This guide is intended as a starting point in your research; the databases and reference tools listed here are a selective list. Always remember that you can ask for assistance at the Barnard Reference Desk at any point in your research, and you can always request a consultation. 

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• For keyword searches, AND is automatically inserted between term. You may also use OR or NOT between the terms, or quotes for a phrase.
• For an author search, put last name, then first name
• You can retrieve materials in English only using the Pre-set Limits or Post Limits options

Reference Materials:

Blue Letter Bible Interlinear Hebrew/Greek available for every verse, and eight English translations

Encyclopaedia Judaica - Reference Area call number S102.8 .E496 2007

Routledge Reference Resources Online: Religion

Databases/Indexes 
For a more complete list of electronic databases for religion select Philosophy and Religion in the Browse Subjects box.

• Academic Search Premier -- provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

• ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS -- citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles from religion journals and essay collections.

• Humanities Full Text -- brings full text (starting 1995) plus abstracts and bibliographic indexes (starting 1984) of noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as lesser known specialized magazines.

• The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies : Reshimat ma'amarim be-mada'e ha-Yahadut -- bibliography of scholarly articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.

• Index to Jewish Periodicals -- English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

• JSTOR -- full-text articles from scholarly journals.

• Old Testament Abstracts -- Includes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) studies.

• Project Muse -- full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences

• ProQuest -- full-text, citations, and abstracts from periodicals in many disciplines plus major U.S. newspapers.

• Religious and Theological Abstracts -- Provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.

Other Library Catalogs
These library catalogs may be of interest or relevance to your research. Their holdings are not in CLIO:

• ALEPH -- The holdings of the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

• BobCat -- This is the online catalog of NYU's libraries.

• CATNYP -- The online catalog of the New York Public Library research collections.

• LEO -- The online catalog of the New York Public Library circulating collections.

• WorldCat -- A catalog of catalogs containing records for the holdings of 24,000 libraries.

Web Resources:

Columbia and Affiliates

• Burke Library: Electronic Resources and Links (Burke Theological Seminary at UTS)

• Jewish Studies Internet Resources (Columbia Libraries)

• Religion (Barnard Library)

• Religious Studies Subject Guide (Columbia Libraries)

• Research Guides to Jewish Studies: Talmud and Rabbinics (Jewish Theological Seminary Library)

Outside Columbia

• All-in-One Biblical Resources Search -- University of Birmingham (UK) site for Biblical research    

• At the Cutting Edge -- The most recent developments in the field of Jewish Studies, from the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University

• Biblical Archaeology Society -- Website of the society, including a link to its journal, Biblical Archaeology Review

• "The Fragments" Seminar on the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation site with images of the fragments and audio recording of the seminar

• Google scholar -- If you connect via this link, rather than directly, Google will know that you are affiliated with Columbia and thus take you directly to the full text of many of the resources.

• iTanakh: Resources for Academic Study -- An to index Internet resources for the academic study and teaching of the Hebrew Bible.

• Princeton University Library Web Sites for Jewish Studies -- Includes a list of Web sites for Biblical research

• Religious Studies Web Guide: Judaic Resources -- Large list of useful sites for Jewish Studies research

Interlibrary Loan/BorrowDirect Books, articles and dissertations unavailable from the Columbia University Libraries may be obtained from other libraries usually without cost to the reader.  Request It services. 

Consultation Requests  Complete an online form requesting a consultation on your research, or come to the Reference Desk on the second floor of the library to fill out a paper request.  To contact a reference librarian, e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu or call 212-854-3953. 
 

Last modified 02/06/08 by Jenna Freedman, Coordinator of Reference Services and Zine Librarian