Unlike Google, most library resources are subscription products unavailable to the general public.  These resources are sometimes called the "hidden web," because the information is only accessible to those with the proper credentials. These tools are also designed to facilitate research by allowing you to limit your results by time period, type of source, and subject matter.  

The sources found in a research database are uniformly reliable. Although they are not always academic or "peer-reviewed," they are reputable publications with credentialed authors.

Library databases contain articles from scholarly journals and books on every part of your exegesis research. Listed below are several databases we recommend for this purpose.