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Phase One:
Ambrose Swasey Library, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity
School
Oxyrhynchus papyri
28 papyrus manuscript
fragments, which were discovered at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and range in
date from the 1st to the 5th centuries CE.This collection is representative
of thousands of Oxyrhynchus papyri that have been uncovered. The Swasey
papyri include fragments of six Christian documents (one of the Gospel
of John), as well as fragments of the book of Leviticus in Greek, personal
letters, official documents and receipts, and one religious tale concerning
the god Sarapion. These unique manuscripts will be of interest to faculty
and students of Greek vocabulary and orthography, New Testament textual
criticism, ancient Christianity, and Hellenistic culture. BROWSE
Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern
Methodist University
Wesley Manuscripts & Memorabilia
Holographic letters
of John Wesley and manuscripts from other members of the Wesley family.
Images of items related to Wesley and the Methodist movement, including
portraits, book illustrations, images of historic Wesleyan sites, and
images of Wesley memorabilia such as ceramics. Together these resources
offer unique insights into Wesley and the "People Called Methodist"
for students and scholars at all levels. BROWSE
Claremont School of Theology
Coins from ancient
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods
Ancient Greek, Roman,
and Byzantine coins from the Curtis R. Paxman Collection that provide
vivid images of ancient culture. Most of these images do not duplicate
coins presented in other digital projects and therefore provide unique
resources that will illuminate the study of ancient history. BROWSE
Hartford Seminary Library
Slides illustrating the
practice of Islam
Slides taken in Islamic
countries that illustrate the practice of Islam. The images were photographed
by Hartford professor Jane I. Smith who has used them in her classes
to illustrate life and the practice of faith in Islamic countries. BROWSE
Illuminations
from Armenian Gospels
Illuminations from
two of the Armenian Gospels held by the Hartford Seminary Library. Among
the color illuminations are images of the four Gospel writers. These
wonderful examples of Christian art will be useful in classes on religion
and the arts as well as New Testament studies. BROWSE
Pitts Theology Library, Emory University
Printed
Images from the Sixteenth Century
Images drawn from
Kessler Collection consist primarily of wood or metal engravings that
were printed in books and pamphlets, often based on sketches by premiere
artists of the day. Images include illustrations of biblical stories
of interest to historians of biblical interpretation, illustrations
of church life for students of liturgy and ecclesiology, and printers'
devices for those interested in the history of printing. In addition
the engravings are of inherent interest to art historians.BROWSE
Princeton Theological Seminary
Libraries
Photographs of Protestant mission work in
Korea
Images from the collection
of PTS Emeritus Professor of Missions Samuel Hugh Moffett, who served
as a Presbyterian missionary in China and then in Korea for several
decades before returning to the USA to teach at Princeton Seminary.
Photographs, historical postcards, and slides together comprise a diverse
and unique visual history of Korea's religious, political, and social
development. The images in the collection date from the 1890s up to
the late 20th Century. BROWSE
Vanderbilt Divinity Library
Biblical
Iconography: French Medieval Cathedrals
Iconographical representations
of Biblical and patristic texts from French 12th and 13th century architecture.
Selected for their relevance to Biblical, theological, and historical
studies, these images are accompanied by scholarly content analysis
to maximize their usefulness for students and scholars of religion and
theology. BROWSE
Yale University Divinity School Library
Maps &
Charts Documenting the Expansion of Christianity
Historical maps and
charts documenting the expansion of Christianity. Selected from historical
atlases, histories of Christianity, and from the Yale University Map
Collection, these maps and charts provide visual support for the teaching
of church and mission history, and Biblical studies. BROWSE
Phase Two
Andover-Harvard Library (Harvard Divinity School),
Pitts Theology Library (Emory University), Princeton Theological Seminary
Libraries
Thanksgiving Day Sermons
American Thanksgiving
Day sermons printed between 1801 and 1900 and issued as individual publications.
Thanksgiving Day sermons are of particular interest for scholars in
the fields of homiletics, rhetoric, the history of biblical interpretation,
and systematic theology. The sermons selected for this project will
also shed light on the development of church-state relations in an especially
formative period in the history of the United States. This digital corpus
is expected to find use among theologians, historians, and others interested
in what Robert Bellah has called "civil religion." BROWSE
Concordia Seminary Library
Selected
manuscripts
Medizinisch-astrologisches Hausbuch . Germany, ca. 1429.
