Electronic Dictionaries/Encyclopedias

• Concise Dictionary of Religion by Irving Hexham - very good glossary to religious studies concepts and people. Information Please - internet dictionary, encyclopedia and almanac - general tool but useful for religious studies
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (Judaic Digital Library) - with registration you can view the full-text. Need to subscribe to view full-text of other items.
• Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
• Overview of World Religions Project
• New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge by Philip Schaff
• Profiles of New Religious Movments

• Buddhist Dictionary of Pali Proper Names
• Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary by Rick Harbaugh
• Dictionary of the most common Avesta words - in process, includes abbreviations and pronounication
• Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms
• Dictionary of Chinese Characters Variants
• Digital Corpus of Sanskrit - " is a searchable collection of lemmatized Sanskrit texts"
• Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
• Female Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
• Imperial Gazetteer of India
• Tibetan-English Online Dictionary - can search 85,000 Tibetan terms
• Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
• Hobson-Jobson: a glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive
• Indian Diaspora
• Jeffrey's Japanese-English Dictionary
• Sanskrit, Tamil, Pahlavi Dictionary Search - can search by Sanskrit, Tamil, Pahlavi or English word - consists of Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, Capeller's Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cologne Online Tamil Lexicon and Concise Pahlavi Dictionary
• Sanskrit Dictionary - based on the work by Apte
• Sanskrit-Engish Dictionary - Monier-Williams
• Sikh Encyclopedia
• Tamil-Deutsch-Woerterbuch
• Online Tamil Lexicon
• Tibetan/English dictionary of Buddhist Teaching and Practice

• And Adam Knew Eve: A dictionary of sex in the Bible
• Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institue of the University of Chicago
• Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology -edited by Walter A. Elwell (1996)
• BIBL index - Index of Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Early Christian Literature - access is free but need to first create an account . Source: Biblia Patristica published texts and archives
• Comprehensive Aramaic Dictionary
• Compendious Syriac Dictionary - version from Tyndale archives
• Concise Dictionary of Akkadian
• Dictionary of the Bible, dealing with its language literature and contents by Hastings
• 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism - " offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Scholarly Research and fiction in Second Temple Judaism (including Samaritan and New Testament Studies)". Includes information on people, places and topics in Second Temple Judaism.
• A Greek-English Lexicon by Lidell and Scott
• Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck
• Hebrew- Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament by Gesenius
• Holman Bible Dictionary edited by Trent Butler
• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia edited by James Orr (1915)
• Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon
• Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon edited by Brown, Driver and Briggs
• Online Akkadian Dictionary
• New Testament Greek Lexicon - " based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others"
• Postmodern Bible Dictionary
• Encyclopedia Biblica v. 1 a-d / v. 2 e-k / v.3 l-p / v. 4 q-z
• Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
• Utensils in the Hebrew Bible
• Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet (WiBiLex) - very comprehensive encyclopedia to Biblica terms

• Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity - "essential biographical facts of Chinese and foreign Christian missionaries, church leaders, evangelists, and laity chiefly responsible for laying the foundations and advancing the growth of Chinese Christian communities and their influence in societies around the world. While the database is widely inclusive of time periods and faith traditions, the distinctive focus of the project is on the lesser-known Chinese Christians of the modern era (1800 to 1950)."
• Biographical Dictionary of European Mennonite Church Leaders 17th to 19th century - for each person brief information is provided as well as an indication if there is further information in the Mennonite Encyclopedia or Nahmenverzeichniss der sämmtlichen remonstrantischen Professoren und Prediger wie auch derjenigen aller andern Mennonitischen Gemeinen in- und ausserhalb der Batavischen Republick
• Biographisch=Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
• The Catholic Encyclopedia - work in progress transcribing articles from the Old Catholic Encyclopedia
• Christian Cyclopedia
• Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
• Crum's Coptic Dictionary
• Dictionary of African Christian Biography
• Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the end of the 6th century
• Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Smith, Wayte, Marindin 1890)
• The Ecole Initiative : creating a hypertext encyclopedia of Early Church history on the world-wide web - articles on Church history from the origins of Christianity to the Reformation
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism
• GAMEO: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online - very good source of information, includes articles copied or adapted from The Mennonite Encyclopedia
• Glossary of Zoroastrian Terms - may search alphabetically or scroll, contains hot links within definitions
• Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck
• LBG (Lexicon zur byzantinischen Gräzität) - "The LBG is the foremost lexicographical resource in Byzantine Studies mainly covering the period from the 4th to the 15th century A.D. taken from more than 3,000 texts. Seven fascicles have appeared to date, with one more scheduled to appear in 2016. When completed the dictionary will consist of more than 2,000 printed pages, containing approx. 80,000 lemmata."
• Patron Saints Index Page - can search by name or subject
• Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte - good for Christian art

• Arabic- English Lexicon by Lane
• Dictionary of Islamic Philosophy
• Encyclopaedia Iranica
• Major voices in Islam and Science - biographical information on key individuals in Islam and Science
• Shiite Encyclopedia

• American Jewish Year Book - Index to Obituaries 1948-1998
• A Dictionary of the Targumim, The Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi and the Midrashic Literature by Jastrow
• Hebrew-English Dictionary - Need to have Hebrew fonts - standard with Internet Explorer 5 and up.
• Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew language
• Holocaust Encyclopedia
• Jewish Encyclopedia - "complete contents of the 12 volume Jewish Encyclopedia which was originally published betweeen 1901-1906"
• Ma'agarim: The Historical Dictionary Project of the Academy of the Hebrew language

• Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind
• Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained - this Gale publication is available free on the Internet with ads and the ability to add comments about the topics.
• Encyclopedia Mythica - " The mythology section is divided to six geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Each region has many clearly defined subdivisions that will ease your search.
  The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, and fascinating folktales from many lands. In addition, we feature special interest areas to enhance and refine your research. A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses"
• Index of Cults - compilation of information on cults prepared by the Watchman Fellowship
• Interdisciplinary Encylopedia of Religion and Science
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Language Dictionaries and Translators Webpage
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• The Skeptic's Dictionary
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology - over 100 articles inclding topics such as funerary rituals, judgement after death, anthropomorphic deities
• Words by William Whitaker - Latin dictionary of approximately 39,000 entries. Can translate from Latin to English and English to Latin
• Your Dictionary.com ( Web of online dictionaries) - links to more than 800 dictionaries in over 160 languages
• xrefer - collection of 120 reference resources including the Oxford Companion to Philosophy

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