academic-bible.com is the leading website for academic Bible study. It provides free access to the original Bible texts in Greek and Hebrew, published by the German Bible Society, in addition to English and German Bible translations.

A superb resource.

Bibledex is a project by the University of Nottingham’s Department of Theology and Religious Studies in conjunction with video journalist Brady Haran.

The videos are by no means comprehensive – rather they’re a curious assortment of academic insights into what is probably the most famous collection of books in history.

Go and visit Bibledex on Youtube.

We spent some time on Monday discussing the authority of scripture and the development of the canon in the early church. You’ll find all sorts of websites on this issues, most of them from a Protestant or Roman Catholic point of view, but I’d like to steer you towards an Orthodox viewpoint.

Our Life in Christ is an excellent podcast which tackles plenty of the points of tension between Orthodox and Evangelical Christianity. They had a series of podcasts on the issue of Sola Scriptura and posted some notes online which can be found here. They have taken an argument from an evangelical site (CRI) and put their response in blue (OLIC).

As always, this represents only one point of view but it is a good way of getting a feel for the arguments.

The Bible Style Guide is a reference text designed specifically for those working within the media industry. It provides a crash course in the Bible for busy journalists, broadcasters and bloggers.

Whilst the guide will hopefully tell you nothing new, it is interesting to see the commonly held perceptions of the Bible which are addressed here.

Bitemybible: The Bible Style Guide