Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Religion:
Full-Text Collections
The Rutgers University computer network allows access,
either in any of the libraries or by remote access from home or office,
to an increasing number of electronic sources--including periodical indexes,
catalogs, the full texts of literary works, discussion groups, electronic journals, etc.
The following is a list of some of the more interesting and immediately relevant sources
for students in literature. Connect through the
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The most important sources in a group are listed first (out of alphabetical
order) and highlighted by two asterisks (**).
Biblical Archaeology Society: Online Archive. (1975-2003)
Scholarly but heavily illustrated and
readable articles and books about ancient Israel and other lands and peoples portrayed in the books
of the Bible. A collection drawn from three journals (Biblical Archaeology Review, Bible Review,
and Archaeology Odyssey) and several books published by the Society.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
A searchable collection of 37,000 works--every
book, pamphlet, and broadside published in the American colonies or the United States between 1639
and 1800. Categories of works include catechisms, liturgical books, prayer books, and sermons. See,
for example, full page images of Jonathan Edward's 1741 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. A
fine source for the study of American religion in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Early English Books Online (EEBO), 1473-1700
A collection of nearly 125,000 works-books,
pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, letters, public documents, almanacs and calendars, and other
primary sources-published in England or in the English language during a period that includes the
Protestant Reformation and the subsequent religious struggles. Included are English translations of
the Bible, sermons, theological tracts, polemical works, and much else. This is an image
collection-that is, one can view images of the original pages, but not search the text by key word.
But there is a subset of the full collection (EEBO-TCP), amounting eventually to around 10,000
titles, that is being scanned to allow full-text searching. A valuable source for studying the
Reformation, the emergence of the Anglican Church, or the proliferation of dissident sects.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
A vast collection of 150,000 books published during the 18th
Century-in England (and Scotland and Ireland) or in the English language. Searchable by author,
title, and words in the texts. A treasure trove of bibles, translations of the Koran, encounters
with Eastern Religions, sermons, theological tracts, defenses of and attacks on religion.
Patrologia Latina
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia
Latina, containing 221 volumes published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes
published between 1862 and 1865.
Patrologiæ Græcæ
Compiled by J. P. Migne in the 19th century, contains more than 160 volumes of
Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian
Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. The resource is a collection of
the writings of the church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and
those Western Christians who wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century
