Exegesis - Books
Atlases
Bible
- The Greek New Testament Ed. Kurt Aland. London: United Bible Societies, 1966. (BS1965 1966)
- The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version. New York: Nelson, 1952. (BS191 .A1 1952)
- The New American Bible. Nashville: Catholic Bible Press, 1987. (BS192.3 .A1 1987)
- The New Jerusalem Bible. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985. (BS195 .J413 1985)
- The New Oxford Annotated Bible (New Revised Standard) with the Apocryphal/Deutercanonical Books. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 (BS191.5 .A1 1994 N49)
- Novum Testamentum graece Ed. Eberhard Nestle and Kurt Aland. New York: American Bible Society, 1963 (BS1965 1963)
- Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Tradition Hebrew Text. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Socity, 1985. (BS895 .J4 1985)
Bible Commentaries
- The Anchor Bible. Series; catalogued under individual titles, e.g., Genesis; The Book of Daniel; The Epistles of James, Peter, and Jude. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964. (BS192.2 .A1 1964 G3)
- The New Interpreter's Bible. George Buttrick et al. 12 v. ed. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994. The scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard Version, with general articles; introduction, exegesis & exposition for each book of the Bible. (Ref BS491.2 .N484 1994)
- The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Eds. Raymond Brown, Joseph Fitzmyer, Roland Murphy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990. (Ref BS491.2 N485 1990)
Bible Concordances
- Computer-Konkordanz zum Novum Testamentum Graece. Eds. H. Bachmann and W. Slaby. New York: De Gruyter, 1980. A very thorough computerized work based on the 26th edition of Novum Testamentum Graece by Nestle-Aland and the third edition of The Greek New Testament. (Ref BS2302 .C6 1980)
- Lisowsky, Gerhard. Konkordanz zum hebräischen Alten Testament. Stuttgart, Privileg. Württ. Bibelanstalt, 1958. A very thorough work which treats the Hebrew Masoretic text in Biblia Hebraica. For the serious exegete. (Ref BS1121 .L55 1958)
- Morrison, Clinton. An Analytical Concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the New Testament. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979. A good English concordance based upon an analysis of the RSV N.T.; relates the English to the original Greek. (Ref BS2305 .M67 1979)
- Nelson's Complete Concordance of the New American Bible. Ed. Stephen J. Hartdegen. Collegeville: Liturgical, 1977. More than 300,000 entries from both O.T. and N.T. based upon the English of the New American Bible. (BS425 .N36 1977)
- NRSV Exhaustive Concordance. Metzger, Bruce. Nashville: T. Nelson Publishers, 1991. (Ref BS425 .N453 1991)
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. New York: Abingdon, 1973. (Ref BS425 .S85 1970)
- Stong, James. The New Strong's Guide to Bible Words. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1996. (BS425 .S85 1996)
Bible Dictionaries
- The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vol. New York: Doubleday, 1992. (Ref BS440 .A54 1992)
- Browning, W.R.F. A Dictionary of the Bible. New York: Oxford Press, 1996. (BS440 .B73 1996)
- Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible. London: SPCK; Baker Academic, 2005 (Ref BS440 .D495 2005)
- Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament Eds. Horst Balz and Gerhard Schneider. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1990-. (Ref BS2312 .E913)
- Expository Dictionary of Bible Words: word studies for key English words based on the Hebrew and Greek texts. Ed. Stephen D. Renn. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2005 (Ref BS440 .E97 2005) This is also available on CD-ROM.
- Harper's Bible Dictionary. Ed. Paul Achtemeier, et al. San Francisco: Harper, 1985. (Ref BS440 .H231 1985)
- The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. Ed. George Buttrick et al. 4 vol. & suppl. New York: Abingdon, 1962. (Ref BS440 .I63)
- McKenzie, John L. Dictionary of the Bible Milwaukee: Bruce, 1965. (Ref BS440 .M36)
- Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974-86. 15 vol. (Ref BS440 .T43 E5)
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964-76. 10 vol. (Ref BS2312 .T43 E5)
These two are a rather complete treatment of the significant religious and theological words found in the Bible. The latter half of the O.T. work is still being compiled. An excellent tool for exegesis.
- Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament. Chicago: Moody Press, 1980. (Ref BS440 .T49 1980)
- Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1985. (Ref BS537 .E96 1985)
Encyclopedias
Extra-Biblical Texts
- Josephus, Flavius. Complete Works. Grand Rapids: Kregel,1981. (DS116 .J7 1981)
- - - - - The Jewish War. New York: Penguin, 1981. (DS122.8 .J733 1981)
- The Ancient Near East. Ed. James Pritchard Princeton: Princeton UP, 1973. (Oversize BS1180 .P82)
- New Testament Apocrypha. Ed. Edgar Hennecke et al. Philadephia: Westminster, 1963-66. (BS2832 .S3 1963)
- The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Ed. James H. Charlesworth. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. (BS1830 .A3)
Lexicons
- The Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised. Ed. Harold K. Moulton. Grand Rapids: Zondervon, 1978. Includes every word of the N.T. exactly as it stands the original text. Provides a complete grammatical analysis. A standard tool for students of the N.T. (Ref PA881 .A5 1979)