the ability to edit and update their entries in conjunction with a Board of Editors.
History
Early English Books Online (University of Michigan)
This is a full-text searchable version of a large collection of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other works printed in English between 1473 and 1700, including important material documenting church history and the Protestant Reformation.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Fordham University)
Provides useful information on historical theology as well as medieval, Islamic, Jewish, and Indian sourcebooks.
A searchable database of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts from the HRC collection.
Interdisciplinary
Atla Websites on Religion Libguide
An extensive annotated guide to electronic resources related to the study, practice and teaching of religion; organized by topic.
A large, freely available academic database that allows you to filter by subject area (e.g., "Philosophy and Religion") and limit results to open-access articles. Requires creating a free account.
Search Google's index of books. Some books only have a preview available.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
"A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 342 billion archived web pages”
Open Access Digital Theological Library
Free and open-access databases and e-books on the Bible, theology, and related topics.
Offers over 42,000 E-book titles in a variety of formats. Look for the bookshelves link at the top of the page in order to find the Religion Bookshelf.
Readux | Collections (Emory)
Full-text digitized versions of public domain works including valuable collections in Theology Reference and Methodism.
Free, beautiful, well-organized editions electronic versions of books in the public domain with typographical errors cleaned up , a wealth of metadata, and a variety of formats.
Islam
Al-Quran: Online Translation and Commentary
A free, searchable, online interlinear interpretation of the Quran created and maintained by two students at the University of Copenhagen.
Provides access to a large online collection of Qur’anic Commentary (tafsir or tafseer), translation, recitation and essential resources. Created and maintained by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan.
Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur’an
Draws on a wide range of traditional Muslim sources to present all concepts, places, persons, events, and things mentioned in the Qur'an. Entries in this open access encyclopedia are still being developed.
This annotated linguistic resource shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran; it is part of a PhD research project into Arabic language computing at the University of Leeds.
Judaism & Jewish Resources
This reference work provides information on the history and theology of Judaism.
Jewish Virtual Library (A project of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise)
Judaism 101 (Tracey R. Rich)
A free online library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, including the Tanakh, Mishna, Talmud, and Midrash
Languages (Dictionaries, Grammars, etc.)
Greek
A tool for searching lexicons for Biblical studies, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic etc.
An open-access database of Latin (Lewis and Short) and Ancient Greek (LSJ) dictionaries
A free, online Greek-English dictionary developed by Dr. William Mounce (author of Basics of Biblical Greek). Each definition includes the word's semantic range, parsing information, and Strong's and GK numbers.
Hebrew
A tool for searching lexicons for Biblical studies, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic etc.
Includes several interactive tools and video lectures for learning biblical Hebrew, as well as facsimiles of Hebrew manuscripts; created and maintained by Charles Grebe, instructor at Briercrest College and Seminary in Saskatchewan.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
Based on the 1906 edition originally published by Clarendon Press: Oxford.
Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1910)
Based on the 1910 edition originally published by Clarendon Press: Oxford.
Latin
Aramaic
A tool for searching lexicons for Biblical studies, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic etc.
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project
The CAL is a text base of the Aramaic texts in all dialects from the earliest (9th Century BCE) through the 13th Century CE, currently with a database of approximately 3 million lexically parsed words, and an associated set of electronic tools for analyzing and manipulating the data, whose ultimate goal is the creation of a complete lexicon of the language. IT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, not a completed dictionary
Syriac
Compendious Syriac Grammar by Theodor Noldeke, 1904 (PDF)
Dukhrana Analytical Lexicon of the Syriac New Testament
An online analytical lexicon of the Syriac New Testament created and maintained by Dukhrana Biblical Research - an online organization specializing in providing tools to aid in the study of the Peshitta, the Bible in Aramaic/Syriac.
An online, interlinear encoding of the Syriac Peshitta New Testament created and maintained by Dukhrana Biblical Research - an online organization specializing in providing tools to aid in the study of the Peshitta, the Bible in Aramaic/Syriac.
Missions
The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD)
Quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China (1550-1950). It provides users the tools to discover where every Christian church, school, hospital, orphanage, publishing house, and the like were located in China, and it documents who worked inside those buildings, both foreign and Chinese.
Non-canonical Texts (Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, etc.)
A "most complete' collection of Christian texts before the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, including the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers, and some non-Christian references.
A "most complete collection of Jewish documents from antiquity with translations, introductions, and links" created and maintained by Peter Kirby.
Full-Length Non-Canonical Christian Texts
Public-domain translations of select non-canonical Christian texts.
Other Sacred Texts
Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism
This website offers modern English translations of over a thousand important sutras from the Pali Canon, fully indexed, and accompanied by commentaries and other relevant secondary works.
Primary documents related to Gnosticism. Includes a translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
A collection of scriptures and other religious material from many different traditions, plus classical mythological texts, primarily in English, though some also appear in their original languages.
Comprises the Arabic text of the Muslim holy book along with three English translations and a commentary.
Preaching, Liturgy, and Worship
The Text This Week: Lectionary, Scripture Study and Worship Links and Resources
Includes links to artwork indexed by Bible theme and movie concordance related to scripture.
Religion
Association of Religion Data Archive
"The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion."
The Atla Digital Library connects students, scholars, and researchers with scholarly religion and theology content.
Atla Websites on Religion Libguide
An extensive annotated guide to electronic resources related to the study, practice and teaching of religion; organized by topic.
This free, comprehensive bibliography for theology and religious studies is edited by librarians and faculty at the University of Tübingen.
Open access resources in religion and theology (Virginia Union University)
An annotated list of open-access journals, websites, and other online scholarly resources on religion and theology
Religion Online provides access to more than 6,000 articles and chapters on topics including: Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions, and Religious Education; this website is maintained by the Claremont School of Theology.
Religion Statistics and Data Websites (Virginia Union University)
A collection of links pointing to statistical data on denominations, congregations, faith, and other religions topics
Religious Studies Web Guide (University of Calgary)
Focuses on free (open-access) internet resources (bibliographies/indexes, dictionaries/encyclopedias, e-texts and journals) supporting the academic study of religion
Religious Art
Art inspired by stories in the Bible; created and is maintained by contentecontent.com, an internet publisher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Art in the Christian Tradition
Created and maintained by Vanderbilt's Heard Divinity Library, this database is designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators, and all of the images may be used for non-commercial purposes, with attribution.
Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (CDRI)
Created and maintained by a partnership between Atla and ATS, CDRI collections provide access to digital images of various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
Text This Week's Artwork Concordance
Provides links to artwork indexed according to Biblical/Liturgical subjects and Scripture reference.
Theology
This free, comprehensive bibliography for theology and religious studies is edited by librarians and faculty at the University of Tübingen.
St. Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology
The St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology is a nascent online, free-to-access encyclopaedia of the highest academic standards, treating the full discipline of Theology with rigour and clarity.
Google custom search engine that searches open access religious periodicals including both peer-reviewed and non-refereed titles covering all Christian traditions and other religions.
Theses and Dissertations
TREN (Theological Research Exchange Network)
A library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. Titles may be ordered online through their search and order system.
Research in Ministry (RIM) (Atla)
A searchable database that indexes and abstracts project reports and theses from more than 50 Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Missiology programs accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.