Called the Old Testament in Christian circles and the Tanakh, Jewish Bible, or simply Bible in Jewish circles, this collection of thirty-nine separate books records God's dealings with the human race and particularly with the descendents of Abraham from the dawn of time to about 400 B.C.

Introduction

Discovering the Bible: The Old Testament

This multi-page resource from BibleNet gives an historical context to the study of the Old Testament.

An Introduction to Jewish Sacred Scriptures

A useful, although liberally oriented, academic introduction to the Old Testament.

Reading the Old Testament

Barry Bandstra's tour through the Hebrew Bible.

Bible Thoughts and Themes: The Old Testament

A book covering major Old Testament themes by Horatius Bonar

The Bible--Its 66 Books in Brief

The Old Testament portion of an overview by L.M. Grant.

Books of the Hebrew Scriptures

This is the front door to a discussion of scripture by the group "Religious Tolerance."  While they tend to be more tolerant of liberal than conservative views, they do provide a useful overview of both approaches.

The Bible History, Old Testament

An online book, originally published in seven volumes from 1876 to 1887.  By Alfred Edersheim.

Texts & Language Tools

Introduction to Biblical Hebrew

A brief glimpse into the language of the Old Testament.  You're not going to be reading the Psalms after studying this, but it's an interesting start.  Written by an LDS author, apparently.

The B-Hebrew Mailing List Home Page

B-Hebrew is an e-mail conference of academic professionals, teachers, students, clergy and laity, people of any faith, devoted to a better understanding of the Hebrew Bible. As such we often discuss a variety of topics related to the Biblical languages, the history of the text and its study, the culture of the Ancient Near East, the literary analysis of the Hebrew Bible, and more.

Old Testament Texts

The Jewish Publication Society provides links to several different versions of the Old Testament from this page.  The versions available are two in English, the JPS and the Kaplan versions.  Also available here are three non-English versions:  a Hebrew version, the Masoretic text, and an Aramaic text.  These last three are provided from a school in Israel and have no English explanation that I could locate, making the JPS interface very helpful unless your Hebrew is very good.

Hebrew Bible

This is another site that provides a Hebrew text of the Old Testament.

Hebrew Lexicon

This is the StudyLight lexicon.  Keyed to Strong's numbers, it provides definitions and audio files of pronunciations for all words.  You can also see how often each word appears in each Old Testament book.  You'll need to download their Hebrew fonts for fullest usage.

Greek Septuagint Old Testament

The people at God's Sight have provided this online, browsable version of the LXX Greek Old Testament.

Books and Bibliographies

Prolegomena to the History of Israel

A seminal work by the esteemed German Bible scholar Julius Wellhausen. This work posits the theory that Judaism as we know it did not originate with Moses but developed after the fall of Judah and the reforms of Ezra.

Bibliographic Introduction to the Old Testament

A brief and very academic list of sources from Yale Divinity School.

Old Testament Bibliography

A lengthy bibliography of wide-ranging sources.