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Session 7: Bible, Church History, and Theology & Philosophy

Bible

Versions, Translations

  • Choosing a Bible: A Guide to Modern English Translations and Editions, 1999 [220.52 S541c]
  • Choosing a Bible for Worship, Preaching, Study, Teaching and Prayer, 2006 [220.5 K91c]
  • Unbound Bible
  • Summary

Reference Sources

  • Dictionaries/Encyclopedias 
    • Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1992 [Ref.BS440 .A54]
    • New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, 2006-2009 [Ref. BS440 .N445; online through Ministry Matters]
    • Intervarsity Press dictionaries
      • Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, 1992 [Ref. BS2555.2 .D53]
      • Dictionary of Paul and his Letters, 1993 [Ref. BS2560.2 .D53]
      • Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments, 1997 [Ref. BS2625.5 .D53]
      • The IVP Dictionary of the New Testament, 2004 [Ref. BS2312 .I89]
    • Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception [Ref. BS440 .E539]
    • Online encyclopedias: Macmillan and Oxford   
  • Concordances, e.g. Strong's
  • Interlinear Bibles
    • NIV Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament [Ref. BS715]
    • New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament [BS1965.5]
    • Online interlinear Bible
  • Lexicons and word studies
    • Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament (BDAG) (Ref. PA881 .B38)
    • Brown Driver Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB) (Ref. PJ4833 .B67)
    • Theological Dictionary of the New Testament [Kittel] [Ref BS2312 .K5813]
    • Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament [Ref. BS440 .B5713]
  • Commentaries
  • Interpretive methods
    • Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation,1999 [Ref. BS500 .D5]
    • Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation, 2000 [Ref. BS476 .H36]
    • Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation, 2013 (Ref. BS511.3 .O88)
    • And see chapters on methods in The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament [BS2330.3 B63]
  • Bibliography

Using the Catalog to find commentaries and interpretation 

Authority term vs. keyword

  • Bible O T Genesis xvi
  • Genesis-16

Commentaries vs. monographs
Publishers

Key biblical topics

  • Biblical history [e.g. Bible History of Biblical events]
  • Social background [e.g. Poor Biblical teaching]
  • Interpretive methods [e.g. Bible postcolonial criticism]  

Finding commentaries and criticism online

 

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