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BAPTISTS
Baptist Studies Online: The Journal of Baptist Studies is an independent, peer-reviewed, multi-perspective journal.
Biblical Recorder Index Online: This finding aid lists the entries alphabetically by author name. To browse, click the appropriate year and letter, then click 'Browse'. Once the requested document has opened, specific names can be searched by using the "find" command under the browser edit menu. If searching for church names, click on the year and then the letter N. (North Carolina Baptist Churches - Church Name, City) Using the SEARCH feature below will search all the alphabetical entries for a particular year.
IMB Archives: The mission of the Archives and Records Management Section is to serve as the corporate memory in identifying, organizing and preserving information that details the Southern Baptist international missions experience.
Jonathan Edwards Online: The critical digital source for Jonathan Edwards' texts on the web.
Southern Baptist Convention: Home page for the Convention where you can find links to the Baptist Faith and Message, SBC agencies, and the Baptist Press.
Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives
BIBLE STUDY
Best Commentaries: This site works toward enabling Bible students at all levels to make good, informed decisions about which commentaries they should purchase and use by providing a constantly updated bibliography of commentaries on each book of the Bible and collecting reviews, ratings, and prices of commentaries from a variety of sources.
Biblical Words Pronunciation Guide
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
Dr. Constable's Study Notes: These Bible study notes, written by Dr. Thomas L. Constable, seminary professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, over a 25-year period, spans over 7,000 pages and presents commentary on all 66 books of the Bible.
E-Sword: A fast and effective way to study the Bible. E-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package. The fact that e-Sword is free is just one of the blessings and does not speak of the quality of the software.
Hebrew Bible: MP3 Hebrew Bible, Chapter by chapter!
Navigating the Bible: Journey into the world of the Jewish Bible. Study the portions. Hear the melodies. Follow the themes and learn what the scholars say. Explore it as history -- literature -- religion.
Project Genesis: Project Genesis-your Torah Cyberspace Center!
Resources for New Testament Exegesis: This site has been prepared especially for students at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary but will be of use to many others seeking to carry out rigorous exegesis of the New Testament and especially those writing exegesis papers in seminary or college.
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies: These pages are intended as a resource for serious, scholarly studies of the early Christian writings and their social world.
BIBLIOGRPHIC MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
BOOKS & JOURNALS - Full Text
Biblical Reflections on Modern Medicine
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Journal of Biblical Ethics in Medicine
P.G. Migne Pull up full-text Greek works from Migne.
Reformation 21Online magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
TC: a journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
CHRISTIAN LIFE
Ark Web Ministries: It is a Christ-centered ministry dedicated to sharing the "Good News of Jesus Christ" by providing tools, resources, training and human intercession in contributing to the Spiritual awareness and discipleship of mankind worldwide.
Crosswalk: As a Christ-centered, for-profit corporation, we aim is to offer the freshest and most compelling biblically-based content to Christians who take seriously their relationship with Christ. Crosswalk.com is built around four primary content areas: Faith, Family, Fun and Community. Each category is further subdivided into areas of significance to many Christians, including Bible Study, Devotionals, Marriage, Parenting, Music, etc
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: Website companion to the PBS television program. Sign up for the RSS, review the guide and explore the resources!
COPYRIGHT
Chapel Hill Copyright Documents
Crash Course Tutorial on Copyright: A great, fairly quick tutorial to get you up to speed on all you need to know about how copyright can work for you!
Univ. Texas Guidelines for Faculty: A Set of Legal guidelines suggested by the UT lawyer.
EDUCATION
Christian School Resource: Christian School Resource net (CSRnet) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization that was created to help Christian schools and educators utilize the vast information-rich Internet, along with other appropriate technologies.
ERIC Database: More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free.
HELP WITH TURABIAN & PAPERS
Professor Disseau's Turabian Formatting Tips
Help writing papers: The Duke University Libraries' website for citation assistance.
The Writing Center: The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Writing center giving citation help with multiple style guides such as Turabian, Chicago, MLA, etc.
Writing a Research Paper: "The OWL" at Purdue University offers online writing, research, and MLA and APA style help to the world.
Writing Research Papers: Writing Research Essays in North American Academic Institutions. A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS OF ALL NATIONS - This is an online tutorial created for a class at the Trinity Western University in Calgary specifically to help international students understand the ins and outs of writing research papers.
IN THE NEWS
Barna Report on Unchurched Population in the U.S.
A More Porous Church-State Wall
LIBRARIES
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Virginia Center for Digital History
LITERATURE
Tolkien Pathfinder: An excellent listing of links and resources to start your study on Tolkien created by a Library Science masters student.
MEGA REFERENCE TOOLS
ARDA: American Religion Data Archive: The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) project acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups, individuals, congregations and denominations.
Christianity- Open Directory Project: The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
Church History and Historical Theology: Many links to full text resources created by a librarian at Alcuin Library at St. John's University.
Documenting the American South: A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes twelve thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Google Scholar: Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Internet Christian Library: The Internet Christian Library, ICLnet, contains one of the largest and most complete archiving of "classical" Christian materials available on the Internet.
R.I.M. Religion in Ministry Projects Database: Online is a freely available database that indexes DMin and DMiss projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981.
Religious Studies Web Guide: Focuses on free internet resources of use to researchers involved in the academic study of religion. Web site creators are Saundra Lipton (University of Calgary Library) and Cheryl Adams (Library of Congress.
TREN: A source for theological dissertations, thesis and projects.
Virtual Religion Index: Virtual Religion Index is a tool for students which analyzes & highlights important content of religion-related websites to speed research.
MISSIONS
Asso. of Professors of Mission: On this site you will find brief explanations of what the APM is, historical documents, and teaching/research resource links.
Center for Missional Research: A NAMB sponsored research site.
Joshua Project: Joshua Project identifies and highlights the people groups of the world that have the least exposure to the Gospel and the least Christian presence in their midst. Joshua Project has compiled the work of numerous missions researchers to develop a complete list of all ethnic peoples.
Network for Strategic Missions
PASTORAL MINISTRIES
National Association of Nouthetic Counselors: The National Association of Nouthetic Counselors is a fellowship of Christian pastors and laymen who have banded together to promote excellence in biblical counseling.
STATE & LOCAL INFO
Carolina Christian Communications
Following the Dollars Map: Do you know how folks in your area backup their political leanings with their pocketbook? Just type in a zip code and it will generate a map of that area and lists who has contributed more than $100.00 dollars to a political campaign.
Wake Forest Gazette: Wake Forest, NC Newspaper online. News, Weather, and Sports as they happen. Report the facts about stories for northern Wake and Franklin counties, including Wake Forest, Rolesville, Youngsville and Franklinton, updated each week.
Front Desk
(919) 761-2251 or circdesk@sebts.edu
Reference Desk
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The Library
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During Fall & Spring Semesters, the Library closes for Chapel services on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 11am.
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The Archives is also open by appointment. Please call Bill Youngmark at (919) 761-2329.
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