Library Guides: Jewish Studies Library Guide: Primary Sources [Religion]

The Bible

Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism
The object of the project is to gather together textual evidence for the use of Greek Bible translations by Jews in the Middle Ages and to produce a corpus in digital and print form.
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Online text of the Bible, including the King James Version, the Hebrew Tanakh, the Apocrypha, the Latin Vulgate, the Greek Septuagint and Greek New Testament, and the Polyglot Bible, which displays all of the above in columnar format.

Other Historical Religious Texts

Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts This link opens in a new window
The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts covers the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries and provides access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation This link opens in a new window
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation covers the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries and provides access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. The collection currently includes theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Catholic authors.

Jewish Scholars & Philosophers

Locate the writings of important Jewish scholars and philosophers by searching the library catalog. Simply search the person's name as AUTHOR to retrieve all editions of the scholar's writings held at Howard-Tilton. The following are a few medieval examples:

Ibn Gabirol, 11th cent.
Also written as Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Shelomoh ben Gabirol, Avicebrol.
Judah, ha-Levi, 12th cent.
Sometimes written as Jahuda Halevi, Judah Halevi, Yehuda Halevi.
Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344
Also known as Gersonides.
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942
Also written as Saadiah Gaon, Saadia Gaon.

Research Tip

While searching by AUTHOR retrieves the writings by these scholars, use the same search as SUBJECT to find works about them.

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