Useful Links

Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/

Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/
The electronic journal of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations published by The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College.

Canadian Council of Christians and Jews
http://cccj.ca

Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations
http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/meta-elements/sites/partners/ccjr/Intro.htm
The Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations is an association of centers and institutes in the United States and Canada devoted to enhancing mutual understanding between Jews and Christians.

International Council of Christians and Jews
http://iccj.org
An umbrella organization for 38 Christian-Jewish Dialogue institutions worldwide.

Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel
www.icci.org.il
Promoting interreligious and intercultural understanding in Israel.

Jewish Christian Relations
www.jcrelations.net
Articles, reviews, reports, official statements, and study resources on Jewish-Christian relations.

King’s University College, Centre for Catholic-Jewish Learning
http://www.uwo.ca/kings/ccjl/researchers.html
Resources for researchers and Students. Documents of significance [Christian, Jewish and jointly producted]; articles; links; calendars; vocabulary etc.

Sacred Heart University Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding
http://www.ccju.org
The Center publishes conference proceedings, lectures, monographs, and a semi-annual publication, CCJU Perspective, and maintains a web site filled with a variety of articles pertaining to Christian and Jewish concerns.

SIDIC
www.sidic.org
An International Jewish-Christian Documentation Service and Study Center founded in Rome in 1965 at the request of a group of Bishops and experts from Vatican Council II.

The Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies www.icjs.org/home.html
Many articles and resources in the area interreligious dialogue.

The United Church of Canada
http://www.united-church.ca/bfw/finalstatement.shtm

Bearing Faithful Witness
A statement on United Church-Jewish Relations today, August 2003.

The Vatican
www.vatican.va
Offical website of the Roman Catholic Church.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Jewish Relations. http://www.usccb.org/seia/jewish.shtml

Catholic Bible College, Johannesburg
http://www.catholicbiblecollege.co.za/
The purpose of the College is to foster the biblical pastoral ministry of the Church in South Africa. by offering biblical education through it campus in La Rochelle, Johannesburg.

Light of Torah
http://lightoftorah.net/

CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH RELATIONS – DOCUMENTS AND GUIDELINES
A selected bibliography for Church documents, statements and relevant articles.

JEWISH STUDIES RESOURCES ON THE WEB

Biblical Studies on the Web
http://www.bsw.org/index.php
Provides links to the online journal BSW; Electronic versions of Biblica and Filologia Neotestamentaria, links to e-journals, libraries, academic papers etc.

Judaism 101
http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm.

Jewish Encyclopedia
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
An on-line version of Jewish Encyclopedia.

The University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/InterAct.html
An interactive page with simple explanations and outlines of The Talmud, The Mishneh, Cantilation, and the Ten Sefirot of Kabbalah, prepared by Eliezer Segal and hosted by The University of Calgary.

Maimonides
http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/rambam.html
Resources and links for Maimonides (Rambam).

BIBLE, TORAH AND TANACH EDITONS

Mechon-Mamre
(The Mamre Institute) www.mechon-mamre.org
The Hebrew Bible in English/Hebrew parallel; the Hebrew bible with vowels and cantilation; the Mishneh (Hebrew) and other books.

Hebrew-Portuguese Tanach translation
http://www.judaismo-iberico.org/interlinear/tanakh/indexpt.htm
Bíblia – Versão Hebraica do Mekhon_Mamre. The Bible with Hebrew and Portuguese translation in parallel.

The Chumash with Rashi’s commentary
http://www.tachash.org/texis/vtx/chumash

The Torah with Rashi’s commentary.

The on-line Bible
http://bible.cc/
Seven versions in parallel.

The Hebrew Scriptures read in HebrewThe Academy of Ancient Languages: http://www.aoal.org/hebrew_audiobible.htm.The Hebrew Bible read in Hebrew.The text is read slowly and clearly – a good site for beginners. (The mp3 files can be downloaded).

The Tanach with Rashi’s Commentary
http://www.chabad.org/library/archive/LibraryArchive.asp?AID=63255
The Judaica Press Tanach with Rashi.