Profusely illustrated in water colors with signs of the Zodiac and miniature
paintings showing activities of the seasons and other scenes of daily
life. A layman's "medical manual" - one of seven of the genre known
to remain, the only one in the United States. BROWSE
Thomas a Kempis. Libellus
consolatorius . . . De Imitatione Christi, 1484. Ms copy stamped
with the seal of the Agnietenberg monastery, where Thomas lived, and
possibly copied from the original. BROWSE
Passio Domini.
Netherlands, ca. 1500-1520. A collection of 24 miniature paintings of
the Passion of Christ, with facing-page text in gold and red ink. BROWSE
Deutscher Kalender
und Praktik auf das Jahr 1466 BROWSE
Canonical Epistles
and Apocalypse. Germany (Rhine?), 12th century. Manuscript of James,
1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude, and Revelation, with a prologue to the Epistles,
an extract from the First Prologue of Revelation, notes on the Seven
Seals, a brief history of the world corresponding to the Seven Seals
(13th century), and the order of ceremonies in Holy Week (14th century).
BROWSE
Kathryn Sullivan Bowld Music Library, Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary
Shape-note tune books
The shape-note tune
books of the collection illuminate various musical aspects of the American
history of church and society, including the singing school movement
and the music education movement. Presenting a rich source of American
musical life, the seven selected tune books for the digitizing project
include psalm and hymn tunes, fuging tunes, songs for Sunday schools,
public schools, and homes, as well as music of the Lowell Mason school,
children's songs, folk hymns, anthems and music with secular texts.
BROWSE
Monroe F. Swilley, Jr. Library, Mercer
University
Portraits of some Baptist leaders
Images of portraits
of some Baptist leaders: earliest birth date is 1598 and latest death
date is 1968. BROWSE
Reeves Library, Moravian College and Theological
Seminary
Early text related to the Bohemian-Moravian Church of the
Brethren
This text describes
the development and social history of the Bohemian-Moravian Church of
the Brethren (also referred to as the United Fratrum) from the establishment
of the church to 1757. Title of original German work is Kurze, zuverlaszige
nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten
kirche Unitas Fratrum herkommen, lehr-begriff, aussern und innern Kirchen-Verfassung
und gebrauchen, aus richtigen urkunden und erzalungen von einem Ihrer
christlich unportheiischen freunde heraus gegeben und mit sechzehn vorstellungen
in kupfer erlautert, translated as A short and faithful report
of the Church known under the name of the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren,
stemming from the Unitas Fratrum, [including their] teaching, outward
and inner Church order and customs, derived from true documents and
accounts from one of their Christian, unbiased, friends, and illustrated
with sixteen copper images. Details of Bohemian-Moravian Church
history, worship practices, government, education, and social customs
are described and illustrated within 64 pages of text and 16 copper
plate images. BROWSE
Vanderbilt Divinity Library
Images of Religious and
Theological Iconography
Born-digital images
of collections of primarily Christian art and iconography that are identified
by scripture passage where appropriate. The images are from Amiens Cathedral,
St. Vitale in Ravenna, St. Savin in France, the Victoria and Albert
Museum in London, and other assorted locations. BROWSE
Phase Three
Andover Newton Theological School, Franklin Trask
Library
Postcards of New England Congregational and Baptist
churches
Views of New England
Congregational and Baptist churches, representing all chronological
periods of private postcard production, 1898-current date. The postcards
selected for digitization focus on architectural features and are from
a larger collection in Franklin Trask Library. In many cases several
postcards of an individual church present different renderings that
reflect artistic license. Churches from every New England state except
Vermont are included in the collection, although the bulk of postcards
depict Massachusetts Congregational churches. BROWSE
Boston University Theology Library
Christian Missions and
Social Progress, by James S. Dennis
The text of the three
volumes of James S. Dennis, Christian Christian Missions and Social
Progress; a Sociological Study of Foreign Missions, a significant
text for documenting the history of the missions movement that was published
1897-1906. BROWSE
Drew University Methodist Library
Wesley Family Letters and
Manuscripts
Digital images of
manuscripts written by members of the Wesley family. The majority of
these are letters, but also included are hymns and poems, a sermon by
John Wesley, a petition, Thomas Coke's ordination certificate, the will
of Charles Wesley's daughter Sarah, and some of the few surviving copies
of minutes from the Irish conferences of 1778, 1784, and 1785. BROWSE
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Library
The Morton
Collection of Biblical Artifacts
Images of artifacts
from the Bible lands (Jordan, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey,
Greece and Italy) acquired by Dr. William H. Morton, former director
of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, during the
1940s and 1950s, including inscribed scarabs from Egypt; terracotta
lamps and other pottery from Palestine; and ancient Jewish, Roman and
Byzantine coins. BROWSE
Ohio State University and Bridwell Library, Perkins School of
Theology, Southern Methodist University
Images from John Foxe's
Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs
Woodcuts from the
1563, 1570, 1576, and 1583 editions of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments
of the English Martyrs, a key document in the long stream of Christian
literature and denominational development with relevance to the study
of church history, iconography, theology, English art and literature.
