Ancient Documents

Center for the Study of Ancient Documents

Introduction to the services of the Center and an experimental digital archive of epigraphical images, available for downloading. [Ancient Documents] [Collections]...

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Library of Congress Exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls

Background information on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and images of those fragments and artifacts displayed at the Library of Congress exhibit. [Ancient Documents] [Collections]...

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Prayer of Manasseh

The Prayer of Manasses is an apocryphal writing which purports to give the prayer referred to in 2 Chronicles 33:13, 18-19. Its original is Greek... [Apocryphal Book Listing]...

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University of Michigan Papyrus Collection

Contains an introduction to the University's papyrus collection, a list of papyrological tools, a selective bibliography, and a list of exhibitions and events. [Ancient Documents] [Collections]...

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Noncanonical Webpage

Contains Old and New Testament apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, as well as documents of the Church Fathers and the Nag Hammadi collection. [Ancient Documents] [Collections]...

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3 Maccabees

The third does not hold a place in the Apocrypha, but is read in the Greek Church. Its design is to comfort the Alexandrian Jews in their persecution. Its writer was evidently an Alexandrian Jew... [Apocryphal Book Listing]...

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The Perseus Project

Large site containing search tools, Greek texts with English translation, searchable lexicons, and over 13,000 images of art and artifacts along with descriptions of the image and its context. [Ancient Documents] [Collections]...

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Internet Classics Archive

Searchable archive of translated Greek and Roman texts. [Ancient Documents] [Collections]...

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2 Esdras

Known as 4 Esdras in most Latin manuscripts; the (Protestant) English apocrypha, however, give it as II Esdras, from the opening words: "The second book of the prophet Esdras"... [Apocryphal Book Listing]...

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Institut für Papyrologie (University of Heidelberg)

German language site. Includes a staff directory and current research projects. [Ancient Documents] [Collections]...

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