Online Databases and Reference Works for Biblical and Theological Studies

Academic Search Premier (full-text)
Coverage: 1975 - present, updated daily
Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, etc.
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Accordance Bible Study Software for the Macintosh (St. Paul - Library Use Only)
Program includes the Greek New Testament (NA27), Hebrew Old Testament (BHS4), the Septuagint (LXX), and the Psudepigrapha (Greek and English). Available on the computer located in Carrel C109 in the library.

ATLA Religion Database (some full-text)
Coverage: 1949 - present, updated quarterly
Covers topics such as: Bible, archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and society; church history, missions, and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; world religions and religious studies; and theology, philosophy, and ethics.
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BibleWorks (St. Paul and San Diego - Library Use Only)
BibleWorks is an electronic Bible concordance and morphological analysis program. It includes texts of the Hebrew O.T., Greek O.T. and N.T. and a wide range of English and modern foreign language texts. It also has Bible dictionaries and other aids.

Biblical Archaeology Society Online (full-text)
Contains the editorial content of each issue of the bimonthly magazine Biblical Archaeology Review from 1975 to present, as well as five books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society.

Catholic Periodical & Literature Index (some full-text)
Coverage: 1981 - present, updated annually
The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 380,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
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CDRI: Digital Resources for the Study of Religion (digital images)
This free online resource is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries.

Christian Periodical Index
The Christian Periodical Index (CPI) indexes over 130 publications providing access to articles and reviews written from an evangelical Christian perspective or of interest to the evangelical community

A Dictionary of the Bible
Provides helpful information about the books of the Bible, customs, religions and worship, history, and theology, important places, and personalities.

Encyclopedia Judaica (full-text)
Updated edition of this work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists

New Testament Abstracts (some full-text)
Coverage: 1985 - present, updated annually
The database contains abstracts for study of the New Testament and its historical milieu.
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Old Testament Abstracts (some full-text)
Coverage: 1978 - present, updated annually
The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.
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Oxford Reference Online : Religion and Philosophy Collection (full-text)
Provides subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource.

RefWorks
A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. To create an account from off-campus, you will need the RefWorks Group Code.
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Religious & Theological Abstracts
Coverage: 1978 - present, updated annually
Provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.

Southern Baptist Periodical Index
Coverage: 1985 - 2002
A cumulative index of approximately 50 periodicals issued each year by historically Southern Baptist Convention-related agencies, institutions, and associations.