Bibliographic Introduction to
Old Testament Study

The works listed here provide a basic bibliography for the study of the Old Testament. Numerous additional sources are available for each category and may be of use to you, depending upon your topic. See especially the section "Bibliographies and guides" for additional sources. All of the works cited here are located in the Divinity Library Trowbridge Reading Room unless indicated otherwise.

I. Old Testament Texts	Hebrew Greek (Septuagint) Interlinear English Guides to English Versions of the Bible Other Translations
II. Related Texts	Rabbinic Christian
III. Concordances	Hebrew Greek (Septuagint) English
IV. Lexicons
V. Grammars
VI. Bible Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.
VII. Atlases
VIII. Bibliographies and Guides
XI. Indexes and abstracts
X. Commentaries
XI. Electronic Resources

I. Old Testament Texts

Hebrew

Torah, Nevi'im u-Khetuvim ... / Norman Henry Snaith, ed. London : British and Foreign Bible Society, 1958. BS715/1958

Greek (Septuagint)

The Septuagint version of the Old Testament and Apocrypha, with an English Translation / L.C.L. Brenton, ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 1972. BS742/B74/1972

Septuaginta / Alfred Rahlfs, ed. 4th ed. Stuttgart : Wurttembergische Bibelanstalt, 1950. 2 v. BS741/R3/1950

Interlinear

The NIV interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament / John R. Kohlenberger III, ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Regency Reference Library, c1987. BS715/1987

English

Soncino books of the Bible : Hebrew text, English translation and commentary / Abraham Cohen, ed. London : Soncino Press, 1945-52. 14 v. Classified separately in Stacks. See catalog.

Tanakh : a new translation of the holy scriptures according to the traditional Hebrew text. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1985. BS895/J4/1985

Guides to English Versions of the Bible

Comfort, Philip Wesley. The complete guide to Bible versions. Wheaton, Ill. : Living Books, 1991. Stacks: BS125/C65/1991

Kubo, Sakae, and Walter F. Specht. So many versions? ; twentieth century English versions of the Bible. Rev. and enl. ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Academie Books, 1983. Stacks: BS455/K8/1983

Other Translations

II. Related Texts

The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English / Robert Henry Charles, ed. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1913. 2 v. BS1692/1913

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha / James H. Charlesworth, ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1983-1985. 2 v. BS1692/1983

The Dead Sea scrolls in English / Geza Vermes, ed. 3rd ed. Sheffield : JSOT Press, 1987. Stacks: BM487/A3/V47/1987

Rabbinic

The Mishnah : a new translation / Jacob Neusner. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1988. BM497.5/E5/N48/1988

Christian

III. Concordances

Hebrew

Even-Shoshan, Avraham. A new concordance of the Old Testament. Jerusalem : Kiryat sefer, c1985. BS1121/E93/1985

Mandelkern, Salomon. Veteris Testamenti concordantiae hebraicae atque chaldaicae ... New ed. rev / F. Margolin, ed. Reprint: First published, 1896. Graz : Akademische Druc- und Verlagsanstalt, 1955. 2 v. BS1121/M36/1955

Konkordanz zum hebraischen Alten Testament, nach dem von Paul-Kahle in der Biblia Hebraica Editit R. Kittel Besorgten Masoretischen Text / Gerhard Lisowsky and Leonhard Rost, eds. 2 Aufl. Stuttgart : Privilegierte Wurttembergische Bibelanstalt, 1958. BS1121/L55

Wigram, George V. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament ... 5th ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 1970. BS1121/W54/1970

Greek (Septuagint)

English

Strong, James. The new Strong's exhaustive concordance of the Bible. Nashville : Nelson, 1984. Oversize/BS425/S86/1984

Whitaker, Richard E. The Eerdmans analytical concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 1988. Oversize/BS425/W48/1988

Young, Robert. Analytical concordance to the Bible. 22nd American ed. New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1972. BS425/Y7/1972

