Web Resources for OT Studies
This list of web resources for the Old Testament studies was brought from K. C. Hanson’s book Introducing the Bible: Study Guide (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004) and Don C. Benjamin The Old Testament Story: Study Guide (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004).
I. Introducing the Old Testament
ABZU (Charles E. Jones; Oriental Institute)
Ancient World on the Web (K. C. Hanson; Fortress Press)
Old Testament Gateway (Tabor College, Australia)
OT & Ancient Near East (Ralph W. Klein; Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago)
Ancient Near Eastern Arts (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Explore Ancient Egypt (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Nuzi and Hurrians (Harvard Semitic Museum)
Map of Israel and Judah in ANE (Harvard Semitic Museum)
Old Testament Apocrypha (Wesley Center Online)
Electronic Scripture Library (Un. of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary)
Bible Maps (Precept Austin)
II. The Foundation of Nation
Highlights of the Collection: Palestine (Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago)
Amarna Tablet #79: Letter of Lib-Hadda to Pharaoh (K. C. Hanson)
Amarna Tablet #286: Letter of Abdi-Heba to Pharaoh (K. C. Hanson)
“The Date of the Exodus: The Historical Study of Scripture” (Dennis Bratcher)
“The Exodus in Biblical Memory” (Ronald Hendel; Univ. of Californai, Berkeley)
“Back to the Future: The Tabernacle in the Book of Exodus” (Ralph W. Klein)
III. A Land Flowing Milk and Honey
Jericho (Bible Places)
Canaan and Ancient Israel (Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum)
Kings of Ugarit (K. C. Hanson)
Archaeology in Canaan and Israel (Hecht Museum; Haifa; Israel)
Ashkelon Excavations (Univ. of Chicago; Harvard)
“Baal (and the Asherah) in Seventh Century Judah” (Baruch Halpern; Penn. Stat.)
Hazor (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Ashkelon (The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon)
IV. A King Like Other Nations
Artist’s Conception of the City of David
“Society and the Promise to David: Reading 2 Sam 7″ (William Schniedewind; UCLA)
The Houses of Ancient Israel (Harvard Semitic Museum)
Tel Dan Inscription (K. C. Hanson)
V. The Two Kingdoms
The Kings of Israel and Judah (K. C. Hanson)
“Hose of YHWH” Inscription (K. C. Hanson)
Moabite Stone (K. C. Hanson)
El Kerak Inscription (K. C. Hanson)
Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.E.) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Tiglath-Pileser III Receiving Homage (Detroit Institute of Art)
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser (K. C. Hanson)
Ekron Inscription (K. C. Hanson)
Widow’s Petition Ostracon (K. C. Hanson)
Yavneh-Yam Ostracon (K. C. Hanson)
Mesopotamian Tree of Life (Vatican Museums)
VI. Judah and Jerusalem
Sennacherib’s Prism (Assyrian) (K. C. Hanson)
Assyrian Officers (K. C. Hanson)
Assyrian Soilders (K. C. Hanson)
Hezekiah’s Tunnel (Edgar McKnight; Furman University)
Siloam Inscription (K. C. Hanson)
A Forerunner of Biblical Prophecy: The Mari Documents (Abraham Malamat)
Biblical Prophecy (Robert Wilson)
The Form and Significance of the Call Narrative (Norman Habel)
VII. Babylonian Exile: Dashed Hopes and New Horizons
Ishtar Gate of Babylon (K. C. Hanson)
Lion Detail on the Ishtar Gate (K. C. Hanson)
Ishtar Gate Inscription (K. C. Hanson)
Cyrus Cylinder (K. C. Hanson)
Passover Letter from Elephantine (K. C. Hanson)
Petition to Authorize Elephantine Temple Reconstruction (K. C. Hanson)
VIII. The Challenge of a New Age
Ancient Persia (Livius; Jona Lendering)
Darius the Great (Iran Culture and Information)
Alexander the Great on Web (Tim Spalding)
IX. The Living God
“The Unriliable Narrator of Job” (James W. Watt, Syracuse Univ.)
“Why God? A Tale of Two Sufferers” (Burton Z. Cooper)
X. God and the World
Emuman Elish- The Epic of Creation (trans. L. W. King)
The Gilgamesh Epic (Stan Rummel Texa Wesleyan Univ.)
The Gilgamesh Epic Tablet 11: an Outline (Humanities Online Gateway)
The Hammurabi Stele (Stan Rummel)
Law in the Ancient Orient (Gateways to Babylon)
The Insctruction of of Ptahhotep (Humanistic Texts)
The Inscruction of Amenemope (Tour Egpyt)
Last updated: April 8, 2008.
