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There are numerous online text archives of ancient and medieval material that are of particular interest to church historians, theologians, biblical scholars, archaeologists, and numerous other scholars. The following are those that have come to our attention. If there are additional sites to add to this listing, please

Many of these sites are working on the development of standards for electronic transmission and storage of documents. Issues that need to be addressed include: fonts and character sets; search engines; copyright, intellectual property and the academic exchange of information; and the location and format of permanent archives. If you are working on electronic texts, please give some consideration to these issues and the experiences of the researchers listed below.

• Abzu: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East
  "A project and publication of the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago. Abzu is an experimental guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet."
• Acta Sanctorum (a Chadwyck database)
  "The Acta Sanctorum Database is an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Societé des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. On completion the Acta Sanctorum Database will contain the complete Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices. Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included."
• Apostles' Creed, ca. 200-300
  An early church creed commonly used in Western baptismal rites.
• Apostolic Fathers (translated by J.B. Lightfoot)
• Argos: limited area search of the Ancient and Medieval internet
  "Argos is the first peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on the World-Wide Web. It has been designed to cover the ancient and medieval worlds. Quality is controlled by a system of hyperlinked internet indices which are managed by qualified professionals who serve as the Associate Editors of the project. The same procedures that govern quality also serve to limit the scope of Argos to the ancient world. "
• Bergandal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts
  "The Bergendal Collection is the largest library of mediaeval codices (manuscripts) in private hands in the Americas. There are at most half a dozen private manuscript libraries which are as large in Europe. Many of the items in the Collection are of particular interest.  Given their rarity their like is no longer to be found in the manuscript market. The Collection's catalogue has been published under the title One Hundred and Twenty-five Manuscripts - Bergendal Collection Catalogue.  It contains comprehensive descriptions of each codex and is illustrated with full colour reproductions of full page miniatures."
• The Septuagint LXX
  Greek text with English translation by Lancelot C.L. Brenton. Provided by the volunteers at CCEL.
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  A journal archive
• Bryn Mawr Medieval Review
  A journal archive
• Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet
  "This website has been prepared as a WWW gathering point for Byzantine studies. The basic structure of the site is now in place. But it will continue to grow as more Byzantine related material becomes available on the net. Make sure to check out Links to Other Sites: there is already a fair amount of Byzantine material on the net. This is possibly the most useful aspect of this site."
• The Cambridge Classics External Gateway to Humanities Resources
  Provided by the University of Cambridge, Classics department. These pages provide access to web resources in all areas of classical studies
• Camelot Project
  Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies and basic information
• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts related to Ireland.
  "CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide. It has a searchable online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts."
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  "Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves!"
• Church History and Historical Theology
  An extensive list of online texts prepared by the Alcuin & Clemens Libraries, College of St. Benedict & St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
• Definition of the Council of Chalcedon
  An excerpt from the Council of Chalcedon, 451 AD. "The Definition of the Council of Chalcedon was the end result of the struggle to understand the relationship of the three persons of the Holy Trinity. It is accepted as a symbol of Christian doctrine by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Reformed and Lutheran churches. The concern of Chalcedon is the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ. Seeking a middle way, it says "no" to doctrines that deny either that Christ was truly human or that Christ was truly divine. Christ is both, the definition says, united to the First Person of the Trinity in his divinity and united to us in his humanity. Even today, some Christians experience Jesus only as God, others only as a human being. The contribution of Chalcedon—which is now the mainstream of Christianity—is an inclusive Christology that affirms that both experiences are true, but neither is complete without the other." [from the website of the United Church of Christ]
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
  "Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world. This site includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including articles, book reviews, databases, and images."
  "If access to a large and genuinely diverse readership appeals to you for your own work, please note that Diotima and the Stoa Consortium can secure careful peer review of all scholarship submitted to this site for publication. From the beginning, Diotima (like the Stoa Consortium of which it is a part) has been dedicated to the idea that "publication" need not mean restricting your work to a tiny handful of like-minded, similarly trained, and similarly situated colleagues, and that professionals in the humanities would do well to seek much larger audiences for their scholarly publications."
• Directory of Electronic Text Centers
• Douay-Rheims Translation
• The Duke Papyrus Archive
• Early Christian Writings (Peter Kirby)
• The Early Church Fathers
  Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (CCEL)
• The ECOLE Initiative
  "The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia (Ecole) Initiative is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history (to the Reformation) on the World-Wide Web."
• Electronic Text Center (E-text archive at the University of Virginia)
  "The Center combines an on-line archive of tens of thousands of SGML and XML-encoded electronic texts and images with a library service that offers hardware and software suitable for the creation and analysis of text. Through ongoing training sessions and support of teaching and research projects, the Center is building a diverse user community locally, serving thousands of users globally, and providing a model for similar humanities computing enterprises at other institutions."
