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Biblical Studies Tools

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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

Last update 8-24-07