However, for some of the books listed there is an issue navigating their articles. Some of the links are broken, so I have indicated which books (links) don't work properly and a work around below. Unfortunately there is no way to contact the person or organization hosting the website. It may be a Seventh-day Adventist website as they have posted Ellen White's sermons, however, most of these books are current mainline Christian works and most are found nowhere else on the web unless for purchase and cost thousands of dollars. This is a great help to any student of the Bible.
TIP: right click on the title and choose "Open link in new tab/window.". This will keep my blog opened.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Commentaries
Strong
Greek and Hebrew words
are listed and numbered to Strong's. Use the New Strong's
guide to Bible Words to find the English word and it will
link to the corresponding Greek or Hebrew words.
Library
All these works are
entered like a blog as individual pages sometimes chapters
sometimes topics and sometimes individual words. The best way to
find items in this section is to use their online search or
scroll through the pages using the Next/last buttons. Strangely
all the entries for these books start with the end of the book
and not the beginning. Use the Last button at the bottom to go
to the first of the book or topic (A).
** Avi-Yonah, Michael, and Ephraim Stern. Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. 4 vols. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1978. Finding the articles is a challenge because the word index does not work. When it is clicked nothing happens. However, from the online index if your place the article name at the end of the link you may find the article from the index. (i.e., for the article on "Masada" you would add the name to the end of this link and the Letter "M" before the "&word." ( if the article is on Corinth then add a C instead of M; everything in red): this link will bring up the Masada article: http://www.biblicalwritings.com/the-archaeological-encyclopedia-of-the-holy-land/?alfa=M&word=Masada). The difficulty is what do you do with compound words. For example execration texts is listed as http://www.biblicalwritings.com/the-archaeological-encyclopedia-of-the-holy-land/?alfa=E&word=execration. However, sometimes the link works like with http://www.biblicalwritings.com/the-archaeological-encyclopedia-of-the-holy-land/?alfa=M&word=MAMREH%0A. "Musical Instruments" is simply http://www.biblicalwritings.com/the-archaeological-encyclopedia-of-the-holy-land/?alfa=M&word=musical
*** Collins, John J., and Daniel C. Harlow, eds. The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2010. Finding the articles is a challenge because the word index does not work. When it is clicked nothing happens. However, from the online index if your place the article name at the end of the link you may find the article from the index. (i.e., for the article on "Hasideans" you would add the name to the end of this link and the Letter "H" before the "&word." ( if the article is on Corinth then add a C instead of M; everything in red): this link will bring up the Masada article: http://www.biblicalwritings.com/the-eerdmans-dictionary-of-early-judaism/?alfa=H&word=hasideans). The difficulty is what do you do with compound words, like the article "The amphitheater-hippodrome built by Herod the Great at Caesarea Maritima." I was not able to locate this entry although it is listed in the index. Occassionally you can try adding just the first word in the compound word for example for Caesarea Maritima just use Caesarea. Sometimes you can add + between words to locate compound words but this does not always work. The search feature on the website only seems to work with Holeman Atlas, Anchor Bible Dictionary and Anchor commentaries along with a few books but there are too many topics to sort through to find what you are looking for.
**** Freedman, David Noel, Gary A. Herion, David F. Graf, and John David Pleins, eds. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1992. Selecting the Anchor Bible Dictionary brings you to a Category Archive list of web pages starting with Z. The easier way to find articles is to use their website search engine. However, this search produces many works but is the best way to use this source. You may also try adding the article name to the URL link but notice that it is in a different place (for Jericho (place): http://www.biblicalwritings.com/jericho-place-the-anchor-bible-dictionary/). for a person you might try adding Manoah-person for Manoah: http://www.biblicalwritings.com/manoah-person-the-anchor-bible-dictionary/
***** Tenney, Merrill C., and Moisés Silva, eds. The Zondervan Encyclopedia of The Bible, Vols. 1-5. Revised, Full-Color ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2009. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1978. Finding the articles is a challenge because the word index does not work. When it is clicked nothing happens. However, from the online index if your place the article name at the end of the link you may find the article from the index. (i.e., for the article on "Jericho" you would add the name to the end of this link and the Letter "J" before the "&word." ( if the article is on Corinth then add a C instead of M; everything in red): this link will bring up the Masada article: http://www.biblicalwritings.com/the-zondervan-encyclopedia-of-the-bible/?alfa=J&word=Jericho). Most of the words are single words and not compound so makes it easy to locate the articles.
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