LINKS
***PERMANENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION***
(All Accessed October 2007)
General
Systematic Theology:
http://www.monergism.com/systematic.html
Always a good jumping off point for any investigation
Christian Classics Ethereal
Library:
http://www.ccel.org/
I use this site primarily
in my research of the ANFs (coupled with e-sword), but loads of good info
WTBTS-Specific Sites:
The reader is hereby forewarned:
I do not agree with all the beliefs, opinions, etc., espoused on these sites and some can be fairly acerbic and derisive of
the WTBTS and JWs. Please use your best judgment.
For An Answer:
http://www.forananswer.org
Mars Hill & the
Apologetic Bible Commentary are particularly excellent.
Word Resources, Inc:
http://www.tetragrammaton.org/index.htm
Christian Think Tank:
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/
The section on the
Trinity is exceptional
J.P. Holding:
http://www.tektonics.org
Research on the WatchTower:
http://corior.blogspot.com/
Jehovah’s Witnesses:
A Critical Analysis:
http://www.geocities.com/jw_analysis/index.html
MacGregor Ministries:
http://64.33.47.165/jehovahs_witnesses/jehovah_witness_index.html
Apologetics
Index:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/t10.html
The Watchman:
http://www.watchman.org/jw/index.htm
CARM:
http://www.carm.org/witnesses.htm
And particularly, the CARM discussion forum:
http://www.christiandiscussionforums.org/v/forumdisplay.php?f=28
Watchers of the Watchtower
World:
http://www.freeminds.org/
AOMIN:
http://www.aomin.org/Witnesses.html
Let Us Reason:
http://www.letusreason.org/JWdir.htm
CR&E:
http://www.jude3.net/JWIDX.HTM
JW Files:
http://www.jwfiles.com/index.htm
Contra Sites (pro WTBTS):
WTBTS homepage:
http://www.watchtower.org
Greg Stafford (Elihu Books/Media):
http://www.elihubooks.com/
In Defense of the NWT:
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/newworldtranslation/pageindex.htm
Jehovah’s Witnesses
United:
http://www.jehovah.to/exe/index.htm
Journals
The American Journal of
Biblical Theology:
http://www.biblicaltheology.com/
Biblica:
http://www.bsw.org/project/biblica/
Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal:
http://www.dbts.edu/journals/
Journal of the Grace Evangelical
Society:
http://www.faithalone.org/journal/index.html
Kerux:
http://www.kerux.com/search/searchtype.asp
TC: A Journal of Textual
Criticism
http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/TC.html
Master’s Seminary
Journal:
http://www.tms.edu/journal.asp
Theology Today:
http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/
Recommended Print Resources
I am a book hound. Very
little pleases me more than a new reference book, except perhaps two new reference books. J But the following books have been most helpful to me.
WTBTS-specific
ANYTHING by Rob Bowman,
particularly Why You Should Believe in the Trinity and Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jesus Christ and the Gospel of
John. Out of print, but I found my copies at Amazon marketplace.
Rhodes, Ron, Reasoning
from the Scriptures with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1993.
Martin, Walter. Kingdom
of the Cults.
Any WTBTS books, but particularly:
New World Translation with References (1984), Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the GREEK SCRIPTURES (KIT,
1985), KNOWLEDGE that Leads to Everlasting Life (1995), Insight on the Scriptures (2 Volumes, 1988), Reasoning
from the Scriptures (1985). Booklets: Should You Believe in the Trinity?, The Divine Name that Endures Forever.
If you can’t get these from a JW or a local Kingdom Hall, you can find a tons of old WTBTS books and materials on Ebay.
General
I could go on forever, but
here's my list of favorites and those I refer to often:
Grudem, Wayne. Systematic
Theology. 1994. (There are other systematic theology texts, of course. I just happen to like this one.)
Strong, James. Strong’s
Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. 1890
Brown, Francis and Briggs,
C. and Driver, S. Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. Reprint 1996.
Thayer, Joseph H. Thayer’s
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. 1896.
Vine, W.E. Vine’s
Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words. 1966.
E.W. Bullinger, Figures
of Speech Used in the Bible Explained and Illustrated. 1968.
Metzger, Bruce. The Text
of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. Reprint 2005.
Morey, Robert Dr. The
Trinity: Evidence & Issues. 1996.
Carl Olof Jonsson. The
Gentile Times Reconsidered (Fourth Ed.). 2004.
Hurtado, Larry W.,
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity, 2003.
And more recently:
Jesus as God: The
New Testament Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus by Murray J. Harris. If you can't read Greek on at least a rudimentary
level, this book is not for you, but although I don't agree with Harris' conclusions in every instance, his
study is the definitive work on the subject, IMO. Good luck finding a copy - finding mine was a 3-year labor of
love, LOL.
Also,
The Earliest Christian
Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins by Larry Hurtado. His work on the nomina sacra is outstanding, but his study
of the staurogram only marginally less so. For scholastic excellence, Hurtado never disappoints.
I also personally use the
KJV, NIV and NASB in every Bible study I undertake, but any and all Bible translations/versions you can get your hands on
are great for comparison purposes. But then, collecting rare and/or odd Bibles is becoming a hobby of mine… J