LibGuides: Religion: Christianity

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Biblical Studies - Oxford Bibliographies Online
Bibliographies highlighting articles, commentary, research, and other writings in the area of biblical studies, with links to full-text resources where available at Fondren.

Books on Christianity in the stacks, located on the 4th floor of the Fondren Library building:

Clavis Clavium
Searchable patristic, medieval, and Byzantine texts and related reference works.
Acta Sanctorum
Complete text of Acta Sanctorum, a collection of biographies of Christian saints published over 300 years by Société des Bollandistes. Includes indices and links to related texts. More on this database can be found here.
Patrologia Latina Database
Complete text of all 221 volumes of Jacques-Paul Migne's work Patrologia Latina, containing works by the church fathers starting with Tertullian (200 CE) to the death of Pope Innocent III (1216) and including prefatory material, critical notes, indexes, and Migne's column numbers.
Patrologiae Graecae
Writings in Greek (with Latin translations ) from the early Christian church from the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's work Patriologia Graeca, covering Clement of Rome through the Council of Florence (1439).
Nag Hammadi Bibliography Online
Books, articles and reviews on texts from the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of early Christian and Gnostic works.
Coptic Gnostic Library Online - A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices
Texts from the Nag Hammadi codices, Coptic writings from the Gnostics in the first century CE, in both Coptic and English.

Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online
Searchable encyclopedia covering the history of early Christian texts, authors, and ideas from early Christianity up to 600 CE.

Bible in English (990-1970)
20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament, as well as the King James Bible version.
King James Bible
Searchable full text of the 1611 Authorized Version of the King James Bible, including all introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables.

The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is very proud to present the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a free online digitized virtual library of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hundreds of manuscripts made up of thousands of fragments – discovered from 1947 and until the early 1960’s in the Judean Desert along the western shore of the Dead Sea – are now available to the public online.