[The Bible As It Was, by James Kugel]


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The Internet has a variety of resources on the Bible. For more general Christian or Jewish religious or biblical information, you might visit the following sites:

Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Biblical Studies Foundation

Among the most commonly cited ancient sources (some anonymous) in The Bible As It Was are the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Jubilees, the Books of Enoch, the Septuagint, the Wisdom of Ben Sira[ch], the Wisdom of Solomon, the Writings of Philo of Alexandria, the New Testament, [Flavius] Josephus, and the Targums. Information about these sources, and many of the texts themselves, can be found on various web sites:

Orion Center for the Study of the
Dead Sea Scrolls (in Israel)

Scrolls from the Dead Sea
(Library of Congress exhibit)

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies:
Resources on the WWW
for the Study of Philo of Alexandria

Library of Ethiopian Texts
(in Prague; includes more elaborate versions
of the Wisdom of Solomon, Enoch, and others)