Very Brief Bibliographic
Introduction to New Testament Study
See the Biblical Studies LibGuide for more information: http://guides.library.yale.edu/bible
Tools needed for various tasks:
Groundwork:
Texts - various versions
Bible dictionaries & encyclopedias - look up terms, locations, genres, etc.
Atlases
Studying the text:
Concordances - tracing word usage
Lexicons, dictionaries - meaning of words
Learning from others:
Commentaries
Library catalog (Orbis)
- find books
ATLA/ATLAS
Religion Database - find journal articles and chapters within books
I. Texts
- Greek texts of New
Testament - all at call number BS1965 in
RR
- Novum
Testamentum Graece /
Eberhard Nestle, Erwin Nestle and Kurt Aland, ed. 27th ed., rev. Stuttgart
: Deutsche Bibelstiftung, 1993. (also stack reserve; 1981 ed. in stacks)
- The
Greek New Testament /
Kurt Aland [et al.], ed. Stuttgart : United Bible Societies,1983.
i (also stack reference copies)
- The
Greek New Testament according to the Majority Text
/ Zane C. Hodges and Arthur L. Farstad, ed. 2nd ed. Nashville, Tenn. : Nelson,
1985. (1982 ed. in stacks)
- Greek /English texts
of NT - all at call number BS1965 - BS1965.5
in RR
- Greek-English
New Testament
/ Greek text: Novum Testamentum Graece in the tradition of Eberhard Nestle
and Erwin Nestle ; edited by Barbara and Kurt Aland ... [et al.] ;
English text: 2nd edition of the Revised Standard Version, [Stuttgart]
: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1994
- The
NASB interlinear Greek-English New Testament /
Alfred Marshall, ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Regency Reference Library, 1984.
- NRSV-NIV
parallel New Testament in Greek and English /
Alfred Marshall. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1990.
- Parallels/ Synopses
- Synopsis
of the Four Gospels, Greek-English edition /
Kurt Aland, ed. 6th ed. Stuttgart : United Bible Societies, 1983. BS2560
- RR & stack reference
- Gospel
parallels /
Burton H. Throckmorton, Jr., ed. 5th ed. Nashville : Nelson, 1992. BS2560
- RR & stack reference
- Pauline
parallels /
Fred O. Francis and J. Paul Sampley, ed. 2nd ed. Philadelphia : Fortress,
1984. BS2643/F7 - RR & stacks
- Other
- Jewish Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha:
- The
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
/ James H. Charlesworth, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985. BS1692
- RR & stacks
- The
Apocryphal Old Testament
/ H. F. D. Sparks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
BS1692 - RR & stacks
- Dead Sea Scrolls:
- The
Dead Sea Scrolls in English
/ Geza Vermes. London: Penguin, 1987. BM487 A3 V47
- RR & stacks
- The
Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English
/ Florentino Garcia-Martinez. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.
BM487 A3 G2 - on reserve; 1994 ed. in stacks
- New Testament Apocrypha
and related literature:
- The
Apocryphal New Testament
/ J. K. Elliott. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. BS2832 A2
- RR & stacks
- New
Testament Apocrypha
/ Wilhelm Schneemelcher, Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1991-1992.
BS2832 S36 - RR & stacks
- The
Nag Hammadi Library in English
/ James M. Robinson. New York: E. J. Brill, 1996. BT1390
C413 - in stacks
II. Concordances
- Greek - call number
BS2302 in RR
- Concordance
to the Novum Testamentum Graece of Nestle-Aland, 26th edition, and to the
Greek New Testament, 3rd edition
/ H. Bachmann and W.A. Slaby, ed. 3rd ed. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 1987.
- English -- New
Testament at call number BS2305 / whole Bible
at BS425
See Tutorial for using
English concordances
- The
analytical concordance to the New Revised Standard Version of the New Testament.
/ Richard E. Whitaker and John R. Kohlenberger III. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000.
- An
analytical concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the New Testament.
/ Clinton Morrison. Philadelphia : Westminster, 1979. - also stack reference
copy
- The
NIV exhaustive concordance /
Edward W. Goodrick and John R. Kohlenberger. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1990.
- NRSV
exhaustive concordance
/ Bruce M. Metzger, ed. Nashville : Nelson, 1991.
- The
new Strong's exhaustive concordance of the Bible. /
James Strong. Nashville : Nelson, 1984.
- Analytic
concordance to the Bible.
Robert Young. 22nd American ed. New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1972. (also
in stacks)
III. Lexicons
- A
Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature
/ ed. by Frederick Danker. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
PA881 B38 2000 (LC)
- A
Greek-English lexicon.,
Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
PA445/E5/L6/1996/(LC)
IV. Bible dictionaries,
encyclopedias, etc.
- General
- call number BS440 in RR
- Anchor
Bible dictionary /
David Noel Freedman, ed. New York : Doubleday, 1992. 6 v. (also stack reference
copy and CD-ROM version)
- HarperCollins
Bible Dictionary/
Paul J. Achtemeier, ed. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.
- Interpreter's
Dictionary of the Bible
/ Keith Crim, ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1962, 1976. 5 v.
- Word Study
- Exegetical
dictionary of the New Testament /
Horst Balz and Gerhard Schneider, ed. Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, 1990 to date.
BS2312/E913 (also stack reference copy)
- Theological
dictionary of the New Testament /
Gerhard Kittel, ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 1964-1976. 10 v.
PA881/K513/(LC) (also stack reference copies)
V. Commentaries
- One volume
- call number BS491.2
- The
Oxford Bible Commentary/
John Barton and John Muddiman. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press.
- Harper's
Bible Commentary/
James L. May, ed. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1988. (also stack reference
copy & circulating copies at CCL)
- The
New Jerome Biblical Commentary
/ Raymond E. Brown et al. eds. London : Geoffrey Chapman, 1995.
- The
Women's Bible Commentary
/ Carol A. Newsom & S. H. Ringe, eds. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox,
1998.
- Scholarly series-
call number BS491.2 in RR
- Anchor
Bible "Luke
and John excellent; Matthew and Mark less helpful"
- Hermeneia
"Not yet helpful for the
gospels, except John." - (also copies in stacks under individual classification;
search by Keyword, e.g.: "hermeneia and galatians")
- International
Critical Commentary "Serious
scholarship; some volumes, e.g., Matthew, recently updated." (also copy of
set in stack reference; also individually classified volumes)
- New
International Commentary on the New Testament "Scholarly,
evangelical" in stacks - not classed as a set
- New
Interpreters Bible "A
useful tool combining scholarship and homiletic application" (also stack reference
copy of set; CD ROM on reserve: CDD0044)
- Sacra
Pagina "A serious
commentary accessible to a broader audience. Catholic." in
stacks - not classed as a set
VI. Basic Exegetical Methods
- New
Testament exegesis, a handbook for students and pastors. Gordon
D. Fee Philadelphia : Westminster, 1983. (on reserve and in Reading Room)
BS2331 F44
- Biblical
exegesis, a beginner's handbook.
John H. Hayes and Carl R. Holladay. Rev. ed. Atlanta : Knox, 1987.
BS476/H35
- Studying
the Synoptic Gospels
E. P. Sanders and Margaret Davies. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International,
1989. BS2555.2 S23
- Reading
the New Testament
Christopher Tuckett. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987. BS2331
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