Research

Disclaimer No one would agree in all parts with the following links. They are provided for thoughtful researchers.


Research sources by category  - a good place to start...

Los Escritos en Espanol - Bible Study material in Spanish.

OnLine Etymological Dictionary - Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded.

Prof’s of the Cincinnati Bible Seminary - Excellent resource.  Check out Prof. Winter’s Land and the Book series.

Dr. James E. Smith - The Bible Professor  - Jim and I attended The Cincinnati Bible Seminary together.  He received his doctorate from Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.  He taught at CBS, then helped found Florida Christian College in 1976.  I would really like to see Jim add more of his excellent  work.

Dr. Roger Chambers.  Roger was a brilliant, logical thinker whose influence was seen throughout the Restoration Movement.

Dr. Mark Moore - Ozark Christian College Professor of New Testament and Hermeneutics

Dr. Jack Cottrell.  Jack is a graduate of The Cincinnati Bible Seminary.  Ph.D. In Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.  He has been the guiding force behind the Graduate School at Cincinnati Christian University  since 1967.

Restoration Movement.  The works of over 350 authors are available on this site.

The Da Vinci Code Exposed - The Radio Bible Class has created this web site to bring truth to the fiction of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.  

Systematic Theology  - via Leadership University, an outreach of Campus Crusade for Christ

Renascence Editions - An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799

Evaluation of Crosswalk Bible Study Tools

Dr. Ralph F. Wilson's positive review of this popular online Bible Study resource.

Christian History Institute - Where the church’s past is our present.

Biblical Archeological Society - The excitement of archaeology and the latest in Bible scholarship.  The Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) was founded in 1974 as a nonprofit, nondenominational, educational organization dedicated to the dissemination of information about archaeology in the Bible lands.

Search God’s Word.  A powerful Bible Study site.

Bible Gateway.  A great internet study site.

Blue Letter Bible.  One of the oldest and most popular Bible study internet sites.

Crosswalk Bible Study.  Even more powerful than Blue Letter Bible and with more features. This site allows you to customize your Bible study with setup preferences.

Christian’s Classics Ethereal Library.  Thousands of books.  From the writings of the ancient church fathers to medieval scholars, to current studies.  Full, FREE, downloadable text of out of print books.

The Bible Centre - Hundreds of books to do online study in the following categories: Audio Hymns, Audio Messages, Biblical Studies, Church History, Commentaries, Cults, English Bibles, Foreign Bibles, NT Studies, OT Studies, Reference, Theology.  One  example: J Gresham Machen’s The Virgin Birth of Christ, found in the Theology category.  They now charge a $20 per year fee to download books from the web site.

Religion on Line - Full, FREE, downloadable text of out of print books.

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies.  Focusing on the early Christian world.

Christian Answers.  A site for finding answers to general questions - especially in defense of Christianity.

Christian Center OnLine.  Not updated.  Good assortment of bibles, and links.

Institute for Christian Leadership.  Serving the church via the internet since 1993.

Bibles in your language.  Over 140 different languages.

CrossSearch.  An online directory of Christian websites.

Research links provided by theEureka church of Christ.  

eBibleTeacher.  Computer resources for the Bible teacher.

Adherents.Com is a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.

A Baker’s Dozen Books that Shaped the Christian World.  Recommended reading.

Spirit Restoration Org An ecumenical web site for mature Christian researchers

Exploring Ancient World Cultures  An introduction to the great and not so great ancient world cultures.

The Jewish Virtual Library is the most comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia in the world, covering everything from anti-Semitism to Zionism.  More than 10,000 articles and 5,000 photographs and maps have been integrated into the site.

The Historic American Cookbook Project - Michigan State University’s online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century.

BiblePlus - Especially created for those who want to know what the Bible has to say on a wide variety of subjects.

Early Christian Writings - I don’t agree with the webmaster’s dating of the NT books, but this is an excellent site to locate some of the ancient documents - Jewish, Christian, and Gnostic.

The Tertullian Project - A collection of material ancient and modern about the ancient Christian Latin writer Tertullian and his writings.  Links to other ancient theologians, for example, Cyril of Alexandria.

Dr. Fred Sanders, Torrey Honors Institute, has a page with Top Twelve Theology Books of Christian History.