The Aleppo Codex
http://aleppocodex.org/homepage.html

TEXTS AVAILABLE ON-LINE

The Internet Sacred texts Archive
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/index.htm

  • The Babylonian Talmud translated by M L Rodkinson [1918] 10 Vol. abridgement.
  • The Tanakh – in Hebrew and in English translation.
  • Pirqe Avot.
  • The Legends of the Jews – Louis Ginzberg.
  • Midrash Tanhuma.
  • plus other translations of Hebraic literature e.g. The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides; The Works of Josephus Flavius; and Sepher Yetzirah.

The Legends of the Jews – Louis Ginzberg, also available at
http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/fairytales/jews/

Mechon-Mamre
www.mechon-mamre.org
Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (Hebrew).

The Talmud. (in Hebrew)
http://www.e-daf.com/index.asp.
Print folio pages as they appear in the printed editions of the Talmud from this site. Listen to a daily Daf in English.

The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?BS
-a Library of on-line links for Bibles and Christian books.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?BM.
-a Library of on-line links for Judaism.

The Transliterated Siddur – Siddur ba-eir hei-teiv
http://siddur.webjew.org/
Prayer Book – follow link to Transliterated Siddur.
Pirke Avot. http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=5708

PARASHAT HASHAVUAH RESOURCES

Chabad.org
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp
Parashah commentaries. Includes Rashi’s commentary in parallel with the portion.

Bar-Ilan University Parashat Hashavuah Study Center
http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/
An archive of parashat hashavuah commentaries.

The Conservative Yeshiva, Jerusalem
http://www.uscj.org.il/haftarah/index.html
An archived weekly Commentary on the haftarah.

Newsletter for Targumic & Cognate Studies
http://www.tulane.edu/~ntcs/tgtext.htm
Provides online: Targum Pseudo_Jonathan and Targum Onkelos. Also Targumim of the Megilot: Song of Songs; Ruth; and Lamentations and Targum Psalms.

The Aramaic Targum to Song of Songs
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jtreat/song/targum/
Targum to the Song of Songs.

The Jewish Theological Seminary Parashat Hashavuah
http://www.jtsa.edu/community/parashah/index.shtml
Read the Torah and Haftarah portions [JPS translation]; sign up or read on-line a parashat hashavuah commentary each week; access an archive of past parashat hashavuah commentaries and translations including Holidays and Special Readings.

“What’s Bothering Rashi?”
http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/parsha/bonchek/archives/archives.htm
An analysis of the Torah commentary (according to Rashi) by Avigdor Bonchek. Published according to the weekly Portion. “What’s Bothering Rashi?” is produced by the Institute for the Study of Rashi and Early Commentaries.

HEBREW LANGUAGE

E-Teacher Biblical
www.eteacherbiblical.com

Dictionary for Beginners.
http://www.dictionary.co.il/index.php
A useful list of words and their Hebrew translation.

Milingua Hebrew Learning
http://www.milingua.com
Sign up for free Hebrew learning materials or subscribe to a course.

The Online Hebrew Tutorial
http://foundationstone.com.au/OnlineHebrewTutorial.html
Useful site for beginners in Hebrew.

BIBLICAL REFERENCE TOOLS, LEXICONS ETC.

Yale Divinity Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/div/tutframe.htm
A Biblical Reference Tools tutorial site from Yale Divinity Library. Includes an Introduction to the Use of a Lexicon.

Hebrew, Brown, Driver & Briggs
http://www.library.yale.edu/div/lexicon1.htm#heblex
How to use a Hebrew lexicon.

Greek lexicon
http://www.library.yale.edu/div/lexicon1.htm#grklex
How to use a Greek lexicon.

A free, online Bible Quiz containing 4,327 multiple choice questions
bible-quiz.co.il
http://biblequiz.co.il

CALENDAR

Jewish calendar
http://www.hebcal.com.
Jewish calendar with Torah readings for Shabbat and Holidays.

Resources