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Church History: Early Church History
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Online Resources & Archives
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library This link opens in a new windowThe Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.
- Clavis Clavium This link opens in a new windowClavis clavium is an integrated reference database and collaborative update platform to open up Patristic, Medieval and Byzantine texts.
- Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library This link opens in a new windowA free online digitized virtual library of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Digital Scriptorium This link opens in a new windowDigital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts. DS is dedicated to building an online national union catalog for manuscripts in US collections.
- Early Christians Speak: Faith and Life in the First Three Centuries This link opens in a new windowThese studies in early church history cover various aspects of the church life of early Christians.
- Early Christian Texts This link opens in a new windowWhere to find the full texts of early Church fathers.
- The Fathers of the Church This link opens in a new windowFrom the Catholic Encyclopedia.
- Fourth-Century Christianity This link opens in a new windowA site promoting and storing research tools and texts for the study of the Church and its environment in the Fourth Century.
- From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians This link opens in a new windowFrontline documentary about the early church.
- North American Patristics Society This link opens in a new windowNAPS promotes the study of late antiquity and early Christianity primarily through a journal and annual meeting.
- Patristics Document Library This link opens in a new windowArticles on the teachings of various Church fathers.
- The Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project This link opens in a new windowBetween 2012 and 2017 the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican Library) joined efforts in a landmark digitization project with the aim of opening up their repositories of ancient texts. More than 1.5 million pages from their remarkable collections have been made freely available online to researchers and to the general public.
