Oxford LibGuides: Bible Studies: Online Resources

Online resources

OERs are any type of teaching and/or learning materials that are freely available in the public domain, published under open licenses. Those listed below are applicable to Bible Studies.

Harvard University: Courses
Massive Open Online Coures (or MOOCs) available from Harvard University. These can be filtered to 'free' courses, and do include bible-centric courses, which can be found through the 'search' function.
open.conted
The gateway to Open Educational Resources and other freely available resources created or selected by tutors of the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education.
Open Culture
An aggregator of free, downloadable religion courses from the world's leading universities.
Open Yale Courses
Massive Open Online Coures (or MOOCs) available from Yale University, including courses on the Bible from the Religious Studies department.

Tyndale House
French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem
The École Biblique, strictly the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, is a French academic establishment in Jerusalem, founded by Dominicans, and specialising in archaeology and Biblical exegesis.
Gallica: la biblioteque numerique
Full-text books, periodicals & other documents (approaching 2 million); plus maps, manuscripts & approx. 500,000 images & some sound recordings. Items are held in collections all over France.
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The digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France giving access to over 90,000 items of printed material (books, periodicals, newspapers etc.) and more than 80,000 images (engravings, maps, etc.) Lists of periodicals, dictionaries, texts are available.
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
A metasearch engine for national European library catalogues and regional German libraries. Very good for locating titles in European languages.
Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ)
The Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ) has been providing the rich holdings of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) on the Internet since 1997.
OCLC WorldCat
OCLC catalogue of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
Princeton Theological Seminary

On Script
This podcast series covers conversation relating to current biblical scholarship.
Oxford University Open Podcasts: Theology and Religion
Podcasts from Oxford's Faculty of Theology and Religion. It is the largest in the country and home to many scholars of international distinction.

British Library: Discovering Sacred Texts
Discovering Sacred Texts provides access to the richness and diversity of the texts from some of the world’s greatest faiths. Discover more about the sacred texts from Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism and the Baha’i Faith, Jainism and Zoroastrianism.
British Library Treasures
From the Lindisfarne Gospels and Magna Carta to Shakespeare’s First Folio, this website gives you a peek into the wonders of the BL's vast collection.
Cambridge Hebrew Manuscripts
Cambridges digitsed collections, including Bibles and biblical and talmudic commentaries, along with important halakhic, liturgical, poetic, philosophical, kabbalistic and scientific manuscripts. This also includes the famous Nash Papyrus.
Catalogue of Cairo Genizah
Digitized copies of 4,000 fragments (about 25,000 pages) in Hebrew from the Bible, Early Rabbinic literature, liturgical fragments, legal documents and letters, both personal and commercial. Contains a complete scan of the unpublished 'Additional Genizah Fragments' catalogue by A.E. Cowley.
Digital.Bodleian
The Bodleian Libraries care for over one million manuscripts, archives, rare books, printed ephemera and maps. Discover more about these treasures here.
The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Project
Very high-quality images of five full Dead Sea Scrolls with information about each of the scrolls.
Early Jewish Writings
This site contains a collection of Jewish documents from antiquity with translations, introductions, and links.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Primary sources are available here primarily for use in high-school and university/college courses.
The Parker Library on the Web
A digital exhibit designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
UPenn/Cambridge Genizah Project
This project aims to digitise and catalogue the fragments of the Cairo Genizah housed at Cambridge and Penn Universities. Browse and detailed search available.
World Digital Library
A digital library of primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Bible Odyssey
Free online Bible encyclopedia created by the Society of Biblical Literature featuring photographs, artworks, videos, essays, maps, timelines, interactive games, multiple texts of the Bible, and the HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (condensed edition).
Bible Gateway
A useful tool for reading and researching scripture online, including advanced search, comparison, and translation capabilities.
Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library
Brill's project to digitise all of the scrolls and fragments found in Qumran and the surrounding area

Faculty of Theology and Religion Youtube Channel
The official Youtube channel of Oxford University's Faculty of Theology and Religion.

The Ancient World Online (AWOL)
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University. The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but it also includes other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
Curious Minds
Compiled by academics and staff of the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education in response to COVID-19, these freely available educational resources will help entertain you during challenging times.
Religion Online
Religion Online is designed to assist teachers, scholars and general "seekers" who are interested in exploring religious issues. The aim is to develop an extensive library of resources, representing many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship.
Websites on Religion
The Atla Websites on Religion LibGuide is a growing, selective, annotated collection of web resources for the study of religion.

Useful links

The Bodleian Libraries
Twenty-eight libraries across Oxford, including the central University library.
NT @ Oxford
A website for New Testament studies at Oxford that offers information about programmes at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, important events and updates, teaching resources and people (including current doctoral students), as well as links to various online research tools and resources.
University of Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion
The University of Oxford's Faculty of Theology and Religion is the largest in the country and home to many scholars of international distinction. At the heart of the Faculty are those who hold full-time permanent positions and who have a particular responsibility for teaching, research and the delivery of the syllabus, as well as academic leadership.
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Providing IT Services for staff, students and academics.

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