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*Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Includes: The Ancient Near East, Bible, Judaica, New Testament, Islam, modern Middle East

Israeli Scholarship

Rabbinics and Traditional Literature

Online Judaic Responsa (="Bar-Ilan")

Includes the Bible, the Talmud and their principal commentaries; works about Jewish law and customs; major codes of Jewish law, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with its principal commentaries; midrashim, Zohar, responsa, etc.

Otzar haHochma

Text collection of over 57,000 volumes of traditional Hebrew literature

Sefaria

AlHaTorah

Traditional commentaries on the Bible

HebrewBooks.Org

Classical Hebrew Books

Daat:  Limude Dat ve-Ruah

Online texts, including books and articles

Snunit

Free online access to Bible, Talmud and Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

 

Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts -- National Library of Israel

 

Primary Textual Witnesses to Tannaitic Literature -- Bar-Ilan

Requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher

 

Sol and Evelyn Henkind  Talmud Text Database (Lieberman Institute)

 

For articles and books on Jewish law, see:  Jewish Law

 

Free Primary Jewish Sources and Resources on the Internet

Responsa of American Religious Movements

Reform Responsa (CCAR)

An index of Conservative Responsa and Practical Halakhic Studies, 1917-1990 (Golinkin)

Judaica Ref BM523 .G65 1992

Newspapers

Historical Jewish Press

compactmemory.de

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century German Jewish newspapers and periodicals

Union List of Digitized Jewish Historic Newspapers, Periodicals and e-Journals