Great Books and Classics

The Bible (1400? BC - 90? AD)

All links verified on or after March 12, 2017

English Translation Bibles
[Multi-translation]   [KJV]   [NASB]   [NCV]   [NIrV]   [NIV]   [NKJV]   [NRSV]   [OSB]
Non-English Bibles
[Arabic]   [Chinese]   [Danish]   [Dutch]   [Esperanto]   [Finnish]   [French]   [German]   [Greek]   [Modern Greek]   [Hungarian]   [Icelandic]   [Italian]   [Japanese]   [Latin]   [Norwegian]   [Polish]   [Portuguese]   [Russian]   [Slovenian]   [Spanish]   [Swedish]   [Tagalog]   [Turkish]
Other Resources
[Atlases]   [Commentaries]   [Concordances]

The Bible is on almost every reading list of Great Books and/or Western Classics; hence, no inclusion codes are used on this page.

English Translation Bibles
Multi-Translation Bibles

Bible Gateway - searchable, 10 English translations and 54 other languages available
Bible Database - 8 English translations and 25 other languages available

Available at Amazon.Com:
The Contemporary Parallel New Testament, hardcover - KJV, NASB, NIV, NLT, NCV (Oxford Univ Press, 1998, 1840 pg).

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King James Version (KJV)

Available at Amazon.Com:

KJV Large Print Compact Bible, bonded leather (Holman Bible Publishers, 2001, 1566 pg).
Ryrie KJV Study Bible, hardcover, includes The Moody Library on DVD (Moody Publishers, 2008, 2336 pg).

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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Available at Amazon.Com:

NASB Thinline Bible, Large Print (Zondervan, 1999, 1152 pg).
Life Application Study Bible NASB, hardcover (Zondervan, 2000, 2560 pg).

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New Century Version (NCV)

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International Children's Bible, hardcover (Thomas Nelson, 2010, 1152 pg).

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New International Reader's Version (NIrV)

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NIrV Kid's Study Bible, paperback (ZonderKidz, 2004, 1824 pg).

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New International Version (NIV)

Available at Amazon.Com:

Zondervan NIV Study Bible, Compact, updated edition, leather bound (Zondervan, 2008, 2368 pg).
NIV Worship Bible, Large Print, hardcover (Zondervan, 1994, 1984 pg).

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New King James Version (NKJV)

Available at Amazon.Com:

Ultrathin Large Print Reference Bible NKJV, hardcover, black leather (Holman Bible Pub, 2014, 1184 pg).

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New Living Translation (NLT)

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Life Application Study Bible, hardcover (Tyndale House Pub, 2004, 2448 pg).

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New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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NRSV Harper Study Bible, hardcover (Zondervan, 1991, 2112 pg).

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Orthodox Study Bible (OSB)

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Orthodox Study Bible, hardcover (Thomas Nelson, 2008, 1824 pg).

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Non-English Translation Bibles
Arabic Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Arabic Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Available at Amazon.Com:
Arabic Bible, hardcover (American Bible Society, 2003).

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Chinese Translations

O-Bible.com - Chinese Union Version in big5 encoding (indexed; may initially be slow-loading)
O-Bible.com - Chinese Union Version in GB (Chinese simplified) encoding (indexed; may initially be slow-loading)

Available at other booksellers:
Chinese Life Application Bible, hardcover, at IBSDirect (Union translation with simplified characters).

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Danish Translations

Bible Database, 1933 translation (One page per chapter, indexed)
Multi-format New Testament (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Danish Bible Society text)
Multi-format Old Testament (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Danish Bible Society text)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Danish New Testament, paperback (RareBooksClub.com, 2013, 190 pg).

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Dutch Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Het Boek translation

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Esperanto Translations

Sacred Texts - Multi-page, indexed

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Finnish Translations

Finnish Bible at Funet.fi - 1776, 1932/38, and 1992 translations
Finnish 1938 Bible at Bible Database

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French Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, La Bible du Semeur translation
Bible Gateway - searchable, Louis Segond translation

Available at Amazon.Com:
French Bible, paperback, La Sainte Bible Version Semeur (Zondervan, 2016, 1392 pg).

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German Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Luther Bibel 1545 translation

Available at Amazon.Com:
German Bible, hardcover, bilingual German/English (Transcripture International, 2013, 1136 pg).
German Bible, hardcover, Gute Nachricht Bibel (German Bible Society, 2001, 1344 pg).

