Library Guides: BIB-346 Luke/Acts: Books & ebooks

ebook Databases

Cambridge Companions to Religion Collection This link opens in a new window
Each volume in this series of companions to major topics and key figures in theology and religious studies contains specially commissioned essays by international scholars; provides and accessible and stimulating introduction to each subject.
Digital Karl Barth Library This link opens in a new window
A major online collection of Karl Barth's works provided by Princeton Theological Seminary and Theologischer Verlag Zurich; researchers can cross-search among all Barth's works. Results can be viewed, organized, and analyzed at an unprecedented
pace and precision.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Authoritative ebooks in a wide range of subject areas.
TIP: The Bookshelf feature allows you to store ebooks, create notes, highlight text, add Web links, and more. To access or create your personalized bookshelf, click the Bookshelf link in Ebook Central and sign in using your ORU Single Sign-On (SSO). To delete ebook titles, highlights and notes in your bookshelf, use the delete trash icon at the right in your folder.
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eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary collection of eBooks including titles in the Christian Librarians collections.
Video tutorial: Downloading EBSCO eBooks
Information from EBSCO concerning Accessibility use of ebooks.
Direct link into the Religion Collection
eBook Religion Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This eBook collection provides titles covering diverse worldwide religions and explores areas of study such as the social, cultural, and historical impacts of religion.
Ministry Matters This link opens in a new window
Full-text research and reference materials, original articles, blogs, book reviews, thematic topics, devotions, prayers, sermon starters all fully searchable.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion This link opens in a new window
"...Essays on critical topics and emerging issues in the study of religion, complementing hundreds of essays on Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and cross-cultural thematic studies."
Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Christianity This link opens in a new window
Full-text ebooks cross-searchable by subject, author, religion, work. "Researchers can search across hundreds of fully-digitized documents to instantly compare how different theories, denominations, and cultural groups have intersected, differed, and influenced one another."
"A multivolume, cross-searchable online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to worldwide religious thinkers from the early 1900s until the first decade of the 21st century. This resource represents voices from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam featuring significant thinkers of history."

Books & ebooks

Books: Search the library opens new windowcatalog for ORU holdings. For books held elsewhere, look in WorldCat (opens new windowFirstSearch or opens new windowopen access). You may also locate books by browsing the opens new windowB Library of Congress class numbers either by doing a call number search for the desired classification in the library opens new windowcatalog or by browsing the B section in the Reference or Main areas of the collection.

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Library of Congress Classification - Class Number for Bible

B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
- B-BD - Philosophy
- BF - Psychology
- BJ - Ethics
- BL - Religions
- BM - Judaism
- BP - Islam, etc.
- BQ - Buddhism
- BR - Christianity
- BS - The Bible
  - BS2595+Luke
  - BS1615+Acts
- BT - Doctrinal Theology
- BV - Practical Theology
- BX - Christian denominations