Key Databases A-Z

Otsar ha-ḥokhmah
Otzar HaHochma (אוצר החכמה) is a digital library of scanned Judaic texts, including works on the Bible, Talmud, Halakhah, philosophy, and Kabbalah.

Oxford African American Studies Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center is a reference database on African American and African history and culture, including encyclopedias, biographies, primary sources, images, and other research materials.

Oxford Bibliographies Online
Provides annotated bibliographies of essential literature on various subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Guides are updated quarterly, with entries added yearly to each subject area, as well as revisions to existing entries.

Oxford Classical Dictionary
This online edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary is a continually evolving resource with new and updated content added monthly. Includes new articles on Christianity, Jewish Studies, among others.

Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Comprehensive philosophy dictionary covering Aristotle to Zen, with clear definitions, 400+ philosopher biographies, key concepts, global traditions, and a chronology from 10,000 BC to today.

Oxford Dictionary of Popes
This dictionary gives concise accounts of every officially recognized pope in history, from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI, along with their irregularly elected rivals. It is a continuous history of the papacy over almost 2,000 years.

Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Concise articles with bibliographies that can be a useful initial guide to many aspects of Christian religion and life including theology, patristic scholarship, churches and denominations, the church calendar and organization, and the Bible.

Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Covers key aspects of European history (including ecclesiastical history), society, and culture from 500 to 1500 A.D., as well as the Byzantine Empire, Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples of the era.

Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
This dictionary provides rich detail on all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe. It includes comprehensive coverage of the art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the period.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Information source on religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, focusing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature.

Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time.

Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
This essential guide offers 325 articles that describe the people and places that appear in the New Testament and Old Testament of the Bible. From prophets, apostles, and groups (such as Hebrews and Angels) to kingdoms and countries, cities and mountains...

Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online is an integrated music resource that includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition). The resource is...

Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference, when limited to Religion by Subject, includes reference works on the Bible such as The Oxford Encyclopedias of the Bible: Digital Version, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible, Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation...

Oxford Reference Online: Literature
Oxford Reference provides concise definitions and in-depth, specialist encyclopedic entries across the Literature discipline. This site provides authoritative, accessible information on writers, works, movements, historical context, literary theories, and...

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion seeks to provide accurate, scholarly information about the world’s many religions and topics of research and debate. It will grow and evolve continuously, compiling over time an extensive collection of vetted...

Oxford Research Encyclopedia. African History
A research encyclopedia that when complete will cover the whole range of African history including recent religious movements. Articles are written by scholars who are asked to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic as well as a historiography and...

PAIS
PAIS International indexes the public and social policy literature of public administration, political science, economics, finance, international relations, law, and health care. International in scope, PAIS indexes publications in English, French, German...

Papyri.info
Papyri.info provides access to three largely overlapping collections of digitized papyri: the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis (HGV), and the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS). You can browse...

Past Masters
Full text works by major western theological, philosophical, and literary writers through the twentieth century. Authors include Augustine, Calvin, James, Kierkegaard, and Luther. Works are primarily, but not exclusively, in English translation.

Patrologia Latina
The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina. The PLD contains all 221 volumes of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Series Latina, which includes...

Patrologiae Graecae
The electronic version of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca (Paris, 1857-1866). It is a collection of the writings of the church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians...

Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800)
Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers...

Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Begun in 1976, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary is the first comprehensive dictionary of Sumerian.

Periodical Contents Index (PCI)
Periodicals Index Online (formerly known as "PCI") is an index to the contents of thousands of journals in the humanities and social sciences, including such subjects as Ancient Civilizations, Anthropology/Ethnology, Area Studies, History, Jewish Studies...

Perseus Project (Tufts University)
Perseus contains texts in Romanized Greek and English translation, the Intermediate Liddell-Scott Greek Lexicon, morphological analyses for all Greek texts in the database, catalog entries for more than 1400 vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and sites...

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