The Theology Librarian has secured access to Oxford Biblical Studies Online which may also be of interest to selected historians.

OBSO brings together Bible texts, commentaries, concordances, and other reference works in an integrated online environment. Bible texts include the Oxford Study Bible, the New Oxford Annotated Bible 3/e, the Jewish Study Bible, the Catholic Study Bible 2/e, the Access Study Bible with Apocrypha, and the Authorized King James Bible with Apocrypha. Supporting works provide both reference materials and primary texts, including the Oxford Bible Atlas (4th ed., 2007), Oxford Bible Commentary, the Oxford Companion to the Bible, the Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, the Oxford History of the Biblical World, the Oxford Dictionary of the Bible, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, the Encyclopaedia of Dead Sea Scrolls, The Apocryphal Old Testament, The Apocryphal New Testament, and How to Read the Bible. Other features include 5,000 A-Z articles, maps and illustrations, interactive timelines (1720 BCE to 638 CE ), and a bibliography.

Users can explore the biblical world in all its complexity—the geography, history, archaeology, languages, literature, art, and architecture of the countries that border the Mediterranean and most of Western Asia.

Access is via OxLIP+.