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Multi-Volume Works
The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992)
Encyclopedia Judaica (1963)
The New Interpreter's Bible (1994-)
Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (1974-)
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (1964)
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, 4 vols.
(1995)
One-Volume Bible Dictionaries
HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (1996)
New Bible Dictionary (1982; rev. ed. 1994)
Mercer Dictionary of the Bible (1990)
A Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (1990)
Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)
Women in Scripture (Eerdmans, 2000)
One-Volume Bible Commentaries
Global Bible Commentary (2005)
Harper's Bible Commentary (1988)
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (1990)
The Women's Bible Commentary, expanded ed. (1998)
Histories
J.M. Miller and J. Hays, A History of Ancient
Israel and Judah (1986)
J. Soggin, A History of Ancient Israel (1984)
J. Bright, A History of Israel (1981-3rd edition)
N.K. Gottwald, The Tribes of Yahweh (1979)
D.J. Wiseman, ed., Peoples of Old Testament Times
(1973)
R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel (1961)
W.W. Hallo and W.K. Simpson, The Ancient Near
East (1971)
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. II, parts
1 & 2 (1973 & 1975)
H. Koester, History, Culture and Religion of
the Hellenistic Age, 2 vols. (1982)
F.F. Bruce, New Testament History (1971)
B. Reicke, The New Testament Era (1968)
A.B. Knapp, The History and Culture of Ancient
Western Asia and Egypt (1988)
V.H. Matthews and D.C. Benjamin, The Social World
of Ancient Israel (1993)
A.J. Hoerth, et al, eds. Peoples of the Old Testament
World (1994)
G.W. Ahlstrom, The History of Ancient Palestine
(1993)
V.H. Matthews, A Brief History of Ancient Israel
(2002)
Introductions
B.W. Anderson, Understanding the Old Testament
(1986-4th ed.)
O. Eissefeldt, The Old Testament (1965)
N.K. Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible, A Socio-Literary
Introduction (1985)
Bart Ehrman, New Testament: An Introduction to
Early Christian Writings (2004)
W. Kuemmel, Introduction to the New Testament
(1966)
H. Conzelmann, Interpreting the New Testament
(1988)
D. Guthrie, New Testament Introduction, 3 vols.
(1970)
V.H. Matthews and J. Moyer, The Old Testament:
Text and Context, 2nd ed. (2005)
R. Brown, Introduction to the New Testament (1997)
C. Hedrick, When History and Faith Collide (1999)
Archaeology
A. Mazar, Archaeology and the Land of the Bible
(1990)
W. Rast, Through the Ages in Palestinian Archaeology
(1992)
J.J. Rousseau, Jesus and His World (1995)
E.M. Meyers, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology
in the Near East (5 vols; 1997)
E. Stern, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible:
The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods (2001)
J. Laughlin, Archaeology and the Bible (1999)
J. Magness, The Archaeology of Qumran and the
Dead Sea Scrolls (2003)
Y. Hirschfeld, Qumran in Context: the Archaeological
Evidence (2004)
Ancient Texts in Translation
Ancient Near East:
W. Hallo and K.L. Younger, The Context of Scripture
(3 vols; 1997-2003)
K. Smelik, Writings from Ancient Israel (1991)
J. Moran, The Amarna Letters (1994)
B.R. Foster, From Distant Days: Myths, Tales,
and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia (1995)
B.R. Foster, Before the Muses, An Anthology of
Akkadian Literature (1993)
M.D. Coogan, Stories from Ancient Canaan (1978)
S. Dalley, Stories from Mesopotamia (1989)
M.T. Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and
Asia Minor (1995)
T. Jacobsen, The Harps That Once ... Sumerian
Poetry in Translation (1987)
K.L. Sparks, Ancient Texts for the Study of the
Hebrew Bible (2005)
H.C. Brenton, The Septuagint with Apocrypha:
Greek and English (Hendrickson, 1986)
Dead Sea Scrolls:
F.G. Martinez, The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated,
2nd ed. (1996)
M. Wise and M. Abegg, Dead Sea Scrolls: a New
Translation (1999)
M. Abegg, The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (2002)
Hellenistic Judaism:
W. Whiston, The Works of Josephus (Hendrickson,
1987)
C.D. Jonge, The Works of Philo (Hendrickson, 1993)
L.H. Schiffman, Texts and Traditions: A Source
Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic
Judaism (1997)
Christian Origins/Early Church
J.M. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library in English:
Revised Edition (1990)
James H. Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
(1983)
C.K. Barrett, New Testament Background: Selected
Documents (rev. ed., 1989)
C.F.
