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Wikipedia entry for Jewish History We'll keep adding to this as we go, but here are some useful and reliable sites that will help you in the preparation of your assignments:

The Catholic Encyclopedia: New Advent This is a massive resource with a huge amount of reputable information on the Catholic Church and its beliefs. It has a very user-friendly search engine.

Online NRSV Bible: Oremus Bible Broser Excellent for searches of various phrases or words.

The Wikipedia entry and subsequent links on the Bible are especially scholarly and sound: Wikipedia Bible In this case, Wikipedia really is an excellent source. A great jumping off point to learn a good deal more about this important book.

Here's a great blog on life at the time of Jesus.

An excellent pictorial representation of the timeline of the development of the world's religions

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Cool interactive Map on Israel at the time of Jesus.

There are a number of different documentaries about the history of the Bible, but this one from the History Channel is one of the best. Here's part one - you can get the other parts on YouTube.

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Here's a good conversational website about Jewish History. You need to scroll down a bit to get to some familiar topics, but there's some great stuff here. Also, the Wikipedia entry for Jewish History o is pretty good, and has the advantage of having every major person, era and event hyperlinked to another article with greater detail.

We also talked about Caritas Australia. Their website is www.caritas.org.au