April D. DeConick

Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies, Rice University

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The web is a wild place. Where do you go to find out more about the early Christian gospels? Here are some of the websites that cover the ancient gospels and Coptic literature, but the opinions expressed on them may not reflect my own viewpoints. Each site must be judged on its own merits, varying in degree in terms of academic rigor.


Papyrology

APIS(Advanced Papyrological Information System)
University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
Papyrology Home Page (Muccigrosso)
Duke Papyrus Archive
Dating the Oldest New Testament Manuscripts
Religious Aspects
Papyrological Resources in Perseus
Oxyrhynchus Online


Bible Links

Hebrew/Aramaic/Syriac Language Resources
"Biblia Hebraica (Biblical Hebrew - Home)"
Welcome to Basics of Biblical Hebrew Online
Jewish Language Research Website
The Syriac Peshitta
Aramaic links

The Assyrian Aramaic Language website
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

Gospel of Thomas, Nag Hammadi Collection, Coptic Museum, Cairo
Greek Language Resources
English to Greek Liddell and Scott Lexicon
Database of Septuagint Greek
The Perseus Digital Library
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Septuagint
The New English Translation of the Septuagint Project
Morphologically Analyzed Septuagint
Septuagint Resources
Parallel Aligned Hebrew and Greek Jewish Scriptures

New Testament
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible
New Testament Gateway (Goodacre)
Biblical Books on Web including Milne (Hooker)
The Whole Bible: New Testament History (Trowbridge)
New Testament Mysticism Project
Text Excavation (Smith)
New Testament Gospels
Matthean Studies (Anderson)
Gospel of Luke (Anderson)
Jesus of Nazareth in Early Christian Gospels (Bernhard)
The Synoptic Problem Home Page (Carlson)
Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark (Conrad)
Resources for New Testament Studies: Gospels and Acts (Decker)
The Fourth Gospel- Homepage for Research (Gagne Jr.)
The Synoptic Problem & Q (Goodacre)
SBL Synoptic Gospels Section (Goodacre)
The Gospel of John Introduction and Commentary (Harris)
Symbols of the Four Evangelists (Just, S.J.)
Johannine Literature (Just, S.J.)
The Mark Group of the Society of Biblical Literature (Shepherd)
Windows Into the World of Jesus: Studies in Mark's Gospel (Schrock)
Synoptic Gospel Primer (Smith)
Gospels & Acts (Text This Week) (Woodard)
The Text This Week: Matthew (Woodard)
The Text This Week: Mark (Woodard)
The Text This Week: Luke (Woodard)
The Text This Week: John (Woodard)
From Jesus To Christ

Coptic History, Literature, and Art

General Resources
International Association for Coptic Studies
Coptic Museum in Old Cairo
Coptic Orthodox Church Network
Coptic Media Productions
Coptic Hymns
St. Takla Coptic Directory

Coptic Language Resources
Coptic Language Page
Crum’s Dictionary – Wipf and Stock Reprints
Lance Eccles' Coptic Resources
Plumley's On-Line Grammar
Richard Smith’s Lexicon - Eisenbrauns
Thomas Lambdin’s Grammar - Mercer University Press
Bentley Layton's Grammar - Peeters Publishers

Coptic Monasticism
The St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society
St. Pachomius Library
St. Mina Monastery
St. Anthony Monastery at the Red Sea
St. Mary's Monastery
St. Macarius Monastery at Wadi Natrun
St. Shendouda Monastery
Coptic Monasteries Links

Nag Hammadi Collection
Gnostic Society Library
Nag Hammadi Collection in English

Coptic Codex from Qurna
Coptic Codex (Pearse)
Al-Gurna Coptic Codex
Gospel of Thomas
Metalog
The Gospel of Thomas Homepage (Stevan Davies)
Interlinear Coptic/English Translation (Grondin)
Codex II Student Resource Centre
Gospel of Thomas Commentary (Peter Kirby)
The Greek Fragments of Thomas (Andrew Bernhard)
Lambdin's Translation (John Marshall)
The Scholars Translation (S. Patterson and M. Meyer)
The Gospel of Thomas: Additional Info (Andrew Bernhard)

Gospel of Judas
The Lost Gospel of Judas (National Geographic)
The Gospel of Judas (Peter Kirby)
Coptic Ps Gospel of Judas (Roger Pearse)

Gospel of Mary
Gospel of Mary (Peter Kirby)
Gospel of Mary Magdala (Karen King)
The Magdalene Mystique (Betty Adams)

Gospel of Philip
Metalog

Gospel of Truth
Metalog

Other Nag Hammadi and Coptic Literature coming...

