Topic: Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean

Article Databases

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles and a great starting place for research. Covers literature from 1984 to the present.

Année Philologique

An international index that covers scholarship on all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity, including early Christianity. Search by modern or ancient author, ancient texts, disciplines, and more.

ATLA Religion Database

Covers contemporary scholarly journal articles, essays, sermons, and book reviews in the study of religion. Materials cover all religions and all theological points of view.

Index Islamicus

A bibliography of books, articles, conference proceedings, and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world in European languages.Coverage: 1906-present.

Index to Jewish Periodicals

Index providing access to English-language articles and book reviews on Jewish history, activity and thought from periodicals published in the United States, Canada, England, Israel, South Africa, and Australia beginning with 1988.

Dissertations

E-Books and E-Texts

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...

Language Dictionaries

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.

Reference Sources

Encyclopedia of Ancient History

Online version of thirteen volume Encyclopedia of Ancient History .The entries cover the entire Mediterranean world from the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE. Content is regularly updated and expanded.

New Pauly

Brill’s New Pauly is the English edition of Der Neue Pauly, an encyclopedia of the ancient world and the classical tradition covering Greco-Roman antiquity and its later reception.

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.