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Apologetics Research and Writing

Additional Resources

This list has been assembled by Murl Winters, Associate Library Director, at Evangel University, Springfield, Missouri.

General Guides

 

•ATLA Collaborative List of E-Journals www.atla.com/international_collab/ejournals.htm  (Especially see the final page of the list for sources checked.)

 

•Bible, Judaism, Christianity via Google Book Search

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/mhooker/google_books-bible_judaism_christianity.html, (maintained by Mischa Hooker [SBL Forum. The Wired Scholar: Five Free Tool You May Not Know About. ]   •Free Books in Biblical Studies and Related Fields- http://docs.google.com/View?docid=d9xh4s8_21x7n3f, maintained by Bob Buller [SBL Forum. The Wired Scholar: Five Free Tools You May Not Know About. ]

•Google Books Google Books,  … ,  continues its aggressive effort to digitize books and make them available for public searching. A Google executive has stated that they aim to make every book ever published full-text searchable within ten years. This developing resource has already made itself indispensable, and its value will only increase. Included within this effort are journals bound as books. [SBL Forum. The Wired Scholar: Five Free Tools You May Not Know About. ]

•Google Scholar Google Scholar is a heavily used search tool that indexes the vast majority of periodicals that are available online. Google Scholar also indexes the articles themselves, if they are available online, although a user needs to have access through a library or personal subscription to read or download them. [SBL Forum. The Wired Scholar: Five Free Tools You May Not Know About. ]

•Google Directory of major world religions (whose sites may be searched for their journals) 

     Religion and Spirituality - www.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality

• Google Directory of Christian denominations (whose sites may be searched for their journals-  www.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations

•ETANA and ABZU ought also to be mentioned: ETANA makes available a large number of quality texts related to ancient Near Eastern Studies, and ABZU catalogs over four hundred freely available online books, articles, and websites related to the ancient Near East.  [SBL Forum. The Wired Scholar: Five Free Tools you may not know about. ]

•Indian Theological Library Association http://www.geocities.com/itla_in/e-journals.html

 

 List of Electronic online journals

 

Journal of Early Christian Studies - Abbreviations - comprehensive guide to abbreviations for a variety of religious studies journals and reference tools. http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_early_christian_studies/abbreviations.html#b (index of abbreviations and journal links)

 

•Okeanos: website for Biblical, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Journals - http://faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/okeanos10.html#journals (links to journal catalogs)

• PubList - International Periodical Directory searchable by key word; provides information on frequency, publisher, circulation etc. http://www.publist.com/    (search engine of journals, may require a password)

•Religious Studies Web Guide: Religious Studies Electronic Journals

            http://www.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/journalss.html Maintained by Saundra Lipton

            (lipton@acs.ucalgary.ca) This list is focused on journals supporting academic research.

 

Online Searching

 

•Sally Jo Shelton has created a custom search engine Theological Journals Search using Google which presently searches 311 sites http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=018443097211386924752%3Aluwi5uy2qbe .  It includes missions and theology.

 

•The site of Religious and Theological Abstracts http://www.rtabst.org/ allows you to do a limited free search.

•DMOZ: Open Directory Project - http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Religious_Studies/Journals/

•Jewish Theological Seminary Library E-Content, E-Periodicals (includes many open access titles - www.jtsa.edu/x688.xml

•Resource Index: Theological Journals  http://www.rctr.org/thejourn.htm

•Webliography of Non-Christian Religious Resources. The resources suggested are generally “written indigenously by adherents of the religions and (so-called) neutrally by academics in the area.” http://webliography.xmmedia.net/private/index.php

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