Research Tools for Hebrew Bible and New Testament

I. Basic Resources

A. Multi-Volume Works

1. The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992)

2. New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (2006-2009)

3. Encyclopedia Judaica (1963)

4. Interpreter's Bible (1957)

5. The New Interpreter's Bible (1994-)

6. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (1974-)

7. Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible (1975)

8. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1979-1988)

9. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (1964)

10. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, C. Brown, ed., 3 vols. (1975-78)

11. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, 4 vols. (1995)

B. One-Volume Bible Dictionaries

1. HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (1996)

2. New Bible Dictionary (1982; rev. ed. 1994)

3. Mercer Dictionary of the Bible (1990)

4. Holman Bible Dictionary (1991)

5. A Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (1990)

6. Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

7. Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (Brill, 1999)

8. Women in Scripture (Eerdmans, 2000)

C. One-Volume Bible Commentaries

1. Harper's Bible Commentary (1988)

2. The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (1990)

3. The Interpreter's One Volume Commentary on the Bible (1971)

4. The International Bible Commentary (1979-RSV; 1986-NIV)

5. The Women's Bible Commentary, expanded ed. (1998)

6. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (Craig Keener; 1993)

7. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament (V. Matthews, J. Walton, M. Chavalas; 2000)

D. Histories

1. J.M. Miller and J. Hays, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, 2nd edition (2006)

2. J. Soggin, A History of Ancient Israel (1984)

3. J. Bright, A History of Israel (1981-3rd edition)

4. N.K. Gottwald, The Tribes of Yahweh (1979)

5. D.J. Wiseman, ed., Peoples of Old Testament Times (1973)

6. R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel (1961)

7. W.W. Hallo and W.K. Simpson, The Ancient Near East (1971)

8. The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. II, parts 1 & 2 (1973 & 1975)

9. H. Koester, History, Culture and Religion of the Hellenistic Age, 2 vols. (1982)

10. F.F. Bruce, New Testament History (1971)

11. B. Reicke, The New Testament Era (1968)

12. A.B. Knapp, The History and Culture of Ancient Western Asia and Egypt (1988)

13. V.H. Matthews and D.C. Benjamin, The Social World of Ancient Israel (1993)

14. A.J. Hoerth, et al, eds. Peoples of the Old Testament World (1994)

15. G.W. Ahlstrom, The History of Ancient Palestine (1993)

16. V.H. Matthews, A Brief History of Ancient Israel (2002)

E. Introductions

1. B.W. Anderson, Understanding the Old Testament (1986-4th ed.)

2. O. Eissefeldt, The Old Testament (1965)

3. N.K. Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible, A Socio-Literary Introduction (1985)

4. W. Kuemmel, Introduction to the New Testament (1966)

5. H. Conzelmann, Interpreting the New Testament (1988)

6. D. Guthrie, New Testament Introduction, 3 vols. (1970)

7. V.H. Matthews and J. Moyer, The Old Testament: Text and Context, 3rd ed. (2012)

8. R. Brown, Introduction to the New Testament (1997)

9. C. Hedrick, When History and Faith Collide (1999)

F. Archaeology

1. K.M. Kenyon, Archaeology in the Holy Land (1965)

2. Y. Aharoni, The Archaeology of the Land of Israel (1982)

3. R. Amiran, Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land (1969)

4. E. Linder and A. Raban, Marine Archaeology (1975)

5. D. Bothwell and E. Higgs (eds.), Science in Archaeology. A Survey of Progress and Research (1969)

6. W.G. Dever and H.D. Lance (eds.), A Manual of Field Excavations.Handbook for Field Archaeologist (1978)

7. J. Finegan, The Archaeology of the New Testament (1969)

8. J. Jeremias, Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus (1969)

9. J. Wilkinson, Jerusalem as Jesus Knew It (1978)

10. A. Mazar, Archaeology and the Land of the Bible (1990)

11. W. Rast, Through the Ages in Palestinian Archaeology (1992)

12. J.J. Rousseau, Jesus and His World (1995)

13. E.M. Meyers, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (5 vols; 1997)

14. E. Stern, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods (2001)

15. J. Laughlin, Archaeology and the Bible (1999)

16. J. Magness, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2003)

17. Y. Hirschfeld, Qumran in Context: the Archaeological Evidence (2004)

G. Atlases

1. Y. Aharoni, M. Avi-Yonah, and A. Rainey, The Macmillan Bible Atlas (1993, 3rd ed.)

2. B. Beitzel, Moody Atlas of Bible Lands (1985)

3. H.G. Mayes, Oxford Bible Atlas (1985, 3rd edition)

4. J. Pritchard, The Harper Atlas of the Bible (1987)

5. J. Rogerson, Atlas of the Bible (1985)

6. C. Rasmussen, Zondervan NIV Atlas of the Bible (1989)

7. F. van der Meer and C. Mohrmann, Atlas of the Early Christian World (1966)
8. A. Rainey and R.S. Notley, The Sacred Bridge (2006)

H. Ancient Texts in Translation

Ancient Near East:

1. J. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (1969)

2. V.H. Matthews and D. Benjamin, Old Testament Parallels (3rd ed., 2006)

3. W. Beyerlin, Near Eastern Religious Texts Relating to the Old Testament (1978)

4. W. Hallo and K.L. Younger, The Context of Scripture (3 vols; 1997-2003)

5. K. Smelik, Writings from Ancient Israel (1991)

6. J. Moran, The Amarna Letters (1994)

7. B.R. Foster, From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia (1995)

8. B.R. Foster, Before the Muses, An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (1993)

9. M.D. Coogan, Stories from Ancient Canaan (1978)

10. S. Dalley, Stories from Mesopotamia (1989)

11. M.T. Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor (1995)

12. T. Jacobsen, The Harps That Once ... Sumerian Poetry in Translation (1987)

13. K.L. Sparks, Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible (2005)

14. H.C. Brenton, The Septuagint with Apocrypha: Greek and English (Hendrickson, 1986)
15. K.A. Kitchen and P.J.N. Lawrence, Treaty, Law and Covenant in the Ancient Near East, 3 vols. (2012)

