Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

New Testament

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Reference works (guides to primary documents)

Anchor Bible Dictionary Sample
Trexler Library Reference Collection (A level) 220.3 A539b

Encyclopedia of Religion
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.

New Catholic Encyclopedia (2002)
Trexler Library Reference Collection (A level) 282.03 N532c

New Testament Apocrypha by Wilhelm Schneemelcher Sample
Trexler Library Main Collection (B level)229 S358m

Books (primary and secondary)

Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College. Try searching on terms like nag hammadi, gnostic literature, gnosticism, josephus, new testament apocrypha, tertullian, athanasius, early church fathers, etc.

WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Database > Most Popular > WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation. Use E-ZBorrow for faster interlibrary loan.

E-ZBorrow
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > ILL > E-ZBorrow
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.

Online texts (primary and secondary)

Christian Classics Library (http://www.ccel.org/)
From Calvin College.

Gnostic Society Library (http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html)
Contains selections from the Nag Hammadi. Hosted by the Gnostic Societyl

New Advent(http://newadvent.org/)
Connected with the Roman Catholic church.

Online and Medieval and Classical Library (http://omacl.org/)
From UC Berkeley.

St. Pachomius Library (http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html)
An Orthodox Christianity website.

Periodical articles (secondary sources that may in turn point to primary materials)

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Good starting place for journals, and includes the full text of about 3000 journals. Limit to "peer reviewed" to find only scholarly articles. Back issues of journals begin as early as 1990. Recent issues may not be included yet, due to publisher agreement. Journals held in Trexler Library are marked accordingly.

JSTOR
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Archive from Stanford University of scholarly journals in all subject areas.

Project Muse
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Recent archive of journals from a number of academic presses.

subject-specialty indexes. . .

ATLA Religion ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Standard index for religious studies. Some full text.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Text at Trexler link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > ILL

Search engines

Popular

Google (http://www.google.com)
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.

Scholarly (use with discretion)

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Intended as a "federated search" to search across disciplines (weighted toward sciences and social sciences). Not always full text. Check our Journal Locator (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text.

Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/)
The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/)
Highly selective search engine and directory of web resources. Both scholarly and popular sites deemed important by a team of California-based public librarians. Entries are accompanied by paragraph-length descriptions.

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.