• E-texts Corpora
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
• The Fathers of the Church
  Early Christian Texts, including many apocryphal works
• Glossary for the Study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Compiled by Dr. Robert Kraft)
• Gnomon Online
• Gnostic Society Virtual Library
• Gospel of Thomas home page
• Guide to Early Church Documents
  (ICLnet: Institute for Christian Leadership) "This hypertext document contains pointers to Internet-accessible files relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history."
• The Gutenberg Bible
  Digital images from the British Library
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
  St. John's University, Collegeville
• Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet
• Historic Documents of the Church
• Holy Bible (King James Version with Apocrypha)
• Inscriptiones Latinae Eystettenses
• Internet Classics Archive
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity (Compiled by Dr. Jay Treat)
• ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Jewish Publication Society Bible
• Josephus in Whiston's translation
• Kirke: Katalog der Internet-Ressourcen für die Klassische Philologie aus Erlangen
• Labrynth
  Resources for Medieval Studies
• Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
• The Mount Athos Greek Manuscripts Catalog
• Nestor: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
• Netserf: the internet connection for Medieval Resources
• Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, 325-381
  "This classic testimony of the faith was the consensus of ecumenical councils in Nicea, 325, and Constantinople, 381. The creed was a response to the "Arian" movement, which challenged the church's teaching that Christ was both fully human and fully divine. Arians emphasized the humanity of Christ, and therefore believed he was "subordinate" to the Father. But the faith proclaimed in Constantinople was in a Christ who was both, and therefore "of one being" with the Father. This creed is recited in the Sunday worship of the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, and many Lutheran and Reformed congregations also use the creed when they celebrate Holy Communion." [description from the United Church of Christ website, text without the filioque from the World Council of Churches website]
• The Noncanonical home page
  Early Jewish and Christian Texts
• Online Medieval & Classical Library (OMACL)
• Open Text
  A resource network and data repository for "the next generation" of study of Hellenistic Greek
• ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies. ORB'S OCLC number is 35987956.
• Oxford Text Archive
• Patrologia Latina (a Chadwyck database)
• The Perseus Project
  An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece
• Project Gutenburg
• Quran (translation by M.H. Shakir)
• Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell'Antichità Classica
• Refrigerium
  Orthodox, gnostic Christian texts, including Q and Nag Hammadi materials
• Romarch: Roman Art and Archeology
• Some ancient Jewish accounts of Jesus (Toledoth Yeshu, Josephus)
• St. Augustine's Confessions (translated by E.B. Pusey)
• St. Pachomius Library
• Stoa Consortium
  "The Stoa can best be understood as a source of support and coordination for electronic scholarship in the humanities, with a special focus on the ancient world and the classical tradition. The Stoa is committed to the success of electronic publication as a means for scholars in the humanities to engage an interested public. To that end this consortium provides a careful review of scholarship using three primary criteria: high intellectual quality according to disciplinary standards, accessibility to wide audiences, and consistency with the technical considerations advanced by the Stoa. The Stoa supports excellent scholarship in the humanities. We are especially interested in projects with the potential to interest wide public audiences, and we want to help shape work toward that goal. Such publications will generally take advantage of the possibilities for hypertextuality and multimedia enhancement offered by the internet. There may often be a high degree of collaboration involved. We will maintain links to all Stoa-sponsored publications from the Projects section of this site. The range of subjects and approaches you can already see there demonstrates our catholicity." [from the website]
• Suda-On-Line
  (Raphael Finkel, Bill Hutton, Patrick Rourke, Ross Scaife, Elizabeth Vandiver, et al.) "The Suda is a 10th century Byzantine historical encyclopedia in five volumes, derived from the scholia to critical editions of canonical works and from compilations by earlier authors. As the Oxford Classical Dictionary notes, "in spite of its contradictions and other ineptitudes, [the Suda] is of the highest importance, since it preserves (however imperfectly) much that is ultimately derived from the earliest or best authorities in ancient scholarship, and includes material from many departments of Greek learning and civilization." The Suda has never been translated into English, and that is one goal of this project, but there are many other ways in which an electronic version can offer increased accessibility: the collaborators aim to produce a keyword-searchable database with annotations, bibliography, and links to Perseus, the TLG and other important electronic resources."
• Tertullian home page (Roger Pearse)
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
  "The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG^TM) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era."
• TOCS-IN
  Archives of the tables of contents of over 150 journals of interest to classicists.
• University of Pennsylvania's Religious Texts archive
• Vortigern Studies
• World Wide Study Bible
• The WWW Virtual Library History Index