Religious Studies

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All Religious Studies Databases

L'Annee Philologique

Each year indexes the articles on the literature, languages, and history of ancient Greece and Rome from some 1500 journals and 500 book collections and conference proceedings. Coverage in the online version begins with 1959 and goes up to 2-3 years before the current year.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials  

Lists articles on all aspects of religious studies from journals in many disciplines. Includes citations to book chapters and to book reviews. ATLASerials adds the full text of many journals.

America History & Life   1964-present

Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present with records from 2,000 English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.

Bibliography of Asian Studies   1971-present

Lists journal articles and book chapters on all subjects related to Asia. Most articles are in western languages. Includes book reviews.

ECanon

This XML database of canonical texts has searchable versions of the Bible, including KJV, RSV, and NRSV

Historial Abstracts   1964-present

Indexes articles written on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, covering articles published in over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. Includes book reviews. Does not include articles about the US or Canada. For these see the database, America: History & Life.

HLAS Online

The Web version of the Handbook of Latin American Studies contains annotated citations of books and articles from the humanities and social sciences disciplines.

Index Islamicus   

Search for books and articles in periodicals about Islam and the Muslim world. Also includes reviews.

Iter

Look for books, journal articles, and essays in books on all topics for the Middle Ages and Renaissance (ca. 400-1700). Click the Iter Bibliography link to begin.

International Medieval Bibliography   1968-present. Go the the database

Lists articles from books and journals on any topic relating to the European Middle Ages (ca. 400-1500). Click the blue Enter Databases button to start and choose the IMB from the menu on the next page. NOTE: There have been problems using IMB with Internet Explorer on some UVA computers. If you have a problem, try Netscape or Firefox instead.

Library of Latin Texts. Go to the database

A database of texts from the beginning of Latin literature to the Second Vatican Council. It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature, and more recent works. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions

Patrologia Latina   Covers AD 200 through Pope Innocent III (d. 1216)

The Patrologiae offers, in a single source, over a thousand years of the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature. The Patrologia Latina (Series Latina) covers the Latin Fathers from Tertullian in A.D. 200 through Pope Innocent III (d. 1216).

Philosophers' Index   1940-present

Lists and abstracts books and articles in over 300 journals from philosophy and related disciplines.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

This full-text database of more than 80 million words contains virtually all surviving Greek texts from the time of Homer to the fall of Byzantium.

The Unbound Bible

A large collection of searchable Bibles, including seven English versions, Hebrew Bible, transliterated Hebrew, four Greek versions of the New Testament, the Septuagint, and the Vulgate.

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