My blogging efforts have helped immensely as I have been seeking out my research interests as a student of New Testament and Christian origins. Before beginning the blogging journey, I had little idea what might be available for the student and scholar online. So, I have created a separate resource page for those interested in discovering what might be out there for scholars of biblical studies, Christian origins and Second Temple Judaism. I include helpful links to get introduced into the biblioblogging world (that is, blogs generally about academic biblical studies), though I don’t attempt any list of biblioblogs myself. I point to a few places where one might find some primary texts and full articles (there are too many articles available to list and more are coming available through university library searches).

My biggest resource on the page is my own attempt to list full-view books from Google Books available for scholars in our fields. I was inspired by Mischa Hooker’s list, and have included some of her findings, but I have mostly been tracking things down on my own as I think of authors to search for. It is primarily an interesting project for me. I am taking a class on the history of NT scholarship and it helps to see images of books published so long ago in the field. It makes the history come alive a little bit more. But I also thought others might find the links interesting, so I’m putting it out there for everyone. Let me know what you think. The bibliographic format is a little awkward with different volumes and editions available separately. I hope you can overlook that and perhaps I’ll come up with a better idea as time goes on. Feel free to leave comments on the page itself (or this post) with suggestions and I’ll look them up in due course.

Update (same day): It came to my attention that, in addition to Hooker’s list, Danny Zacharias and Bob Buller (SBL Editorial Director) maintain an incredible list as well. Their list also blows mine out of the water, but I’m enjoying the search, so I’ll keep plugging away.

As my list grows, I think I will try to add entries that include not only the big names of scholarship, but also representations of interesting interpretative debates from history, particularly social issues. I’ve already found a few on slavery, including from a pro-slavery perspective.