Library Catalog Library Databases
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
- Translation differences within English, e.g. Genesis 24:63
- Gen 24:63: "Isaac went out to meditate" (RSV)
- Gen 24:63: "Isaac went out in the field to walk" (NRSV)
- Gen 24:63: "He went wandering out into the fields (Basic English Bible)
- Translation differences across different modern languages, e.g. The Lord's Prayer
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
- New Testament Commentary Survey, 7th ed., 2013
- Old Testament Commentary Survey, 5th ed., 2013
- 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 (exact search for subject)
- Genesis-16 (keyword search)
- Commentaries vs. monographs
- Publishers
- Denominational, university, for-profit academic, trade
- Perspectives: Pilgrim Press, Zondervan, Baker Academic
- 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
Using ATLA to find interpretation (and OT Abstracts and NT Abstracts)
- Click on Indexes along top of screen
- Choose from the "Browse an Index" drop-down menu: Scripture Citation
- Enter chapter/verses, e.g, Genesis 16
- Select relevant groupings and click Search
- A tutorial
Electronic Bibles
- Unbound Bible
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (see under T) (for helps to reading NT in Greek)
- BibleWorks
Websites
- New Testament Gateway
- Old Testament Gateway
- Wabash Center [for Biblical studies sites]
Church History see
Theology and Philosophy
- Key reference sources for Theology
- Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
- Blackwell Companion to the Theologians, 2009 [Ref. BR118. B48]
- New and Enlarged Handbook of Christian Theology, 2003 [Ref. BR95 .N393]
- Modern Theologians, 3rd ed., 2005 [Ref. BT28 .M59]
- New Handbook of Christian Theologians, 1996 [Ref. BT28 .N48]
- Global Dictionary of Theology, 2008 [Ref. BR95 G56]
- Guides to challenging theologians (in publisher series)
- Outstanding Christian Thinkers (Continuum Press): Augustine, Barth, Kierkegaard etc
- Guides for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury): Paul, Wesley, Bonhoeffer, etc.
- Philosophy and Theology (Bloomsbury): Habermas, Levinas, Weil
- A helpful history: The Making of American Liberal Theology, by Gary Dorrien (230.046 D716m, in 3 vols.)
- Key topics
- Comparative Religion
- Key reference: Encyclopedia of Religion
- Beyond ATLA: Bibliography of Asian Studies, Rambi
- Helpful website: The Pluralism Project
- Christianity's self-conception in relation to other religions: TPHL508
- Key headings in the catalog
- Christianity and Other Religions
- Religious Pluralism
- Theology of Religions (Christian Theology)
- Example: Jesus Christ and the Religions: An Essay in Theology of Religions
- Key headings in the catalog
- Comparative Religion