RELIGIOUS STUDIES WEB GUIDE

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Sacred Texts

It is impossible to provide a comprehensive list of electronic texts. The following links provide access to variety of sites for religious texts.

General / Bahai / Bible/ Buddhist / Christian / Confucian / Hindu / Islamic / Jain / Jewish / Sikh / Taoist /Unification Church / Zoroastrian / Other

  • General
  • Bahai
  • Bible
  • Buddhist
  • Christian
  • Confucian
  • Hindu
  • Islamic

    • Qur'an
    Other texts
  • Jain
  • Jewish

    Collections
  • Sifrut HaKodesh - Hebrew text of the Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud Yerushalmi, and the Mishneh Torah of Rambam

    Individual texts
  • Babylonian Talmud - Rodkinson's English translation of approximately 1/3 of the Talmud
  • Center for Jewish-Christian Learning - "The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning is devoted to the multifaceted development and implementation of new relationships between Christians and Jews that are based not merely on toleration but on full respect and mutual enrichment" - .includes article archive and collection of official documents arranged by denominationally
  • Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Dead Sea Scrolls - guide to critical editions as well as secondary material
  • Digital Dea Sea Scrolls
  • Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library) - includes approximately 100 books to date
  • Early Jewish Writings - links to the Tanakh, Pseudepigrapha, Philo, Flavius Josephus
  • Genizah (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit) - Digitized fragments from the Cairo Genizah / Princeton Genizah Project site - requires Hebrew web fonts
  • Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides
  • Guide to Chabad Literature
  • Holy texts from Snunit (in Hebrew) - Tanach, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud, Mishneh Torah (Maimonides)
  • Jewish Law
  • Jewish Publication Society Bible in Hebrew
  • JPS - The Hebrew Bible in English according to the JPS 1917 Edition
  • Josephus's Works - English translation by William Whiston
  • Josephus - Texts in Greek and English (Brill and Whiston translations). Can also search across the texts.
  • Kabbalah
  • Ladino Digital Library - liturgical texts
  • Legends of the Jews by Ginzberg
  • Nag Hammadi Library
  • Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts - images of major manuscripts of the Talmud from the Vatican Library, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, the Bibliotheque Nationale, the British Library etc.
  • Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer Electronic Texts and Manuscripts
  • Philo of Alexandria
  • Primary Textual Witnesses to Tannaitic Literature - " The database is part of an extensive project under the directorship of Prof. Shamma Friedman, whose objective is to enable access online to an electronic searchable transcription of all the primary textual witnesses to Tannaitic Literature. This project is funded by the The Naftal - Yoffe Center for the Study and Dissemination of Oral Law, under the auspices of the Bar Ilan University - Faculty for Jewish Studies. Currently online are the Mekhilta Database and the Tosefta Database."
  • Rabbinic Literature - guide to electronic images and transcriptions as well as print resources - compiled by the The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
  • Responsa Project - "The Global Jewish Database (the Responsa Project) contains the world's largest electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew ever recorded, which embody thousands of years of Jewish learning. The database includes numerous works from the Responsa Literature - rabbinic case-law rulings which represent the historical-sociological milieu of real-life situations. In addition, the database includes the Bible, the Talmud and their principal commentaries; works about Jewish law and customs; major the codes of Jewish law, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with its principal commentaries; midrashim, Zohar, etc…"
  • Sefer Yetziraf - W.W. Westcott edition
  • Seforim Online - mostly Hebrew texts
  • Shulchan Aruch - summaries of parts of this text
  • Soncino English Talmud
  • Spinoza's Theologico Political Treatise
  • Talmud - images from the Bablylonian Talmud - Pergamenthandschrift, Frankreich (?) 1342 - Cod.hebr.95 from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Talmud Guide - If you only have the title of the chapter of the Talmud, you can use this guide to determine which tractate the title is found in. Note the titles are listed in Hebrew.
  • Talmud Tractates Abbreviations Guide
  • Hebrewbooks.org - "Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation. Many American Rabbis wrote seforim (Hebrew books) in the early part of the 20th century. They have long since passed away and in many instances so has their holy work. Currently our mission has expanded to include all Torah Seforim ever printed. At Hebrewbooks.org you will be able to view and print the entire Sefer online." - can search and browse by author and title. Note this also includes journals.
  • Tosefta Online
  • WebShas - Guide to the places in the Talmud where issues are discussed - can search by keyword or subject
  • Women's Jewish Archive Primary Sources - photogaphs, documents, speeches
  • Full Hebrew text of the Tanach, Mishnah, Tosefta, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud Yerushalmi, Mishneh Torah le-Rambam

  • Sikh
  • Taoist
  • Unification Church
  • Zoroastrian
  • Other

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