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The Bible as Literature: A Research Guide
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The High Library catalog will help you to find books, videos, CDs, and other materials. To locate commentaries, use the subject search term "bible commentaries", or "bible N.T. commentaries". You may also look under Tips for Subject Searching.
For books not available at the High Library, use WorldCat to locate materials in other libraries. You can place interlibrary loan requests through ILLiad to get these materials.
There are a variety of library tools for biblical exegesis. Exegesis is the process by which one comes to understand a text. These tools can help in analyzing the text. Literary analysis is one form of biblical anaylsis.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES Contemporary American
Religion, 2 vols., 2000 (Ref 200.973 C761) Encyclopedia of American Religions,
1999. (Ref 200.973
M528e6) Encyclopedia of Protestantism, 2004. (Ref 280.403
En56) The Encyclopedia of Religion,
2nd. ed., 15 vols., 2005.
(Ref 203 En56 2005) An Encyclopedia of Religions in the United States: 100
Religious Groups Speak for Themselves, 1992. ( 291.0973 En562) CONCORDANCES A concordance enables you to identify the correct book,
chapter, and verse in which a word appears in Scripture and to trace a
particular topic through the Bible. A particular concordance matches A Concordance of the Septuagint and the other Greek
versions of the Old Testament, 1998. ( 221.48 B582Vh) A Concordance to the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical
Books of the Revised Standard Version, 1977. (Ref 229 C744) The Eerdmans Analytical
Concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, 1988.
( 220.2 W578c) The Exhaustive Concordance of
the Bible, 1950. ( 220.2 St923e)
DICTIONARIES AND HANDBOOKS
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BIBLE TRANSLATIONS
The Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, Revised Standard Version.
(Ref 220.5 R327 1973)
The Holy Bible: New International Version containing the Old and the New Testament, 1978. (Ref 220.52 B47ni1978)
The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate: (Douay). (Ref 220.5202 B582h)
The Jerusalem Bible. 1966. ( 220.5204 B582j)
The New Interpreter's Bible, 13 vols., 1994. (Ref 220.77 N532)
The Septuagint Bible, the Oldest Version of the Old Testament, 1954. ( 221.48 B471)
BIBLE COMMENTARIES
There are many commentaries on individual books of the Bible. Some are published as individual monographs
and others as volumes within a particular commentary series.
The Abingdon Bible Commentary, 1929. ( 220.7 Ei83)
Harper's Bible Commentary, 1988. (Ref 220.7 H295)
The New Interpreter's Bible, 12 vols., 1994- (Ref 220.77 N532)
Oxford Bible Commentary, 2001. (Ref 220.7 Ox98)
The Women's Bible Commentary, 1992. (Ref 220.7 W872)
a unique version of the Bible.
The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols., 1992. (Ref 220.3 An539)
The Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, 2 vols., 1999. (Ref 220.603 D5544)
A Dictionary of Biblical Allusions in English Literature,
1965.
(Ref 820.93 F963d)
A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature,
1992.
(Ref 820.9382 D554)
The Dictionary of Bible and Religion, 1986. ( 203 D554)
Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, 1998. (Ref 220.3 D5542)
Dictionary of
Judaism in the Biblical Period : 450 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.,
2 vols., 1996.
(296.0901 D554)
A Dictionary of Judaism and Christianity, 1991. (Ref 296.03 C6782d)
Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, 2000. (Ref 220.3 Ee26)
Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, 3
vols., 1990.
( Ref 225.48 Ex96)
Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Bible, 1975. ( 492.43 H446)
The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, 1976. (220.3 In61)
The Oxford Companion to the Bible, 1993. (Ref 220.3 Ox98)
The Westminster Dictionary of the New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric, 2003. (Ref 270.103 Au926w)
Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, 2000. (Ref 220.92 W872)
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This multi-disciplinary database indexes over 8100 journals and provides
full text for 4700 journals.
ATLA
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Drawing on over 1500 sources, this is an index to periodical articles and
articles in books dealing with religious and theological literature.
Database provides specific scripture citation searching.
Essay and General Literature Index (vol.1-, 1900-)
An index to essays published in collections, this work covers religion, the
arts, linguistics, literature and other areas of the humanities. It is
located in index area of of the reference collection.
Humanities International Complete. 1925+. Find articles covering literature, philosophy, the arts, history, and culture.
JSTOR (varies)
Contains the full-text of articles appearing in the back files (older
issues) of
500 scholarly journals, including many literature journals.
DIGITAL BIBLES / ONLINE RESOURCES
BibleWorks
A searchable database of 93 versions of the Bible in English,Greek,
and Hebrew plus 26 other languages. More
than a Bible search engine, BibleWorks includes a variety of tools such as
dictionaries, lexicons and complete translations. Access to this program is
available only in on-campus computer labs.
Bible Gateway
Searches may be performed on passages or words in one or more
versions.
ABZU
Abzu is an experimental guide to the rapidly increasing, and
widely distributed data relevant to the study . Abzu is a guide to networked
open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient
Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world. Abzu has been available on the
Internet since 5 October, 1994. The editor of Abzu is Charles E. Jones, Head
Librarian , Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.
Blue Letter
Bible
Online versions include American Standard, King James ,
and the Vulgate. Greek and Hebrew as well as multiple version displays
are possible. Also includes hymns, maps and images keyed to verses.
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