Believe it or not, there’s still more to cover with the Bible Gateway. We’ll come back and review it again once the new redesign is finalized. Meanwhile, you can see what’s coming without having to wait!

From the Bible Gateway website:

“An all-new, redesigned Bible Gateway is on the way! You can get a sneak preview of it and help out the Bible Gateway development team at the same time by visiting the public beta site, where you can take the new Bible Gateway for a test run. The beta is fully functional and features many improvements and new features, including a redesigned search interface, the ability to compare passages in different languages, search preferences, dictionaries, and a new topical search. Your opinions and feedback will help make the final version the best it can possibly be!”

Finally, the Bible Gateway’s advanced search form has a button which allows you to view a page with all of the books of the bible (in whichever version you’ve selected) listed with hyperlinked chapters in each book. Combined with the built-in navigation system, this is a useful way of reading large sections of the Bible.

The Bible Gateway’s advanced search form also allows you to restrict word searches to a particular section of the Bible such as “Books of Moses” or “Gospels” or “Wisdom Books” or even “Apocalyptic Books”. This is a powerful search feature. You can even specify a custom range within which to search by defining a start and end book for the range.

Finally, the Bible Gateway’s advanced search form allows you display your results as references only. This means that instead of the entire context, you will only get the book, chapter, and verse (e.g., John 3:16-20). This is useful for including a list of references on a particular topic without actually quoting the passage. I forgot to mention that in the normal search results, you are also provided with the ability to see the immediate context of the verse in view. This is a wonderful feature which aids in understanding the Bible and which helps correct for the temptation to look for “proof texts”.

This is a tremendous resource for scholars and for Roman Catholics or for those interested in Roman Catholic teaching and practice.

This online edition of The New American Bible is available in English, Italian, and Latin.

This book is a brief, but thorough argument for the reliability of the New Testament documents. In doing so, Dr. Bruce introduces the reader to the fields of biblical canon studies (i.e., why are some books in the Bible and others not), textual criticism and manuscripts studies (i.e., how do we know how close our modern texts are to the original documents), the internal evidence presented within the New Testament documents themselves, and the things that contemporaneous, non-Christian Jewish and Gentile writers wrote that confirm statements made within the New Testament documents. If you are looking for a well-written and easy-to-read overview of the evidence for the reliability of the New Testament, then look no further than The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? by F.F. Bruce.

NOTE: the links in this article point to a full-text version of the book online, but the book is also readily available from bookstores.

Schools are listed by degree, accreditation, and specific program. Links are provided to each institute’s web site for more information on a particular program.

The site is presented very simply and clearly and is very easy to use. If you need more information than offered on the online version of Baker’s Guide, than you would do well to purchase the complete guide in book form.

I highly recommend this site to anyone interested in pursuing Christian education.

If you’re looking for a fun way to learn about the Bible and the fields of biblical studies, than BibleDudes is a great place to start.

Crosswalk.com has achieved a nearly ubiquitous presence on Christian web sites – and deservedly so. Crosswalk.com has earned its popularity by creating useful Bible study resources, documenting them exceptionally well so that you don’t have to be a computer genius to use them, presenting them very attractively, and – lastly but not by any means the least – by making them easily and readily available for others to use and to integrate within their own web sites. It is this last feature, in particular, that has raised the popularity of the site beyond other, similar, tools.

Whether conducting a fairly in-depth word study using commentaries and referring to the original Hebrew and Greek texts (in transliteration using tools that take advantage of Strong’s numbering system) or simply looking up a particular word or passage in well over a dozen translations, Crosswalk.com is easy to use, accurate, and above all, allows you to find what you’re looking for with a minimum of fuss.

If you haven’t already been using it, I highly recommend that you take a look at Crosswalk.com.