Dead Sea Scrolls:

1. F.G. Martinez, The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated, 2^nd ed. (1996)

2. M. Wise and M. Abegg, Dead Sea Scrolls: a New Translation (1999)

3. M. Abegg, The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (2002)

Hellenistic Judaism:

1. W. Whiston, The Works of Josephus (Hendrickson, 1987)

2. C.D. Jonge, The Works of Philo (Hendrickson, 1993)

3. L.H. Schiffman, Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic

Judaism (1997)

Christian Origins/Early Church

1. J.M. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Revised Edition (1990)

2. James H. Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (1983)

3. C.K. Barrett, New Testament Background: Selected Documents (rev. ed., 1989)

4. Post-Nicene Church Fathers: http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/

5. C.F. Cruse, Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History (Hendrickson, 1998)

6. Wilhelm Schneemelcher, New Testament Apocrypha, 2 vols (2003)

7. B. Ehrman, Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament (2003)

8. B. Ehrman, The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader (2003)

9. Robert Miller, The Complete Gospels (1995)

I. Indices

1. Elenchus Biblicus

2. Religion Index

3. Old Testament Abstracts

4. New Testament Abstracts

J. Journals

1. Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL)

2. Catholic Biblical Quarterly (CBQ)

3. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (JSOT)

4. Interpretation (Int)

5. Biblica (Bib)

6. Vetus Testamentum (VT)

7. Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW)

8. Perspectives in Religious Studies (PRS)

9. Biblical Archaeologist (BA) – now Near Eastern Archaeology (NEA)

10. Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR)

11. Bible Review (BRev)

12. Tyndale Bulletin (TynB)

13. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR)

14. Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JNES)

15. Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS)

16. Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ)

17. Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS)

18. Journal of Semitic Studies (JSS)

19. Semeia

20. Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR)

21. Revue Biblique (RB)

22. Harvard Theological Review (HTR)

23. Hebrew Union College Annual (HUCA)

24. Biblical Theology Bulletin (BTB)

25. Journal for the Study of the New Testament (JSNT)

26. Novum Testamentum (NT)

27. New Testament Studies (NTS)

28. Zeitschrift fur die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde des Urchristentums (ZNW)

29. Expository Times (ExpT)

30. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (JETS)

31. Biblical Research (BR)

32. Biblical Interpretation (BibInt)

33. Palestine Exploration Quarterly (PEQ)

34. Tel Aviv (TA)

35. Orientalia (Or)

36. Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament (SJOT)

37. Aufstieg und Niedergang der Roemischen Welt (ANRW)

II. Technical Tools

A. Commentary Series

1. Anchor Bible Commentary Series (Doubleday)

2. Old Testament Library (Westminster/John Knox Press)

3. International Critical Commentary Series (Zondervan)

4. The New International Commentary Series (Eerdmans)

5. The Word Biblical Commentary Series (Word)

6. Interpretation Commentary Series (Westminster/John Knox)

7. The Cambridge Bible Commentary Series (Cambridge)

8. Hermeneia Bible Commentary Series (Augsburg/Fortress)

B. Textual Tools

1. F. Brown, S.R. Driver, C.A. Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1970)

2. E. Kautach, ed. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1910)

3. S. Mandelkern, Veteris Testamenti Concordantiae (1969)

4. W. Bauer, W. Gingrich, F. Danker, The Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early
Christian Literature, 3rd ed. (2000)

5. H. Liddel, R. Scott, et al, Greek-English Lexicon, Nineth Edition with Revised Supplement (1996)

6. W.F. Moulton and A. Geden, Concordance to the Greek New Testament, 5th rev. ed. (1978)

7. Computer Kondordanz zum Novum Testamentum Graece (1980)

8. L. Whitelocke, An Analytical Concordance of the Books of the Apocrypha (1978)

9. Nelson's Complete Concordance of Revised Standard Version (1957)

10. The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1988)

11. A. Even-Shoshan, A New Concordance of the Old Testament (1989, 2nd ed.)

12. A.L. Oppenheim, ed. Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (1963-)

C. Additional References

N. Turner, Handbook for Biblical Studies (1982)
R.N. Soulen and R.K. Soulen, Handbook of Biblical Criticism, 3^rd 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)

On-Line Resources:

Biblical Documents and Manuscripts
Gateway to Greek Manuscripts on the web
Duke Papyrus Archive
Catalogue of New Testament Papyri & Codices 2nd—10th Centuries
The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism
Guide to Early Church Documents

Biblical Languages
Hebrew
Online Hebrew Tutorial
Old testament Hebrew Lexicon

Greek
Introduction to Learning NT Greek
Biblical Greek. Several essays and a bibliography.
Elementary Greek
Greek Word Search
Greek Word Proximity Search
Greek Word Frequency Counter
Liddell-Scott-Jones Classical Greek Lexicon
Greek Word Morphological Analysis
Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway
The GRAMCORD Institute
B-GREEK Archive: Scholarly discussions of Biblical/Koine Greek

Annotated Old Testament Bibliography

http://www.denverseminary.edu/dj/articles2005/0100/0101.php#trans

New Testament Exegesis Bibliography

http://www.denverseminary.edu/dj/articles2005/0200/0201.php

Bibliographic Research in Biblical Studies

http://home.comcast.net/~rciampa/BibliographicResearch.htm

Resources for New Testament Exegesis (Roy Ciampa)

http://home.comcast.net/~rciampa/