Sigurd Grindheim

Below I have gathered links to the web sites I have found to be most useful for biblical studies. Many more can be found by using the directories listed at the bottom of this page.

Greek and Hebrew Fonts

The most commonly used Greek and Hebrew fonts are those distributed for free by the Society of Biblical Literature.

Greek Helps

Greek Drill. To my knowledge, the best program to help you learn vocabulary and parsing. It quizzes you not only on lexical forms, but on conjugated forms, which makes a huge difference in facilitating recognition of words as they actually occur in the Greek New Testament.

Textkit. Lots of free, quality resources to help you learn classical Greek and Latin, including some on New Testament Greek.

Bible Software

Bible Software can be a very useful tool but I do not recommend that the beginning Greek student acquire a sophisticated program with easy access to grammatical information. It is too tempting to let the software do your homework for you and never learn Greek yourself.

eSword. The best free Bible software available. Includes Greek and Hebrew texts but no grammatical search options.

Olive Tree. Bible software for your cell phone.

Software that is more than just books made available electronically is expensive. I recommend the following for the advanced Greek student:

Logos. To my knowledge, the best Bible program. Logos integrates a wealth of resources (lexica, commentaries, etc.) with powerful search capabilities in the original languages. Academic discounts available.

Gramcord. This is the program that introduced the use of computer technology as a research tool for biblical scholars. It has not been updated for years and the competition has now caught up, but it gives you what you really need at a good price. I like it because of its no nonsense interface. Look for discounts for students that go together and buy in bulk.

Other Software

NotaBene. The word processor for scholarly writing and so much more than a word processor. I use it to organize and retrieve all my research as well as to display Greek and Hebrew in the classroom. My dissertation was produced with NotaBene, all the way to the camera ready copy.

Biblical Texts

The Septuagint. Pre-publication versions of the new, scholarly translation of the Septuagint available as free downloads.

The NET Bible. An internet only translation with extensive notes.

The Unbound Bible. Read and search numerous Bible versions.

New Testament Greek displays the Greek text with textual variants and allusions to the verse in the church fathers.

Jewish Texts

Early Jewish Writings. Contains English translations of Philo, Josephus, and many of the Pseudepigrapha.

The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha. The Greek text of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.

Targums. English translations of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Targum Onkelos, Targum to Psalms, Targum to Ruth, Targum to Song of Songs, and Targum to Lamentations.

The Jewish Encyclopedia. The full text of the classic 12 volume Jewish Encyclopedia published from 1901-1906.

Greek Texts

Perseus. A steadily expanding database containing lots of the essential Greek and Latin writings from antiquity, many with English translations. The site also gives you access to the full text of the Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon. A wonderful research tool.

Library Resources

The first place to go to search for journal articles and essays in collected works is the Index Theologicus, the database from the University of Tübingen. Another good database that returns hits from books and journals is BiBIL from the University of Lausanne. For everything related to Jewish studies, MALMAD is impressively comprehensive.

Books Available Online

Google Books. A vast amount of books have already been scanned and made available through this project. You can search for any word in the entire library and read a few pages of each book. The database now includes the full text of books from Mohr Siebeck and de Gruyter.

eBrary. Many academic books can be read and searched in their entirety.

Oxford Scholarship Online. Search the full text of books from Oxford University Press and read abstracts of individual chapters.

The Internet Archive. A constantly expanding archive of books in the public domain.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A directory of classic theological works.

Online Journals

Biblica

Bulletin for Biblical Research. All articles older than two years are available.

Denver Journal. This journal is only published online and contains good book reviews.

Find Articles. Biblical Theology Bulletin, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Trinity Journal, and many others.

Journal of Biblical Literature

Review of Biblical Literature

Sermons and Sermon Preparation

The Text This Week. An impressive directory of high quality resources for sermon preparation. Indexed by lectionaries and by Scripture references.

Sermons by Martin Luther.

Other Resources

The Paul Page. This page keeps track of internet resources related to Paul and the new perspective.

Best commentaries on the Pauline epistles. My own list of the 25 best commentaries in English on Paul's letters.

Directories

New Testament Gateway. The place to start when you are looking for NT resources online.

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies. Especially good on Philo.

Biblical Studies.org.uk. Extensive bibliographies on New Testament studies with links to books, articles, and sound files that are available online.

Useful Links