On-Line Primary Literature

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

Bibles

Ancient Near Eastern Literature

Legal Codes

Myths

Treatises

Historical Documents

Prayers, Hymns, Psalms, & Laments

Amulets and Incantations

Prophecies and Predictions

Rituals

Love, 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)

Hellenistic Magic

Magical Papyrii

Hellenistic Magical Papyrii
Exerpts from PGM

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.

Major Stand-alone Collections

Complete Works of Josephus

Important site links

General

On Coptic and the Coptic Church
CCAT text archive: Religion
Wesley Center text collection
Noncanonical Home page
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies


Ancient Near East

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


Hellenistic World

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


Biblical

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 Library
Early Church Fathers
New Advent: Fathers of the Church
The Ecole Initiative -- An On-Line Encyclopedia of Early Church History
Medieval Sourcebook (some early stuff)
The Hall of Church History
Historic Documents of the Church
Guide to Early Church Documents
Guide to Christian Literature on the internet
New Advent: Fathers of the Church
Creeds and chronologies
St. Pachomius Library


Gospel material

Synoptic Problem
Thomas Home Page


Gnosis

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

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