BROWSE
Special Collections, Princeton Theological Seminary
Libraries
Selected Sermons Preached at Princeton Theological
Seminary during the Nineteenth Century
A collection of thirty-two
sermons preached at Princeton Theological Seminary in the nineteenth
century. The preachers include Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, Samuel
Miller, and Benjamin B. Warfield, among others. Digitized
from the books: The Princeton Pulpit. Edited by John T. Duffield.
Originally published: New York, Charles Scribner, 1852 and Princeton
Sermons. Chiefly by The Professors in Princeton Theological Seminary.
Originally published: New York, Fleming H. Revell Company: 1893. BROWSE
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities / Arthur Merrill
Collection
Images of the Holy Land
Images from slides
take by Dr. Arthur L. Merrill, Emeritus Harry C. Piper Professor of
Biblical Interpretation, during numerous trips to the Holy Land and
surrounding areas from 1962 to 1996. The collection includes photographs
of the land, archaeological sites and tells, artifacts, holy sites,
and modern cultural, political, and religious scenes from Israel and
Palestine. The artifacts and archaeological sites that Merrill has captured
date from 10,000 BCE to modern times, with a focus on the Biblical era.
BROWSE
Vanderbilt University Divinity Library
ETANA - texts for Ancient
Near Eastern studies
Thirty volumes digitized
from the collections of the Oriental Institute (2) and Vanderbilt Divinity
Library (28), also made available on the ETANA core texts web site.
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets. Harvard Excavations at Samaria.
Monuments of Nineveh. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh. BROWSE
Phase Four
Abilene Christian University, Brown Library
Baptistery
paintings in Twentieth-Century Churches of Christ
- Painted by
Blanche Perry: The digital images in this collection are taken from watercolor
sketches, hand-tinted black-and-white photographs, and black and white
photographs of her paintings made by Blanche Garrett Perry, who was
active in painting baptisteries for Churches of Christ from 1937 to
about 1955. BROWSE
- Photographed
by Jack Welch: The digital images in this collection are taken
from color 35 mm slides made by ACU English professor Jack Welch (1941-1996)
in Churches of Christ, mostly in Texas. BROWSE
Andover Newton Theological School, Franklin Trask
Library
Missionaries appointed by the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Daguerreotype images
of missionaries appointed by The American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions. The daguerreotypes were selected for inclusion based
on physical condition and are part of a larger collection in Franklin
Trask Library. BROWSE
Asbury Theological Seminary, B. L. Fisher
Library
Photographs From the Papers of E. Stanley
Jones
A selection of 300
photographs, most are black and white, from the Papers of E. Stanley
Jones. The photos span the time from his early adulthood to just before
his death. They show the personal side of his life with family photos,
document his love of India and its people, and document his evangelistic
endeavors. BROWSE
Duke University Divinity School
Images of mainline
Protestant children and families in the U.S.
