Links library: Religious texts

Bibliographies of religion texts

Glossaries and Dictionaries

General

Christianity & Judaism

Islam

Eastern Religions

Other Religious Movements

Holy books, versions, sacred texts

General

  • The Internet Public Library – Listing of full-text works. The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.
  • Internet Sacred Text Archives – This site packs in a variety of texts on early and modern neo-paganism, including a witch hunt manual, an ancient magical textbook and other texts.
  • Online Journalism Review: Religious Texts Online – Article with link to BibleGateway, a service of The Gospel Communications Network.
  • The Scriptures: Internet Edition Site includes the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, as well as study guides, maps and photographs. Hosted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Christianity & Judaism

  • Audio Bible – Users can hear the King James Version narrated by Stephen Johnston
  • The Bible Gateway – Passage lookup and word search in various versions of the Bible
  • The Book of Common Prayer  – For the U.S. Episcopal Church, in English and Latin; hosted by Brian Reid and the Society for Archbishop Justus
  • The King James Bible – Browse by individual books or phrases. Hosted by the Humanities Text Initiative, a unit of the University of Michigan’s Digital Library Production Service.
  • The New American Bible – Search through the Catholic Bible by book or verse on this site sponsored by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference.
  • New International Version (NIV) Bible – Hosted by the International Bible Society. The site features passage lookups, word searches, and a tool that allows for comparisons of a single verse over nine different Bible versions.
  • Online Bible – Look up and search the Bible in five different languages.
  • The Unbound Bible – 10 English versions, Greek and Hebrew versions, four ancient versions and 42 versions in various other languages. Allows users to set up a personalized account with places for study links and customized search tools. Hosted by Biola University.
  • Society of Biblical Literature – The oldest and largest learned society devoted to the critical investigation of the Bible from a variety of academic disciplines.
  • The Tanakh  – These Jewish scriptures are provided in full text.

Mormonism

  • The Book of Mormon – Posted by University of Michigan, provided by Project Gutenberg. Allows users to search via keywords, individual books or phrases.

Islam

  • The Quran Posted by University of Michigan, translated by M.H. Shakir. Allows users to search the Quran through key words, chapters and phrases.

Eastern Religions

  • The Bahá’í World  – Gives various Bahá’í texts meant for reading or browsing broken down into writings and topics.
  • The Bhagavad Gita – A 700-verse Dharmic scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. American Gita Society, Copyright 1988 by Dr. Ramanand Prasad.
  • Dhammapada – Online English translation of Buddhist text by Harischandra Kaviratna. Includes illustrations, glossary and appendix. Sponsored by Theosophical University Press.
  • Tao Te Ching – Users can browse through all 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching in English.
  • Taoism – The Tao Te Ching – Translated by J. Legge.
  • Taoism – The Zhuangzi – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • Tipitaka – Contains English translations of the three major Pali Canon divisions within the Theravadian Buddhism tradition.