On-Line Primary Literature

Related to ancient Near Eastern religions, Hellenistic Mediterranian religions and Biblical Study

Bibles

Ancient Near Eastern Literature

Myths

Treatises

Prayers, Hymns and Psalms

Amulets and Incantations

Rituals

Texts related to Marriage and Hieros Gamos

Treaties and Legal Contracts (other than marriage)

Literature related to the Jewish Scriptures

Pseudepigrapha

Dead Sea Scrolls

Specialty pages and exerpt collections(Related to Bible and 2nd Temple Judaism)

The Story of Noah, marked according to documentary source
Lilith Traditions
Song of Songs Interpretation Samples

Literature related to Early Christianity

Gospels

Acts

Epistles and Treatises

Christian Revelations & Apocalypses

Aposotlic Fathers

Collections

St. Pachomius Library: Huge collection of Christian Literature from the Early Fathers onward
From the Order of St. Benedict Lectio Divina:First to Third Centuries (50-300)
Fourth Century (301-400)

Early Gnostic Literature

Collections

The Corpus Hermeticum

Nag Hammadi material

Other Gnostic material

Gnostic Scriptures and fragments in translation.
The Books of the Saviour (Bruce Codex)
The Hymn of the Pearl (The Hymn of Judas Thomas the Apostle)
Pistis Sophia
The Polemical works against the gnostics by the Church Fathers.
Plotinus: The 6 Enneads (250, CE)

Church Documents

Creeds

Nicene Creed
Definition of Chalcedon
The Athanasian Creed

Rabbinic and Kabalistic Literature

Tanach, Talmud Bavli, and Talmud Yerushalmi (in Hebrew) for browsing. Need Hebrew Font

Major Stand-alone Collections

Complete Works of Josephus

Important site links

General

Pharos texts
CCAT text archive: Religion
Religious and Sacred Texts
Wesley Center text collection
Noncanonical Home page
Religious StudiesResource Pages for Biblical StudiesInstitute for Christian Leadership: Finding things
Ancient History Items

Ancient Near East

ABZU guide to resources for the study of the ancient near east available on the internet

Hellenistic World

Perseus Project
Collection of Papyrological sites
Library of Congress: Greek and Latin Classics Internet Resources

Biblical

Biblical Studies
Bible Sites

Dead Sea Scrolls

Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship

Judaism

Philo of Alexandria
The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit

Orthodox Christian

The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt
Christian Classics LibraryEarly Church FathersNew Advent: Fathers of the Church
The Ecole Initiative -- An On-Line Encyclopedia of Early Church HistoryDocuments, Glossary, Essays, Images, ChronologyMedieval Sourcebook (some early stuff)
The Hall of Church HistoryHistoric Documents of the ChurchGuide to Early Church DocumentsGuide to Christian Literature on the internetNew Advent: Fathers of the Church
Creeds and chronologies
St. Pachomius Library
Early Church Fathers in WinHelp format

Gospel material

Synoptic Problem
Thomas Home Page

Gnosis

Gnostic and other literature colleciton and www.gnosis.orgDead Sea Scroll translations
Gnostic Scriptures and Fragments
Texts from the Nag Hammadi Library
Gnostic texts
The Codex II Student Resource Center

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