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Greek (Translations and Original Language)

Greek New Testament at Tony Fisher's Home Page, does not require Greek font to be installed. (Will probably not be maintained after 2005)
The Online Greek Bible (NT), user can choose from four fonts or an image-based display.
Rahlf Septuagint (Multi-page, frames) at TITUS Texts
New Advent Bible in parallel Greek, English and Latin (Multi-page, indexed) at New Advent

Available at Amazon.Com:
Analytical Greek New Testament, hardcover, Greek text with grammatical analysis (Baker Book House, 1981, 854 pg).
Septuagint with Apocrypha, Greek and English, paperback (Hendrickson Publishers, 1986).

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Modern Greek Translations

No known online texts

Available at Amazon.Com:
Greek/Modern Greek New Testament, hardcover (AMG pubs, 1999, 836 pg).

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Hungarian Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Hungarian Bible - Easy-to-Read Version
Bible Gateway - searchable, Hungarian New Translation

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Icelandic Translations

Icelandic-English Bilingual Bible at Internet Archive (Multi-format: Flipbook, PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Text), translation unknown
Icelandic New Testament at Internet Archive (Multi-format: Flipbook, PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Text), 1866 translation

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Italian Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, La Nuova Diodati translation
Bible Gateway - searchable, Conferenza Episcopale Italiana translation

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Japanese Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Japanese Living Bible

Available at Amazon.Com:
Japanese Bible, paperback (American Bible Society, 2000).
Japanese Bible, vinyl bound (American Bible Society, 2011, 2037 pg).

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Latin Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Biblia Sacra Vulgata translation
New Advent Bible in parallel Greek, English and Latin (Multi-page, indexed) at New Advent

Available at Amazon.Com:
Novum Testamentum Latine, hardcover New Testament (Hendrickson, 2015).

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Norwegian Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Det Norsk Bibelselskap 1930 translation

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Polish Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Updated Gdańsk Bible (NT, Psalms, Proverbs)

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Portuguese Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, O Livro translation

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Russian Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Russian New Testament, Easy-to-Read Version

Available at Amazon.Com:
Russian Bible, NRT (New Revised Translation), hardcover (Zondervan, 2016, 1216 pg).
Russian Bible, NRT (New Revised Translation), paperback (Zondervan, 2016, 1216 pg).

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Slovenian Translations

Bible Society of Slovenia - indexed, searchable

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Spanish Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Reina-Valera 1995 translation
Bible Gateway - searchable, Nueva Versión Internacional translation

Available at Amazon.Com:
NVI Biblia de Estudio, hardcover (Vida, 2002, 2182 pg).
Nueva Biblia De Estudio Scofield, Reina-Valera 1960 translation, hardcover (B&H Publishing Group, 2001, 1341 pg).
Spanish/English Parallel Bible, La Santa Biblia RVR / The Holy Bible ESV. Hardcover (Crossway, 2013, 1792 pg).

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Swedish Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Levanda Bibeln translation
Bible Gateway - searchable, Svenska 1917 translation
Swedish Multi-Format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text), both Old and New Testament, at Project Gutenberg (Translation uncertain)

Available at other booksellers:
Swedish New Testament, paperback, at Church Source (Zondervan, 416 pg, 2016).

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Tagalog Translations

Bible Gateway - searchable, Ang Salita ng Diyos translation

Available at Amazon.Com:
Tagalog New Testament, Hardcover, translation of the KJV (Send The Light Ministries, 2016, 610 pg).
Tagalog Bible, Kindle edition, contains the Bible in Basic English and the Tagalog Ang Biblia 1905.

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Turkish Translations

Turkish New Testament at Funet.fi

Available at Amazon.Com:
Turkish Study Bible, hardcover (Bible Society, 2010).

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Other Resources
Atlases

Available at Amazon.Com:

Holman Bible Atlas, hardcover (Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1999, 298 pg).
The Collegeville Atlas of the Bible, hardcover (Liturgical Press, 1999, 144 pg).
Atlas Biblico Conciso Holman, Spanish paperback (B&H Espanol, 2013, 48 pg).
Atlas of the Bible Lands, paperback (Hammond World Atlas Corp, 2008, 64 pg).

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary (Forms-based) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Available at Amazon.Com:
Matthew Henry's Commentary, hardcover, unabridged edition (Hendrickson Publishers, 2008, 2000 pg).
Halley's Bible Handbook, hardcover (Zondervan, 2000, 1136 pg).

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Concordances

Available at Amazon.Com:

The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, hardcover, keyed to KJV (Thomas Nelson, 2003, 1920 pg).
The Holman Bible Concordance for Kids, hardcover (Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1999, 300 pg).
The Englishman's Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament, hardcover, uses the numbering system from the Strong's concordance (Hendrickson Publishers, 1996).
The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament, hardcover, uses the numbering system from the Strong's concordance (Hendrickson Publishers, 1996).