Other Greek Gospels

Gospel of Peter
Translation (Andrew Bernhard)
Additional Information (Andrew Bernhard)
Greek Text (Bouriant)
Translation (Raymond Brown)
Gospel of Peter (Glenn Davis)
Translation (Sam Gibson)
Translation (M. R. James)
Patristic References to the Gospel of Peter
Introduction (Roberts-Donaldson)
Translation (Roberts-Donaldson)
Greek Text (Swete)
Translation (Swete)
The Gospel According to Peter
Introduction (Geoff Trowbridge)
Gospel of Peter (Peter Kirby)

Gospel of the Egyptians
English Translation (M. R. James)
Gospel of the Egyptians (Glenn Davis)
Gospel of the Egyptians (Peter Kirby)

Gospel of the Ebionites
English Translation (M. R. James)
English Translation (Panarion of Epiphanius)
Gospel of the Ebionites (Peter Kirby)
Introduction (Geoff Trowbridge)

Gospel of the Nazoreans
English Translation (Philipp Vielhauer and George Ogg)
English Translation (Burton Throckmorton)
Gospel of the Nazoreans (Peter Kirby)
Introduction (Geoff Trowbridge)

Gospel of the Hebrews
English Translation (M. R. James)
English Translation (Philipp Vielhauer and George Ogg)
English Translation (Burton H. Throckmorton and Willis Barnstone)
Gospel of the Hebrews (Peter Kirby)
Introduction (Geoff Trowbridge)
Gospel of the Hebrews (Glenn Davis)
Gospel According to the Hebrews (Joe Viel)
 
Gospel of the Savior
Roger Pearse
Gospel of the Savior (Peter Kirby)
Vision of the Saviour

P. Oxy. 1224
English Translation (Andrew Bernhard)
Additional Information (Andrew Bernhard)

Fayyum Fragment
English Translation (Andrew Bernhard)
Additional Information (Andrew Bernhard)
Fayum Fragment
A New Gospel (C. H. Dodd)

Egerton Gospel
English Translation (Andrew Bernhard)
English Translation (Willker)
The Greek Text
Papyrus Egerton 2 Homepage
Egerton Papyrus 2: Fragments from a Gospel Codex
Geoff Trowbridge's Introduction
The Scholarly Corruption of Egerton
 
Protoevangelium of James
Greek Text
English Translation (Shelly Matthews)
English Translation (Andrew Bernhard)
Additional Information (Andrew Bernhard)
English Translation (Roberts-Donaldson)
English Translation (M. R. James)
The Protevangelion of James
Infancy Gospel of James (Peter Kirby)
Introduction (Geoff Trowbridge)

Infancy Gospel of Thomas
English Translation (Andrew Bernhard)
Additional Information (Andrew Bernhard)
English Translation (Harold Attridge and Ronald F. Hock)
English Translation: Latin Form (Roberts-Donaldson)
English Translation: Second Greek Form (Roberts-Donaldson)
English Translation: First Greek Form (Roberts-Donaldson)
English Translation: Latin Text (M. R. James)
English Translation: Greek Text A (M. R. James)
English Translation: Greek Text B (M. R. James)
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (Peter Kirby)
Introduction (Geoff Trowbridge)

Oxyrhynchus 840
English Translation (Andrew Bernhard)
Original Greek
1908 Introduction in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Introduction (Geoff Trowbridge)
The Gospel of Matthias

Traditions of Matthias
English Translation (Andrew Bernhard)
The Gospel of Matthias
Gospel of Matthias (Glenn Davis)
Traditions of Matthias (Glenn Davis)

Secret Gospel of Mark
Greek Text and Photos (Morton Smith)
Photos (Kallistos Dourvas)
English Translation (Morton Smith)
English Translation (Andrew Bernhard)
English Translation (Gnostic Society Library)
English Translation (Sam Gibson)
Secret Gospel of Mark Homepage
Introduction (Geoff Trowbridge)
Identification of the Bethany Youth
The Strange Case of the Secret Gospel according to Mark
The Bethany Youth in the Secret Gospel of Mark
Verses Missing from the Gospel of Mark
Andrew Bernhard on Secret Mark
Secret Mark (Jack Kilmon)
Secret Mark (Glenn Miller)
Secret Mark is Authentic (Yuri Kuchinsky)

Preachings of Peter
English Translation (M. R. James)
Preaching of Peter (Glenn Davis)

Diatessaron
English Translation (Roberts-Donaldson)
Introduction (Roberts-Donaldson)
Introduction to Tatian (Wace)
Tatian's Christology
Diatessaron (Rutgers University)


Other Texts Beyond the Bible

Ancient Magical Literature
Traditions of Magic in Late Antiquity

Hermetic Literature

Corpus Hermeticum (Mead Translation)

Ante-Nicene Literature
Early Christian Fathers (Ante-Nicene Fathers Translation)
Early Christian Writings (by Peter Kirby)
Text Excavation (Ben Smith)

Second Temple Literature and Pseudepigrapha
Early Jewish Writings (by Peter Kirby)
Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews
Slavonic Pseudepigrapha
Online Critical Pseudepigrapha Project
Philo of Alexandria
Philon-Project

Pseudo-Philo, Biblical Antiquities
Josephus-Project
Texts of Judaism
The Open Scrolls Project (Peter Kirby)

Rabbinic Literature
Aramaic Targum to the Psalms
Aramaic Targum of the Song of Songs
Song of Songs Interpretation Samples (Alan Humm)
Babylonian Talmud
Babylonian Talmud in Hebrew (Vilna edition)
Writings of Maimonides

Christian and Jewish Mysticism
The Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism
The Zohar

 









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