Images of mainline
Protestant children and families in the U.S.,from denominational and
non-denominational magazines dating from the 1920s to the 1970s. Images
related to articles as well as advertisements were selected to consider
the configurations of "responsible," "wholesome," and "productive" families.
BROWSE
Harvard Divinity School, Andover-Harvard Theological
Library
Postcards of Unitarian and Universalist Church Buildings
Images of postcards
of Unitarian and Universalist church buildings. Churches in the United
States, Canada, and Japan are featured; the largest geographical grouping
is from Massachusetts. The postcards were produced beginning in 1898.
BROWSE
Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research
Collection
Photographs and letters from the Henri J. M. Nouwen
Archives
Photographs and outgoing
letters of Henri J. M. Nouwen, a chronological sampling of Nouwen's
life as priest, teacher, social activist, speaker, friend, son/brother/uncle,
and writer. BROWSE
Kathryn Sullivan Bowld Music Library, Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary
Worship Video Project
Sunday morning services
at five Southern Baptist churches in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as well
as the Isaiah 6 worship service held at the Seminary. Created to serve
as a multimedia resource for worship classes at Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary, these digitized worship services will also be
useful to liturgical scholars, Baptist studies, pastors, worship leaders,
and laypersons worldwide for observing and studying various worship
styles. BROWSE
Ohio State University Libraries / Bridwell Library, Perkins
School of Theology, SMU
Images from the John Foxe’s Acts and
Monuments (the “Book of Martyrs”), Ninth Edition (1684)
Complete set of images
(mostly engravings) from the ninth (1684) edition of John Foxe’s Acts
and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable, Happening in the
Church (“Book of Martyrs”), including the title page images of the three
volume set, the “Kalender” of martyrdoms, the title page for an added
section in volume 3. BROWSE
Pitts Theology Library, Emory
University
Woodcuts and metal engravings from 16th-19th century publications
Woodcuts and metal
engravings from the Pitts Library’s holdings of 16th-19th century publications.
These images include illustrations of the biblical text, church architecture,
portraits of religious leaders, and various other materials of interest
to historians, theologians, specialists in Bible, and those who teach
religious practices. BROWSE
Pitts Theology
Library, Emory University
Selected Photographs of Ancient
Near Eastern and Mediterranean Sites
Archaeological slides
from the collections of Emory University Prof. Emeritus J. Maxwell Miller
and his associates. These cover the archaeological remains of the Middle
East, North Africa, and Asia Minor and so should support the teaching
of Bible, archaeology, and ancient history. BROWSE
Roberts Library, Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary
Slides of archaeological sites in the Middle East
Images of archaeological
sites in the Middle East from slides that have been donated to the library
by faculty members support the teaching of Bible, archaeology, and ancient
history. BROWSE
Sanctuary for Sacred Art
Post Vatican II Church
Architecture and Art in Western Oregon
Images of Church architecture
and art showing reforms inspired by documents of the Second Vatican
Council. Images of reforms include: placement of the altar, moved closer
to, with priest facing, parishioners; placement of Baptismal font at
the entrance of the church, and larger in size to accommodate immersion;
Reconciliation rooms (replacing small confessionals); incorporation
of sacred art and architectural glass created by local artists; new
placement of the tabernacle and the ambo; removal of altar rails. BROWSE
United Theological Seminary Library
Oxyrhynchus Papyri Manuscript Collection
Images of seven papyrus documents from a large mass of papyrus and parchment fragments discovered in 1879-1905 at Oxyrhynchus (modern Behnesa), Egypt. These materials contain literary and non-literary ancient texts dating from the first to the ninth century C.E.
BROWSE
Yale University Divinity School Library
Missionary
Postcards
Images of more than
350 postcards documenting missionary work, primarily in Africa, with
a few from Asia and Oceania. These postcards were produced by mission
sending agencies and distributed throughout Europe and America with
the intent of promoting support for the missions' work and providing
information about non-Western peoples and customs. BROWSE
Yale University
Divinity School Library
Postcards of Methodist
Churches in the United States
Images of more than
100 Methodist churches from across the United States, dating primarily
from the first half of the twentieth century. The postcards depict many
architectural styles of Methodist churches in rural, suburban, and city
settings. BROWSE
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