Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Last updated: April 29, 2008

Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

Baseball Reference Work  Plenty of info on baseball past and present.
Blue Cord Bible Dictionary.  A "wiki" written by biblical scholars.  Directed by Kevin A. Wilson.  Begun in April, 2006
Britannica  a very good website, but the articles are mostly digests.
Catholic Encyclopedia   (good, but about 90 years old)
Christian Cyclopedia.  Edited by Erwin Lueker (late member of the Christ Seminary-Seminex faculty).  Published by LCMS.
Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
Columbia Encyclopedia  51,000 entries and 80,000 hypertext cross references
Concise Dictionary of Religion.  By Irving Hexham.  4,000 concepts and identifications of names.  Entries are very concise.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.  By William Smith.  1875.

The Ecole Initiative  An encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World-wide Web.  Documents, glossary, articles, images, chronology.
Encarta Encyclopedia  Free access to this reference work produced by Microsoft
Encyclopedia.com  The Internet's Premier Free Encyclopedia. 
Encyclopedia Biblica.  A-D.  Edited by Cheyne and Black.  Publication date 1899!
Encyclopedia Biblica.  E-K.
Encyclopedia Biblica.  L-P.
Encyclopedia Biblica.  Q-Z
Encyclopedia Iranica.  Prepared by Columbia University's Center for Iranian Studies
Encyclopedia Mythica  Information on myths, legends, folklore.  7,165 articles
Encyclopedia of the California Institute of Ancient Studies 
Encyclopedia of the Orient  Deals with North Africa and the Middle East
Encyclopeia of World History:  Ancient, Medieval, and Modern.  Also maps and genealogical tables.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian.  A-Z entries on and about this museum and its collections.
An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology

 


High Beam Research:  Access to 36 million documents.  Free and not so free articles.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia  1915
Jewish Encyclopedia. 1906 edition.
Judaism 101--an Online Encyclopedia of Judaism  Primarily from an Orthodox viewpoint
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid from Notre Dame
Latin Dictionary by Bill Casselman
Latin=English Dictionary
Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
Perseus Encyclopedia
Refdesk.com:  the best source for information on the Internet
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Suda Online:  Byzantine Lexicography
Web Bible Encyclopedia  4,000 pages of information
Wiki Classical Dictionary  History, Literature, mythology, and art of the ancient world.
Wikipedia:  A Free-Content Encyclopedia that anyone can edit.  Working on 1,131,573 entries
Women in Judaism Encyclopedia.
 

                                                          

 

Dictionaries

Last updated September 22, 2006

Akkadian Dictionary Online.
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Brown, Driver, and Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon
Compendious Syriac Dictionary
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon.  Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Demetrios:  A Database of Septuagint Greek.  Universities of Southhampton and Reading
Dictionary.  Type a word and press Enter to view definitions.
Dictionary of Classical Antiquities
English-Greek Lexicon
English-to-American Dictionary
Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell and Scott
Hypertext Bible Dictionary
Indo-European Etymological Dictionary
Jastrow, Marcus.  A Dictionary of the Targumim:  Aleph to Kaph
Jastrow, Marcus.  A Dictionary of the Targumim:  Lamed to Taw
Lane's Arabic English Dictionary
Latin Dictionary Online.  Part of the Perseus Project.
Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek Lexicon  Perseus site; or try Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek Lexicon
List of online dictionaries
Merriam Webster Online Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus
Translate with Babel Fish.  Type in text and it will translate it for you!
Wiki Classical Dictionary
Your Dictionary.com  English and many foreign language definitions.

 

Other resources

Avalon Project Yale:  Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy.
Find Journal Articles Online  Web's first free articles search.  10 million articles.

 

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