Index of Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Early Christian Literature

This site already allows simple interrogation in a corpus of about 400,000 biblical references, from the volumes of Biblia Patristica, CNRS Editions, 1975-2000, and unpublished archives of the Center for Patristics Analysis and Documentation (CADP). The Biblindex project is carried out by the Institute of Christian sources, part of the UMR 5189 HiSoMA (History and Sources of the ancient world) of the CNRS and funded mainly by the Cluster 13 of the Rhone-Alpes Regional Council.

Access to data is completely free. Can be consulted on this website:

• Data of the published volumes of Biblia Patristica, Index des citations et allusions bibliques dans la litt?rature patristique, Editions du CNRS (ca. 270,000 biblical references, with updates on 5000 references) :
  1. Beginnings to Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian, 1975
  2. The third century (except Origen), 1977 
  3. Origen, 1980 
  4. Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, Epiphanius of Salamis, 1987 
  5.Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory of Nyssa, Amphiloque of Iconium, 1991 
  6. Hilary of Poitiers, Ambrose of Milan, Ambrosiaster, 1995 
  7. Didymus of Alexandria, 2000 
  Supplement, Philo of Alexandria, 1982.
  [The titles marked with a hyperlink can be purchased on the site of CNRS Editions, others are out of print.]
• Unpublished data from the archives of Biblia Patristica (ca. 100.000 references) on Athanasius of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, Theodoret of Cyrus, Procopius of Gaza, Jerome: these data are unverified (they appear in red).

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