IV. Lexicons

Armstrong, Terry A. A Reader's Hebrew-English lexicon of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 1982. 4 v. PJ4833/A69/(LC)

Lexicon in Vetris Testament libros = A dictionary of the Hebrew Old Testament in German and English. A Dictionary of the Aramaic Parts of the Old Testament in English and German / Ludwig Hugo Koehler and Walter Baumgartner, eds. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans; Leiden: Brill, 1958. PJ4833/K62/1958

Holladay, William Lee. A concise Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament : based on the lexical work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans; Leiden: Brill, 1971. PJ4833/H6/1971

V. Grammars

Lambdin, Thomas Oden. Introduction to Biblical Hebrew. New York: Scribner's, 1971. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1973. Stacks: Oversize/PJ4567/L3

VI. Bible Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.

The Interpreter's dictionary of the Bible / George Arthur Buttrick, ed. New York : Abingdon, 1962. 4 v. Supplementary volume / Keith Crim, ed. Nashville : Abingdon, 1976. BS440/I63

Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament / edited by G. Johannes Botterwick and Helmer Ringgren ; translator, John T. Willis. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1974- . Incomplete. PJ4833/T5

Harper's Bible dictionary / Paul J. Achtemeier, gen. ed. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985. BS440/H237/1985

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia / Geoffrey W. Bromiley ... et al., eds. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 1979-88. 4v . BS440/I6/1979

The Cambridge history of the Bible. Cambridge : University Press, 1963-1970. 3 v. BS445/C26

A Dictionary of Biblical tradition in English literature / David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 1992. PR149/B5/D53/1992/(LC)

A Dictionary of Biblical interpretation / edited by R.J. Coggins and J.L. Houlden. Philadelphia : Trinity Press Interational, 1990. BS440/D494/1990

VII. Atlases

The Harper atlas of the Bible / Jaems B. Pritchard, ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1987. Oversize/G2230/H47/1987/(LC)

VIII. Bibliographies and Guides

Danker, Frederick W. Multipurpose tools for Bible study. 3rd ed. St. Louis : Concordia, 1970. Z7770/D3/1970/(LC)

Fitzmeyer, Joseph A. An introductory bibliography for the study of Scripture. Rev. ed. Rome : Biblical Institute Press, 1981. Z7770/G5/1981/(LC)

Hayes, John H., and Carl R. Holladay. Biblical exegesis, a beginner's handbook. Rev. ed. Atlanta : Knox, 1987. BS476/H35/1987

Soulen, Richard N. and R. Kendall Soulen. Handbook of Biblical criticism. 3rd rev. ed. Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.
(on order)

Turner, Nicholas. Handbook for Biblical studies. Oxford : Blackwell. 1982. BS4117/T78/1982

XI. Indexes and abstracts

Religion index one, periodicals. 1949-1964, July 1977 to date. Z7753/A511/(LC)

Religion index two, multi-author works. 1960 to date. Z7753/A512/(LC)

Elenchus of Biblica. 1968 to date (1920-1968 in the journal: Biblica) Z7770/E4/(LC)

Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete. 1952 to date. Z7770/I57/(LC)

Old Testament Abstracts. 1978 to date. BS410/O42

X. Commentaries

Harper's Bible Commentary. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988. BS491.2 H37 1988

Hermeneia. Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1971- . BS491.2/H47

International critical commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1895-1967. 40 v. BS491/I6

Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching. Louisville: John Knox Press Classified separately in Stacks. See catalog.

The Interpreter's Bible. New York: Abingdon, 1951-1957. 12 v. BS491.2/I55

The New Century Bible commentary. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 1971- . BS491.2/N485 ...

The New Jerome Biblical commentary / Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer and Roland E. Murphy, ed. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1990. BS491.2/N5/1990

Old Testament Library. Philadelphia: Westminster. BS1151/O42 ...

Peake's Commentary on the Bible. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1962. BS491/B57

Word Bible Commentary. Waco, Texas: Word Books, 198?- . Classified separately in Stacks. See catalog.