Library catalog
Library databases

The Bible as Library
Authority, Classification, Hierarchy
Resources in Biblical Studies
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

Tools of the Trade

• 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, 6th ed., 2007 [BS2341.2 .C33]
  • 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]
  • And see chapters on methods in The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament [BS2330.3 B63]
• Bibliography
  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Biblical Studies  
  • Book List of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Key journals

•   Bible and Critical Theory [online only]
•   Journal of Biblical Literature
•   Journal for the Study of the New Testament
•  New Testament Studies
•   Finding others in the catalog [using subheading: --Periodicals]

Library catalogs: Drew and Worldcat

• Authority term vs. keyword
  • Bible N T Mark xvi
  • Mark-16
• Commentaries vs. monographs
• Biblical history [e.g. Bible History of Biblical events]
• Social background [e.g. Poor Biblical teaching]
• Interpretive methods [e.g. Bible postcolonial criticism]

Periodical Databases

• ATLA
• OT Abstracts
• NT Abstracts

Electronic Bibles

• Unbound Bible
• TLG
• BibleWorks
  • Drew tip sheet
  • Some help from Yale Divinity School    

Websites

• New Testament Gateway    
• Old Testament Gateway      
• Wabash Center [for Biblical studies sites]