Selected Sources for
RELI 331—Women in Early Christianity
March 17, 2009
Gail Egbers
535-8869   egbersgl@plu.edu



FINDING BOOKS:  Our computerized catalog (http://library.plu.edu) provides access to the materials in our library.    Subject headings relevant to your topic include:


Martyrs
Women in Christianity -- History ---Early church, ca. 30-600
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

                                                                                      To find books not at PLU use WorldCat
              

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Indexes relevant to your topic include:

    •    ATLA (via EBSCO)
    •    Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (via EBSCO)
    •    EBSCO (via PLU Library’s Website)
    •    Religion & Philosophy Collection (via EBSCO)
    •    Religious & Theological Abstracts (via PLU Library’s Website)


LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:   Journals at PLU gives you access to the full-text journals we have online and the call numbers of our print and microfilm periodicals.


REFERENCE MATERIALS

    •    Atlas of the early Christian world (ATLAS G1046.E4M6 1959)
    •    Concise dictionary of Christian ethics (ref. BJ1199.C66)
    •    Concise dictionary of Christian theology (ref. BR95.E75 1986)
    •    Concise Dictionary Of Early Christianity (ref. BR95.K395 1992)
    •    Dictionary of Christian theology (ref. BR95.A54 1985)
    •    Encyclopedia of Christian theology (REF BR95.D5313 2005)
    •    Encyclopedia of early Christianity (ref. BR162.2.E53 1997)
    •    Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world (ref. HQ1127.S25 2001)
    •    New Encyclopedia Of Christian Martyrs (ref. BR1601.2.N48 2001)
    •    Routledge Religious Reference Resources Online (via PLU Library’s Website)
    •    Westminster dictionary of Christian theology(ref. BR95.W494 1983)
    •    Women in scripture : a dictionary of named and unnamed women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical           
          books, and the New Testament (ref. BS575.W593 2000)




INTERNET RESOURCES
Choose your Internet sites careful.  Here are some tips on evaluating websites:  http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet

    •    First Christians—From Jesus to Christ (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/first)
    •    Internet Sacred Text Archive (http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm)
    •    Internet Theology Resources (http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/)
    •    Religious Studies (http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=664&pid=650)
    •    Women in Early Christianity (http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/women/christwom.html)
    •    Women in the Early Church (http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/women.php)
    •    Women, the Roman Empire, and Early Christianity (http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/corinthians/womenlinks.stm)

 

BEYOND PLU

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    •    Seattle Pacific University
    •    Seattle University

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