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Mystophilus
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This is essentially just a data dump from my ‘favourites’ list. I keep referring to these sites in my posts, and so I thought that it might be easier to just list them all here, for others to view at their leisure.
The vast majority of them are non-Catholic, which makes them far more useful when dealing with non-Catholics. Show a Protestant a Catholic site which says something unexpected, and s/he will likely dismiss it as biased. Show them this stuff, and they will find it harder going.
This list is meant to be neither exhaustive nor exclusive. Please feel free to add more sites of relevance.
I would also like to mention a few Catholic sites, which are more useful for learning than for apologetic exercises:
The vast majority of them are non-Catholic, which makes them far more useful when dealing with non-Catholics. Show a Protestant a Catholic site which says something unexpected, and s/he will likely dismiss it as biased. Show them this stuff, and they will find it harder going.
- a Wikipedia article on the [ canonsBible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible) which are in use
- a Jewish Encyclopia article on the formation of the Hebrew canon
- a site on the formation of the New Testament canon, including council decrees, charts of progressive expansion of the list, etc.
- a site with more information on canons of the Old and New Testaments
- a [ siteBible (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/), with about twenty English versions, and a lot more in other languages
- translations of early Christian texts, i.e., early Fathers, apocryphal books, etc
- more New Testamant apocrypha
- apocrypha Old and New, and some other texts of contextual relevance, e.g., Josephus’ works
- a [searchable Bible (http://www.blueletterbible.org/) with Greek and Hebrew gloss
- another [searchable Bible (http://www.studylight.org/) with Greek and Hebrew gloss
- the Westcott-Hort edition of the Greek New Testament, linked to the incomparable LSJ Greek lexicon
- [another searchable Bible (http://www.olivetree.com/bible/index.html), which can parallel different versions, including different versions of the Greek New Testament
- a site devoted to New Testament Greek texts and learning
- a source listing Bible-related sites.
This list is meant to be neither exhaustive nor exclusive. Please feel free to add more sites of relevance.
I would also like to mention a few Catholic sites, which are more useful for learning than for apologetic exercises:
- the [Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/)
- the [Catechism of the Catholic Church (http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm) online
- a good introduction to early Church councils.