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Ancient Text Databases

Below are listed databases that are most helpful for searching and/or reading ancient texts. Click on a database title to access that database. Click on an information icon for more information about that database. Most of these databases are only accessible to current students, faculty, and staff of Covenant Seminary. Don't have access? See our list of free databases.

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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae allows researchers to conduct word searches across virtually all surviving Greek texts from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and the majority of surviving works up to the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453.

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Searchable Greek Inscriptions

Database of Greek inscriptions from Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Thrace, the north coast of the Black Sea, Syria, Egypt, North Africa, and Germany.

Inscriptions can be searched in Greek, or browsed by region.

  

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"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."

Matthew 4:4

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