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Biblical Studies

 
 
 
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

  • Bible

  • Bible. O.T. (add individual book as needed, e.g., Bible.O.T. Genesis)

  • Bible. N.T. (add individual book if needed)

  • Bible--Commentaries

  • Bible--Hermeneutics



Library Research Guide:Biblical Studies

Biblical Texts

Original Languages

Hebrew Text (Old Testament)Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Stuttgart : Deutsche Bibelstiftung, c1967/7[i.e. 1977]
Ref. BS 715 1977

Greek Text (New Testament)Novum Testamentum Graece
Nestle/Aland.
Stuttgart : Deutsche Bibelgesellschafte, 1983, c1979.
Ref. BS 1965 1983

The interlinear Bible : Hebrew, Greek, English
Jay Green, general editor and translator. Four volume ed.
Wilmington, Del. : Associated Publishers and Authors, 1976.
Ref. BS 3.5 1976

Latin Vulgate
Stuttgart : Deutsche Bibelgesellscaft, 1983.
Ref. BR 75 1983

English

The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared & revised ; set forth in 1611 and commonly known as the King James version (1611)
Ref. BS 185 1980 N482

The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : Revised Standard version : translated from the original tongues : being the version set forth A.D. 1611 : revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901 : compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1952 (Revised Standard Version --1952)
Ref. BS 191 .A1 1952 N38

The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments with theApocryphal/Deuterocanonical books: New Revised Standard Version. (1990)
Ref. BS 191.5 .A1 1990 N37

The Holy Bible : translated from the Latin Vulgate, diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages : the Old Testament first published by the English college at Douay, A.D. 1609, and the New Testament first published by the
English college at Rheims, A.D. 1582 : with annotations, references, and an historical and chronological index : the whole revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate : published with the approbation of His Eminence James, Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (Douay-Rheims Version)
Ref. BS 180 1971

The New Jerusalem Bible
Ref. BS 195 .J4 1985

The Holy Bible : New international version, containing the Old Testament and the New Testament
Ref. BS 195 .N37 1978

The NIV study Bible, New International Version.
General editor, Kenneth Barker ; associate editors, Donald Burdick ... [et al.]
Ref. BS 195 .N37 1985

The Holy Bible. Revised standard version containing the Old and New Testaments. Translated from the original tongues, being the version set forth A. D. 1611, rev. A. D. 1881-1885 and A. D. 1901 compared with the most ancient authorities and rev. A. D. 1952.
With introductions, comments, cross references, general articles, tables of chronology and of measures and weights, and index.
Edited by Herbert G. May and Bruce M. Metzger.
(Oxford Annotated Bible --RSV)
Ref. BS 191 .A1 1962 N4

The new Oxford annotated Bible with the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books
Contributors, Bernhard W. Anderson ... [et al.] ; edited by Bruce M. Metzger, Roland E. Murphy
(Oxford Annotated Bible--(NRSV)
Ref. BS 191.5 .A1 1991

The Cambridge annotated study Bible : New Revised Standard Version
Notes and references by Howard Clark Kee.
Ref. BS 191.5 .A1 1993 C36

The HarperCollins study Bible : New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books
General editor, Wayne A. Meeks.
Ref. BS 191.5 .A1 1993 C35

The New English Bible, with the Apocrypha
Ref. BS 191 .A1 1972 N48

Good news Bible : the Bible in Today's English version
Ref. BS 195 .T63 1976

Computer Bible Series
Ref. BS 420 .C6

Anchor Bible Series
Ref. BS 191.2 .A1 1964 G3

Hermeneia Series
Ref. BS 491.2 .H47

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Concordances

Unabridged concordance to the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha
Alexander Cruden.
Ref. BS 425 .C8 1953

The Eerdmans analytic concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible
Compiled by Richard E. Whitaker.
Ref. BS 425 .W48

Nelson's complete concordance of the Revised Standard version Bible.
Compiled under the supervision of John W. Ellison.
Ref. BS 425 .E4 1984

Nelson's complete concordance of the New American Bible
Stephen J. Hartdegen, general editor
Ref. BS 425 .N36

The NIV exhaustive concordance
Edward W. Goodrick, John R. Kohlenberger III
Ref. BS 425 .G62 1990

New American standard exhaustive concordance of the Bible : [including] Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek dictionaries
Robert L. Thomas, general editor
Ref. BS 425 .N385

NRSV exhaustive concordance.
Editorial consulting and introduction by Bruce M. Metzger
Ref. BS 425 .N453 1991

