Saturday, January 28, 2012

Rubbish at Bible Study 3: Resources 2 - online

At the start of Rick Warren's book, he recommends buying various books, commentaries, study bibles, bible handbooks, concordances, notes, etc ...

... but his book was first written in 1981, and although all of these are good suggestions, a lot is now freely available online. It is now possible to dig into resources without spending a small fortune on books and shelves!

Here are a few suggestions to start with.
I will focus on using a few of these in the Word Study that we will do in the first week, so that you can see which of these appeal to you.

Click on the links below, or copy the address into your browser:
1:
http://www.biblegateway.com/
Here
Different versions, commentaries, verse and keyword searches, possibly the most useful website ever invented!?

2:
http://net.bible.org/#!bible/Matthew+1
Here
Loads of resources all in one place


3:
http://blueletterbible.org/
Here
Loads more resources all in one place

4:
http://eastonsbibledictionary.com/
Here
Online Bible dictionary

5:
http://topicalbible.org/r/righteousness.htm
Here
Useful topic and word searches

6:
http://biblos.com/
Here
Excellent technical study resources, worth a bit of effort

7:
http://www.biblestudytools.com/
Here
Greek/Hebrew interlinear Bibles, parallel versions, dictionary, commentaries, etc

8:
http://biblelexicon.org/
Here
Original word meanings

There are other types of resources out there, especially if you want to read or listen to other people's helpful teaching material, and I'll recommend some that I enjoy another time.

Please feel free to contribute your ideas and suggestions through the comments/dialogue.

3 comments:

  1. greattreasures.org

    Liam told me about this site, it translates the NT into original Greek, and gives you more information about what the word would have meant. You have to create an account and it can be a bit tricky to understand but it may be worth it. There are also levels for beginner, intermediate and advanced (I think.)

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