The seminary that I am enrolled in, Columbia Evangelical Seminary, is a Distance Learning by Mentorship program in which a student acquires a mentor who guides him through the process of study. At some point, I will write a more detailed post about my experience with CES. This post has to do with the abundance of mostly free and excellent study resources available to biblical scholars.
For my classes, I have to read a lot and frankly, I don’t have the money to build myself a library. While I could use the library of the seminary that our church sponsors or even drive to the massive Denver Seminary library, I have found that I can get most anything I need online. For instance, I am finishing a Hermeneutics class for which I wrote exegetical paper on Hebrews 7. I wanted to reference Calvin’s Commentaries and I needed F.F. Bruce’s book on Hebrews. Calvin's entire commentaries are available online from the Christians Classics Ethereal Library and I was able to read F.F. Bruce’s book using Google Books. By the way, I need to mention that I have made extensive use of Google Books for this purpose.
Anyway, I occasionally stumble upon free (or inexpensive) resources that I use for my classes. I have added a page to this site where I will list them as I discover them. To see what I’ve got so far, check out Study Resources. If you know of any other seminary level resources please email me and I’ll include them in this list.