The exhaustive concordance of the Bible : showing every word of the text of the common English version of the canonical books, and every occurrence of each word in regular order together with a key-word comparison of selected words and phrases in the King James
version with five leading contemporary translations : also brief dictionaries of the Hebrew and Greek words of the original, with references to the English words.
James Strong
Ref. BS 425 .S8 1980

Analytical concordance to the Bible
on an entirely new plan containing about 311,000 references, subdivided under the Hebrew and Greek originals, with the literal meaning and pronunciation of each; designed for the simplest reader of the English Bible. Also index lexicons to the Old and New Testaments, being a guide to parallel passages and a complete list of Scripture proper names showing their modern pronunciation.
Robert Young
Ref. BS 425 .Y7 1955

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Lexicons and Dictionaries

  • The new Brown, Driver, and Briggs Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament : based on the lexicon of William Gesenius as translated by Edward Robinson / edited by Francis Brown with the cooperation of S.R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs ; numerically
    coded to Strong's exhaustive concordance with an appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic and with an index
    Ref. PJ 4833 .B68 1981
  • The Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament.
    Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner ; subsequently revised by Walter Baumgartner and Johann Jakob Stamm ; with assistance from Benedikt Hartmann ... [et al.]
    Ref. PJ 4833 .K61813 1994
  • A Greek-English lexicon
    Compiled by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott.
    Ref. PA 445 .E5 L6 1996
  • A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature : a translation and adaptation of Griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments und der übrigen urchristlichen Literatur, 4th rev. and augm. ed., 1952.
    William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich.
    Ref. PA 881 .B38
  • A patristic Greek lexicon.
    G. W. H. Lampe.
    Ref. PA 881 .L25
  • The vocabulary of the Greek Testament : illustrated from the papyri and other non-literary sources
    James Hope Moulton and George Milligan.
    Ref. PA 881 .M68
  • Theological lexicon of the Old Testament
    Edited by Ernst Jenni, Claus Westermann ; translated by Mark E. Biddle.
    Ref. BS 440 .T4813 1997
  • Theological dictionary of the Old Testament.
    Edited by G. Johannes Botterweck and Helmer Ringgren ; translated by John T. Willis, [David E. Green ...]
    Ref. BS 440 .B5713
  • Theological dictionary of the New Testament
    Gerhard Kittel. Translator and editor: Geoffrey W. Bromiley.
    Ref. BS 2312 .K813 1964
  • The Interpreter's dictionary of the Bible; an illustrated encyclopedia identifying and explaining all proper names and significant terms and subjects in the Holy Scriptures, including the Apocrypha, with attention to archaeological discoveries and researches into the life and faith of ancient times.
    [Editorial board: George Arthur Buttrick, dictionary
    editor, and others]
    Ref. BS 440 .I63
  • The Anchor Bible dictionary
    David Noel Freedman, editor-in-chief ; associate editors, Gary A. Herion, David F. Graf, John David Pleins ; managing editor, Astrid B. Beck.
    Ref. BS 440 .A54 1992

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Commentaries

  • The Jerome Biblical commentary
    Edited by Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer [and] Roland E. Murphy. With a foreword by Augustin Cardinal Bea.
    Ref. BS 491.2 .B7
  • International Critical Commentary series
    Ref. BS 491 .I5
  • The Interpreter's Bible: the Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible.
    [Editorial board: George Arthur Buttrick, commentary editor, and others].
    Ref. BS 491.2 .I65
  • The New Interpreter's Bible : general articles & introduction, commentary, & reflections for each book of the Bible, including the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books.
    Ref. BS 491.2 .N484 1994
  • Anchor Bible Series
    Ref. BS 191.2 .A1 1964 G3
  • Hermeneia Series
    Ref. BS 491.2 .H47

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Journals in the Theology Library

  • African Journal of Biblical Studies
  • Ancient Near Eastern Studies
  • Aula Orientalis
  • Australian Biblical Review
  • Bibbia e Oriente
  • Bible Review
  • Bible Today
  • Bible Translator
  • Biblica
  • Biblical Archaeology Review
  • Biblical Interpreter
  • Biblical Research
  • Biblical Theology Bulletin
  • Biblische Zeitschrift
  • Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Catholic Biblical Quarterly
  • Dead Sea Discoveries
  • Estudios Biblicos
  • Ex Auditu
  • Expository Times
  • Interpretation
  • Irish Biblical Studies
  • Journal for the Study of the New Testament
  • Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
  • Journal of Biblical Literature
  • Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
  • Near East Archaeology
  • New Testament Studies
  • Novum Testament
  • Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodical
  • Palestine Exploration Quarterly
  • Review and Expositor
  • Revue Biblique
  • Revue de Qumran
  • Scripture Bulletin
  • Semeia
  • Vetus Testamentum
  • Vigiliae Christiane
  • Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
  • Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

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