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HANDOUT #1:  RESOURCES 

 

[This page will change as new resources are added. Please email me with your suggestions!]

 

INTERNET:

 

v    Bible Gateway--Many different translations--50 versions in 35 languages.

v    NRSV --The Oremus site for the New Revised Standard Version allows you to create direct links to passages; and the Access Foundation has put online not only the RSV but the Koran, the Apocrypha, and a Bible atlas.

v    RSV --There are a number of sites for the Revised Standard Version, including the University of Virginia  Electronic Text Center and The University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative.

v    Text This Week--Lectionary, Scripture, and Worship links.

v    New Testament Gateway--This is a rich and useful site, offering annotated links on everything from the Greek New Testament to Jesus in Film. 

v    Bibletexts.com-- Exploring the original biblical texts, early Christian writings, and Christian values, practices, teachings, and history prior to 313 A.D.

v    Resource Pages for Bible Studies--Focuses on early Christian writings and their social world

v    Christian Classics Ethereal Library--Classic Christian books in electronic format

v    Synoptic Parallels

v    Virtual Christianity--An extensive collection of key resource pages. Topics include on-line Bibles, downloadable software, studies and devotionals, reference and commentary, discussion topics and articles, social and interactive sites, and related subjects.

 

PRINT RESOURCES:

 

Interpreter’s Bible and New Interpreter’s Bible (12 volumes), Abingdon Press

New Interpreter’s Study Bible, Abingdon Press (available as hardback and on CD-Rom)

The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Prentice Hall

 

NOTE: There are many ways to approach sermon writing aside from the way we will discuss it in class. Among them . .  .

http://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/Library/Theology/sermons.html

 

Need a break? Try

Church Times

 Dave Walker’s cartoons

Church Mouse Minutes

 

 

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