Cruse, Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History (Hendrickson, 1998)
Wilhelm Schneemelcher, New Testament Apocrypha,
2 vols (2003)
B. Ehrman, Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not
Make It into the New Testament (2003)
B. Ehrman, The New Testament and Other Early Christian
Writings: A Reader (2003)
Robert Miller, The Complete Gospels (1995)
Indices
Elenchus Biblicus
Religion Index
Old Testament Abstracts
New Testament Abstracts
Academic Journals
Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL)
Catholic Biblical Quarterly (CBQ)
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (JSOT)
Interpretation (Int)
Biblica (Bib)
Vetus Testamentum (VT)
Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
(ZAW)
Perspectives in Religious Studies (PRS)
Biblical Archaeologist (BA) – now Near
Eastern Archaeology (NEA)
Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR)
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
(BASOR)
Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JNES)
Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS)
Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ)
Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS)
Journal of Semitic Studies (JSS)
Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR)
Revue Biblique (RB)
Harvard Theological Review (HTR)
Hebrew Union College Annual (HUCA)
Biblical Theology Bulletin (BTB)
Journal for the Study of the New Testament (JSNT)
Novum Testamentum (NT)
New Testament Studies (NTS)
Zeitschrift fur die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
und die Kunde des Urchristentums (ZNW)
Expository Times (ExpT)
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
(JETS)
Biblical Research (BR)
Biblical Interpretation (BibInt)
Palestine Exploration Quarterly (PEQ)
Online Journals
Journal of Hebrew
Scriptures
Journal of Biblical
Studies
Commentary Series by Publishers
Anchor Bible Commentary Series (Doubleday)
Old Testament Library (Westminster/John Knox
Press)
International Critical Commentary Series (Zondervan)
The New International Commentary Series (Eerdmans)
The Word Biblical Commentary Series (Word)
Interpretation Commentary Series (Westminster/John
Knox)
The Cambridge Bible Commentary Series (Cambridge)
Hermeneia Bible Commentary Series (Augsburg/Fortress)
Textual Study Tools
F. Brown, S.R. Driver, C.A. Briggs, Hebrew and
English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1970)
E. Kautach, ed. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1910)
S. Mandelkern, Veteris Testamenti Concordantiae
(1969)
W. Bauer, W. Gingrich, F. Danker, The Greek-English
Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early
Christian Literature, 3rd ed. (2000)
H. Liddel, R. Scott, et al, Greek-English Lexicon,
Nineth Edition with Revised Supplement (1996)
W.F. Moulton and A. Geden, Concordance to the
Greek New Testament, 5th rev. ed. (1978)
Computer Kondordanz zum Novum Testamentum Graece
(1980)
L. Whitelocke, An Analytical Concordance of the
Books of the Apocrypha (1978)
Nelson's Complete Concordance of Revised Standard
Version (1957)
The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1988)
A. Even-Shoshan, A New Concordance of the Old
Testament (1989, 2nd ed.)
A.L. Oppenheim, ed. Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
(1963-)
Additional References
N. Turner, Handbook for Biblical Studies (1982)
R.N. Soulen and R.K. Soulen, Handbook of Biblical Criticism,
3rd ed. (2001)
F. Danker, Multipurpose Tools for Bible Study (1993)
P. Comfort, Essential Guide to Bible Versions (2000)
W. Klein, D. Blomberg, & R. Hubbard, Introduction to Biblical
Interpretation1993)
W. Yarchin, History of Biblical Interpretation (2004)
S.E. Fowl, ed. The Theological Interpretation of Scripture (1997)
Online Resources (for more, click
on this)
Biblical Documents and Manuscripts
Gateway
to Greek Manuscripts on the web
The Encyclopedia
of New Testament Textual Criticism
Guide
to Early Church Documents
Biblical Languages
Hebrew
Online
Hebrew Tutorial
Old
testament Hebrew Lexicon
Greek
Biblical
Greek. Several essays and a bibliography
Elementary Greek
Greek
Word Search
Greek
Word Frequency Counter
Liddell-Scott-Jones
Classical Greek Lexicon
Greek
Word Morphological Analysis
Greek Language and Linguistics
Gateway
The GRAMCORD Institute
Bible Works (ver.7)
Annotated
Old Testament Bibliography
New
Testament Exegesis Bibliography
Biblical
Hermeneutics on the Web
Biblical Studies Glossary of Terms:
http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/myers/hermeneutical_lexicon.html
http://www.montreal.anglican.org/comments/glossary.shtml
http://www.read-the-bible.org/glossary.html