Religious Studies
Important resources for the study of religion at the University of Michigan
Christianity in Late Antiquity: Find materials in our library
In our Catalog Advanced Search, select Subject from the drop down menu and search on terms such as
- “30-600”
- early church ca. 30-600
- church history -- primitive and early church -- ca. 30-600
- church history -- primitive and early church -- approximately 30-600
- christian literature, early -- history and criticism
- fathers of the church
Or search for particular persons / figures, authors or titles of works. You can also keyword search with terms like
(christian OR christianity) AND (antique OR antiquity)
Find specialized literature
To find specialized literature, search the following databases
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ATLA with ATLASerials (EBSCO)This database is a collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States.
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New Testament Abstracts (EBSCO)The database is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu, containing article, review, book and software abstracts.
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Index ReligiosusInternationally renowned bibliography of academic publications in the fields of theology, religious sciences, and Church history. It is a gateway to books and articles written in major European languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, etc.)
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Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics (BIBP)Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics is a documentary system in patristics. Even if patristic literature remains its major preoccupation, the BIBP works on all disciplines studying patristic Christianity. Until now, the priority is given to the current information from the scientific journals
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L'Année Philologique: Bibliography of the Classical WorldSpecialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, including: Greek and Latin literature and linguistics (which includes early Christian texts and patristics), Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly sub-specialties such as numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy
For a broader search across article and book length literature, try Library Articles Search
Resources from The North American Patristics Society (NAPS)
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Resources from the North American Patristics Society (NAPS)"Resources is an ever-growing collection of web content useful for the study of Early Christianity. You can notify the NAPS secretary if you have additional online resources that may be of interest to NAPS members." Sort by tag from the drop-down menu in the header.
Select Journals & Series
Journals
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As well as many other series from Brepols and Peeters
Reference Works
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Oxford Bibliographies : Biblical StudiesArticles and bibliographies relevant to the diverse modern academic study of the Bible
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The Cambridge History of ChristianityEspecially v1 Origins to Constantine -- v2 Constantine to c. 600
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Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity OnlineResource focused on the of history early Christian texts, authors, and ideas, bridging New Testament studies and Patristics.
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Encyclopedia of ChristianityStandard reference for the study of Christianity past and present.
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Guide to Evagrius Ponticus (ed Joel Kalvesmaki)The Guide provides definitive lists of Evagrius's works, of editions and translations of those works, and of studies related to his life and thought. It includes an inventory of key ancient sources that refer to Evagrius and a display of imagery from the ancient world. The Guide is updated quarterly.
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Syriaca.org The Syriac Reference PortalDigital project for the study of Syriac literature, culture, and history. primary function of Syriaca.org is to be a reference hub for digitally linking research findings. Syriaca.org's publications compile and classify core data for the study of Syriac sources, offer the scholarly community digital tools for freely disseminating that data, and facilitate further research through the creation of shared digital tools and infrastructure
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Syriac Orthodox ResourcesOverview of church history and practice with bibliography.
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Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Editione-GEDSH is an electronic version of the 2011 edition of the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, published by Gorgias Press on behalf of the Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute. e-GEDSH is the result of the collaborative efforts of many scholars. The encyclopedia currently holds 622 entries written by 76 contributors. This digital edition is implemented on the Srophé App platform using TEI XML, eXist-db, and linked open data technologies.
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e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha"e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha (ECCA) is a comprehensive bibliography of Christian Apocrypha research assembled and maintained by members of the North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature (NASSCAL). Entries for each text include a detailed description (a summary, the various titles used in scholarship, clavis numbers, and identification of related literature), an inventory of manuscript sources (with online images where available), an extensive bibliography (including online resources), and information about the text’s use in iconography and popular culture."
Print Bibliographies
Text Collections / Corpora
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Patrologia Orientalis Database (POD)Corpus of patristic texts from the Christian East published in the Patrologia Orientalis series available onlineThe Patrologia Orientalis Database (POD) is a collection of patristic texts from the Christian East, including works, recorded in non-Latin languages (i.e. Greek, Coptic, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Georgian), that come from geographical, cultural, or religious contexts somehow linked to Rome or the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Patrologia Latina Database (Chadwyck-Healey version)Database containing the full text of 221 volumes of early Christian (patristic) writings in their original Latin.
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Coptic SCRIPTORIU-MPlatform for interdisciplinary and computational research in texts in the Coptic language, particularly the Sahidic dialect.
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Digital Edition of the Coptic Old TestamentThe Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament is a long-term project at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It fills a huge lacuna, as no modern edition of the Bible in Coptic exists. The project aims to provide a complete documentation of the manuscript evidence, digital editions of all OT manuscripts, critical editions of all OT books, corpus-linguistic analyses and translations into English, German and Arabic.
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Digital Syriac CorpusCurated digital repository of TEI encoded texts written in classical Syriac.
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Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library"The Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library is a publication of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt, in collaboration with the UCLA Library and Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL). It hosts online the results of the Sinai Library Digitization Project, a ten-year collaborative effort to digitize the unparalleled manuscript library of St. Catherine’s Monastery."
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The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325-c.600)Database on exiled clerics in late antiquity, exploring their legal circumstances, experiences, social connections, spatial worlds and memory.
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The Online Critical PseudepigraphaThe mandate of the Online Critical Pseudepigrapha is to develop and publish electronic editions of the best critical texts of the "Old Testament" Pseudepigrapha and related literature.
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Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraTextReligious texts from the IntraText project, a "Full-text Digital Library offering books and corpora as lexical hypertexts on Creative Commons License"
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Fourth-Century Christianitysite promoting and storing research tools and texts for the study of the Church and its environment in the Fourth Century. Provides reliable reference materials, texts and translations
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Loeb Classical Library250 ancient Greek and Latin authors in original language and in English translation.
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Translated Texts for Historians E-LibraryEnglish translations of key historical sources from the time of late antiquity and the early middle ages.
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Early Jewish Writings (Peter Kirby)"...Jewish documents from antiquity with translations, introductions, and links." Source of many public domain texts of the Tanakh, Deuterocanon, Pseudepigrapha, Philo and Josephus
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Early Christian Writings (Peter Kirby)"...collection of Christian texts before the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. The site provides translations and commentary for these sources, including the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers, and some non-Christian references."
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vHMMLvHMML makes abundant use of high-resolution images of manuscripts from libraries around the world, many of them digitized as part of Hill Museum & Manuscript Library’s mission to preserve and share important, endangered, and inaccessible manuscript collections through digital photography, archiving, and cataloging.
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