Research Guides: Religious Studies: Online Bibles & Ecumenical Sites

Online Canon: Bibles, Scriptures, Sacred Texts and Concordances

When you need to compare biblical translations and commentaries, check out the many variations in our print collection (reference and stacks).

Also, check out these online resources:

Bible Odyssey xplore the fascinating origins of the Bible and its eventful history. On Bible Odyssey, the world’s leading scholars share the latest historical and literary research on key people, places, and passages of the Bible.
Access to Insight
Readings in Theravada Buddhism
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Includes full-text of sacred texts of various world religions, such as Ba'hai, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Shinto and Zoroastrianism.
BibleGateway.com
Translation comparison, search by verse, keyword or topic
Blue Letter Bible
Translation comparison, search by verse (ie. Genesis 1:6) or word (ie. truth). Also available as an app.
Book of Mormon
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Confucius
Interactive website containg sacred texts of Confucianism in English and Chinese
Lamsa Bible
Aramaic Bible in translation
MDZ
digitized manuscripts, etc. from the Bavarian State Library
New American Bible
(from the Vatican) translated into English, Chinese, Italian, Latin and Spanish
The Quran
with English and Arabic side by side
World Wide Study Bible
Books of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, with commentaries and sermons
Open Scriptures This databases allows students to discover the parsing and lexical forms of the Greek words in the New Testament. It also allows researchers to compare classic editions of the Greek New Testament in a side by side format.
Bible.com
Read the NIV Bible online or get the app..

Vatican Library - Digitized
Including links to digitized manuscripts and incunabula
Vatican II Documents
Free, full-text copies of Vatican II constitutions, declarations and decrees translated into Byelorussian, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Swahili.
Catholic Church Documents Library
A database -- searchable by author, keyword and date -- containing full-text access to speeches and writings of Archbishops, etc.
Papal Encyclicals - online
A database containing full-text access to Papal Encyclicals from Honorius III to Francis I. Searchable by Pope's name.
Papal Documents
An alphabetic listing of papal documents with links to their full-text.
Catechism of the Catholic Church

Association of Religious Data Archives
results of U.S. and Worldwide surveys regarding religious issues and denominations
Gallop Poll Results
Compare various religion's responses to different questions relating to religious issues.
Religious Denominations
an alphabetic list of denominations, linked to their official home pages, via the Hartford Institute for Religion Research